[Past Event] FRINGE 2024: Four Sites

Presented by Sage Arts, Abbotsford Convent and Melbourne Fringe, Four Sites features four short works by four of Melbourne/Naarm’s most fascinating and celebrated independent choreographers: Rebecca Jensen, Jo Lloyd, Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Lee Serle. 

Engaging the body at the core of their works, each will make a new work for a specific location here at the Convent, produced by Michaela Coventry (Sage Arts).

Experience these four new works across one evening, navigating from one to the next as they occur throughout the Convent.

4 – 5 October
8pm
Multiple spaces across the Convent.

About

Jo Lloyd

A dance artist based in Naarm, working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over various durations and contexts. Her practice seeks to find a language that refuses the limits of history, form and aesthetic. She choreographs the peculiarities and complexities of the mind, which manifests in unconventional ways through the body.

Jo creates works in collaboration with dancers, designers, visual artists and photographers. She has presented and performed her works in galleries, museums and theatres both nationally and internationally including recent commissions for the National Gallery of Victoria, The National 4, RISING, Bundanon Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Australia and ACCA.  

Accessibility

Magdalen Laundry, The Store, Salon and Basketball Courts are all wheelchair accessible. Audiences should note that they will be moving short distances between four sites at the Convent.

There is step-free access to the venue. Wheelchair users enter at the main entrance. There are uneven footpaths throughout the grounds.

There are 2 two-hour accessible on-street parking spaces located on St Heliers Street, beside Main Gate. There are six accessible parking places are located at the front of the car park on the northern side of St Heliers Street. There is also a car park located within a short distance of Main Gate. The entrance is near a dedicated pedestrian thoroughfare and road cross over.

Access through the gardens and grounds is via mostly bituminised pathways; some are dirt/gravel. Some surfaces within the Convent are difficult to navigate and assistance may be required to ensure wheelchair accessibility.

There are accessible toilets at this venue, though not all toilet doors are automatic. 

  This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Cash to Create through the Fringe Fund, Abbotsford Convent and the City of Yarra.