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De Qunicy's Run explores extreme energy and motion*

Run, the newest performance installation by De Quincey Co, explores extreme energy and motion. Eight performances will be presented from 20–29 August as part of Performance Space's winter season at Sydney’s CarriageWorks.

Run invites audiences into an unpredictable space, where objects and bodies become integrated elements of a massive, warping environment; where suspended objects oscillate between stability and chaos.

Building on De Quincey Co’s renowned site-specific performance The Stirring from November 2007, elements from the CarriageWorks building are incorporated to create a mobile structure which is driven by, and affects, the movement of the performers.

The mobile is a reflection of CarriageWorks’ history which invites a new set of relationships to the place, its origins and its future. As a study of locomotion, the performers generate movement on different planes, actually defying gravity.

Media and video images create layers of meaning, while live video cameras capture, edit and project the subtle, elemental relationships of motion in space.

De Quincey Co’s cross-disciplinary works are based on the practice of BodyWeather, a synthesis of eastern and western practice and thought.

Tess de Quincey is Australia’s leading exponent of the Japanese-derived BodyWeather discipline.

De Quincey has worked extensively in Australia and Europe as a solo performer, teacher and director. Based in Japan from 1985 until 1991, she was a dancer with the founding director of BodyWeather Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Performance Co.

De Quincey Co’s ensemble of highly skilled physical performers are joined by some of Australia’s leading artists for this bold and awe-inspiring new work.

*Based on media release issued by Performance Space.