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"Ros Warby's stunning solo...Shocking, funny and poignant...Profoundly moving; a monumental performance."
The Age "Monumental is clean, sure of its aesthetic and rich in ideas and imagery. Warby's performance is virtuosic and multi-dimensional, continually transforming throughout the piece." Herald Sun Monumental is Ros Warby's latest award-winning solo dance work, developed in collaboration with her long standing artistic team: designer Margie Medlin and composer Helen Mountfort. Monumental is a richly layered movement piece, continuing to refine Warby's integration of the solo dance form with 35mm film projection and solo cello. It draws from the iconic symbols of classical ballet, the swan and the soldier, bringing focus to our own sense of strength and dissolution, amidst the often irreconcilable tragedies and the sustaining power of beauty in the world today. The audience is invited to engage, through the solo dancer, with the innocent bird, and the brave, sometimes tainted soldier embedded within us all. Awards include The Age Critics' Commendation Award in 2006; the 2007 Green Room Awards for Best Female Dancer and Best Composition; and the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Female Dancer. Nominations include Best Choreography, Original Concept and Design in the 2006 Green Room Awards and Best Ballet or Dance Work in the 2007 Helpmann Awards. Monumental has also received support from the National Endowment for the Arts through the National Dance Project to tour the US in 2008/2009. Ros Warby Ros Warby is one of Australia's leading dancer-choreographers. She has been making solo dance for the past 19 years and is internationally recognised for her unique performance work, both from her own creations, and her work as a dancer in the companies of Lucy Guerin (1996-2004), Deborah Hay (since 1998), Russell Dumas' Dance Exchange (1993-96) and Helen Herbertson's and Beth Shelton's Danceworks (1990-93). A classically trained dancer, she spent her early professional years working with these choreographers, whilst continuing her training between New York and Europe with renown teachers and improvisers Dana Reitz, Eva Karczag and Lisa Nelson. Warby's first solo premiered in 1990 in Melbourne. She continued to make and perform a new solo each year until 1997. Since then she has created five full-length programs: Enso (1998), original home (1999), SOLOS (2001), SWIFT (2003), and Monumental (2006). Warby has a long-term collaborative relationship with composer Helen Mountfort and designer Margie Medlin. Together they create environments for the solo dancer to exist, creating an elaborate interplay between the elements of dance, film, sound and light, and crafting a dialogue between these forms, where they coexist in a manner rarely achieved in multi-disciplinary work. This choreography between the elements is used to elevate, enhance, exaggerate and frame the dance itself. The solo dances Warby creates invoke characters that often transcend archetypes by sliding between iconic figures and ideas, allowing the body to suggest the complex experience of a human being at any one moment. Contact: NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN REPRESENTATION ALL OTHER TERRITORIES |
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