Agnes | Bridget Fiske

'Agnes'

An Eco Docufiction Ghost Story / In Development

"Always surprising..The narrative was ghostly..."

"..was complex and very interesting to me."

Audience Members

'Agnes’ is a contemporary choreographic, cinematic, and exhibition work, which is equally intimate and austere, as it is epic and surreal. The work traverses across temporalities, histories, places, and realities - it is an experience of hauntings and spectres, created in the gaps of an archive of oral history, written records, and historical, cultural, embodied, scientific, and land-based knowledges. 'Agnes' spirals through time and stories of gender, class, labour-risks, migration, colonisation, a shipwreck, family, corporealities, extinction, and environments. It is a work of reckoning, repatriations, healing, and reverberations.

'Agnes' is a documentary, a forensic study, a channelling, a provocation, and a dream.

Credits

Concept, Choreographer, Writer, Director, Performer and Co-Prodcuer...Bridget Fiske

Dramaturgical, Performance, and Choreographic Researcher...Joseph Lau and Amy Vrois

Audience & Engagement Dramaturge/Curator, and Environmental Responsibility Strategy Consultant...Michèle Steinwald

Academic Advisor, Open University...Dr Gunjan Sondhi

Moving Image and Lighting Designer...Andrew Crofts

Botanical Costume Consultant...Shahn Stewart

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Supported by...Sunshine Coast Council; Studio1; MAD Dance House; Movema; Open Univeristy; Company Chameleon; University of Salford

History

Sharing events to date with: Project Auske; MadeSc - Quarterly Artist Sharing; M.A.P; EXCHANGE in Dance24 (Metro Arts & Studio1).

This vision for developing, and creating ‘Anges’, was formed via a 2021/2022 Arts Council England supported Developing Your Creative Practice grant focussing on the development of a writing practice in relation to Bridget’s Choreographic and Directorial practices.

Parallel research on ‘(sketching) Artefact A: The shipwreck - or - A short performance of the death and birth of the body of John Edwards' has occurred as part of the project ‘Sufi In The City’, where Fiske has been developing a performative score about the decomposition process of the human body. This research has also been supported by Dancenorth Australia’s Artist Residency in the Tropics (A.R.T.) Program.