Images: Sylvia Zajkowski

ROSIE DENNIS

Access All Areas

Drawing on the themes of fear, exposure, isolation and escape, Access All Areas is recreated each night as 20-minute performance/improvisation. It melds extended vocal techniques & improvised text to explore notions of claustrophobia in relationship to corporate culture and the open plan office.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rosie Dennis performs improvised and prepared vocal pieces. She works with musicians, dancers and visual artists. Most recently Rosie performed her solo Polish as part of the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne. She is one half of Baxter & Hal who pride themselves on their corporate interventions. In 2003 she performed at The National Review of Live Art, Midland with Richard Layzell.  She was one of 20 artists selected nationally to attend time_place_space2, a two week hybrid performance laboratory. In 2002/03 Rosie created an improvised vocal score of layered text and percussive sounds for Eleanor Brickhill¹s Waiting to Breathe Out, (Omeo Dance Studios, 2002, Antistatic - Performance Space 2002, and Body Works - Dancehouse 2003). Rosie has performed regularly at Omeo Dance Studios and as part of the Big Sloth (Performance Space 2002, 2003). Rosie has written and directed Can Fish Be Wives? (Belvoir Street, Downstairs 1996), Crackd (Performance Space, 2000), Verticularity (Performance Space 2001) and The Stein Project (Development UNSW, 2001). Rosie is also the author of The Bold and the Beautiful Bible, a fine companion for any lonely heart.