Local Artist in Residence: Frankie Snowdown

Frankie will be undertaking research and planning for a new dance work to be developed over the coming 2 years. Frankie is preoccupied the idea that every BODY is a country, and aims to investigate the parameters and possibilities of nationhood when applied to an individual human. Through the research of colonial practices, Western legal and political systems, Indigenous Australian and multicultural systems of organising communities and relationship to land - and the role of women and the feminine in all of these - Frankie will work to propose a practice that can create an alternate reality/future in which the autonomy, desire and empowerment of bodies rules.

Born and raised in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Frankie’s practice as a dance artist spans performance, choreography, teaching, community based work and large-scale dance projects. Frankie has a large involvement in teaching and dance development, most notably founding the Alice Can Dance performance education program. In 2018, Frankie and long-time artistic partner Madeleine Krenek launched GUTS Dance // Central Australia. GUTS is a new Mparntwe /Alice Springs - based contemporary dance organisation and is the only platform for dance investigation, creation, training and performance in a 1500km radius. As a dancer, she has worked for choreographers including Gideon Obarzanek, Brooke Stamp, Martin Del Amo, Adam Wheeler, Kate Champion, Sara Black and Jo Lloyd. Independently, Frankie has choreographed and performed for Lucy Guerin Inc. and Next Wave Festival/Nat Cursio Co., as well as choreographing, performing and producing 3 Independent seasons from 2009 to 2014 with Melbourne based collective 2NDTOE.

2-8 August