terra (performance)
Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10
10 Douglas Street
Gooyaman | West Perth
18 – 20 January 2024
Created & Performed by Alice Cummins
Direction by Nikki Heywood
terra - a 50min dance work informed by the knowledge of current and impending ecological loss. Erupting from an imagination placed under pressure for decades, terra invites us to feel what is happening to the earth, whilst creating something of awe and beauty.
Writings on terra
Program Notes
Subterranean Knowledge by Gregory Pryor
body country matter death by Paea Leach
terra’s current forms include
Performance
3-channel 4K video installation
Single channel HD video
terra (installation)
by Cobie Orger with Alice Cummins
In 2025, Cobie Orger's video iteration of terra was selected as part of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival (IEFF) Brazil, Argentina and Romania; and the Light Moves Festival, Limerick, Ireland.
Ecoperfomance
“In the field of the performing and audiovisual arts, ecoperformance is a concept coined in 2009 by the Brazilian choreographer Maura Baiocchi and elaborated by the German director Wolfgang Pannek. Ecoperformance understands environment and body as inseparable dimensions of performative creation. In ecoperformances, the environment constitutes a living play of interactive presences and forces, among which the human body. Therefore, ecoperformances and ecoperformative films strive for non-anthropocentric forms of dramaturgy and cinematography.”
Inspired by the live work of the same name by influential choreographer/performer/educator, Alice Cummins, this immersive screen work weaves sound, sculpture and dance into a choreographed sequence of topographic and physical landscapes expressing relationship with, and concern for, country. Unveiled through three disparate perspectives, encounters of tenderness and disquiet are swept into the tectonic forces at play.