Image: Willow Creative
REBECCA JENSEN & AVIVA ENDEAN | CURATED BY ILANA RUSSELL
WHALE FALL
11-27 NOV
DROMANA DRIVE-IN
MULTIPLE TIMES
REGULAR CINEMA ADMISSION APPLIES
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Follow Google Maps to Dromana Drive In (simply click Get Directions at the top of this page). This artwork will be screened ahead of all the Dromana Drive In screenings from Thursday 10 November – Sunday 27 November, and is experienced from your own vehicle. Standard ticket prices apply.
There are bathroom facilities in Shelley’s Diner. There is also food and drink available to purchase from Shelley’s Diner.
Rebecca Jensen will be presenting Whale Fall, developed through Platform LAB with Aviva Endean, as part of public art program Front Beach, Back Beach.
Whale Fall is a short film which will be screened ahead of all films at the Dromana Drive In from Friday 11 November - Sunday 27 November. Regular admission applies, visit the Dromana Drive In website for session times and tickets.
Whale Fall is a cross-disciplinary composition for sound, cars, video and dance, asking us to consider aspects of deep time, history, and discontinued lines of production. Developed by dancer and choreographer Rebecca Jensen and set at the site of the Dromana Drive In, Whale Fall connects ideas of fossil fuels and future fossils, confronting ideas of extraction and remains.
Accompanied by composer and sound artist Aviva Endean, and with videography by James Brennan from NON Studio, Whale Fall works with choreography as an expanded form, extending the body through machines and sound. Equating scrap metal on rope with soothing wind chimes and corrugated agricultural pipes and cars with majestic aeolian harps crossed with dystopian whale sounds.
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Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer and teacher born in Aotearoa and based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her choreography is presented in theatres, galleries, and public spaces and spills into the spaces between disciplines. Rebecca is inspired by the equally speculative and practical forces of dance practice. Works include Deep Sea Dances, Dance Massive 2017; Explorer Kier Choreographic Award finalist 2016; Blue Illusion VCA 2018, Spawn Venice Biennale College Dance 2018, Sinkhole with Jess Gall and Arini Byng (ongoing). With Sarah Aiken, Rebecca has created What Am I Supposed To Do? at Art Centre Melbourne 2019, OVERWORLD Next Wave Festival 2014/Dance Massive 2015 and Underworld Supercell Festival Brisbane/Northcote Town Hall 2017/Melbourne Knowledge Week 2019 and ongoing participatory project Deep Soulful Sweats presented locally and internationally.
Aviva Endean is an artist dedicated to fostering a deep engagement with (and care for) sound and music, with the hope that attentive listening can connect people with each other and their environment. She is active as a clarinetist, composer, improviser, curator, sound artist, performance-maker and collaborator. Aviva regularly works across a range of contexts including experimental and improvised music, new chamber music, creating theatre works which are designed to be listened to, and working on cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her work seeks to work beyond the boundaries of her art form, to reimagine the possibilities of a practice with sound.
