HELD - Geelong Arts Centre

HELD is a first stage creative development for a new local dance theatre work made and performed by Helen Duncan and Zoee Marsh.

Guided and facilitated by the performers, the work will offer audiences an innovative, gentle, immersive and sensory performance experience.

Performers and audience will work together to stay connected, regardless of how far apart they may be, as they try to bridge the loss of experience distance has created.

“I’m really interested to explore ways to hold an audience with care and sensitivity, especially at this time. The Place to Make grant offers us a platform for a first stage development that isn’t pressured with key performance outcomes; it simply offers us the space to start and to explore. Zoee and I feel this flexibility allows us to dive into the development of a work that can authentically respond to our universal vulnerability with gentleness, kindness and sustainability. I feel very grateful to be awarded the opportunity and space to work in this way.”

Helen Duncan

“I am thankful to be offered not only a stunning space to create in, but for that gift to be held in the very same place that first introduced me to movement as a craft. The building has changed and gone through much transformation, as have I within my career and practice. From my first introduction to the Geelong Arts Centre over two decades ago, to the professional artistic opportunity I'm awarded through Place to Make today, it's all come full circle and something about that feels very special.”

Zoee Marsh