Aimee Smith
WINTERING
A work inspired by the fragility and strength of an iced landscape. Through this immersive and meditative contemporary dance work Smith asks the questions: What is it like to live in a changing and disintegrating world? How do we sit with the tension between beauty and destruction, hope and fear? Wintering opens a conversation about climate change not by facing the familiar politics of the issue but instead bravely attempting to reveal the subtle emotional and disquieting nature within.
Choreography: Aimee Smith
Dancers: Rhiannon Newton, Jenni Large
Duration: 60 minutes
Sound Composition; Ben Taaffe, Craig McElhinney, Kane Ikin
Lighting Design: Trend Suidgeest
Visual Images: Kynan Tan
Aimee is an award winning choreographer inspired by the capacity of art to make sense of the world around us and the capacity of imagination to dream up the future. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Aimee has produced a series of critically acclaimed dance productions—including Borderline, Accidental Monsters of Meaning, Breakings, Courageously Heroic Gallantry, Press Play and Wintering.