Fallen’ O’er

Commissioned by the Abbotsford Convent's Alchemy program

Presented at the Abbotsford Convent 2016

Fallen O'er was a site-responsive commission for the Abbotsford Convent Foundation's Alchemy program. This work had a strong focus on humour, inventive writing, and site- and context-responsive making.

The work drew on a specific Australian lower-middle class experience of Catholic Schooling, together with the Convent’s dark history as one of the infamous Magdalene Laundries institutions which operated within its walls for over a century. Institutions that were responsible for inflicting immense suffering on vulnerable women.

Creation, Performance, Choreography: Alice Dixon, Caroline Meaden, William McBride

Sound: Emah Fox

Lighting: Jason Crick

Costumes: Matilda Woodroofe

Documentation by Mischa Baka

Awards

Nominated for an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance.