current repertoire
Our newest creation, Amuse Bouche, is an exploration of the intricacies and complexities of human relationships, glimpsed through an unfolding series of dance vignettes. It is a portrayal of the varying and distinct aspects of romantic partnerships, a journey through individual emotional landscapes. Through a rolling succession of duets and solos, singular aspects of personal interaction are discovered and examined, embracing the comical, sensitive, passionate, and unrelenting manifestations of love.
Amuse Bouche combines an exciting and technically demanding palette of movement with a deep curiosity and investigation of emotional integrity.
Choreography: Magdalene Wynne-Jones
Dancers: Cat Casbon
Lindsay MacDonald
Ming Hei (Ronny) Wong
Claudia Palazzo
Rebecca Goor
Tempered Body Dance Company's Not Me Now, is a life remembered by a sufferer from Alzheimer's Disease. A patchwork of memories spanning 80 years comes unthreaded, as an aged woman struggles to come to terms with losing her knowledge of her loved ones and herself.
Choreography: Magdalene Wynne-Jones
Original Wordscape: N. Quentin Woolf
Original Score: Jack Hurd
Dancers: Melanie Simpson
Johnny Autin
Amy Mathieson
Jose Campos
Tag Along is a glimpse into the obsession for complete fusion, a love affair guided by sensuality and violence, passionate need for that which destroys. Choreographed by Magdalene Wynne-Jones and danced by members of the company, Tag Along opens the window to a disturbing and deceptive union gripped by the full body consumption of total devotion.
Choreography: Magdalene Wynne-Jones
Dancers: Melanie Simpson
Johnny Autin
Landing explores the concept of creating something from nothing. Inspired by the stories of pioneers settling in a new land, the piece looks at the vast struggle of survival in the effort to create a life and a home. From a bleak and desolate land we put something into the nothingness, a little piece of our own making, and through diligence, thrift, belief, and spite, we nurture its growth, until it is a home.
“In the darkness of the theatre the provocative words of N. Quentin Woolf ring out, as a couple writhes sensually on the floor - entwining hips, arms and legs, as if one is witnessing a singular glorious body. Their intimacy is counter point to a lone dancer, contorting his way through his isolation in a corner upstage. Centre stage two females lift, support and lead each other through the imagined terrain. A sense of hardship, the desolate and the sparse is palpatable in Landing but as this community comes together for the final ensemble, there is hope that their fight for survival can be won.”