Works

kNOw NO NOw ‘kNOw NO NOw’ was seeded in GSD’s 2024-25 research project entitled ‘Behaviorology'(Arts Tas-funded). This exploratory phase had the desired outcome of combining choreography and topography by making films captured on 5 locations in nipaluna/Hobart, June 2025. The quality film assets produced during this phase are a key design element for the new … Continued

DANCE COMMONS On the cultural commons GSD wants community connectedness to be dynamic, inclusive and cross-generational. We consider that the life we share in common is vital to the life we lead as individuals. Dance Commons is about the joy of dance shared so that audiences and artists can impact the performance experience together, in … Continued

BEHAVIOROLOGY Intersectional performance research by Great Southern Dance 2024-25 Since 2019, the artists of Great Southern Dance have felt compelled to present bodies dancing in historic, contemporary, natural and community contexts, deeply curious about how our bodies feel in these spaces and caring about what our bodies-dancing-in-relation can convey to those who experience our live … Continued

INTERGENERATIONAL DANCE EXPERIENCE Conceived/directed by Felicity Bott with design direction by Paul Wakelam, this Great Southern Dance intergenerational dance production is created in collaboration with Mature Artists Dance Experience and four youth interns. Aged 13-76, Hiero’s cast of 20 dancers spans four generations. Combining a professional dance company with an Ensemble of 12 mature artists … Continued

“[…+THE BUILDINGS THEY ARE SLEEPING NOW]” LOCATIONTASparedarerme Cranbrook & Swansea Who are we? We are creative collaborators who launch our architecture and dance from within DEEPROOM, a processed-based 30-year active ‘archive’ formerly based in Perth, Western Australia and now based in Hobart, Tasmania. Our lead creatives are Paul Wakelam Architect and Felicity Bott of Great … Continued

“KEEP LISTENING UNTIL YOU FIND THE BEAUTY” LOCATIONTASkutalayna Hunting Ground Jordan River | nipaluna Hobart | premaydena Port Arthur & Sloping Main Who are we? We are creative collaborators who launch our architecture and dance from within DEEPROOM, a processed-based 30-year active ‘archive’ formerly based in Perth, Western Australia and now based in Hobart, Tasmania. … Continued

Corpora Lab consists of the collective ‘bodies of work’ of a group of artists who brought their respective practices to bear on joint projects in Western Australia and Tasmania across the years 1999-2019, prior to the formation of Great Southern Dance. Corpora Lab is dance-led. Choreography, architecture, design, story, lighting, film, original sound and music, … Continued

Tasdance Conceived by Felicity Bott, Hal’cyon was Tasdance’s first work as part of Dark Mofo. It was a 14-hour dance performance installation of sustained beauty and intensity, fueled by the solo dance offerings of over 40 professional, mature and youth performers. It took place June 20-21, 4:50pm – 7:40am (sunset to sunrise) at the Odeon … Continued

Independant DWSTW STRUT, Dancehouse and Critical Path commissioned world renowned USA dancer and choreographer Deborah Hay, with Ros Warby acting as mentor, to work with ten Australian dance artists. Felicity Bott and Bianca Martin from WA will perform their solo adaptation of her work. WHAT DOES A BODY LOOK LIKE WHEN IT’S DANCING TO THE … Continued

Buzz Dance Theatre This dance theatre work used olour is a springboard for an immersive dance, sound and visual arts event that overtook entire schools when toured in Western Australia, and worked as a highly socially engaged presentation within festivals in Adelaide (COME OUT 2008) and Seoul (ASSITEJ 2009). Buzz Dance Theatre was dedicated to … Continued

Buzz Dance theatre Rabbit was inspired by the legendary curiosity of Alice in Wonderland and the celebrated absurdity of her journey down the rabbit hole. Harnessing fragments of of Alice’s story as catalysts for imagination, creativity and nostalgia, Rabbit blended object and costume design with dance theatre to convey the journey of an ‘Alice-wannabe’, She … Continued

Buzz Dance Theatre Contemporary dance theatre work that investigated themes of play, pretending and pretension. Playing ‘pretend’ was linked to aspiration, competition and playing the fool. 8 characters are each ‘playing at something’ and creative chaos reigns. The production was nominated for 2 Helpmann Awards in 2006 including one for the full-length sound design by … Continued

Buzz Dance Theatre ‘If the reaction from the young onesis a reliable indication, Beat Cake is a fully baked, satisfying show with all the ingredients necessary to amuse and divert while educating at the same time’. The West Australian Full-length original dance theatre work for children and young people, toured state-wide in Western Australia 2004-5. … Continued

Buzz Dance Theatre Full-length original dance in-theatre work premiered at the Playhouse Theatre in Western Australia in 2004. Original music created and played live on drum kit and sampler by musician Jo 19 (Sunshine Brothers). Mise en Scene by visual artist and academic Bec Dean. A Buzz Dance Theatre Production.

Steps Youth Dance Company Powdermonkey: Real Boy Real Girl was first trialled as a performance model uniting children and adults in 2002 with Felicity Bott, Leon Ewing and Setefano Tele during the large-scale youth dance incubator  in Fremantle Locomatrix for Step Youth Dance Company. The model was inspired by Romeo Castellucci and Chiara Guidi’s Experimental … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company ‘11 doomed sweethearts of subterfuge, countless broken fingernails and only one getaway car!’ This collaboration between Felicity Bott and Bec Dean mashed two female archetypes from 19th and 20th century art: the bell tutu-ed ‘willis’ from romantic ballets like Swan Lake, La Sylphide and Giselle with Hitchcock’s heroines in films such … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company Movement Safari was a ground-breaking project in several ways. It saw Steps Youth Dance Company engage a youth ensemble of which 6 were paid (emerging artists who choreographed and performed) and 24 youth performers. Under the mentorship of experience professional performance makers, the six emerging artists created on the Steps youth … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company 34 youth dancers perform with original live music created and played by the Rhibosome trio of drummer/DJs on turntables, sampler, drum kit, congas and other percussion. Choreographed by: Felicity Bott, Bernie Bernard, Setefano Tele and Sandi Woo. “…with 15 boys and 20 girls, aged 12-20 years from secondary and post-secondarycontexts, this … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company ‘Play The Game’ by Setefano Tele presents a paper cut-out ‘gibberish community infatuated with quiz shows. The work takes the packaged competitive tension that has fueled interest in quiz shows since the beginning of television and brings it to a dance context: There are questions, answers and above all , a … Continued

CORPORA 401 Corpora 401 received a development grant from ARTS WA and presentedthis showing at the Jack Sue Gallery. This grant allowed 3 weeks of intensive workshops between Corpora members with direction from Barry laing re working previous performances. Corpora 401 is a collaboration between Paul Wakelam, Felicity Bott, David Fussell, Barry Laing, Michael O’Brien … Continued

CORPORA 201 Calculating Hedonism – ‘Stories from sober and temperate bodies’ – Perth, WA.Corpora201, presented this show at The Rachabites Hall and was technically assisted by the WA Fringe Festival 2001 and Gazebo 64 and was a part of prag/port/pert program. This program also consisted of Paul Gozola’s ‘Cut Piece’ and Czech Republic’s Kristyna Lhotakova … Continued

CORPORA 999 Belle Grave – ‘Baby, be brave’ Performance Artrage Festival. Corpora 999, presented this show at Jack Sue Gallery and was funded as a part of the Artrage Festival 1999.Corpora 999 is a collaboration between Paul Wakelam, Felicity Bott, Marco Mona, David Fussell, Michael O’Brien, Eloise Bailey, and the publicity of Jude Leon and … Continued

Independant What, I ask you, was that all about?. Film & Performance Duo created and performed by Felicity and Shannon Bott for Perth Institute’s ‘Dancers Are Space Eaters’ season in 1997. What, I Ask You Was That All About? is a ‘sister-act’ to the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. Set Design … Continued

Steps Youth Dance Company Taking it’s name from anthropological understandings of ‘totem’, this work invited the youth performers to reflect back to audiences hypocrisies and pleasures of contemporary life. The design by Paul Wakelam and Ahmad Abas involved a large ‘motherload’ that descended from the fly tower and a smaller ‘hearth bed’ positioned downstage. Sound … Continued

Independent New Choreographers A dance with spoken word and body percussion created for a season of independent new works at PICA in 1994, History and the Seraph was a feminist work for solo performer. The male voice and gaze were interrogated bodily and verbally. Text was adapted from Deborah Levy’s An Amorous Discourse in the … Continued