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 work. The films feature four outstanding dance professionals:
Robert Alejandro Tinning
Alya Manzart
Gabrielle Tinning
Risa Muramatsu Ray
It has always been intended that videography would augment the experiences of audience members when experiencing ‘kNOw NO NOw’. The film footage introduces close-up (handheld camera) and high&wide (drone) perspectives into the live show, bringing visually beautiful external environs of lutruwita/Tasmania right into the theatre.
The performance season will synergistically integrate these art form areas:
- dance
- film
- music
- artistic applications of AI
- costume
- visual art
- narrative/storytelling
The work is humorous, thought-provoking, somatically immersive and offers audiences four individual journeys that unfold in ways that bring them into relationship with each other, causing them to engage with their differences and to galvanise collectively.
‘kNOw NO NOw’ asks this central QUESTION:
What do YOU say ‘KNOW, ‘NO’ and ‘NOW’ to?
(Be as demanding and passionate as you like)
‘kNOw NO NOw’ is a highly prosocial work. The further we travel with it, the more humorous it becomes. It is about Resistance, Resilience and Flow within and amongst humans and we are a fallible and curious lot.
Currently, significant work to be done on the work’s dramaturgy to ensure that a depth and breadth of responses to ‘know’, ‘no’ and ‘now’ are explored thoroughly by the individuals, the ensemble as a whole and by a diverse dramaturgical team. We are also ensuring we know the film assets well in order to curate inclusion into the live performance in ways highly attuned to:
- the performances of the four individuals;
- the nature of the connections they build (or don’t build) with each other;
- the curious collective they become across the duration of the performance (costume design is by Tom O’Hern).
WHEN:
- Dramaturgical storyboarding and ‘user-experience’ research commencing this year and completed in March. Artists online.
- July-November 2026: 5 weeks within this period at a time TBC: Rehearsal and Presentation of full-length public season with integrated participatory community engagement activities. Artists inbound.
We came together for the ‘Behaviorology’ research phase to outstanding effect. We have further to go and building and presenting this public season is relevant to the artists’ passion and development.
Their collaboration with each other provides professional co-development of the highest standard, sustaining their respective contributions to communities well beyond this particular project.
Also, the integrated participatory community engagement will take the reach of this project into the next concentric circle of general public and local practicing artists from a range of fields, rippling outwards.
