BABY GIRL
by AMBER McCARTNEY
A performance of a persona whose physicality slides on a spectrum of her original body’s memories and her new being. Physicality involves emptying the body of familiarity to refill it with someone or something disturbingly otherworldly.
TOURING DETAILS
LAUNCESTON 8TH + 9TH JUNE 2023 - ASSEMBLY 197
SYDNEY 11TH JUNE 2023 - SOFT CENTRE
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Image by Jesse Hunniford - Mona Foma 2023
Image by Matthew Galligan - Mona Foma 2023
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
"Baby Girl is disquieting, remarkable and impressively physical. It’s also the kind of work that I would not have actively sought out if it hadn’t been programmed as part of the Mona Foma festival. Now I can’t wait to see what McCartney does next." - Elizabeth Flux, The Sydney Morning Herald.
"Amber McCartney writhed on the Nolan Gallery’s floor as a larval approximation of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers."- Nick Buckley, NME
"Baby Girl, the sole performer – Amber McCartney – has the audience’s rapt attention as she writhes, contorts and transforms.”- Marcus Teague, Broadsheet.
Image by Gabriel Comerford - Mona Foma 2023
Image by Matthew Galligan - Mona Foma 2023
AMBER McCARTNEY
Amber is a Naarm/Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer. Her practice incorporates prosthetics, mask-making, film and practical special effects to create new augmented bodies, foreign to both the performer and viewer.
Amber has worked extensively with Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc and is a Creative Associate of Tasdance. In 2022 she was honoured to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship from Lucy Guerin Inc., won a 2022 Green Room Award for Best Performer in Prue Lang’s Project F and was a finalist for The Australian Ballet/Telstra Emerging Choreographer.
In 2020 Amber was a recipient of Solitude 1, Chunky Move’s home-based residency program funded by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and created her film ‘Softtrap’ for the 2021 Activators program.
She has presented solo work for Tasdance, Lucy Guerin Inc’s ‘Pieces’ and ‘Now Pieces’, Dancehouse. Amber has enjoyed performing for Dancenorth and Antony Hamilton Projects as well as independent choreographers and multidisciplinary artists; Jenni Large, Prue Lang, Jo Lloyd, James Batchelor, Su Huiyu, Kyall Shanks, Jonathan Homsey and Niharika Senapati.
