Cobie Orger
Biography
Cobie is a Melbourne based dance maker working in areas including performance, installation and video. Her work investigates the kinetic, spatial and sonic possibilities that exist between dance, sound and the moving image, particularly in non-conventional performance spaces.
This enquiry manifested in its first public presentation in 2005 with intermedia performance, human_edit (Conical Gallery, Fitzroy). This garnered huge momentum and obsession for proceeding interdisciplinary projects including Carbon to Glass (c), Overtones, Mostly In between moments and the formation of arts collective Underpass, co-founded by Carlee Mellow, Alexandra Macdonald, Martin Hansen and Alisdair Macindoe. Together they have made and presented work at the Ballhaus in Berlin, Culutuur Centrum Berchem Antwerp, Bundanon New South Wales and Artshouse Meat Market and continue to work in various configurations around the globe.
Cobie has collaborated with numerous other practitioners in fields such as sound, literature, dance, film and visual art. Many of these works have gone on to premiere at Melbourne’s Biannual Next Wave festival, This is Not Art festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Mid Summa Festival.
She has worked closely with dance/filmmaker Tracie Mitchell since 2004 and has consequently gone on to make and produce her own screen works including Standing unempty, a quiet reflection, Hear her breathe and Type 1). They have each been official selections at Cinemoves and/or Danceflicks, and have toured internationally through the Reel dance initiative, “Dance Your socks off”.
Alongside Cobie’s dance and artistic pursuits, she also runs her own video production business, working predominantly in the Arts for local dance organizations, Arts festivals, independent artists and councils, as well as the occasional birthday, wedding and party.
contact > post@cobieorger.com m.>0408 344 181
NEWS
19-22.08.10 - Creative development Palindrome for a dead poet
8.07.10 - Premiere of Under the Weather & accompanying Documentary @ ACMI 7.30pm
June - post production on documentary for Under The Weather (digital dance film by Tracie Mitchell)
26.5.10 - 30.5.10 - Performance season of The Lost Living
15.5.10 - screening of Relative States of motion @ Reeldance Festival, Sydney, "Out of the Hat" program
14.5.10 - Premiere of Relative States of Motion @ Private Dances, Next Wave Festival
19.4.10 -21.4.10 - Residency @ Donkey Wheel for creative deveopment of The Lost Living
8.02.10 - 12.02.10 - Start production on new dance film Relative states of motion to premiere at "Private Dances" Fri 14th May 2010.
15.01.10 - 17.01.10 - Start production of It is impossible to walk with both feet on the ground in Canberra with David Corbet and Adelina Larsson
3.01.10 - 14.01.10 - Residency @ Critical Path, Sydney, with Simon Charles, Andy Hutson, Kyle Kremerskothen & Martin Hansen.