Join exhibiting artist and choreographer Annalouise Paul and choreographer Gülşen Özer for Call and Response, a participatory workshop that extends the themes of the exhibition Uncharted Waters, The Journey of Mother Tongue through movement-based dialogue.
Beginning with a guided walkthrough of the installation led by Annalouise, the program unfolds through a live call-and-response exchange between the two artists before inviting participants into an interactive session facilitated by Gülşen.
Drawing on the exhibition’s focus on sacred geometries and the spiral as a symbol of renewal, Call and Response offers a framework for listening, responding, and creating in relation to one another. Through movement prompts, participants are invited to reflect on our relationships with each other and the environments we inhabit, while exploring the possibilities that emerge through collaboration, exchange, and collective care.
No prior dance or movement experience is required—all are welcome.
Children are welcome under adult supervision.
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Saturday 10 October, 1pm-2.30pm
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Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre
Corner Walker and Robinson streets, Dandenong
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Cost: Free. Registrations essential.
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Call and Response Workshop
Join exhibiting artist and choreographer Annalouise Paul and choreographer Gülşen Özer for Call and Response, a participatory workshop that extends the themes of the exhibition Uncharted Waters, The Journey of Mother Tongue through movement-based dialogue. Beginning with a guided walkthrough of the installation led by Annalouise, the program unfolds through a live call-and-response exchange between the two artists before inviting participants into an interactive session facilitated by Gülşen.Drawing on the exhibition’s focus on sacred geometries and the spiral as a symbol of renewal, Call and Response offers a framework for listening, responding, and creating in relation to one another. Through movement prompts, participants are invited to reflect on our relationships with each other and the environments we inhabit, while exploring the possibilities that emerge through collaboration, exchange, and collective care.No prior dance or movement experience is required—all are welcome.Children are welcome under adult supervision.
Australia/Melbourne
public
About the Artists
Annalouise Paul
Annalouise Paul is an award-winning dance artist who creates and performs narratives inspired by living traditions and lore. Her solo practice explores the intersection of flamenco and contemporary dance, paying homage to her lineage and the global Sephardic diaspora. Through her somatic approach, she has created original intracultural choreographic processes, fostering works that can embrace dancers of diverse traditions and contemporary forms.
Gülşen Özer
Gülşen Özer is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of performance, visual art, community building, and health. Known for her collaborative, socially engaged and participatory work, Özer’s projects often bring art into public spaces. Her practice explores art-making as a language for connection — between people, place, and the natural world. She has delivered a wide range of movement workshops for museums, galleries, festivals, schools, and community settings across Victoria.
About the Exhibition
The exhibition Uncharted Waters. The Journey of Mother Tongue presents an immersive exploration of movement, knowledge systems and sacred geometry through Primordial, a newly commissioned short dance film by dance artist Annalouise Paul.
The installation considers language in two interconnected forms: the language of the body, expressed through rhythm, gesture and movement, and the spoken and sung languages carried through voice. The exhibition further reveals the creative process, tracing how ancient dance traditions and rhythmic practices intersect with mathematical structures and patterns found in nature to form both the conceptual framework and movement "DNA" of the work.
Together, these elements illuminate the relationships between embodied knowledge, non-verbal expression and universal design principles, offering a sensory encounter with the ways knowledge is transmitted, remembered and transformed across generations.
Visually rich, Primordial moves through natural and urban environments shaped by sacred geometries. It asks: what is our role within the systems we inherit, and how might we imagine and create systems that foster peace? Rather than presenting utopian futures, the work centres on the transformative potential of human knowledge and our capacity to shape what comes next.
The installation offers a glimpse into Mother Tongue®, Paul's ongoing body of work, with its four acts—Present, Ancient Past, Deep Time and Future—subtly woven throughout. Mother Tongue® proposes that moving into the future requires us to carry the wisdom of the past with us. In this context, Primordial presents autonomy, embodied knowledge and collective memory as pathways towards peace.
