Jillian Pearce – Y Space Director
 

Creative producer performer established Natimuk based Y Space in 1999 to work with climbers and dancers to create work on high and iconic structures including: Silos, Coal Dredgers, Arts Centre Spire, Churches, Sky Scrapers, cliff faces, quarries, enormous bamboo structures.

 

Large scale productions include;

• Colony on the Arts Centre Melbourne Spire 2002,

• Space and Place – Nati Frinj Biennale 2003 and

• RAA Conference Meeting Place 2004,

• Cirque de Silo 2005,

• Latrobe Space and Place-Commonwealth Games 2006 and Poppet Bendigo-State Government Commission for Regional Centre of Culture 2018;

 

All involving between 100 – 250 Community participants.

 

Other projects of similar scale include;

• the opening of the Elements -Kowloon Hong Kong, 2007; performer for Insite Arts Advent Calendars in Federation Square 2006-09,

• Rehearsal director with Y Space in Highly Strung (produced by Dave Jones/Transience 2011 and

• Murtoas Stick Shed 2019) and

• Choreographer for Kate Pengellys Feeling the Ceiling in 2011 and

• Black Hole Theatre’s Vault in 2019.

 

Freelance direction includes;

• Strange Fruit/Art Is … Festival Flock,

• Dookie Earthed Small Town Transformation Project 2014,

• Ansett Aflight Hamilton 2016 and

• Swanhill ‘s Fairfax Festival 2015 and 2016.

 

Before moving to Natimuk, as a performer she toured nationally with desoxy theatre, and internationally with NYID. She established, co-directed Melbourne based Big Fish Dance/Dance Compass Melbourne 1995-1999. Since 1999, she has toured internationally with Bambuco as choreographer, constructor and performer. She commissioned Bambuco director Simon Barley to design a performance structure for Y Space – Known as Styckx Theatre has seen 4 developments including: Balmoral Arts Festival, Arts House Melbourne in 2008 and GAS LAB Natimuk in 2009 and most recently Nati Frunj Festival 2019. Y Space continue to explore movement inquiry, training and performance on and around bespoke bamboo structures.