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;
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Colony on the Arts Centre Melbourne Spire 2002,
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Space and Place – Nati Frinj Biennale 2003 and
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RAA Conference Meeting Place 2004,
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Cirque de Silo 2005,
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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;
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the opening of the Elements -Kowloon Hong Kong, 2007; performer for Insite Arts Advent Calendars in Federation Square 2006-09,
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Rehearsal director with Y Space in Highly Strung (produced by Dave Jones/Transience 2011 and
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Murtoas Stick Shed 2019) and
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Choreographer for Kate Pengellys Feeling the Ceiling in 2011 and
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Black Hole Theatre’s Vault in 2019.
Freelance direction includes;
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Strange Fruit/Art Is … Festival Flock,
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Dookie Earthed Small Town Transformation Project 2014,
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Ansett Aflight Hamilton 2016 and
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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.