Leah Grycewicz
Investigating the cameras relationship to dance and body. The dancer, the camera, space, timing, intuition and understanding of where each of us may go in the live moment. The dancers relationship to the environment via camera is an exciting realm. The environment, land, this country has long been a driving force in my work. My personal aesthetic found the most interesting movement in Youdell's body came when the conditions were harsh and physically dangerous. The dynamic movement presented in some scenes seemed to blow the landscape apart. The blurring of edges is challenging to resolve.
environment... moving
	Grycewicz is a multifarious arts practitioner who delves into film/video mediums and performance/installation. Her Body Weather and Butoh performance practice is informed by Tess de Quincey in Sydney 1989-92, Ashikawa in Sydney and Melbourne 1992, and Sho Takeuchi in Sydney 1994. Grycewicz has travelled and worked extensively in remote Australia on collaborative cultural projects. Local, interstate and international collaborative performance projects conceived and directed by Grycewicz involving film include Urge (1998) which travelled to the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and Traversing Sense (1996 & 1997). Grycewicz was performance coordinator for Linkage Leakage (1996), and coordinated the performance component of Transfer/Tranship, a project utilising the airport as a site for contemporary art. <www.kickarts.org.au/urge>
body image... still image... dance...

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