Performance
Thursday 24 July 2025, 10:00am
Offsite
PAGEANT
70 Graham Ave #3, Brooklyn, NY 11206, USA
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 8pm EST
For night one of Contact High: New York, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT Presents: Rebecca Jensen, Muddy 2.0, 2025. Reserve a free ticket.
Expanded for Contact High: New York with dancers Lilian Steiner and Molly Ross, and writer Roslyn Orlando, Muddy 2.0 enacts one of a series of oscillating dialogues between non-human entities by choreographer Rebecca Jensen.
Bog bodies, bunnies, motorbikes, and clouds drift across time, memory and perspective, bringing background actors into focus. Don’t take me for Granite, I’ve already changed 1000 times.
Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand) and based in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia. She is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, BA dance (2010).
Rebecca’s work explores the interdisciplinary potential of choreography, developed and presented in theatres, galleries, clubs, video, texts and site-specifically. Her practice is low-fi, DIY and process-driven. She works through dance, drawing on its speculative and practical forces to encourage reflection, foster connection, and recalibrate attention – bringing focus to entanglements, between bodies, technologies, environments, and histories.
Rebecca’s work has been presented in a range of notable contexts across Australia and New Zealand, notably her work Slip with sound artist Aviva Endean. Since 2013 she has co-directed Deep Soulful Sweats with collaborator Sarah Aiken.
Rebecca’s performance history includes work by Jo Lloyd, Lucy Guerin, Shelley Lasica, Adam Linder, Sandra Parker, Alicia Frankovich, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Atlanta Eke, and Lee Serle.
Rebecca was a DanceWEB scholar (2015), an Australia Council resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2020), and Resident Director at Lucy Guerin Inc (2023). She is currently a Gertrude Contemporary Gallery Studio Artist (2024–2026).
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Across three nights, 24-26 July, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT present Contact High: New York, a free showcase of Australian performance practice.
