McKenzie, Vahri (2015). Love You, Stranger performance text, Short Cuts 2015. Perth, Australia: Strut Dance. A performance text about the true crime stories of three Australian women accompanying a work of contemporary dance choreographed by Shona Erskine. It explores the social and cultural attitudes that …
McKenzie, Vahri (2014). A Visceral Kind of Understanding. Dancewest, December 2014, 18-19. The work is an artists’ profile of Michael Whaites, Artistic Director of LINK, WAAPA’s graduate dance company, drawing on my case study of Whaites to show how embodied knowledge and physical sensation inform …
McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Freedom in surrender. Dancewest, September 2014, 22-23. The work is an artists’ profile of Claudia Alessi published in dancewest, the WA edition of the Australian Dance Council magazine. Alessi is a leading independent dancer and choreographer. It draws on my case study …
McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Telephone performance text, inConversation. Perth, Australia: Spectrum Project Space. A cloze script designed for an interdisciplinary collaboration of four artists who tailored the script to perform personal dating advertisements in a video installation. Relationships between the characters emerge and dissolve; themes include …
McKenzie, V. (2014). Underscore Alchemy: Extending the Underscore for creative artists. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices 6(2), 159-173. Underscore Alchemy is a research project designed to investigate how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s collaborative improvisation model, …