BodyPlaceProject creates performances and art experiences that bring audiences’ attention to sensory, historical, environmental and cultural qualities of a site or place. Recently, BodyPlaceProject has explored place in ever-broadening ways through curation of exhibitions and events, creation of video and photographic works, public art and facilitation of projects that offer audiences/participants experiences and reflections upon site, place and Country.

Initiated by dancer/curator Gretel Taylor, BodyPlaceProject has evolved into a collective of artists who share a deep interest in place experienced through the body. Current key artists are: Gretel Taylor, Gülsen Özer, Laki Sideris and Tammy Wong Hulbert. Frequent collaborators include Djirri Djirri, Wurundjeri women’s dance group; and Murrundindi, senior elder (Ngurungaeta) of the Wurundjeri people. We also collaborate with other artists, knowledge holders, communities and non-human beings of the places in which we work.

Major projects produced to date are Dancing Place: Corhanwarrabul and Force of Nature, and we look forward to our upcoming program, Making Sense of Place. Our purpose is to facilitate profound experiences of place.