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Temperance Hall Australian queer dance/performance/art. Boon Wurrung Country. Contemporary dance performance made in collaboration with significant artistic partners.

Scrutinizing behaviour, sexuality, culture with currency.

Final night of Frankie No. 1 by Martin Hansen - for Temperance Hall’s TEMPER program. Like feeling the texture of someth...
22/08/2025

Final night of Frankie No. 1 by Martin Hansen - for Temperance Hall’s TEMPER program.

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove, Frankie NO.1 frames the body as the imperfect and troubled mediator of emotions. Hansen acts as a conduit for a tentative offering, an unfolding of figures and fragments of dance, utterance, affect and tune.

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Frankie NO.1 by Martin Hansen is showing for three nights only, next week at Temperance HallWednesday, Thursday, Friday$...
15/08/2025

Frankie NO.1 by Martin Hansen is showing for three nights only, next week at Temperance Hall

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

$15

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove

Book now!

Thursday night's showing will be followed by a Q&A facilitated by Sarah Aiken

Current Front Studio Resident Deanne Butterworth presents "When it is Finished," a work-in-progress showing.7pm, Friday ...
08/08/2025

Current Front Studio Resident Deanne Butterworth presents "When it is Finished," a work-in-progress showing.

7pm, Friday 5th September.

When it is Finished connects two periods of residency taken one year apart. It reflects upon a period of solo working at DESA Indonesia (April 2024) and material from the current Front Studio Residency at Temperance Hall. These two vastly different places allow for the emergence of a logic over time and a side-by-side display of embodied knowledge. It is both a review of stored material and dance emerging from the present moment.

There will be an installation of screen-based work in Front Studio, followed by a 30-minute performance in the Main Hall.

When: 7pm, Friday 5th September

Where: Temperance Hall, Main Hall

Free, booking required via link in bio.

Deanne Butterworth is a Temperance Hall Front Studio Resident for 2025.

The Front Studio Residency has been supported by the Neilson Foundation, the City of Port Phillip, the Palais Theatre Community Fund, private donors and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Martin Hansen presents "Frankie NO.1"Frankie NO.1 is the first iteration in a series on grief and the body. Frankie NO.1...
28/07/2025

Martin Hansen presents "Frankie NO.1"

Frankie NO.1 is the first iteration in a series on grief and the body. Frankie NO.1 thinks of choreography as speculation, an open question.

Like feeling the texture of something through a glove, Frankie NO.1 frames the body as the imperfect and troubled mediator of emotion. Hansen acts as a conduit for a tentative offering, an unfolding of figures and fragments of dance, utterance, affect and tune.

Looking at grief as taboo and as monstrous, Frankie NO.1 emerges in the body of the dancer, before etching a story of monstrous grief from the world of Romantic literature toward today. Resembling a Frankenstein lecture performance, an assemblage of effected parts is sewn together through association, through digression. Frankie NO.1 uses performance to search for a moment that is porous and leaky, where meaning can be complicated, unfinished, frayed, a conduit performance in hope of transgressions which may spill forth, come to, and awaken, again.

CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE by Martin Hansen
SOUND by James Rushford

PERFORMANE DATES
7pm, Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd August, 2025

Martin Hansen is a choreographer and artist working primarily in theatre and gallery contexts. In their practice, archives in the form of photography, film, video and GIF collections are used to critically explore memory and time, with ghosts recurring as generative figures upon which works are built. Since 2015, Martin’s solos and group works have been presented at venues such as Tanzfabrik, Sophiensaele, Radialsystem and Bärenzwinger (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Rencontre Chorégraphique Internationales De Seine Saint Denis (Paris), Charleroi Danse and KANAL Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Dance Massive, Dancehouse, Frame Biennial (Melbourne), Aerowaves (Aarhus), and Carriageworks (Sydney).

TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new choreographic work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

Announcing: TEMPERTesting 1, 2, 3.MARTIN HANSEN / LIZ ROSENFELD / JULIET WIDYASARI BURNETT & ISHVARA DEVATICome to Tempe...
25/07/2025

Announcing: TEMPER

Testing 1, 2, 3.

MARTIN HANSEN / LIZ ROSENFELD / JULIET WIDYASARI BURNETT & ISHVARA DEVATI

Come to Temperance Hall for 3 new experimental performance seasons by visiting artists, this August, October and November.

TEMPER is a new program inviting 3 choreographic artists/collaborations to develop and show new work at Temperance Hall, while in residence on-site in the Apartment Studio.

Bringing experimental, radical…
art/
work/
ideas/
experiences/
research/
perspectives/
practices/
dances
…from farther afield to share with local audiences at Temperance Hall.

TEMPER [Testing…]
#1 MARTIN HANSEN (MELBOURNE/BERLIN): AUGUST
#2 LIZ ROSENFELD (BERLIN/LONDON): OCTOBER
#3 JULIET WIDYASARI BURNETT (GOLD COAST) & ISHVARA DEVATI (JAKARTA): NOVEMBER

TEMPER is supported by Creative Australia, the Australian Government's principal arts investment and advisory body.

THIS SUNDAY! Can you help us literally reassemble Temperance Hall?Our Winter Working Bee will be focused on sprucing up ...
09/07/2025

THIS SUNDAY! Can you help us literally reassemble Temperance Hall?

Our Winter Working Bee will be focused on sprucing up the Apartment Studio, painting the Main Hall floors, tidying up the gardens and courtyard, and generally giving the place a once over.

How the day will run:
11:00-12:00pm — Registration + tea & coffee + assign team leaders & groups
12:00-4:00pm — "You Better Work"
4:00-6:00pm — Kick back and relax with a glass of mulled wine | Social Hour

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecFoMCu6PjkdFMP6ZdDAKIJdAr-syTiyGVvjJLplgYoPShXA/viewform

Or via link in bio.

Images from "the Story of the Hare", a work-in-progress by Front Studio Resident Geoffrey Watson, with collaborators Mar...
08/07/2025

Images from "the Story of the Hare", a work-in-progress by Front Studio Resident Geoffrey Watson, with collaborators Mara Gallagher, Robbie Divine and Bob Jarvis.

A spectacular night at Temperance Hall.

Images by Jeff Busby.

Images from "the Story of the Hare", a work-in-progress by Front Studio Resident Geoffrey Watson, with collaborators Mar...
08/07/2025

Images from "the Story of the Hare", a work-in-progress by Front Studio Resident Geoffrey Watson, with collaborators Mara Gallagher, Robbie Divine and Bob Jarvis.

A spectacular night at Temperance Hall.

Images by Jeff Busby.

🤑🤑🤑📣🗞⚠ One [1] day to go!!📣🗞⚠🤑🤑🤑We need your help to pilot the 'Apartment Studio Residency' in 2026 – an opportunity for...
29/06/2025

🤑🤑🤑📣🗞⚠ One [1] day to go!!📣🗞⚠🤑🤑🤑

We need your help to pilot the 'Apartment Studio Residency' in 2026 – an opportunity for visiting national and international artists to live and work on-site at Temperance Hall, sharing their practices with the local community, alongside local artists working in the Front Studio Residency.

This will be the only live-in, on-site artist residency focused on dance and experimental performance.

Thank you in advance for anything you can give this end-of-financial year to help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall!

https://www.givenow.com.au/temperancehall

🚨📣🚨2 days to go! 📣🚨📣Help us to Reassemble Temperance Hall by supporting a return of the Front Studio Residency in 2026. ...
28/06/2025

🚨📣🚨2 days to go! 📣🚨📣

Help us to Reassemble Temperance Hall by supporting a return of the Front Studio Residency in 2026. Six Independent dance artists receive:
- A dedicated studio space for 2 months
- A $5000 artist fee
- Producing support
- A public outcome shared with the Temperance Hall community at a raw and vital early stage
- Professional documentation.

Private donations have huge practical and symbolic impact on our operations. Any amount is helpful!

🚨🚨🚨3 days left!🚨🚨🚨Can you help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?With your support, we will:- Embed the Front Studio a...
27/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨3 days left!🚨🚨🚨

Can you help us as we Reassemble Temperance Hall?

With your support, we will:
- Embed the Front Studio and the Apartment Studio as permanent artist residency spaces
- Set up the Apartment Studio with dance flooring and furniture
- Make a new website that archives the remarkable legacy of work at Temperance Hall since 2016, and builds visibility for what’s next.

Private donations make a huge impact, and they strengthen the viability of every other funding source we pursue. Any amount is helpful!

https://www.givenow.com.au/temperancehall

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