Gabriella Imrichova works with the medium of live performance across theatre, visual arts, and dance contexts. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Theatre, 2019) and cohort of Dancehouse’s Emerging Choreographers Program (2022), their work interrogates the spoken and unspoken “shoulds” of art-making and spectatorship, reassessing what is deemed valuable, legible, or worthy of stage time through works that act as shrines to ‘what should be cut‘ - material that is “too”—too obvious, too simple, too banal. Imrichova reckons ‘immanent hypothesis is cooler than representation’, ‘estrangement as door, not obstacle’, and ‘the superfluous specificity of the arbitrary’ are gnarly muses to materialise through the curation of time and space. Recent presentations include works at Blindside Gallery, Dancehouse, Temperance Hall, and Contact High (Performance Review x Gertrude). They have undertaken residencies at Bundanon, the ATLAS programme at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), and most recently the Front Studio Residency at Temperance Hall.
OTHER PPL WRITING STUFF 👀👀
https://unprojects.org.au/article/lord-increase-my-bewilderment/
https://blindside.org.au/publication/finding-home-in-the-unlocatable
https://performancereview.online/reviews/24-01-23-25-01-23-gabriella-imrichova
https://tondbyhamishmcintosh.medium.com/review-24-01-23-25-01-23-99a45359a226
https://performancereview.online/reviews/the-bastard-dance-gabriella-imrichova