De Quincey Co is Australia’s leading Body Weather Company which builds on several decades of work by dancer-choreographer Tess de Quincey in Europe, Japan, India and Australia.
Body Weather is a contemporary dance training founded in Japan by butoh dancer Min Tanaka, melding Asian and Western practices and thought. Significant milestones have included: The Triple Alice laboratories and performances in Central Australia; Nerve 9 – a hybrid solo that was first presented in 2001 in Sydney and Melbourne and represented Australia in the Biennale de Danse in Paris; The Stirring, a major site-specific event at contemporary performance centre CarriageWorks in 2007; and embrace: Guilt Frame presented by Sydney Theatre Company in 2008.
Tess de Quincey is a choreographer and dancer who has worked throughout Europe, Japan and Australia as a performer, teacher and director. Trained in dance, graphics and sculpture in London and Copenhagen, she was formerly a dancer with legendary butoh dancer Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Performance Co in Japan 1985-91. Her interdisciplinary performance work is based in the BODY WEATHER philosophy and methodology founded by Min and his company. Tess has created an extensive body of artworks in different terrains, from the city to the desert, both nationally and internationally with a focus on durational, site-specific and intercultural environments. Major solo productions Movement on the Edge, Another Dust, is.2 and Nerve 9 have toured Australia and Europe. In 2000 Tess formed De Quincey Co which is Australia’s leading Body Weather company.