hancock & kelly live (Postures A to M)

Lone Duets is a series of fractured conversations, a shattered dialogue between old friends, a deviation from the script, and a shared pause for the last breath...

Since 2005, Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly have been engaged in a game of ‘performance chess’, a viral investigation into the form and nature of collaboration.

Employing contamination and infection as dramaturgical devices, Hancock and Kelly have cultivated a series of 6 solo performances, each made in response to the work of the other, each grappling for the space between. The resulting works are a series of visceral, intimate, and queer events, both moving and spectacular.

Throughout their residency at the National Review of Live Art, Hancock & Kelly will present, for the first time, the entire series of six works:

Richard Hancock Dermographia (2005)
Traci Kelly In Season (2006)
Richard Hancock Postures A-to-M (2006)
Traci Kelly The Mirror Pool (2007)
Richard Hancock Open Wound (2007)
Traci Kelly Rupture (2008)

Richard Hancock (b. 1977, UK) and Traci Kelly (b. 1961, UK) have collaborated on a body of work spanning performance, live art, text, installation, and video.

Known for their beautiful and brutal explorations of the visceral body, Hancock and Kelly have presented works of critical acclaim to audiences across the UK, Europe, Central America and Australia.

Hancock and Kelly are among the most exciting new artists that it has been my privilege to encounter in the last decade.
Robert Ayers

This presentation of Lone Duets is a New Moves International commission for the National Review of Live Art.

The project has been supported by Arts Council England (UK), the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), Critical Path (AUS), Dance4 (UK), Future Factory (UK), greenroom (UK), Performance Space (AUS), and the University of Reading (UK).