Vanessa White with Karl Krebs

Vanessa White, Hintergarten The Rocks Pop-Up Project, 2012
Photograph taken by: Pamela Lee Brenner

Charca Rosa (rose pond), is a site-responsive performance of dance and live music staged in and around the former site of Lady Macquarie’s Pond in Parramatta Park. This collaborative work pertains to the transformation of this location from bushland, to landscaped pond attracting waterbirds, and then into public parkland. Vanessa White’s dance dialogue is based on contemporary Japanese dance with echoes of Avant-garde Expressionism, accompanied by live flamenco overtones by guitarist Karl Krebs. 

Charca Rosa performances: 

5pm Friday 12 October

2pm Sunday 14 October

Vanessa White with Ryuichi Fujimura, Hintergarten The Rocks Pop-Up Project, 2012
Photograph taken by: Pamela Lee Brenner

Vanessa White is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the perception of bodily experience through physical energetic works involving performance, animation, video and painting. She recently received a 2012 ArtStart grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and has a Masters in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney. White has exhibited in London, Melbourne and Sydney; and performed in Sydney and Melbourne. www.vanessawhite.me

Karl Krebs has been playing the guitar since the age of twelve. He has studied many styles and in 2005 moved to Spain to study Flamenco Guitar under scholarship at the Fundación Cristina Heeren de Arte Flamenco in Sevilla. Karl works with various performers and Flamenco dance groups in Australia. He also presents the only dedicated Flamenco radio program in Australia, Flamenco Sessions, weekly on Eastside Radio 89.7FM www.kkguitarstudio.com.au

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.