Anca Frankenhaeuser

24 March - 27 April      The Wrapsody of the Daily Paper

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Anca Frankenhaeuser is a dancer, a celebrated dancer and choreographer who traveled from Finland to London to dance with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. And in the dance of life she found Patrick there who danced her on to Australia, as David Bowie sang, “Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight, lets dance, lets dance, dance, dance, dance…………”


Among their many projects, Anca and Patrick dance with the group Australian Dance Artists that works with the Australian sculptor and performance artist Ken Unsworth to realize gloriously theatrical works that merge the various arts into a single expression. For Anca another unusual thing started happening when she reached Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald began arriving, tossed over the front fence skidding to a halt on the damp grass wrapped in glad wrap.

The silvery plastic sheet could only be saved - wound relentlessly around itself - growing more substantial day by day. As Anca said, this isn’t plastic wound around a form; it’s plastic all the way through. As she wound, in an elaborate calculation based on a time / weight ratio, her winding became 2,375 days worth that is 6 years and 6 months of winding. Or as Patrick put it, “I watch television and Anca does this at the same time.”

-Tony Twigg