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Please view one or both of these videos in the category of 2027 Applications to gain insight into the merging of Margie Jean Lewis’ music and Tanya Voges’ dance experimental practices and process.

Introduction to MJL and TV and our shared experimental improvisational practice conducted at Restless Dance Theatre during InResidence 2026

Exploration of Playtronica’s Biotron incorporates plant life and organic matter including connection to Margie that demonstrates how generative movement and music can use site and nature as instrumentation.

- 2027 Application
- MJL & TV Collaboration
The Dance is the Sound is the Score WIP

Margie Jean Lewis and Tanya Voges share our Work in Progress materials between being In Residence at Restless Dance Theatre in 2026 and proposed funded process that will lead to performance outcomes in 2027. Filmed by Tim Standing. Thanks to Restless and AGSA for the opportunities so far to explore our shared practice.
- 2027 Application
- MJL & TV Collaboration
The Dance is the Sound is the Score experiments with Playtronica by Margie Jean Lewis & Tanya Voges

Playtronica, Biotron and Looping experiments MJL & TV In a creative research residency at Restless Dance Theatre throughout 2026, Margie Jean Lewis and Tanya Voges have been exchanging practice between sounds and music made through mediation of looping station , microphone, voice and now experiments with Playtronica's nodes where the organic materials-
- MJL & TV Collaboration
YEILD at AGSA #2

YIELD performance within the installation of Jen Matthews Yard (2026) , responded to Tanya Voges’ improvisational scores exploring the concept of yield strength- the bending point of metal - weaving elements of contact improvisation and partnering dance to share weight to generate new movement pathways. The musical response by Margie Jean Lewis was made by reading the dance, as if the choreography of the bodies were conducting the pitch, volume, and repetition of notes.
- MJL & TV Collaboration
YIELD : Art Gallery of South Australia 2026

Using shared imrpovisational scores, YIELD was a collaboration between Margie Jean Lewis and Tanya Voges which responded to the Adelaide Biennale YIELD STRENGTH at AGSA. Joined by performers Jazz Hrskin, Sam Matthewman and Amelia Walmsley, Tanya Voges and Margie Jean Lewis performed these scores in two site responsive performances to intergenrational audiences.