“Just.Say.Yes.”
Bec Reid and Ben Cisterne
31 May → 8 June 2012

Just.Say.Yes. is a participatory experience for one. Inspired by the lounge room feeling like Wembley Stadium and an undeniable need to connect with one another, this wee world is fiercely private and unspeakably shared. There’s some music, some dancing and some lights – it just depends what you decide to do with it…

Bec Reid has a long history of community based arts practice and regularly facilitates large scale participatory projects. A WAAPA graduate, Bec was Artistic Director of acclaimed dance company, Stompin, between 2001 and 2006. Bec has worked with the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Tracks, Back to Back Theatre, The Business, Die Roten Punkte, Barry Morgan and his World of Organs, NICA and the Australian Youth Dance Festival. Associate Producer on the 2006 and 2008 Next Wave Festivals, Bec created a dance program and curated performance events, 180 Seconds in Heaven or Hell. Bec has produced for Dancehouse, Arts House and was Producer, Arts and Community at the Footscray Community Arts Centre for the past three years. Currently Associate Director of 100% Melbourne at the City of Melbourne, Bec is also a key creative in Tristan Meecham’s Fun Run and board member of Ausdance Victoria.
www.becreid78.wordpress.com

Benjamin Cisterne is renowned for creating bold designs, based in light, that are integral to a performance. He runs a multidisciplinary business and has had a very successful career to date with many honours being awarded him from bodies such as the Greenroom Association (for performing arts design) and the Illuminating Engineers Society (for exhibition design). Benjamin has extensive experience working both nationally and internationally, leading teams of designers in the creation of lighting designs and specification of multimedia services for various performance, exhibition/museum, and architectural projects and has a reputation as being the person to solve a problem. Benjamin is well known as a designer for contemporary dance and has been a driving part of the creative team for companies such as: The Australian Ballet, Chunky Move, Antony Hamilton Projects, Balletlab, Stompin, Force Majeure, Lucy Guerin Inc, Dance North, Splinter Group and many more independent groups.
www.benjamincisterne.com

This project is part of Time Has Come Today, a special season of experimental live art, audiovisual and performance projects at West Space. West Space would like to gratefully acknowledgethe support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, for their support of this project.