Winner of the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Award Non-Fiction: Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn & Reina Brigette Takeuchi, Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship
Judge's comments: This inventive hybrid work brings together the textual, visual, lyrical and poetic within a sophisticated interweaving of autobiography and cultural critique. Written in collaboration, the work is driven by, and articulates, the creative and radical act of friendship. The notion of friendship as resistance, politics, and play is powerfully rendered through a nonfiction that is formally various, suggestive of the possibilities and future directions of the genre, particularly in the digital space. It’s such a clever and engaging piece in its structure, its use of multiple voices and forms, and in its incisive critique of the inequalities of gender and race, across social structures and cultural production. It forges a path for creative work that seeks to reckon with exclusionary systems and structures, and is experimental nonfiction at its finest.
Additional links here:
Woollahra Digital Literary Award | Woollahra Municipal Council (nsw.gov.au)
not-your-miss-or-madame.pdf (squarespace.com)
https://goingdownswinging.org.au/archives/not-your-miss-or-madame-a-three-act-meditation-on-love-opera-and-friendship/
Excerpt from Dancing Hiatus published with 4A Papers Issue 9, November 2020, edited by Mariam Arcilla
Excerpt from BODIES OF ART // RELICS OF SMALL UNIVERSES published with Delving into Dance, edited by Teik-Kim Pok
Meditations on Coalescing Visual Arts and Performance Practices published as a part of IN/FORM publication released by Ausdance Qld - sharing articles revolving around Hybrid Arts, specifically Queensland artists that are working across dance, technology, visual arts and a multitude of other practices.
Articles published with Sydney Dance Company:
Disparate worlds colliding in PPY19 Revealed by Opal Russell and Reina Takeuchi
Reina Takeuchi: My first week in PPY 2019 by Reina Takeuchi