We do not forget you Tanja. Love Gerlinde

http://www.themonthly.com.au/20-australian-masterpieces-2000-monthly-3984

20 Australian Masterpieces Since 2000
To mark the Monthly's inaugural arts issue, we approached 20 arts critics and asked each to identify the most significant Australian work of art in their field since 2000.


Tanja Liedtke

construct, 2007

There are no Ring Cycles or Mahabharatas in Australian contemporary dance. The scale is frequently small and it is a fleeting art that depends crucially on its performers in a specific time and place. Since 2000, Stephen Page’s Skin, Garry Stewart’s Birdbrain, Lucy Guerin’s Structure and Sadness, Gideon Obarzanek’s Glow and Meryl Tankard and Paul White’s The Oracle live alertly in the memory, which is their only repository. But if one work must be selected to be first among equals, it is Tanja Liedtke’s construct.

construct premiered in London, with Liedtke in the cast. She died in an accident three months later, making this her last work. The physical reality of making things, particularly something as emotionally charged as a home, framed a study of the building and breaking of relationships. Construction implies competence, practicality, strength and creativity. There is a need for balance, ingenuity, problem-solving and co-operation. A structure can be a home or a prison; it can stand or it can fall. In Liedtke’s hands these literal and metaphorical notions were effortlessly entwined and animated with wit, joy, playfulness, sorrow, anguish and loss. The resonances were deep and intimate, sometimes troubling, yet rarely losing touch with life-affirming humour.

—Deborah Jones

today

Thinking of you loads today my love. I look forward to spending an hour with you on screen and sharing that together with your favourite people. Your sun is shining bright here in Sydney, of course. Today we celebrate you, remember you, miss you and love you.
Theo xxx (ps. take care of mum)

Open light

October sounds for Tanja, circling around piano and strings for you. x Jase

one more time again

how about a lounge room boogie baby, have a magic day and thanks for setting my head right this morning xx

re: Happy Birthday!

Dear Tan,

not here to hug but never forgotten, tomorrow would be your birthday, I think of you often, dancing in different ways.

Love Always

Helen O

Dreamin

Thanks for hanging out last night... my dreams usually disappear as my eyes open but your smile and laugh were as clear as daylight. Catch a few lanterns from us this weekend. Thinking of you x

Thrice

got the moon on your pyjamas and the stars in your eyes
xx

in fresh light of promise

thanks for the rainbows

Thinking of you today sweet angel xxxxx

returns

happy birthday baby xx

Late Song

Sorry, Tanja and Sol, this year I am a bit late with my song... but it still rains. x Jase

twice

well twice now we have come here. such a peculiar place to return, to see camellia blossom dissapear out into the sunlit horizon off balmoral with shane was touching and all I could manage.
missing you little one. x

awarding you

sweetness this was unbelievable. long legged lovely took to the stage for another magic moment! Well done paul and Kris.
Gerlinde, Shane and I doing our teary best. You rock

up for you again

2 years on and here come these precious recognitions. The guys still shining in the work you made together. Well done baby, still touching minds and lives. x

brighton

the corn exchange full to the rafters all remembering your just for show shining and now applauding again
fifo and co a gogo
superb. QEH here we come. Nice one baby

waves

We are riding the waves and the sea is very rough. We love you and miss you
so much. Gerlinde

theo

so I am watching footage as we do the promo cut with Soph and Bry and see this awesome interview with theo where he speaks again of the blog and how it was a way to speak to you, that we all shared to which was wonderful.
I noticed indeed that I do intent to write to you here...
nice
like that theo boy very clever and a super BF

You are looking good and delectable and amazing in the reams of tapes, my god it is hard to trust letting it all out into the world.

Still blowing me away all the time it seems

miss you
x

one missing

hey babe
am feeling funny, return back to sydney and sit behind the wheel of the bus and just so get your absence.
no wonder i am running off all the time.
feel like a good year passing as I reach official middle age, you would whip my ass about the middle age body shape, but I am getting it now
friends making dinner and I am able to enjoy my day I feel sure, just one thing so badly missing
thanks for all the good ones and teaching me to enjoy
just wish I could wake up to your mischevious smile
xxxx
ulli

Birthday smiles of you my lovely friend.
Thinking of downing a martini in the sun with you beautiful one.
I simply think of you and love you deep.
You are in me strong as ever, still inspiring me to push, challenge and reach
Craig

happy returns

happy birthday tanjamou
I dont know how old this makes you but I squeeze you close and celebrate your beautiful emerging among us.
xxxx
forever
ulli