BEYOND NIGHT dance graduation 2006

choreography

Tribe csaba buday

Restless Spaces lisa wilson

Arctic/Heart/Land brian lucas

Iii creative i ndustries

Welcome to our 2006 Dance Graduation season. This year we are very pleased to present a season of new works by local Brisbane-based choreographers who have a national and indeed international reputation . It is not insignificant that all three choreographers have been, and still are, acclaimed dancers. The embodied understanding acquired over decades as a dance student and then a professional dancer are essential for choreographers to build a rich and diverse knowledge of their art form which allows them the creative freedom to craft an individual choreographic style and approach.

Csaba Buday, contemporary lecturer and resident choreographer at OUT, has created Tribe for our first year students, which looks at aspects of tribal behaviour and culture, whilst in Restless Spaces the second year students have been exploring the often fraught nature of relationships with Lisa Wilson, best known as one of the charismatic leading dancers with Expressions Dance Company. The graduating students have been challenged in a different way with Arctic/Heart/Land, choreographed by acclaimed solo artist Brian Lucas, who has been working with the final year students in a dance theatre genre which employs vocal and dramatic as well as movement skills.

Once again we have a strong creative support team in Jason Organ whose integral lighting designs add texture and sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic, ambience to the works. Likewise Shaaron Boughen's understanding of the moving body as revealed through her costume designs contribute to the success of the works. Central also to the success of tonight's performance are the skilled work of our Creative Industries Technical Production students. Thank you to the Gardens Theatre staff, Production Coordinator Daniel Maddison

and Dance Production Coordinator Sue Leclercq as well as all the dance staff, Technical Production coordinator George '"' Meijer and OUT Precincts for their ongoing support.

To all our graduates, on stage and off, we wish you a rewarding future and satisfaction in your chosen pathway. We look forward to continued contact with you as OUT Dance alumni.

Associate Professor Cheryl Stock Head of Dance, Creative Industries Faculty

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Dance

1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year

D'Arcy Andrews Alex Bellemare Jay Bailey

Francis Christeller Jenna Cali Victoria Beck

lan Colless Deanna Castellana Ingrid Cameron

Jenna Drelincourt Dean Cross Fen-Lan Chuang

Hsiang-Ju Lin Lauren Culnane Laura Fishwick

ei-SimLow Jane Eastwood Elizabeth Gurdian

odd Madden Alyce Farrell Ming-Li Hsu

Sean McColgan Fiona Gardner Ying-Ying Liu

Adrienne O'Leary Angela Goh Daniel McKinley

Natalie Phillips Ianthe Goodwin-Brickhill Chrissy Norford

Sarah Potter Neroli Jamieson Kalina Olsen

Travis Scott Shu-Han Ku Sarah Wainwright

Anthony Trojman Alida Mulder Ebony Wright

Elizabeth Whelan Myles Newton

Jason Wood Tegan Ollett

Miranda Zeller Monique Singh

Liesel Zink Kimberley Smith

Sophia Tisdall

Hsin-Ying Tsai

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Jay Bailey Victoria Beck

Fen-Lan Chuang Laura Fishwick Elizabeth Gurdian

Ming-Li Hsu Ying-Ying Liu Daniel McKinley

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collaboration with the dancers Run, The Virgin Suicides, Unkle, Lost in T18JMJ41t Amon Tobin, Requiem for a Dream and TICIMM~~

BRIAN LUCAS is a Brisbane-based freelance performer and choreographer. He has developed a national reputation for his solo physical performance pieces, and has a history of producing provocative, powerful and intelligent works that both bridge and smash the divides between theatre and dance. Brian has worked as performer and choreographer with many of Australia's most well-known performance companies, including Chunky Move, Chamber Made Opera, Rock'n'Roll Circus, Brink Visual Theatre, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre, The

Lyric Opera of Queensland, and for almost eight years with Expressions Dance Company {four of those as Assistant Artistic Director). Since 2001 , Brian has held the position of Artist-in-Residence at Brisbane Powerhouse. He is currently the recipient of a prestigious two year Fellowship fro Dance Board of the Australia Council.

CSABA BUDAY, Dip ABS A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Csaba performed with the Australian Ballet, the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet and the Australian Ballet Dancers' Company before joining Australian Dance Theatre {ADT) in 1984. During his nine years with ADT he danced in numerous works by notable Australian and International choreographers including acclaimed dance maker William Forsythe {Frankfurt Ballet). Csaba joined Dance North from 1993-1994 and in 1995 he returned to Adelaide to become a member of Leigh Warren and Dancers until September 2000. During

1984-2000 Csaba also performed in several productions for film and television, the most recent being The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky directed by Paul Cox, in which he played the role of the Faun from Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun. He was Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide, 1995 and at the National Institute for the Arts, Taipei, 1996. Guest teacher/choreographer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1996 and Queensland University of Technology, 1999 and 2001 . Csaba has choreographed a total of 27 works for both professional dance companies and tertia ~

institutions within Australia and overseas. His works have been presented throughout Australia well as in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Macau, Vietnam, Israel, Scotland, Belgium, Vienna and at the Danses de Mai Festival, Paris {2002). Csaba is a 1999 Choreographic Fellowship recipient {Choreographic Centre, Canberra). Between 2000 and 2003 Csaba held the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Csaba joined Creative Industries Dance Faculty, QUT, as Lecturer in Contemporary Dance and Resident Choreographer in July 2003. Csaba recently completed postgraduate studies through an MA {Research) at Creative Industries, QUT.

LISA WILSON currently works as an independent artist across choreography, education and performance. A graduate of OUT's Academy of the Arts, Lisa's performance career began in Dance North from 1991 to 1995. For the following five years she worked in London performing with independent artists and companies including Bunty Matthias & Dancers, David Massingham Dance, Jeremy James, Emily Bums and Rambert Dance Company. Lisa choreographed and taught extensively for Rambert's education department, including large scale site specific works for the National Trust and numerous works for youth dance companies.

In 2000 she formed Icon Dance Company to produce a work for the London Resolution! season. After returning to Brisbane Lisa taught contemporary dance at QUT before joining Expressions

6 ce Company from 2000 to 2005. During this time she toured nationally and internationally and ~reographed two works for the company's Sketches seasons.

In late 2005 Lisa became Expressions' rehearsal director and choreographed a new work for Expressions Dance in Education Company.

SHAARON BOUGHEN, MA Uni of Kent, BA(Hons) Laban Centre, UK. Shaaron has choreographed over 30 works and received grants from The Australia Council, Arts Queensland and QUT. She has worked as an independent artist with the Cherry Herring Collective from 1996 -2000 and with Emergency 2001-2002. Her main focus of work lies in the scholarship of interdisciplinarity through Creative Practice. Shaaron's current practice is drawing from and developing her interest in the disciplines of architecture, digital mediums and visual arts. These areas of study inform her PhD studies in Artistic Reversioning as Creative

Production. Shaaron recently created an installation for the windows of The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in collaboration with visual artist Sandra Dean. She has an extensive design background from theatre works to product launches to pyrotechnics and has designed costumes for works by many leading Australian choreographers .

• aron is also the Brisbane dance reviewer for The Australian.

JASON ORGAN, AssocDipAT, BCAE. Jason graduated from Brisbane College of Advanced Education, now QUT, in 1988. He is co-founder of JLX Productions, a Queensland based design and technical consultancy, whose clients stretch from community theatre groups, major arts organisations and festivals, to corporate presentation and events. Jason's design credits include Figaro Variations, Power and Sonata for Ten Hands for Rock and Roll Circus, The Little Mermaid, Giselle and E­motion for Queensland Ballet, The Tale of Monkey for Grin & Tonic Theatre

Troupe, The Road To Mecca and Sitcom Festival for Queensland Theatre Company, Seems Like Yesterday and Yamin' Up for Kooemba Jdarra and Way Out West, Svetlana in Slingbacks and Scar for La Boite Theatre Company.

Production Team

Production Manager (Dance) Production Manager (QUT Precincts) Lighting Designer

Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Head Electrician Floor Electrician Lighting Operator

Sound Coordinator Sound Operator

AV Coordinator/Operator

Flys

Bump In/Out Crew

Wardrobe Supervisor/Seamstress Assistant Seamstress

Susan Caulfield-Leclercq Daniel Maddison Jason Organ

Jon Rettke* Siobhan Callanan* Ben Shaw*

Tim Snartt* Andrew Gable* David Kiorgaard*

Louise Daley* Tani Parry*

Jeff Warnick*

Jon Penn* Chris Ford*

Ryan Marks* Christian Douglas* Michael Gill* Chris Curtis*

Rosa Hirakata Frances Pyper

QUT Creative Industries Technical Production Staff

Head, Acting and Technical Production Dianne Eden Technical Production Coordinator George Meijer Associate Lecturer - Stage Management Sam Ould

*indicates Creative Industries Technical Production Student

QUT Creative Industries Dance Staff 2006, Semester 2

Full-time Associate Professor Cheryl Stock Head of Dance, Post-graduate Coordinator Rachel Mathews Study Area Co-ord- Dance UG, Lecturer in Dance Theory, Musical Theatre and World Dance Shaaron Boughen Lecturer in Choreography, Kinesiology, Performance Studies Csaba Buday Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Choreography Susan Caulfield-Leclercq Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet and Pointe Lesley Graham External Course Coordinator, Lecturer in Dance Education

a an Jones Lecturer in Ballet & Pas de Deux Tngie Smith Administration Officer Kim Stevens Dance in Education - External Units

Sessional Fiona Cullen Contemporary Technique Nicole Galea Australian Dance Rosa Hirakata Wardrobe Supervisor/Seamstress Avril Huddy Contemporary Technique, Alignment Dianna Laska-Moore World Dance Ko-Pei Lin Contemporary Technique Jillian Luke Ballet Tammy Meeuwissen Contemporary Technique and Duo Dr. Gene Moyle Performance Psychologist Melanie Murphy Ballet Technique Jean Tally Duo

4lss Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Rowena Langan Massage Therapist Tony Logan Massage Therapist Jan Smith Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer

Accompanists Brian Adamson Lavinia Dickens Steve Francis Brett Fowler

Christain Gante David Muller Paul Young

Beyond Night has been produced for the Creative Industries Faculty by QUT Precincts

Director Prof. Peter Lavery Executive Assistant Kylie Harding Operations Manager Jill Standfield Marketing Officer Alison Martin

i1ii Gardens Theatre

Events Officer Liz Thomas Theatre Technician Chris Dickey Workshop Supervisor Brendan Wright

2 George Street, Brisbane (next to City Botanic Gardens) Box Office: GardensTix 07 3138 4455, in person M-F 10am-6pm www.gardenstheatre.qut.com

PATRONS PLEASE NOTE

To ensure that all patrons enjoy the performance Management asks you to note: • Camera, tape recorders and paging devices should not be used inside the auditorium. • Switch off alarms and mobile phones prior to the performance. • A single cough measures approximately 65 decibels of sound. The use of a handkerchief helps to greatly soften the sound. • Management reserves the right to refuse admission, also to make any alterations in the program which may be rendered necessary by illness or other unavoidable causes.

EVACUATION

PATRONS are advised that the Gardens Theatre has an EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE, a FIRE ALARM system and EXIT escape signs. In the case of an alert, patrons should remain calm, look for the doses! EXIT sign in GREEN, listen to and comply with the directions given by Gardens Theatre staff, and move in an orderly manner to the open spaces outside