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FOREWORD
It is a delight to welcome you to essenTIaLLY danCe 2009. We have taken special pleasure this year to showcase not only our performance students but also the work of some of our graduates who currently are or have been practising as choreographers and performers themselves. Clare dyson (1992) and Fiona Malone (1994) are independent choreographers working out of Brisbane and sydney respectively, Yolande Brown (1998) is currently performing with Bangarra dance Company and angus Lugsdin (1993) is the Coordinator of the Queensland dance school of excellence. They have each created short new works as tasters for our final year students challenging them with different styles and approaches to making dance work. These students also expand their networks by being introduced to our alumni and the industry.
another past student Lesley Livesey and his partner Kym stokes, currently MFa students, have shared their extensive knowledge as aerial artists working in the commercial field and created training programmes for our students to prepare them for the specialist skills needed for this aerial dance. This is a great opportunity for these students to diversify their practice.
QUT dance was proud to receive an invitation to perform again this year at the prestigious Guangdong Modern dance Festival in China and our third year students will be travelling in July to participate with their peers – an invaluable experience and cultural exchange opportunity for them.
Csaba Buday and I have had the pleasure of working with our first year and second year performance students, offering them fresh opportunities for artistic growth in both the creation and performance of our contemporary works. Csaba is also making a new work for expressions dance Company’s The dance Makers season in august this year – a great link for QUT with our local professional dance company.
We hope you enjoy the talent and enthusiasm of our many young students in this evening of new and revisited dance works and thank you for encouraging their development through your ongoing support.
Shaaron Boughendiscipline Leader, dance
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY QUT PRECINCTS director PrOF. PeTer LaVerY Operations Manager JILL sTandFIeLdMarketing Officer aLIsOn MarTInsenior Theatre Technician TOnY BrUMPTOnWorkshop supervisor Brendan WrIGhTadministration Officer MOnICa CaIrns Ticketing assistants MarIe CUnnInGhaM, MIChaeLa BanKs
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF Technical Production Coordinator GeOrGe MeIJer Lecturer – stage Management CarLY O’neILL
1st YEAR PERFORMANCE emma BarnetMichelle Barnettdanika ButlerKate dangerfieldsiobhan dumigan anneke eijkmanBridget ewartLauren Growelizabeth harvey Christina hayesJake KuzmaKatrina Little emma Marrenashleigh Musk simon Polsen Portia risson Tehillah rossCourtney scheu Trudy schofieldanne Willatt Kellie Wilson
2nd YEAR PERFORMANCE alexander Bryce Jade Coutts andrea dighton Joel Fenton Lachlan Geraghty Lucy Ingham Catherine Mullins Catherine ryan amelia stein emmy steiner hannah Taylor rebecca Waterhouse
3rd YEAR PERFORMANCE Gabriel Comerford Gemma dawkins Jake deegan rhiannon Farlow abby Johnson hsiang Ju Lin Caitlin MacKenzie Todd Madden Kathryn neumann sheriden newman Jane O’Loughlin hannah Peake sheree saye hannah Timbrell Kieran Windsor
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE)
JASON ORGAN – Lighting DesignerassocdipaT, BCaeJason graduated from Brisbane College of advanced education, now QUT, in 1988. he is co–founder of JLX Productions, a Queensland based production 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 e-MOTIOn for Queensland Ballet, The TaLe OF MOnKeY for Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe, The rOad TO MeCCa, sITCOM FesTIVaL and aMerICan BUFFaLO for Queensland Theatre
Company, seeMs LIKe YesTerdaY and YarnIn’ UP for Kooemba Jdarra and WaY OUT WesT, sVeTLana In sLInGBaCKs and sCar for La Boite Theatre Company. Jason was the 2006 recipient of the QPaC Matilda award for services to the arts in Queensland.
HANNAH GARTSIDE — Costume DesignerIn 2007 hannah Gartside gained a BFa in Fashion design from QUT. since then she has run workshops on re-making Fashion with the Brisbane City Council, worked as a design assistant at easton Pearson, and been a finalist of the australian Fashion Graduate of the Year award.
KYM STOKES & LES LIVESEY— ChoreographersKym stokes & Les Livesey have been performing all over the world for the past 17 years. Kym is a graduate of the australian Ballet school and has worked with Queensland Ballet Company. With a background in gymnastics Les first worked as an acrobatic/dancer in sTarz at Conrad Jupiter’s Casino on the Gold Coast.
With their unique blend of Classical ballet and aerial acrobatics Kym and Les have created several diverse acts and forged a rewarding career both internationally and here in australia.
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE STAFF 2009, SEMESTER 1
FULL-TIMEshaarOn BOUGhen discipline Leader, Lecturer in Choreography, Performance studiesCsaBa BUdaY Lecturer in Contemporary dance, ChoreographysUsan CaULFIeLd-LeCLerCQ Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet aVrIL hUddY Lecturer in Contemporary Technique, alignment eVan JOnes Lecturer in Ballet raCheL PedrO study area Co-ord, Lecturer in dance TheoryKYM sTeVens Lecturer in Primary education
SESSIONALKrIsTen BeLL secondary educationFIOna CULLen Contemporary Technique, MadOnna eLLaBY Pilates, dance Technique nICOLe GaLea Tutor, Ballet Technique Vanessa MaFe-Keane Ballet Technique, Choreography JUsTIn rUTzOU Contemporary Technique, duosKYe seWeLL ChoreographyanThOnY shearsMITh Ballet TechniquesaManTha WILLIaMs hip hopLIsa WILsOn Contemporary TechniquezaIMOn VILManIs Contemporary Technique
DANCE ADMINISTRATION JOhn COnnaGhanaIsha dIXOn
PASS TEAM (PEAK ACHIEVEMENT SKILLS AND STRATEGIES)aMY sheLdOn Massage TherapistJan sMITh Physiotherapist, anatomy Lecturerdr. Gene MOYLe sports and dance Psychologist
ACCOMPANISTS BrIan adaMsOn LOVInIa dICKensVaLerIe dICKsOn sTeVe FranCIs BreTT FOWLer
CLARE DYSON — ChoreographerClare is a choreographer who creates dance, theatre and site specific performances focusing on the collaborative process. she has created work with a variety of multi-form artists and scientists and has been working with her brother and lighting designer over the last ten years to create work that seamlessly blends movement, light, dance and installation. she received her Ba (dance) and honours (Visual art) from QUT and is currently undertaking a Phd in new contemporary performance. she has worked as an artist-In-residence at the american dance Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, at Tanzfabrik in Berlin
and for four years at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary arts in Brisbane. In 2006 she was nominated for best choreography and won for best independent dance at the australian dance awards and received the ann and rodney Pearlman Choreographic Fellowship from the Us.
In 2008 Clare was awarded the australia Council Cité Internationale des arts residency where she spent six months creating her new work The VOYeUr. Clare recently received a national dance Project grant from the Us to develop and tour this work in the United states in 2010.
ANGUS LUGSDIN— Choreographerangus Lugsdin commenced his dance training in sydney with Valrene Tweedie. Later he completed his training at The australian Ballet school in Melbourne where he received the algeranoff scholarship two years in a row. On graduation, dame Peggy Van Praagh offered angus a contract to join The australian Ballet where he danced in the corps de ballet until 1977.
angus continued his dancing career in europe when he joined Frankfurt Ballet in 1978 and enjoyed dancing a mixed repertoire of classical and contemporary works. angus returned to australia in 1984 and took up the position of Ballet Master with Queensland
Ballet, under the artistic direction of harold Collins. he continued dancing with Queensland Ballet until he retired from the stage and commenced working in the new position of Coordinator of the Queensland dance school of excellence in 1987. at Qdse angus teaches ballet, boy’s technique, pas de deux and repertoire.
FIONA MALONE — ChoreographerFiona’s performance career involved working internationally/nationally with choreographers such as Garry stewart, Frederic Flammand, Meryl Tankard, Kate denborough, akram Khan, to name a few. For her choreography, Fiona was awarded the Innovation in arts award by The adelaide Critics Circle for her productions The OBCeLL and d/vision and nominated for two australian dance awards - Most outstanding achievement in Independent dance for the The OBCeLL, and Most Outstanding Female Performance for her performance in Garry stewarts aGe OF UnBeaUTY.
Fiona also works with actors, and Theatre, most recently for the Bell shakespeare Company and sydney Theatre Company.
Between 2000 and 2003 Csaba was artist-in-residence at the hong Kong academy for Performing arts. Csaba joined the dance Faculty at QUT in 2003 and in 2007 was admitted to the degree of Master of arts (research). alongside lecturing commitments at QUT, Csaba teaches Contemporary Technique class for expressions dance Company on a regular basis. Last year, Csaba created a short work for Queensland Ballet’s Vis-a-vis studio series and this year has been commissioned by expressions dance Company to create a new work for their 2009 Brisbane triple-bill season.
PRODUCTION TEAM dance Production Coordinator sUsan CaULFIeLd–LeCLerCQ Lighting designer JasOn OrGan Costume designers shaarOn BOUGhen, hannah GarTsIde Costume Makers hannah GarTsIde, CarLa BInOTTO, rOsa hIraKaTa, raCheL TILBUrY, MOnIKa hOLGar Production stage Manager VInCe sCUderI*deputy stage Manager annIe CaVanaGh*deputy stage Manager LIzY daWsOn*deputy stage Manager ashLee hInTs*assistant stage Manager sTePhanIe dOBsOn*assistant stage Manager CraIG hOOd*
head electrician MaTTheW sTraChan*Lighting Operator danIeL andersOn*Floor electrician nadIne OrMIsTOn*
sound & Vision Coordinator JULIan Messer*Vision / Projections Operator JULIan Messer*sound Operator sarah KennedY*
Flys JOn harrIsOn*
Crew nIChOLas JOhnsOn*, MaTTheW saMWaYs*, Tessa sMaLLhOrn*
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
SHAARON BOUGHEN — Choreographer, Costume DesignerMA Uni of Kent, BA(Hons) Laban Centre, UKshaaron is discipline Leader for dance and supervises Postgraduate studies in dance. she has worked as a performer and teacher in the UK and australia and has an extensive practice as a choreographer (over 30 works), curator and costume designer. shaaron taught contemporary dance techniques for many years and is still involved in choreographing and teaching choreography, alignment for dancers, and collaborative forms of practice across all the disciplines in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. shaaron’s recent choreographic practice has diversified into collaborative practices with architecture, music, fashion and digital media forms.
shaaron is the Queensland dance reviewer for The australian and has published in realtime, Innovation In australian arts Media and design and Currency Companion To Music and dance In australia. she has facilitated many post-performance discussions with leading international and national choreographers and is on The australian dance awards Panel which was created in 1997 to acknowledge and honour excellence in the professional dance sector in australia.
* Indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student
YOLANDE BROWN — ChoreographerYolande Brown is a senior dance artist with Bangarra dance Theatre. a Brisbane state high school graduate, Yolande received the australian student’s Prize of excellence (awarded to australia’s top 500 students). she gained her C.Mus.a (Piano performance) and after completing her Ba (dance) at QUT, Yolande joined Bangarra (1999). her Bangarra highlights have been working out bush with aboriginal communities and sharing our Indigenous stories with the world, through dance. Yolande has also enjoyed working outside Bangarra. she played a lead role (susan Pevensky) in the nadia Tass directed theatre production The LIOn, The WITCh and The WardrOBe (2002-2004) and worked with Meryl Tankard and Taikoz on KaIdan (sydney Festival, 2007). Music is another creative outlet for Yolande, her spare moments invested in writing music and
gigging (singing/playing keys) with her band. In 2006 she produced her eP FUrTher TO FaLL. Yolande is a passionate advocate for the environment and this motivated her work a hard LOT TO sWaLLOW.
CSABA BUDAY — ChoreographerDip (Dance) ABS, Master of Arts (Research) QUTa graduate of the australian Ballet school, Csaba has had an extensive career as a performer, choreographer and teacher spanning over 25 years. he has worked with many of australia’s leading professional dance companies (Ballet and Contemporary) performing numerous works by notable australian and International choreographers including world acclaimed dance maker William Forsythe (Forsythe Company and Frankfurt Ballet). during this period Csaba toured extensively throughout australia, south east asia and europe, performing at major International arts Festivals, as well as undertaking music video clips and motion picture engagements.
Csaba has choreographed a total of 35 major works that have been presented throughout australia as well as in hong Kong, China, Taiwan, singapore, Macau, Vietnam, Israel, scotland, Belgium, austria and at the danses de Mai Festival, Paris. he was the sole choreographer chosen to represent australia at the prestigious suzanne dellal International dance Festival in Tel aviv, Israel. Csaba is a 1999 Choreographic Fellowship recipient (Choreographic Centre, Canberra).
Twisted TruthsChoreography FIOna MaLOnerehearsal director CsaBa BUdaY Costume design hannah GarTsIdeLighting designer JasOn OrGanMusic JOhnnY O’KeeFe, 7 seCOnds OF LOVe, FLash rePUBLIC, anGeLO BadaLaMenTI, rasCaL & KLOnedancers 3rd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe hannah PeaKe and JaKe deeGanMemories faded. `Truths Twisted’ with time, remaining fond in one’s mind forever… Initially inspired by the idea of using the Twister game to produce movement vocabulary, Twisted Truths is the result of a very short and intensive creative process working with these two enthusiastic, talented and intelligent dancers. Thank you both for all your input, energy and enthusiasm. Thanks also to the entire production team for all your work in getting the piece to stage. and thank you to shaaron Boughen for inviting me to return to QUT, it’s been like returning home.
SatellitesChoreography anGUs LUGsdInrehearsal director sUe LeCLerCQ Costume design hannah GarTsIdeLighting designer JasOn OrGanMusic IMOGen ManIns (cello), TOnY GOULd (piano), daVId JOnes (percussion)dancers 3rd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe rhIannOn FarLOW and TOdd Madden, sherIdan neWMan and JaKe deeGan
eXposition Choreography CsaBa BUdaY in collaboration with the dancers Costume design shaarOn BOUGhenLighting designer JasOn OrGanMusic ThOM WILLeMsdancers 1st Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCeduring the course of study this semester, our first year BFa dance (Performance) students were exposed to various dance genres (in terms of technical training) and associated practices. They were required to gain physical fitness and increase technical accomplishment, strength, flexibility and stylistic versatility through their training. The students also experienced dancing as soloists, with partners and in larger group scenarios. eXposition presents these elements experienced, through a pure dance work. Movement vocabulary was formed employing several methods: specifically choreographed for the individual student; through task-based instruction, which the students constructed; and from learning pre-existing material. Thom Willems dramatic and layered musical score informed the construction of new movement vocabulary; the development of pre-existing material; and the structure of the work.
Red Right HandChoreography CLare dYsOn in collaboration with the performers Costume design hannah GarTsIdeLighting designer JasOn OrGanMusic nICK CaVe and The Bad seedsdancers 3rd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe GeMMa daWKIns, aBBY JOhnsOn, CaITLIn MacKenzIe, KaThrYn neWManThis work began as an investigation into the hidden depths of the dancers I was working with: dancers are often seen as quiet, lovely and sometimes even passive. But what I’m interested in is how they find pathways of bringing elements of themselves, their real selves, into the collaborative process and onto the stage. These girls are not intrinsically violent people, but I thought a great way to start was to find movements of violence and to see how these movements affect the dancers on stage and then us as the audience watching them. This work has been created as a collaboration with the dancers and I want to thank them for taking the risk – because letting go can be risky. The unknown can be risky. What if you fail? These young woman have been quite spectacular to work with over the last few months and they have reminded me how much fun dance can be. We were rehearsing the other day and a security guard walked in and said to me: “Why are you working with girls? Girls can’t throw properly”. That ridiculous statement is why I wanted to make this work. Because all of us have violence, anger and vengeance in us – why should boys be the only ones who get to show it? Thanks to the dance department staff who have supported this work and especially shaaron, sue and Csaba for commissioning it. Thanks to Jason and hannah for being wonderful to work with and to Mike riddle and sturt Chatfield for help with construction.
Dissolve Choreography KYM sTOKes & Les LIVeseYCostume design hannah GarTsIdeLighting designer JasOn OrGanMusic PhILLIP GLass, KUNDUNdancers 3rd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe sheree saYe and GaBrIeL COMerFOrdThe Communion between two defining a relationship. The individual personalities and egos dissolve replaced by the new.
Both individuals are neither more nor less important than the other; there is only one energy; one focus.
A Hard Lot to Swallow Choreography YOLande BrOWn rehearsal director aVrIL hUddYCostume design hannah GarTsIdeLighting designer JasOn OrGanMusic ChrIs CLarK, MÚM, deCOder rInG, ChrIsTIan Fennesz, Pan sOnIC, The KnIFe, raChManInOV, sChWIMMer, aUTeChredancers 3rd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe hsIanG-JU LIn, hannah TIMBreLL, aBBY JOhnsOnThe Laysan albatross live halfway between north america and Japan at Midway (atoll). Flying hundreds of miles in search for food for their young, their flight paths often take them over the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a trash vortex twice the size of Texas where there is six times more plastic than plankton. Plastic bags, drink bottles and caps, lighters and Lego toys wash off land and into the ocean… even cosmetic exfoliants including brands such as Ponds, neutrogena, Clearasil and Colgate contain small, coarse plastic pieces (polyethylene) that wash down the drain and straight into our oceanic food chain. additionally, about 18,000 plastic pieces circulate in every square kilometre of our world’s oceans. Millions of sea animals fall victim to our garbage every year. 500,000 albatross chicks are born at Midway each year. about 200,000 die, mostly of dehydration or starvation from the ingestion of plastic. When considering that plastic bags only hit consumer markets 32 years ago (1977), it seems outrageous that today, australians dump 7,150 recyclable plastic bags into landfill every minute.
What are we really throwing away? More than 70,000 bags will be consumed and binned for landfill in australia in the duration of this dance piece.
Stopover #2 at Hallelujah JunctionChoreography shaarOn BOUGhen in collaboration with the dancersrehearsal director FenLan ChUanG Costume design shaarOn BOUGhen and hannah GarTsIdeLighting design Original design daVId MUrraY, reconstructed by JasOn OrGanMusic JOhn adaMsdancers 2nd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe and hsIanG-JU LIn (3rd Year BFa danCe PerFOrManCe) hallelujah Junction in a small crossroads hamlet in nevada. John adams wondered what kind of music would have such a name and composed Hallelujah Junction for two pianos. This dance was first performed in 2005 with a group of 26 students who were all collaborators in the choreographic process with me. This year, I have reworked the piece for 13 students and enjoyed the opportunity to revisit the work anew. My thanks to this cast for their commitment to the work and the freshness that they have brought to this incarnation of Stopover at Hallelujah Junction in 2009!
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