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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.

• 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 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 closest EXIT sign in

GREEN, listen to and comply with the directions given by theatre staff, and move in an orderly manner to the open

spaces outside GARDENS THEATRE

Warning: Theatrical smoke and haze

Duration: Approx. 1 hour, 20 minute interval

CRICOS No. 00213J © QUT 2015 Produced by QUT Precincts. Information correct at the time of printing.

Images (cover, pg 2, 9 & 10): Fiona Cullen

INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

2 - 6 JUNE 2015

Essentially

WELCOME TO ESSENTIALLY DANCE 2015

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Essentially Dance 2015!

It’s that time of the year again where our Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) students have the opportunity to get a sense of what a career in the performing arts is all about – performing in a professional environment and being able to connect directly with public audiences. Not only do they have the wonderful opportunity to learn and perform repertoire from a diverse range of professional choreographers, they work alongside production and design teams from across the performing arts industry.

Alongside stagecraft skills, production elements, and working cohesively as a collective dance ‘company’ putting on a full performance

season, these shows provide another step in their transition towards professional careers. Each year group has been presented with the challenge of adapting to a different dance genre, experiencing varied approaches to choreography, and learning the nuances of creative practice through the difference between new works vs. the restaging of existing ones – all important skills to be successful in the real-world.

We are very grateful for the support and assistance of various disciplines and departments across QUT that assist in putting on this show, including Drama – Technical Production, QUT Precincts and the School of MECA, and a big thank you to all the choreographers, designers, and the QUT Dance Team without whom this performance season could not be mounted.

Finally, we are grateful to you the audience, for your support and encouragement of our students through your patronage of this performance event. The students have again risen to the challenges presented to them and we are very proud of their progress. We are glad that you too get to share in the reason they are at QUT – because they love to dance!

Associate Professor Gene Moyle ARAD MAPS MCSEPHead of Discipline – DanceSchool of Media, Entertainment and Creative ArtsQUT Creative Industries Faculty

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1ST YEARSophie Barendse, Claudia Buckley, Hannah Carden, Gabrielle Carter,

Phillipa Chapman, Bridget Clark, Caitlin Dabron, Madeleine De Grandi,

Elizabeth Ferguson, Greta Gilby, Lauren Graham, Jayden Grogan, Rebecca Hale,

Rebecca Murray, Amber Nofal, Georgia Pierce, Madeleine Ryan, Olivia Smith,

Lachlan Whelan

2ND YEARHio lao Fung, Isla Gibson, Sophia Guido, Chloe Hambleton, Madison Hendry,

Isabella Hood, Jaclyn Jones, Julia Lamke, Brianna Law, David McDowall,

Laura McNally, Nadia Milford, Grace Nichols, Felix Palmerson, Ellen Pepper,

Tiana Pinnell, Lauren Sherlock, Matilda Skelhorn, Elizabeth Talty, Jacob Watton,

Olivia Willis

3RD YEARClaire Bathgate-Petersen, Cara Betty, Aiden Birney-Kilner, En Rui Foo, Alexandra

Frazer, Chloe Lindbeck, Samuel Marcon, Bonnie Ross, Georgia Taylor

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BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS(DANCE PERFORMANCE)

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PROFESSOR SUSAN STREET AO Executive Director

JILL STANDFIELD Operations Manager

JESS HALPIN Senior Marketing Officer

TOM EDMISTON Production Coordinator

ANDREW EARLE Senior Theatre Technician

ROSS AITKENHEAD Theatre Technician

JESSICA WALSH Customer Service Coordinator

HEATHER JAMES Front-of-House Officer

TONY BRUMPTON Technical Production Program Coordinator,

Stage Management Lecturer

BEN HUGHES Technical Production Lecturer

GEORGE MEIJER Technical Production Lecturer

TESSA SMALLHORN Technical Production Associate Lecturer

PRODUCED BY QUT PRECINCTSFOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY

QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIESTECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF

QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE TEAM - SEMESTER 1, 2015

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SESSIONAL

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORGENE MOYLEHead of Dance Discipline - Dance

CSABA BUDAYLecturer in Contemporary, Resident Choreographer, Undergraduate Study Area Coordinator

AVRIL HUDDYProduction Coordinator, Lecturer in Contemporary, Alignment, Conditioning

EVAN JONESLecturer in Ballet

RACHEL PEDROLecturer in Dance Theory, Latin Dance

DR JENNIFER ROCHELecturer in Dance

KYM STEVENSLecturer in Dance Education

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHAARON BOUGHENPostgraduate Supervisor

ADJUNCT PROFESSORCHERYL STOCK AMPostgraduate Supervisor

SHAARON BOUGHEN Academic LecturerASHER BOWEN-SAUNDERS Latin FitnessLOUISE BREHMER Music Theatre SkillsHSIN-JU CHIU Guest ArtistCLAUDIO CLIMACO CapoeiraFIONA CULLEN Contemporary TechniqueDREW DER KINDEREN Guest Artist JASON DUFF Commercial DanceJEANETTE FABILA Guest ArtistMIRANDA GLIKSON Guest ArtistANJA ALI HAAPALA Guest ArtistDR KATHERINE HANNA Nutrition LUCIA HARKIN Alexander TechniqueSUSAN HOGARD Ballet TechniqueDR SUE JACKSON Mindfulness MeditationDR KATRINA KELLMAN MusicDAVID KIDD Music Theatre SkillsWENDY LARAGHY Pointe/VariationsMATTHEW LAWRENCE Ballet Technique/Pas de Deux/Men’s Coaching DONELLA LOFT Fitness

VANESSA MAFE-KEANE Academic Lecturer/Ballet Technique/Pointe ELISE MAY Guest ArtistGRANT MCLAY Guest ArtistBINDU RAJENDREN Guest ArtistRIANNON MCLEAN ConditioningSOPHIE NORTHAM Conditioning LISA O’NEILL Guest ArtistCOURTNEY SCHEU Guest ArtistASHA SHAH Guest ArtistIQUAIL SHAHEED Guest ArtistEDWINA SHAW YogaJAN SMITH Academic LecturerLUCAS STIBBARD Music Theatre SkillsWAIANA TAGATA Guest ArtistFATI TAGATA Guest ArtistHEIMANA TAHIATA Guest ArtistZAIMON VILMANIS Contemporary TechniqueLEISEL ZINK Guest Artist

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JASMIN LEUNGComposerJasmin Leung is an emerging Australian composer who has studied with Erik Griswold, Gerald Brophy (Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University) and Uroš Rojko (Akademija za glasbo v Ljubljani). She has composed music for many different mediums - solos and chamber works through to larger ensembles, as well as soundtracks to award-winning student films, theatre companies, including The Basics Project and Front Row Theatre Company, independent art shows around Brisbane, and now for QUT Dance.

‘A Short History of Life’ being performed to music composed by Jasmine Leung, performed live by the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Matthew Schwarz.

QUEENSLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

The Queensland Philharmonia Orchestra comprises of over fifty-five musicians, many of whom are past or present students of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Performing over twelve concerts a year, the orchestra specializes in late classical and early romantic repertoire and, under the leadership of Chief Conductor Matthew Schwarz, has recently embarked on a cycle of Mahler symphonies. Other engagements for the orchestra include performing at the State of Origin, the World Forum on Music and hosting a sold out John Williams’ Spectacular. For more information on the orchestra, please visit www.qpo.org.au Violin 1: VIVIAN WHEATLEY *, GRACE CHOIViolin 2: YEAJI KWACK *, ELIN WILLIAMSViola: MATTHEW RYAN * SUNNY (YU-CHEN) YEHCello: ANDY LEASK *, HANNAH HARLEYBass: SAMUEL NOCK *Flute: CORINNE EDGEWORTH * Oboe: AICHLINN HUANG-RYAN *Clarinet: RUBY JOHNSON *Percussion: NATHAN GATENBY *Piano/Conductor: MATTHEW SCHWARZ

*Indicates Principal Musician

4*indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student

PRODUCTION TEAMAVRIL HUDDY Production Coordinator

(Dance)

THOMAS EDMISTON Production

Coordinator (QUT Precincts)

GLENN HUGHES Lighting Designer

BIANCA BULLY Costume Designer

KIERAN CERATO* Production Stage

Manager

ROSE CARBON* Deputy Stage Manager

SHANE KUMAR* Assistant Stage Manager

SKYE LILLISS* Head Electrician

COURTNEY MAYHEW* Lighting Operator

MIKAYLA BISHOP* Floor Electrician

ERIN HANDFORD* Sound & Vision Operator

MEG STEPHENS* Sound & Vision

Coordinator

ISSAC GOESSLING* Sound & Vision

Assistant

JOSHUA BRAITHWAITE* Sound & Vision

Assistant

JACK ALCOCK* Head of Stagging & Flys

ELLA GORDON* Stagging Assistant

JACOB FOGARTY* Crew

KEEGAN O’NEIL* Crew

DANCE HEALTH TEAM

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE Performance Psychologist

TOMAS THAPPER Provisional Psychologist (UQ Placement)

MELANIE FULLER Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist (Pondera)

QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE TEAM — SEMESTER 1, 2015

ACCOMPANISTS

BRIAN ADAMSONLOVINIA DICKENSSTEVE FRANCISBRETT FOWLERJOHN REEVES

CI MECA ADMIN TEAM

SUE DANCEAISHA DIXSONJENNY GREDERSANDRA KAMINSKISAMANTHA KENNY ANNE MCNEILLBETH PINELSTEPHEN STUART

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

GLENN HUGHESLighting DesignerGlenn has worked as a Lighting Designer for many companies including the Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Theatre Companies, Playbox, Victorian Arts Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney Opera House, RealTV, La Boite, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Queensland Ballet and the Melbourne and Sydney Festivals. After training in Adelaide he travelled to London, working initially in the West End and then four years at the National Theatre of Great Britain, as a lighting technician.He joined the Victorian Arts Centre in 1983 as Head Lighting Technician and

subsequently held the positions of Lighting Master (1984-86) and Production Manager (1987-93) He spent a year with Melbourne Theatre Company in 1994 as touring ¬Lighting Designer before joining the Queensland Theatre Company as Production Manager (1995-97). He has continued to work widely as a freelance Lighting Designer since 1998. Recent lighting credits include: The Man Who Came To Dinner, A Chorus of Disapproval, Essentially Dance 2013/14(QUT) The Carer (Bay St.Productions /MTC) The Glass Menagerie (La Boite) Tall Man, (RealTV/La Mama) Half and Half (Jute) Black Electric, Spirit of the Lore, Stolen (ACPA) Kin (GOMA/Malthouse) Tales of the Underground (Creative Regions).

BIANCA BULLEYCostume Designer Bianca Bulley is a fashion and costume designer based in Brisbane. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion (Honours ) and works at the Queensland University of Technology as a fashion theory tutor. She is also a freelance costume maker for Opera Queensland, Queensland Theatre Company, Expressions Dance Company and La Bóite Theatre Company. She has recently been working in the costume department for the film Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Bianca also co-manages a non-for-profit community fashion based company The Stitchery Collective that has recently

released a series of DIY clothing patterns and is currently facilitating an installation for the Queensland State Library.

THE WEEPING ANGEL

Choreography NATALIE WEIR & BENJAMIN CHAPMAN (EDC) Costume Designer BRUCE MCKINVEN Original Soloists BENJAMIN CHAPMAN (EDC)Music Lament, MATTHEW JOHN HINDSONCast 3rd Year BFA Dance Performance En Rui Foo, Aiden Birney-Kilner or Claire Bathgate- Peterson

This solo is part of EDC’s Signature work, The Red Shoes, which premiered in July, 2014 at the Playhouse, QPAC. Inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale and the 1940’s movie, The Weeping Angel is a physical exploration of the presence of the white angel who brings redemption and forgiveness to the heroine. This solo was developed in collaboration with EDC dancer, Benjamin Chapman.

A SHORT HISTORY OF LIFE

Choreography MATTHEW LAWRENCECostume Designer BIANCA BULLEY Music A Short History of Life, JASMINE LEUNG, played live by Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra Cast 2nd Year BFA Dance Performance

Aptly, perhaps - considering Albert Einstein’s observations on the relativity of time and space - I cover the history of life, within three short musical movements. The original composition, from Jasmin Leung, traces our evolution between Einstein’s Big Bang, to 2003’s latest cosmological hypothesis on the final destination of the universe: the Big Rip. In-between the ‘Bangs’, there lays our primeval origins. Covering organic genesis - developing from single to complex cell structures – evolving to animals, communities, and our hectic present. And what of the future? I predict a sprint to the finish.

A special thanks to Queensland Ballet’s Principal Conductor, Andrew Mogrelia, for providing the project’s impetus. To Jasmin Leung’s inspiring framework, and Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Matthew Schwarz, for colouring the dots.

PROGRAM

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RED LETTER LOST

Choreography RIANNON MCLEANCostume Designer BIANCA BULLEYMusic There will be blood, JONNY GREENWOODCast 1st Year BFA Dance Performance

Living in a society of conformity, personal thought, behaviour and action are no longer considered valuable. If we allowed conscious thought and feeling to dictate our path…if we were singled out….where do we now exist? Thank you to the first year students for your enthusiasm, commitment & unwavering hard work during the making of Red Letter Lost.. It was a great pleasure working with you all.

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THE GIRAFFE IS ON FIRE

Choreography ZAIMON VILMANIS in collaboration with the 3rd years Music The Equestrian Vortex, Collatina, Mark of Damnation, A Goblin, BROADCAST; Star Dream Girl, DAVID LYNCH; Eraserhead Side A and B, DAVID LYNCH & ALAN R. SPLET; Made of Metal, GOUPER; Bell Housing, Red Wind, Antimatter.Cast 3rd Year BFA Dance Performance

Let’s walk up and up and up into the clouds, stepping stones to life. I want to keep going and going until I am far away.Clouds have no limits, swish blissfully from side to side.The giraffe is on fire burning, not by the magic but by losing its soul.I feel blue, blue like the sky that’s falling.The world has turned blue.But why blue? Blue with envy, blue with beauty, blue with bold anger.Blue is blue.

- Bonnie Ross

This prose was written in response to Salvador Dali’s painting “The Giraffe is Burning” (1937). The painting depicts Dali’s own struggles with what direction his country, which was in turmoil at the time, would take. Like Dali, in creating this work, we explored the depths of our subconscious through creative tasks, improvisation, written streaming and dream sharing to bring forward our surreal responses to the problems that we encounter on our own doorstep. “The Giraffe is on Fire” in our own moving painting.

Special thanks goes to the 3rd years for their honesty, openness and trust and Liz Vilmanis for her provocation and strengthening of the vision.

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ZAIMON VILMANISChoreographerA revered performer, Zaimon’s twenty year international career has included dancing for Random Dance Company and Attik Dance Company (U.K.), EDC (Brisbane), Leigh Warren and Dancers (Adelaide), as well as a number of independent artists in Australia. In 2008, he moved into the independent dance world to discover his own artistic voice. In 2010, as an inaugural recipient of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts’ (JWCoCA) Fresh Ground Residency, he collaborated with performer, Liz Vilmanis, and video artist, Ryadan Jeavons, on the “A Likely Distrust Project”(ALDP). This collaborative investigation

into (DIS)trust realised the strength of his partnership with Liz and initiated the formation of Prying Eye Productions. JWCoCA supported Prying Eye to premiere their first full length work, “White Porcelain Doll” last year. The work has been nominated for “outstanding achievement in independent dance” for the 2015 Australian Dance Awards. Zaimon represented Australia for the International Young Choreographers Project (Taiwan, 2011) and participated in the Annual Slovenia-Croatia-Australia Artists Dance Exchange (2014). In March, Prying Eye were invited to showcase material for their current work “WOLF”, at Dance Massive Open Studios, marking the next step in Zaimon’s development as a creative collaborator.

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NATALIE WEIRChoreographerNatalie is known internationally for her highly physical partner

work, her organic movement style and her touching insight

into human nature. On her journey with Expressions Dance

Company (EDC) as Artistic Director, Natalie continues to

create work that balances artistic risk with accessibility and

that speaks of humanity. Natalie Weir has created over 160

professional works in her 27+ year career. She was trained

at QUT and was a founding member of EDC, receiving her

first choreographic commission by then artistic director,

Maggi Sietsma at 18. Natalie was resident choreographer

for Queensland Ballet and Australian Ballet and has worked

extensively throughout Australia, creating works for the country’s other major classical and contemporary

dance companies, including West Australian Ballet, Dancenorth and Australian Dance Theatre.

Natalie has also created works for, or had her works performed by, international companies such as Houston

Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Natalie’s work has been

recognised through Helpmann Awards for where the heart is (2011), Australian Dance Awards for where the

heart is (2011) and R&J (2012). Her work Steppenwolfe for Houston Ballet received the prestigious Choo

San Goh Award and her original version of Turandot for the Hong Kong Ballet received the 2004 Dance

Award for Best New Work. Natalie received an Outstanding Alumni Award for QUT Creative Industries in

2009.Natalie was appointed Artistic Director of EDC in January 2009, fulfilling her long-term dream to build

an ensemble of dancers and contribute to the future of Australian Dance.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

BENJAMIN CHAPMANChoreographerBenjamin Chapman graduated with an Advanced Diploma

in Dance from WAAPA in 2011. 2010 saw him perform with

West Australian Ballet in Sleeping Beauty, and again in 2011

in The Taming of the Shrew. During his time at WAAPA, Ben

worked with Kim McCarthy, Andries Weidemann, Amaury

Lebrun, Sue Peacock, Justin Rutzou and Xiaoxiong Zhang.

EDC performances include R&J (Tours 2012, 2013), Don’t

(2012), Propel (the next step), Carmen Sweet (Noosa Long

Weekend Festival, Singapore Dance Theatre, QPAC), 4Seasons

(Singapore Dance Theatre), When Time Stops (2013), SOLO

Festival of Dance (2014) and The Red Shoes (2014). Additional

credits include Voltage (Tasdance) and Diaphanous (Ochres

Dance).

MATTHEW LAWRENCEChoreographerMatthew Lawrence trained at The Australian Ballet School. He

then joined the Australian Ballet, rising to Principal Artist, before

joining Birmingham Royal Ballet – as a Principal – in 2008, then

Queensland Ballet in 2013. In Matthew’s illustrious 18 year

career, he performed the leading roles in all the great classics,

as well as works by modern choreographic luminaries such as;

Bintley, Christie, Duato, Kylian and Wheeldon. Last year, Matthew

mentored (teaching/rehearsing) the Young Artists’, and staged

‘Four Square’ from David Bintley’s Take Five for the Dance

Dialogues season. Within this season, he also choreographed A

Night Out for the Queensland Ballet. He has also created pieces

for Birmingham Royal Ballet, Elmhurst School of Dance and Queensland Dance School of Excellence. Now

retired from dance, Matthew is a sessional lecturer at QUT, freelance teacher, choreographer and writer –

currently as Dance Australia’s columnist.

RIANNON MCLEANChoreographerRiannon graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance

in 2000. She has had an extensive professional performance

career spanning over thirteen years. Riannon has worked with

acclaimed choreographers and companies both here in Australia

and Overseas. Most recently retiring from Expressions Dance

Company under the directorship of Natalie Weir. Riannon has

choreographed works for the Place (London) in collaboration with

Red-i Dance Company, Dance North, Dance North’s Extensions

Company, Cecchetti Queensland, QUT & RAW. Riannon’s

teaching capabilities & qualities have seen her teach for Victorian

Academy of Ballet, Canada. LDTX Beijing, China. Cathy Sharp

Dance Ensemble, Switzerland. Australian Ballet Gala, Melbourne. ADT, Expressions Dance Company, QUT,

WAPPA, 2Ballerinas, RAW, BCDI, Daniel Jaber & Lina Limosani.