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Dance Graduation Season 2003

Choreography by

Neil Adams Csaba Buday Maggi Sietsma

and Ricky Sim

11 ... 15 November 2003 There will be an interval of 20 minutes

creative i ndustries

Forward

Welcome to Altered States featuring four arresting new works by leading choreographers. The Dance graduation season is an important culmination for the students of an intensive period of experimentation with these choreographers. In Creative Industries Dance, we choose to employ experienced artists to take the dancers through a creative process, rather than replicate an existing work. Unlike most other art, forms a choreographer is the writer, director and producer of the work with the dancers as interactive collaborators in the realisation~

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We are fortunate to have internationally renowned Maggi Sietsma AM, Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company as guest choreographer with us for this season. Maggi has created On the Verge, a very personal work with and for the students, which draws on the students' QUT experiences from entry to exit.

Melbourne-based Neil Adams, known nationally for his finely honed works, is currently undertaking doctoral research exploring the spatiality of contemporary dance. Lightspan is a nuanced abstract work created by Neil for the graduating third year students, relying on technical finesse and subtle artistry, a challenge taken up with commitment and style by the dancers. Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Csaba Buday, who has created two previous works for our dance graduation seasons, returns from 3 years in Hong Kong to take up his position as contemporary dance lecturer and resident choreographer in Creative Industries Dance. His new work is an investigation into the physical and emotional effects of the body in experiencing altered states.

For the first time we have also included the final creative project of a Master of Fine Arts candidate. Singapore choreographer Ricky Sim has spent the last 18 months developing his personal choreographic style through the creation of his evocative Transparent Ground. Metamorphosing from solo to ensemble performance, this realisation sees further layering through the use of multi-media. The opportunity for artists to have an extended time to make work is all too rare in Australia but investment in creative time is crucial to the production of quality work as can be seen from this highly refined choreography by Ricky.

The creative team for this season has been enhanced by respected theatre designer Greg Clarke. Lighting is the silent but crucial partner in staged dance

works and Jason Organ has once again magically sculpted bodies and space through his lighting designs. A tightly knit and skilled team of student technicians are provided by the Technical Production discipline under the guidance of Sue Benfer and Creative Industries staff and the senior technicians of the Gardens Theatre. As multimedia becomes an integral part of live performances we increasingly rely on specialist expertise and equipment in that area; in this instance from Russell Milledge and Brisbane Convention Centre .

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nk you to Dance Production Coordinator Sue Leclercq for the complex logistics agement undertaken so efficiently and with such good humour. From a longer term perspective, all the dance staff have contributed to tonight's graduation in their ongoing training and nurturing of the students, which has resulted not only in dance graduates of highly developed physical and kinetic literacies, but has also produced 'thinking dancers', greatly appreciated by the industry which employs them.

Whilst Altered States features students from our two performance degrees, we also have students graduating from our double degree, Bachelor of Creative Industries I Bachelor of Education (Dance) and the professional degree Bachelor of Creative Industries (Dance). Two of the latter, Tim Darbyshire and Nikki Baxter, have created a video installation in the foyer which feature QUT graduates. Please take a few minutes to enjoy this work which is the third in a series of site specific works.

To all our graduates, on stage and off, we wish you a rewarding future and .,f..,.,_t;,..,n in your chosen pathway. Your special contribution to Creative Dance during your stay with us will not be forgotten. We look forward to continued contact with you as QUT Dance alumni.

Associate Professor Cheryl Stock

Head of Dance, Creative Industries Faculty

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Associate Professor Cheryl Stock:

Evan Jones:

Jude Smith:

Shaaron Boughen:

Susan Leclercq: Csaba Buday:

Lesley Graham: Rachel Mathews:

Debra Bell:

Sessional Fiona Cullen: Avril Huddy:

Dianna Laska-Moore:

Dance Staff 2003 - Semester 2

Head of Dance, Post-graduate Coordinator

Course Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs, Lecturer in Ballet

External Course Coordinator, Dance Education Lecturer Associate Course Coordinator, Lecturer in

Choreography, Kinesiology

Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet

Contemporary Dance Lecturer, Resident Choreographer Lecturer in Dance Education and External Studies Dance Theory Lecturer, Musical Theatre

Administration Officer

Contemporary Technique

Contemporary Technique, Alignment World Dance

Vanessa Mafe-Keane: Australian Dance, community classes Simone Jacobson: Arts Curriculum

Kim Stevens:

Anthony Shearsmith:

Jean Tally:

Arts Curriculum Ballet Technique

Choreographic Studies, Alignment

PASS Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Jamie Clyne: Massage Therapist, Nutritionist Patrea O'Donoghue: Performance Psychologist

Jan Smith: Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer

Guest Choreographers Neil Adams

Maggi Sietsma

Ricky Sim (MFA student)

Guest lecturers (World Dance, Australian Dance, Dance Analysis) Nii Armah, Keith Armstrong, Boris Bivona, Yolande Brown, lan Corbett, Clare Dyson, Jeanette Fabila, Nicole Galea, Gail Hewton, lan Hutson, Carole Johnson, Lisa O'Neill, Marcus Pedro, Libby Sara, Tarcisio Teatini-Ciimaco, Susan Wang, Suellen Welch and Jodie Anne White.

Dance Students 2003 - Semester 2

Associate Degree (Dance) 1st Year

Martinique Aprile Luisa Burgoyne Moira Callanan Hsin-Ju Chiu

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'\-ssa Harradine Katie Headrick Nathan Leslie-Wood 1-Pin Lin

Courtney Morse Hui-Ching Pai William Simpson Joshua Thomson Zoe Wells

Amanda Wuersching

Associate Degree (Dance) 2nd Year

Richard Causer Han-Shao Chen .;hen Chou i sha Cudilla Esther Durham Alycia Fang Yan Nadine Frew Tegan Hinks Danielle Hocking Tiffany Jackson Porzhia Jacobsen John Jenner Jessica Kloster Hui-Chun Peng Erinn Swan Adam Tucker

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) 1st Year

Lauren Culnane Renee Currie Michelle Elphinston Alice Hinde

Carolyn McKelliff Jennifer Walters Anna Wilson

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) 2nd Year

Emma Baynes Chafia Brooks Karla Sugden Gemma Nicholas Stephanie Pokoj Vanessa Sew Hoy

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) 3rd Year

Kimberley Beaumont Ching-Chi Chang Katherine Davis Rosalind Evans Victoria Nicholson Lauren O'Toole Christina Park Janelle Reid Ebony Wakefield Rebecca Whyte Samantha Williams

Graduating Dancers

Porzhia Jacobsen John Jenner Jessica Kloster Victoria Nicholson

Graduating Dancers

Adam Tucker Ebony Wakefield Rebecca Whyte Samantha Williams

Alycia Fong Yan

Susan Leclercq: Greg Clarke:

Jason Organ:

Matt McKendry:

Sue Benfer:

Liv Shearman:

Jodie Roche:

Garry Alcorn: Tony Brumpton:

Dan Black: Lachlan Cross:

Natalie Oxenham:

Daniel Maddison:

Jimmy Harrison:

Brendan Wright:

Rosa Hirakata:

Francis Pyper:

Crew

Dance Production Coordinator Designer

Lighting Designer Production Manager

Technical Production Coordinator Stage Manager*

Deputy Stage Manager*

Assistant Stage Manager*

Sound Designer and Operator*

Head Electrician*

Lighting Assistant*

Lighting Operator*

A V Operator*

Flys*

Workshop Supervisor

Wardrobe Supervisor/Seamstress Wardrobe Seamstress

Thanks to the Bump In/Out Crew: Sophia Dalton*, Renee Moehead*, Jason Smith*, Eyrum Charles*, Annette Silva*, Eddie Welsh*, Julie Amos* and Jo Evans*

* indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student

Program 1. Transparent Ground

Choreographer Media Engineer Music

Costume eancers

Awakening ... The Self

Unearthing Tension

Ricky Sim Russell Milledge Aphex Twin, John Cage Shaaron Boughen

Chafia Brooks, Ching-Chi Chang, Han-Shao Chen, Natasha Cudilla, Samantha Williams,

Vanessa Sew Hoy, Hui-Chun Peng, Richard Causer

In Silence Monologue

Begins ...

Transparent Ground is a contemporary work that is inspired by the theme of

'Sight'. It investigates the interaction of image, memory and the subconscious

and its dreams through the exploration of the human consciousness framed in

psychological, spiritual and personal terms.

e. ^Lightspan

Choreographer Music

Dancers

Neil Adams

Child, David Lang (tracks 2,3 and 5) Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) - 3rd Years

INTERVAL

3. Altered States

Choreographer Music

Digital Video Imagery Dancers

Csaba Buday

What's Your Daughter On?, Cliff Martinez; I Know

She's In There, Cliff Martinez; Going Under Love

And Insanity Dub, Rocker's HiFi; On The Rhodes

Again, Morcheeba; Give The Po' Man A Break, Fatboy Slim

Csaba Buday

Associate Degree (Dance) - 1st Year Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) - 1st Year Adam Tucker (ADD - 2nd year)

Acid, Cocaine, Crack, Cannabis, Ecstasy, Ice, Mushrooms, Opium, Speed, Wet Sticks .. .Drugs that catalyze a powerful experience. The quantity taken dictating the intensity and duration of their physiological and psychotropic effects. Some have been around for centuries, others more recent; however they have all been used to alter human perception and mood. They can provoke a state of euphoria and abandonment, an intense energetic high or induce feelings of depression and anger. This work is an investigation of some of the bodily and emotional affects of these Altered States.

4. On The Verge

Choreographer Music

Sound Recording Dancers

PAUSE

Maggi Sietsma

Thomas Newman, Gyorgy Ligeti, Claudio Puntin, The Folk Implosion

Thanks to Arbel Vals

Associate Degree (Dance) - 2nd Year Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)- 2nd Year

I wanted to create a work with the second years which encompassed a common memory but which also expressed aspects of their personal travels over the past two years.

The composition of the piece is a field in which are inscribed various fragments and different explorations that have been coloured by the students' outline of thoughts in movement. The dancers' commitment to the piece and their courage via work on interiority has been wonderful, and I thank them for the opportunity to share in the making of On the Verge. Thanks to Greg Clarke for his icefield design and Jason Organ for the lighting.

Neil Adams

Neil's career as a performer, teacher and choreographer spans more than twenty years. As a graduate of Rusden (now Deakin University), where he majored in Dance and Drama, Neil became a founding member of Tasdance, Australia's first dance-in-education company. He made a significant contribution to the development of Tasdance, choreographing

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23 works and performing in over 50 works between 1981 and

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by leading Australian and international choreographers.

Neil has been a recipient of grants from the Australia Council, Arts WA and Arts Tasmania enabling him to study overseas and to mount several independent solo and ensemble programs. He has choreographed for professional companies and tertiary institutions throughout Australia.

From 1995 to 2000 Neil was Lecturer in Contemporary Dance at the WAAcademy of Performing Arts. During this time he made a significant contribution to the establishment of the Academy's profile through choreography and teaching at

the Korean International Dance Event, Seoul 1995, The Greenmill Festival/World

Dance Alliance Conference, Melbourne 1996, and at the Dance On 97 Festival, Hong Kong, 1997. In 1997 Neil mounted the highly successful WA Academy performance tour, Export Ozdance to Kuala Lumpur.

- i l was a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts in 1999 during which time he choreographed on the graduating students.

Neil's full-length work Triptych was mounted to critical acclaim at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art in 2002. Triptych also served as the folio for his Master of Choreography studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, which he completed in 2002.

Neil continues to freelances as a teacher and choreographer and has taken up Ph. D candidature at the VCA, contributing to the ARC funded research project Conceiving Connections.

Csaba Buday

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 9 years withADT he danced in numerous works by notable Australian and International choreographers including world acclaimed dance maker William Forsythe (Frankfurt Ballet) as well as performing acting/singing roles in joint collaborations with the State Theatre Co of South Australia and the State Opera of South AustrA Csaba joined Dance North in 1993 and remained with that company until the • of 1994. 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.

Professional companies Csaba has taught for include: Australian Dance Theatre, Dance North, Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre (Vietnam), Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taiwan), Leigh Warren and Dancers, Expressions Dance Co, Chunky Move, Modern Dance Company of Beijing (China) and City Contemporary Dance Co (Hong Kong). Csaba was Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide 1995, Artist-in-Residence at the National Institute for the Arts, Taipei, 1996. Guest teacher/choreographer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1996 and QUT 1999 and 2001.

Since 1984 Csaba has choreographed a total of 27 works for both professio.

dance companies and tertiary institutions within Australia and overseas. He also been commissioned to create work for youth companies and independent project groups as well as remounting existing works for both professional companies and tertiary institutions. His works have been presented throughout Australia as well as in Hong Kong, 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 as Lecturer in Contemporary Dance in July 2003 and has since choreographed West Side Story for the Brisbane Riverfestivals' Riversymphony.

Maggi Sietsma

Maggi, founder and Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company, graduated from the Australian Ballet School, and toured extensively with the Australian Ballet before becoming a soloist with the London Festival Ballet. She subsequently founded the multi-media performing ensemble Muance, which toured the major cities of Europe. Returning to Australia in 1982, Maggi became resident choreographer of the North

From 1983 to 1985, Maggi was a lecturer in dance at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education (now QUT), where she was involved in developing the first Bachelor of Arts Dance course in Queensland. In 1992 she collaborated with the Queensland Education Department in the development of the Making Ideas Dance video, and in 1995 was awarded an MAin Dance from QUT.

Under Maggi's direction, Expressions has won several awards, including the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award. The company has toured extensively throughout Australia as well as the USA, Germany, Papua New Guinea, India, The U.K., Israel, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China.

Since 1985, she has created over thirty works for the Company including Dark Heart, Dream Hunters, Difficult Pleasures, Adam in Wonderland, Attitude, Virtually

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In 2000 Maggi undertook an Asialink residency to choreograph and teach for the Beijing Modern Dance Company and the Beijing Dance Academy in China. In 2002, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to dance and dance education and earlier this year received a Centenary Medal for her work with dance and society.

Photo of Maggi Sietsma by Peter Bull, The Courier Mail

Ricky Sim

Ricky received his Diploma in Dance from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore). Throughout his training years, he was awarded arts bursaries from the National Arts Council for the excellence of his work. He has performed with different dance and theatre companies such as The Arts Fission Company; Ecnad Project Limited; The Toy ---' Factory Theatre Ensemble; The Action Theatre;

Kan & Saltibanques (Japan), Singapore Dance Theatre, Theatre Nordh (Germany).

Ricky has had extensive experience in acclaimed works such as Jiri Kylian's Stamping Ground, Val Caniparolin's Lamberen, Goh Choo San's Unknown Territory, Thierry Maladin's Sextet, Jean-Paul Comelin's Giselle and Requiem.

Besides being a versatile dancer, his recent choreographies include Transparent Ground and Unspoken Text for QUT (New Moves 2002); 4 X 4 Unlimited for the Singapore Dance Theatre (Ballet Under the Stars 2001 ); Mouse, Click for B-Ballet (2001 ); E-man-cipation for the Singapore Dance Theatre (Singapore Arts Festival 2000); Schizone for the Ecnad Project Limited (lntonet Programme 1999); Solo 1 for Thammasat University-Bangkok, Thailand.

Ricky was awarded the Sheii-NAC Arts Scholarship in 2001 and is currently pursuing his MFA (Dance) at QUT.

Greg Clarke (Designer)

Previous designs for La Boite: Clark in Sarajevo, Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris, Salt, Emma's Nose, Secret Bridesmaids Business and Way Out West. Designed Miss Tanaka for Handspan visual theatre/Piaybox; Orpheus in the Underworld for the Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Expressions Dance Company's productions Alone Together, Behind The Wall, Rites of Spring, Flight and Dream Hunters, as well as

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cultural exchanges with the company to Papua New Guinea a~lndia. The Queensland Theatre Company productions Sweeney Todd, Oz Shorts, Sweet Panic, One Woman's Song, Hotel Sorrento and Shimada. Playbox Theatres Inside 2000 season, Melbourne Workers Theatre's production Who's Afraid of the Working Class? and production design for the OUT-produced short film The Storyteller, and theatre productions Away, Song of the Yellow Bittern, Building The Wall and La Ronde.

Jason Organ (Lighting Designer)

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 through to corporate presentation and events.

J~n's design credits inc - Figaro Variations, Power and Sonata for Ten Hands

f~ck 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 and Sitcom Festival for Queensland Theatre Company; Seems Like Yesterday and

Yamin' Up for Kooemba Jdarra; Way Out West, Svetlana in Slingbacks and Scar

for La Boite. For the last two years he has been lighting designer for all of Creative Industries Dance showcase seasons.

QUT Precincts • Gardens Theatre 2 George Street, Brisbane (next to City Botanic Gardens) Bookings/Info: GardensTix 07 3864 4455 or at Box Office: open Mon- Fri 10am-4pm www.culturalprecinct.qut.edu.au www.ciprecinct.com.au

Cultural Precinct Advisory Board:

Dr Brian Johns AO (Chair) Mr David Angliss

Mr David Barry Ms Margaret Cook Dr lan Galloway Prof John Gough

Dr Tony Gould AM DUN IV Dr Frank Haly AO

Dr Cherrell Hirst AO

Prof John Hockings Prof Peter Lavery Mrs Jan Manton Ms Lynn Rainbow Mr Neil Thompson Mr Shane Thompson Ms Anne Wallace Mr Charlie Watson

QUT Precincts Director: Prof Peter Lavery Senior Theatre Technician: Chris Dickey Senior Theatre Technician: Graham Menzies

Administrative Assistant: Alex Winkler Box Office: Deirdree Wallace

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 closest 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 Gardens Theatre.

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