GARDENS THEATRE 2 George Street
BRISBANE QLD Australia 4000
Ph. (07) 3138 4455 or [email protected] www.gardenstheatre.qut.edu.au
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INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
QUT Dance acknowledges the ongoing collaborations and passion for dance that is shared with our industry partners - Expressions Dance Company (EDC) and Queensland Ballet (QB). We are very proud of our relationships with these exceptional professional dance companies, and look forward to continuing to cultivate innovative initiatives that are of benefit to our organisations in addition to the broader dance community.
DURATION ACT I: 32 mins INTERVAL: 20 mins ACT II: 50 mins
WARNINGS Theatrical Haze
IMAGE CREDITS
Essentially Dance 2015, Fiona Cullen
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Ave KELVIN GROVE QLD Australia 4059 Ph. (07) 3138 8114 or [email protected] www.qut.edu.au/creative-industries
FOREWORD
AVRIL HUDDY Production Coordinator (Dance) BEN HUGHES Lighting Designer
BIANCA BULLEY Costume Designer
NICOLE NEIL* Production Stage Manager
ERIN HANDFORD* Deputy Stage Manager / Sound & AV Operator JAIMESON GILDERS* Deputy Stage Manager / Sound & AV Operator JACK ALCOCK* Sound & AV Designer / Coordinator
MATTHEW BURKE* Head Electrician DONOVAN WAGNER* Lighting Operator BENJAMIN NEUCOM* Head of Set and Flys
* Indicates Creative Industries Technical Production student
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF TONY BRUMPTON Technical Production Coordinator BEN HUGHES Technical Production Lecturer TESSA RIXON Technical Production Lecturer GEORGE MEIJER Technical Production Lecturer
PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY QUT PRECINCTS PROF. SUE STREET AO Executive Director
JILL STANDFIELD Operations Manager JESS HALPIN Senior Marketing Officer THOMAS EDMISTON Production Coordinator ANDREW EARLE Senior Theatre Technician ROSS AITKENHEAD Theatre Technician
JESSICA BARRON Customer Service Manager
PRODUCTION TEAM
Welcome to QUT Dance’s 2015 graduation season!
DANCE15 celebrates our graduating students as they take the final step towards transition into the industry. It is a culmination of three years’ worth of learning - both technically, artistically, and most importantly, as people with identified values and beliefs about who they are and what kind of contribution they would like to make to their collective futures. They have been challenged by a range of diverse choreographers in new and restaged creative works – both working together in the two group pieces and having to audition against each other for inclusion in the selected SDC and EDC excerpts as part of real-world preparation.
A heartfelt thank you to the many people that are critical to getting our students and DANCE15 up on stage: QUT Precincts, Drama – Technical Production, QUT/CIF Marketing, QUT Media, the School of MECA, and the Dance, Production, and Dance Health teams respectively.
As audience members we are very grateful for your patronage, support, and encouragement of our students – particularly those of you who are family and friends. They have worked very hard to make the most of the opportunities
presented to them, some of which have taken them completely out of their comfort zones, and we are very proud of the results. We hope you enjoy the show!
Associate Professor Gene Moyle ARAD MAPS MCSEP MAICD Head of Discipline – Dance
School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts QUT Creative Industries Faculty
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
(DANCE PERFORMANCE) - 1
STYEAR STUDENTS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE Head of Discipline - Dance
CSABA BUDAY Lecturer in Contemporary, Resident Choreographer, Undergraduate Study Area Coordinator
AVRIL HUDDY Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Contemporary, Alignment, Conditioning
RACHEL PEDRO Lecturer in Dance Theory, Latin Dance
DR JENNIFER ROCHE Lecturer in Dance KYM STEVENS Lecturer in Dance Education ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHERYL STOCK Postgraduate Supervisor ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
SHAARON BOUGHEN Postgraduate Supervisor SESSIONAL
ANJA ALI-HAAPALA Academic Lecturer GARETH BELLING Guest Artist
SHAARON BOUGHEN Academic Lecturer TRACEY CARRODUS Ballet Technique JACQUI CARROLL Guest Artist GUSTAVO CEREIJO Latin Music GABRIEL COMERFORD Guest Artist BREE LE CORNU Tumbling
FIONA CULLEN Contemporary Technique KATIE DICKENS Jazz and Dance Fitness JASON DUFF Jazz/Commercial Dance ROD FERGUSON Tai Chi
NICOLE GALEA Pointe
MIRANDA GLIKSON Guest Artist
JADA DE GOEY TEATINI-CLIMACO Latin Dance LUCIA HARKIN Alexander Technique
ELLEN HENRY Tumbling
RACHELLE HICKSON Contemporary Technique GAIL HEWTON Academic Lecturer
MATTHEW LAWRENCE Ballet Technique/Pas de Deux/Men’s Coaching/Variations
AARON LUKRITZ Fitness
VANESSA MAFE-KEANE Academic Lecturer/
Pointe/Examiner
GRANT MCLAY Contemporary Technique RIANNON MCLEAN Conditioning KYLE PAGE Guest Artist MARIANA PARAIZO Examiner LUIS PINTO Funk Technique RENEE PLACE Academic Lecturer BINDU RAJENDREN Guest Artist COURTNEY SCHEU Guest Artist EDWINA SHAW Yoga
ANTHONY SHEARSMITH Ballet Technique TARCISIO TEATINI-CLIMACO Latin Dance JACOB WILLIAMS Guest Artist
SAMANTHA WILLIAMS Break Dance
LISA WILSON Academic Lecturer/Contemporary Technique
DANCE HEALTH TEAM
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE Performance Psychologist
JEREMY VILLANUEVA Provisional Psychologist (UQ Placement)
MELANIE FULLER Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist (Pondera)
ACCOMPANISTS BRIAN ADAMSON STEVE FRANCIS BRETT FOWLER JOHN REEVES AMANDA ROSENFELD CATHERINE YU CI MECA ADMIN TEAM SUE DANCE
AISHA DIXON JENNY GREDER SANDRA KAMINSKI SAMANTHA KENNY
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE TEAM SEMESTER 2, 2015
SOPHIE BARENDSE CLAUDIA BUCKLEY HANNAH CARDEN GABRIELLE CARTER PHILLIPA CHAPMAN
BRIDGET CLARK CAITLIN DABRON MADELEINE DE GRANDI ELIZABETH FERGUSON
GRETA GILBY MARA GLASS
LAUREN GRAHAM JAYDEN GROGAN REBECCA HALE
MEGHAN KING REBECCA MURRAY
AMBER NOFAL GEORGIA PIERCE MADELEINE RYAN
OLIVIA SMITH LACHLAN WHELAN
CHLOE HAMBLETON SOPHIA GUIDO
HIO LAO FUNG ISLA GIBSON
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
(DANCE PERFORMANCE) - 2
NDYEAR STUDENTS PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
GRACE NICHOLS NADIA MILFORD
BRIANNA LAW LAURA MCNALLY
JULIA LAMKE JACLYN JONES
MADISON HENDRY ISABELLA HOOD
CHI TAI*
LAUREN SHERLOCK ELLEN PEPPER TIANA PINNELL
BEN HUGHES, LIGHTING DESIGNER
Ben has created the lighting for over 100 productions including works for Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, The Danger Ensemble, La Boite Theatre Company, Queensland Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, HotHouse Theatre, JUTE Theatre, QPAC, Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival, QUT, Gold Coast Arts Centre and Kooemba Jdarra. As Associate Lighting Designer his work includes productions with Meryl Tankard, Elision Ensemble, Expressions Dance Company, Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet and Queensland Theatre Company. Ben is Associate Artistic Director of The Danger Ensemble and in 2014 is an Affiliate Artist with Queensland Theatre Company. Ben currently lectures in Lighting Design and Techincal Production at QUT.
BIANCA BULLEY, COSTUME 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.
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
(DANCE PERFORMANCE) - GRADUATING STUDENTS
SAMUEL MARCON AIDEN BIRNEY-KILNER
CLAIRE BATHGATE- PETERSEN
CARA BETTY
EN RUI FOO GEORGIA TAYLOR
BONNIE ROSS
CHLOE LINDBECK
ALLY FRAZER
JAKE HARRISON
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
LUCAS JERVIES, CHOREOGRAPHER
Lucas Jervies is a dance and theatre maker for audiences of all ages. One of Australia’s most sought after Directors, he has created work for The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Opera Australia, Queensland Ballet, West Australian Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, Sydney Chamber Opera, Griffin Theatre Company, JACK Productions, Hèrmes, Buzz Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company Pre Professional Year and The Australian Ballet School. He has also created internationally for Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Louisville Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Korzo Theatre Den Haag, Noverre Society Stuttgart Ballet and CoDarts Rotterdam University for the Arts.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and The Australian Ballet School (Honours graduate 1998) Lucas danced professionally performing both classical and contemporary repertoire with The Australian Ballet, Dance Works Rotterdam and Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, contributing as collaborator/ dancer to over 60 contemporary creations and world premiere seasons. Lucas retired from dance in 2010 and co-founded JACK Productions in Melbourne, presenting three ballet- theatre productions over two years.
In 2012 Lucas was accepted into The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) to study Directing. Following his graduation, Lucas became an Affiliate Director with Griffin Theatre Company where his physical theatre work The Witches based on the book by Roald Dahl has toured nationally to critical acclaim. In October 2013 he was appointed Artistic Director of Buzz Dance Theatre, Australia’s premier dance theatre company for children and young people 1986-2015, to create a final season for the company. In August 2014 Lucas joined Sydney Dance Company as interim Rehearsal Director and from January 2015 became a freelance artist choreographing works for Opera Australia, Sydney Dance Company, Louisville Ballet, dramaturge for The Australian Ballet and assistant director for Sydney Theatre Company.
PROGRAM
JAZZ IS NOT A DIRTY WORD
Choreographer KEITH HAWLEY
Rehearsal Directors JENNIFER ROCHE, AVRIL HUDDY, RACHEL PEDRO Music Lipstick On His Collar – Caro Emerald, Vicious Games – Yello, Another Night In Tunisia – Bobby McFerrin, I Want A
Little Doggy (Remix) – Lena Horn
Dancers 1st Year BFA (Dance Performance) students Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
The reason I gave the work this title is that many times in the dance world, I have heard other dancers from different genres to Jazz, make slightly digging remarks when it comes to Jazz. So what if commercial jazz is entertaining I say – can’t we all just appreciate each other’s difference in the dance world rather than compare – what are we actually comparing? Entertainment is also not a dirty word. This is dedicated to my mum.
FIELDS OF PLAY
Choreographer GRANT MCLAY
Rehearsal Directors AVRIL HUDDY, CSABA BUDAY
Music The Cave- West Jerusalem Hebron: Act 1:1 & VI – Beryl Korot, Salon Des Amateurs- Ping, Volker Bertelmann:
Ferndorf-Schones Madchen, Salon Des Amateurs- Subconcious, Salon Des Amateurs- Tranzbein - Hauschka Dancers 3rd Year BFA (Dance Performance) students
Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
The doctoral research underscoring this choreography involves the deconstruction and reconstruction of the physical dynamics of rugby union and the translation of this data into scores for movement. In the choreographic process the breakdown frame by frame of a recorded match between Ireland and France.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
TRACEY CARRODUS, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR
Brisbane born Tracey Carrodus trained with the Queensland Ballet School and received an Associate Diploma in Dance from the Queensland University of Technology. She spent six years dancing with Brisbane-based Expressions Dance Company before joining Sydney Dance Company in 1996 where she was Principal for nearly 14 years. Her high profile in the Arts has been publicly rewarded (2008 – Critics’ Choice Award - Nominated for Best Female Dancer five times; 2006 – Australian Dance Award - Nominated for Best Female Dancer for Grand and Cut;
2005 – Australian Green Room Awards - Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Individual for Grand; 2004 – Helpmann Awards - Nominated for Best Female Dancer for Shades of Gray; 2003 – MO Awards - Nominated for Dance Performer of the Year for Tivoli, Critics’ Choice Award - Winner for the Most Outstanding Artist/
Dancer of the Year; 2002 – MO Awards - Winner for Dance Performer of the Year for Tivoli, Australian Green Room Awards - Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Individual for Tivoli; 2001 – Australian Dance Awards - Winner of Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical for Tivoli, Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an individual for Tivoli; 1999 – Australian Green Room Awards - Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Individual for Salome; 1998 – Alumni Awards - Winner for The Performing Arts for Salome, Australian Green Room Awards - Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Individual for Salome, Helpmann Awards - Nominated for Best Female Dancer for Salome). Tracey has performed extensively throughout the world during her 20 year career.
Tracey has completed a Bachelor of Business degree, majoring in Advanced Marketing and Public Relations, a Diploma in Export Management and a Diploma in Market Research through the University of Southern Queensland. Since retiring at the end of 2007 Tracey now mentors a new generation of professional and pre- professional dancers throughout Australia as well as restaging Graeme Murphy works. Her greatest achievement is being a Mum to her daughter and son.
JANET VERNON AM, CHOREOGRAPHER
Adelaide-born Janet Vernon studied at The Australian Ballet School and has danced with The Australian Ballet, Ballets Félix Blaska (France) and Sydney Dance Company. In 1976 she was appointed, along with Graeme Murphy, to the artistic helm of Sydney Dance Company, where they remained for 31 years.
Graeme created roles for Janet including: Shéhérazade, Daphnis and Chloé (Lykanion), Some Rooms (The Bathroom), After Venice, Nearly Beloved, King Roger (Queen Roxanna), Berlin, The Protecting Veil, Salome (Herodias) and The Trojans (Andromeque) – a collaboration with Opera Australia.
Creative Associate credits include: Swan Lake, Nutcracker--The story of Clara, Firebird, The Silver Rose, Romeo & Juliet and The Narrative of Nothing (The Australian Ballet); Tivoli (A Sydney Dance company and The Australian Ballet co- production); Hua Mulan (a Sydney Dance Company and Shanghai Song & Dance Ensemble co-production); Die Silberne Rose (Bayerisches Staatsballet, Munich);
Water (Shanghai Ballet); Forty Miles–A River of Dreams (Tasdance); Ainadamar (The Adelaide Festival of Arts); Aida (Opera Australia); the movie Mao’s Last Dancer and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies..
Awards include: an AM for Services to Dance (1989); Sydney Opera House Honours (1993); Dance Australia named her ‘One of Australia’s Five Best Female Dancers Ever’; Green Room Award for Concept and Realisation, Swan Lake (2003);
Centenary Medal for services to society and dance; Lifetime Achievement, Australian Dance Awards (2006); Green Room Award, Outstanding Contribution to Dance (2006) and the Fred & Adele Astaire Award for Excellence in Choreography in Film for Mao’s Last Dancer (New York, 2011).
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAM
EXCERPT FROM WHERE THE HEART IS
Choreographer NATALIE WEIR
Rehearsal Directors CSABA BUDAY, AVRIL HUDDY
Music John Rodgers
Dancers Aiden Birney-Kilner, En Rui Foo, Jake Harrison, Samuel Marcon
Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
Where the heart is was originally created in 2010 for Expressions Dance Company’s signature season at QPAC that year. It won ‘Best Performance by a Company’ at the 2011 Australian Dance Awards and ‘Best Ballet or Dance Work’ at the 2011 Helpmann Awards. EDC remounted the highly acclaimed production in 2012 for Brisbane audiences. where the heart is tells a story where memory, past, time and place are all one. This solo is the story of a young man returning to the family home full of memories. It can be performed by a man or a woman and is a solo about resolution, coming to terms and moving on. EDC and QUT Creative Industries enjoy a close industry partnership, providing students real world dance opportunities and nurturing local artists.
ALLIGATOR CRAWL (Excerpt from GRAND)
Choreographer GRAEME MURPHY AO Remounted by TRACEY CARRODUS
Rehearsal Directors AVRIL HUDDY, CSABA BUDAY Original Lighting Design DAMIEN COOPER
Original Set Design GERARD MANION Lighting Remounted by BEN HUGHES Original Costumes AKIRA ISOGAWA
Pianist SCOTT DAVIE
Music Graeme Murphy, Janet Vernon, Scott Davie
Dancers Claire Bathgate-Petersen, En Rui Foo, Alexandra Frazer, Jake Harrison, Chloe Lindbeck, Samuel Marcon
Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
Grand is both a celebration and fusion of dance and piano. Close to Murphy’s heart, Grand is dedicated to the life of his mother Betty. Murphy has been greatly
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
GRAEME MURPHY AO, CHOREOGRAPHER
Graeme Murphy was born in Melbourne and studied at The Australian Ballet School. He has danced with The Australian Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Ballet (London) and Ballets Félix Blaska (France). In 1971, he received an Australia Council Grant to study overseas.
He returned to Australia in 1975 as a freelance choreographer.
The following year, he was appointed artistic director of Sydney Dance Company (then known as The Dance Company NSW), a position he held until 2007. During his 31-year tenure, he created more than 50 works, including 30 full-length productions.
Graeme is the recipient of an AM (1982) for his Services to Dance and three honorary doctorates – Hon. D. Lit. Tas (1990), Hon. D. Phil. Qld (1992) and Hon.
D. Lit. UNSW (1999). He was honoured at the Inaugural Sydney Opera House Honours (1993) and named a National Living Treasure (1999) by the National Trust of Australia. He has received a Helpmann Award for Best Choreography, Body of Work – a Retrospective (2001); the prestigious James Cassius Award (2002); the Green Room Award for Concept and Realisation, Swan Lake (2003); a Centenary Medal (2003); named Cultural Leader of the Year by the Australian Business Arts Foundation, receiving the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Award (2004) and was listed among Australia’s 50 Most Glamorous Exports at a special celebration hosted by the Australian Government and Austrade (2005). He received the Award for Contribution to Cultural Exchange by the Ministry of Culture, the People’s Republic of China (2008) and the Fred & Adele Astaire Award for Excellence in Choreography in Film for Mao’s Last Dancer (New York, 2011) and was made Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) from the recent Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).
Graeme’s directing and choreographic credits include Metamorphosis, Turandot, Salome, The Trojans, Aida (Opera Australia); Ainadamar (The Adelaide Festival of Arts); Beyond Twelve, Nutcracker-The Story of Clara, Swan Lake, Firebird, The Silver Rose, Romeo & Juliet and The Narrative of Nothing (The Australian Ballet);
Tivoli (a Sydney Dance Company and The Australian Ballet co-production); VAST (The Australian Bicentennial Authority); Hua Mulan (a Sydney Dance Company and Shanghai Song and Dance Ensemble co-production); Die Silberne Rose (Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich); Water (Shanghai Ballet); Forty Miles–A River of Dreams (Tasdance); Embodied (Mikhail Baryshnikov) and The Torvill and Dean World Tour Company. He also choreographed Death in Venice (Canadian Opera Company);
Samson et Dalila (The Metropolitan Opera, New York); the movie Mao’s Last Dancer and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies.
PROGRAM
PACK
Choreographer CSABA BUDAY
Music London Grammar
Dancers 2nd Year BFA (Dance Performance) students Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
Inspiration for this work came from my recent experience of living in Beijing, China.
Having a massive population of over 21 million people, one cannot feel but just another number within the crowd of this hectic megalopolis.
Society is conditioned to obey, to conform, with some cultures being more hard lined with their citizens than others. However, there is a desire within each of us to have freedom of expression… to project an identity, to be an individual… nevertheless a desire not to be different… to follow trends and fads… a desire to fit in and connect.
Within the pack there is also the outcast… the one who is different… the one who does not fit in.
Pack has been created to be absorbed and interpreted openly by each individual.
Driven by repetition and cycles, I have used this choreographic approach as a metaphor for the daily routine inherent in one’s life.
CHARIOT
Choreographer LUCAS JERVIES
Rehearsal Directors AVRIL HUDDY, CSABA BUDAY
Music For - Peter - Toilet Brushes - More - Nils Frahm Dancers 3rd Year BFA (Dance Performance) students Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
I walked into the studio at the beginning of this process with an intention that was never realised. Fabulous. I love trusting what occurs in the studio and throwing planned ideas out the window. So what did we do? We set up pedestrian physical situations that related to inanimate objects. Once these events were perfected we then re constructed the results by looking through various perspectives, creating a set of physical rules that we then continually fought to abandon.
If you’d passed by our studio during the creation you would have heard me screaming, deeper, expansive, do everything you’ve ever done before, whole body, whole body, whole body! The result is energetic, persistent, brutal but passionate - a danced Hunger Games of sorts! Chookas and Love to these young people as they embark on their next chapter.
KEITH HAWLEY, CHOREOGRAPHER
Keith began dancing at the age of 8 and turned professional by the age of 18. Keith quickly added his skills base into art, photography, costume and fashion design, choreography and direction by the age of 26.
Keith was a guest lecturer at Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts 2001 - 2002 and returned as Artist in Residence for in 2005 – 2007. 2009 – 2011, Keith was Senior Entertainment Manager for Venetian Macau Resort producing over 37 shows and 44 events per year - employing over 200 dancers internationally. Most recently Keith was Resident Artistic Director for Franco Dragone … Dragone Macau Limited – Taboo. There most successful cabaret shows to date.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
NATALIE WEIR, CHOREOGRAPHER
Natalie 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
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
GRANT MCLAY, CHOREOGRAPHER
Grant McLay has danced with Expressions Dance Theatre and the Queensland Ballet Company. After performing on London’s West End in the musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, a role he continued in Australia, he worked with Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre on their North America and European tour with the Balanescu Quartet.
Returning to Europe he worked with companies such as Scottish Dance Theatre, Opera Ireland, Carol Brown Dances (UK), Maiden Voyage Dance Company (Belfast), Emilyn Claid (UK) and extensively with Rex Levitates Dance Company (now Liz Roche Company) (Ireland). As well as choreographing and teaching there are performances on television, in plays, opera and musicals, he has completed a practice-based MA (Ireland) and is now continuing Doctoral studies at Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane).
CSABA BUDAY, CHOREOGRAPHER
A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Csaba has had an impressive career as a performer, choreographer and teacher spanning over 32 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).
Csaba has toured extensively throughout Australia and Asia performing at major International Arts Festivals as well as appearing at the Turning World Festival in London.
Csaba has choreographed a total of 42 major works that have been presented in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the United Kingdom and the USA. 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 graduated from Queensland University of Technology with a Master of Arts (Research) and the Australian Ballet School with a Diploma (Dance).
QUT DANCE FAREWELLS HISTORIC G & O BLOCK STUDIOS
2015 saw the end of an era with the final QUT Dance classes delivered out of the G and O Block Studios last week. These studios have supported the development and fostered the love of dance in generations of dance students, and we say farewell with a sad but grateful heart. In 2016, QUT Dance will move into the brand new Creative Industries Precinct 2 at Kelvin Grove campus to work alongside our colleagues in Drama, Music and Visual Arts. It is with much excitement that we look towards what the future will bring, with the wonderful
opportunity to work in a state-of-the-art building that is designed to foster creativity, innovation and collaboration!
