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INTRODUCTION DANCE BYTES 2005
Welcome to Dance Bytes 2005, which has a special focus this year as the culmination of a two-way exchange with the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Our season tonight begins with the third and final version of Inhabited Space, a collaborative work between TNUA lecturer and renowned Taiwanese choreographer Ming-Shen Ku, and Australia's Csaba Buday, QUT lecturer and resident choreographer; with a cast of 10 TNUA and 10 OUT graduating students. First performed by the joint cast at the Taipei International Festival of the Arts in July last year, it was re-worked for Dance Graduation in Brisbane in November with a QUT cast and has been further developed with the joint cast for this season. It is a great pleasure to reciprocate in Brisbane the wonderful hospitality we enjoyed in Taipei last year. Such exchanges are not only about showcasing work in different countries. More importantly they are about sharing creative processes over time and being immersed in the culture of another country, forming personal and professional friendships and relationships which will long outlast this particular project, and forming understandings of diverse prisms through which to view the contemporary world of art and ideas. ~ The second half of the program showcases the emerging talents of our first and secona year performance students. Experienced choreographer Harold Collins, MBE, former artistic Director of Queensland Ballet has created a new neo-classical work The Sheltering Sky for the first year students. In this year of study emphasis is placed on teamwork, in particular building a cohesive performing ensemble which dances with confidence and consistency.
The second year students have been challenged by QUT choreographer Shaaron Boughen in her new work Stopover at Hallelujah Junction, with a dense score by John Adams of the same name, through complex weavings of subtly changing motifs requiring high levels of coordination, collaboration and concentration.
A special treat of this season is the finale, Harvest Rite, a celebratory dance of the Taiwanese Aboriginal Amis peoples featuring a cast of 46 dancers led by our TNUA students. We first experienced this exhilarating ritual in Taipei and it has been re-mounted in Brisbane through the generosity of our Taiwanese guests. Be prepared to be caught up in this joyful promenade out of the theatre and onto the Kidney Lawns outside (weather permitting) to finish off our evening of dance celebration.
As always, we are both proud of and grateful to our creative and technical team for their hard work, professionalism and collaborative rapport in making Dance Bytes an event which is keenly anticipated each year by our Brisbane audiences. Apart from the choreographers already mentioned the creative team this year comprises lighting designer David Muri as well as resident costume designers Shaaron Boughen and Rosa Hirakata. Thank also to our wonderful production team: Dance Coordinator Sue Leclercq, Creative lndustn Production Coordinator Daniel Maddison and Creative Industries technical students under the guidance of Sue Benfer and George Meijer. None of this can of course happen without the substantial cooperation and support of the Gardens Theatre staff and the QUT Precincts, nor without our experienced staff in Dance who are committed to training the minds and bodies of our 'thinking dancers'.
In conclusion, we hope that you will support the fundraising efforts in the foyer for our forthcoming tour in July to the Malaysian Dance Festival in Kuala Lumpur, in which we have been chosen to perform in the international gala event as well as in the showcase season of the festival.
Thank you for attendance at Dance Bytes, which assists our dancers to hone their performance skills through an extended public season.
Associate Professor Cheryl Stock
Dance Staff 2005, Semester 1
Full-time
Associate Professor Cheryl Stock: Head of Dance, Post-graduate Coordinator Evan Jones: Course Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs, Lecturer in Ballet Shaaron Boughen: Lecturer in Choreography, Kinesiology, Performance Studies Sue Leclercq: Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet and Pointe
Csaba Buday: Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Choreographic Studies and Resident Choreographer
Graham: External Course Coordinator, Lecturer in Dance Education Mathews: Lecturer in Dance Theory, Musical Theatre and World Dance Elfriede Stirrat: Administration Officer
Kim Stevens: Dance in Education - External Units (half-time)
Sessional
Harold Collins: Pas de Deux
Avril Huddy: Contemporary Technique, Alignment Dale Johnston: Ballet Technique
Dianna Laska-Moore: World Dance Jillian Luke: Ballet technique
Anthony Shearsmith: Ballet Technique
Jean Tally: Contemporary Technique, Alignment Gavin Webber: Contemporary Technique Vanessa Mafe-Keane: Master of Fine Arts tutor
PASS Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Tony Logan: Massage Therapist
"n Smith: Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer
Dance Wardrobe
Rosa Hirakata: Wardrobe Supervisor/ Designer & Seamstress Linda Lucas: Assistant Seamstress
Accompanists
Brian Adams, Lavinia Dickens, Steve Francis, Kylie Foster, Brett Fowler, David Muller
Dance Students
Associate Degree in Dance 2nd Year
Sarah Byrne Moira Callanan Fen-Lan Chuang Ashley Cloumassis Laura Fishwick Celeste Flannery Tara Gower Teegan Haidle Ming-Li Hsu Ying-Ying Liu Daniel J. McAuliffe Ellen Nash
Daniel Turbill
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1st Year
Alex Bellemare llara Brophy Jenna Cali
Deanna Castellana Jane Eastwood Alyce Farrell Hayden Fitzgerald Fiona Gardner Angela Goh
Ianthe Goodwin-Bulhill Alyssa Higgs
Simone lvkovic Nicole James Neroli Jamieson Shu-Han Ku Alida Mulder Myles Newton Tegan Ollett Monique Singh Kimberley Smith Sophia Tisdall Hsin-Ying Tsai Heidi Vit
Charlotte Walker Jessika Watkins
2nd Year Justine Bailey Victoria Beck Ingrid Cameron Dean Cross
Samantha Dunsdon Daniel McKinley Kerri-Nicole Muller Chrissy Norford Katina Olsen Travis Smith Sarah Wainwright Ebony Wright
3rd Year Han-Shao Chen Hsin-Ju Chiu Renee Currie Michelle Elphinston Alice Hinde
Hannah Kelly 1-Pin Lin
Libby McDonnell Carolyn McKelliff Hui-Ching Pai Joshua Thomson
TNUA - Taipei National University of the Arts Students
Yuan-Li Wang Yen-Fang Yu Kuan-Ling Tsai Hsin-1 Cheng Chia-Ying Sun 1-Fen Lin 1-Ling, Liu
Shao-Ching Hung Chih-Yung Fang Suan-Jun Lai
Production Staff
Dance Production Coordinator
Creative Industries Production Coordinator Lighting Designer
Costume Designer Seamstress
Assistant Seamstress
florkshop SupervisorStage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager Assistant Lighting Designer Sound Coordinator
Head Electrician
Lighting OperatorSound Operator Audio Visual
FlysFirst Year bump in/out crew
* Indicates Creative Industries Technical Production Student
Sue Leclercq Daniel Maddison David Murray Rosa Hirakata Rosa Hirakata Linda Lucas Brendan Wright Alicia Jenkins*
Jennie Glover*
Jason Smith*
Matthew Byles*
Eddie Welsh*
Nick Heinemann*
Emily Frost*
lan Rendell*
Katherine Stewart*
David Kiorgaard*
Simone Collins*
Chris Ford*
Chin Ling Li (Rebecca)*
Jon Penn*
Siobhan Callanan*
Louise Daley*
Shane Green * Mai-Ling Lang*
Jeff Warnick*
PRO
Inhabited Space
Choreographers: Csaba Buday & Ming-Shen Ku
Music : James Newton Howard, Lech, Ingram Marshall, Ma s Popp, Antonio Vivaldi , Elliot Mazer, Loren Rush (The Digital Domain, Hologram 9) and Groove Armada.
Lighting Design: Jason Organ & David Murray Costume Design: Rosa Hirakata
Set Design: Csaba Buday Digital Video: lan Rendell
Cast: Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) 3rd Year and TNUA The urban dwelling presents the inhabitC:lnt with rooms of and shape, spaces that for whatever
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tion that is carried out in these spa Interval (20 minutes)
Stopover at Hallelujah Jun
Choreography: Shaaron Boughen in Music: Hallelujah Junction by John Cast: Associate Degree (Dance) 2nd (Dance) 2nd & 3rd Year
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resulting music with 26 dancers!
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with the dancers
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· : Harold Collins MBE Design : David Murray
Assistant: Evan Jones Design: Rosa Hirakata lcolas Lens
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Ji1structors of Songs & Dances: Watan ( Jian-xiong Su) & Sayum
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of the rite that took place in July, 1986 at
with materials drawn from field research
of Ethnology of the Academia Sinica.
SHAARON BOUGHEN- Choreographer
MA Uni of Kent, BA(Hons) Laban Centre, UK, Lecturer, CIF Dance, QUT.
Shaaron has choreographed over 30 works and received grants from The Australia Council, Arts Queensland and OUT. She has worked as an independent artist with the Cherry Herring Collective from 1996-2000 and more recently 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. The installation the space between memory and skin, a collaborative project with composer and video artist Christine McCombe and architect and designer Dianne Smith in the block in April 2005 was the first reversioni,:i,.
project for Shaaron's PhD studies. She has an extensive design background from t h e . works to product launches to pyrotechnics and has designed costumes for works by many leading Australian choreographers. Shaaron is also the Queensland dance reviewer for The Australian
CSABA BUDAY- Choreographer
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.
Csaba joined Dance North in 1993 and remained with that company until the end of 1994. In 1995 he returned to Adelaide to become a member of Leigh Warren and Dancers and continued to be a dancer with the company until September 2000.
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, Bangarra Dance Theatre, 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.
Residence at the National Institute for the Arts, Taipei, 1996. Guest teacher/choreograp- at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1996 and at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 1999 and 2001.
Since 1984 Csaba has choreographed a total of 27 works for both professional dance companies and tertiary institutions within Australia and overseas. His works have been presented throughout Australia as 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 also 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, OUT, as Lecturer in Contemporary Dance and Resident Choreographer in July 2003 and has since choreographed West Side Story
for the Brisbane Riverfestival's Riversymphony, Altered States for Creative Industries 2003 Dance Graduation season, Inhabited Space for Creative Industries (Dance) involvement in the 2004 World Dance Conference, Taipei, Taiwan and Creative Industries 2004 Dance Graduation season.
Csaba is currently undertaking postgraduate studies through an MA (Research) at Creative Industries, QUT, Brisbane Australia.
HAROLD COLLINS MBE- Choreographer
An original member of The Queensland Ballet in 1960, Harold Collins had many major roles created for him by Charles Lisner. He later joined the National Ballet of New Zealand. In . 6 9 he went to dance throughout the US, England, Europe and Japan, spending seven .ars working with some of the world's best companies, teachers and choreographers including Sir Frederick Ashton, Rudi van Dantzig, Sir Robert Helpmann and Sir Kenneth McMillan. Harold performed with the San Francisco Ballet and was later invited to join the London Festival Ballet where he partnered many famous ballerinas including Dame Margot Fonteyn and Galina Samsova.
In 1974 Harold returned to Australia, becoming a Principal Dancer with the Queensland Ballet and in 1978 was appointed Artistic Director. In 1987 he received an A.D.A.M. Award as Best Artistic Director in a State Dance Company.
He was the undisputed driving force behind the Queensland Ballet and was largely responsible for its growing artistic success and innovative repertoire. In 1990 he was the first Australian Artistic Director to choreograph a full-length ballet, Salome, for a major European country - Finland. For ten years Harold concentrated purely on Australian content for his Company and cultivating Australian choreographers, designers and talent.
Since leaving the Queensland Ballet, Harold has been resident classical choreographer for QUT Creative Industries (Dance) and in 2002-2003 he was resident teacher and choreographer in Taiwan during the summer vacation periods. He is also a senior lecturer in classical dance at ADPI.
eNG HENG - Choreographer
After completing an MAin Dance from New York University and gaining Teacher Certification in Labanotation, Ping Heng returned to Taiwan to create Taipei Dance Workshop in 1984.
The project provided pivotal professional training and performance space for emerging dance and experimental theatre groups, supporting over 600 performances and it continues to serve today as a creative centre for the arts in Taiwan. As owner and director of the Crown Theatre and professional studios, Ping Heng founded Dance Forum Taipei in 1989.
As Instructor I Lecturer in the Dance Department of the Taipei National University of the Arts
(TNUA) Ping Heng is also leader in the preservation ofTaiwan's native dance forums, serving
as Notator and Director of the Research Project on Taiwanese Aboriginal Culture with the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Her leadership has helped to preserve historically critical aboriginal dance forms including the Harvest Festival of the Amis. Ping Heng is currently Director of the National Theatre of Taiwan.
MING-SHEN KU- Choreographer
Ming-Shen Ku was born in Taiwan in the Republic of China. She received her Bachelor degree in dance from the Chinese Culture University and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois. An active dance teacher, choreographer and dancer, Ku returned to Taiwan in 1987 to teach, perform and choreograph new works.
Ku's works are influenced by many Western and Eastern dance styles, a development from her diverse background. In 1989, her work Bamboo Grove was notated into Laban Notation. Ku has also been invited as a guest artist to perform and teach in many universities and dance companies around the world.
In 1991-1992, Ku received a grant from the National Endowment of the Culture and Art~A advance her study in the United States. She became deeply involved in Contact lmprovisatW and introduced it to Taiwan. Since then, Ku has developed her own movement emphasis in teaching modern dance and improvisation.
As a renowned choreographer in Taiwan, she has collaborated with many dance companies and arts events in Taiwan and Hong-Kong. Her solo performances have been invited to tour to the United States, Europe, Australia, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The latest tour was to Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne, France in 2002.
Ming-Shen founded the dance company Ku & Dancers in 1993 to present new works and promote the concept of improvisation. As the only professional dance company that has devoted itself to improvisational works, Ku & Dancers has presented several structured improvisation projects touring Taiwan in the past few years. Since 2000, the company organized and produced Taiwan Dance Umbrella, of which Ku was the producer, to provide opportunities for young and innovative choreographers to stage their works.
In 2001, Ku collaborated with Image in Motion Theatre Company to stage a dance performance combined with computer-animated images in Not a Love Story. It was the first of its kind in Taiwan. Ku has also started the exploration of dance and technology, collaborating with Hollywood computer animation specialist Yau Chen. The exploration continues with the production of @Dream.
Ku is concurrently a senior member of the dance faculty of the Taipei National University..i., the Arts (TNUA).
DAVID MURRAY- Lighting Designer
David studied at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He worked as musician, stage manager, production manager, technical director, set &
lighting designer, production electrician, theatre and lighting consultant, working more than 200 productions, many touring internationally.
His lighting designs include The Magic Flute, Don Carlos, Cosi fan tutte, Carmen, The Snow Queen, Love in the Age of Therapy (Green Room Award) for Victoria State Opera & Opera Australia, Madama Butterfly
& Cinderella for Singapore Dance Theatre, Improvement Don Leaves Linda, The Burrow, Fall of the House of Usher, Greek, Wide Sargasso Sea, Gauguin- a synthetic opera, Motherland (Green Room Award), Eight Songs For a Mad King & Slow Love for Chamber Made Opera, Man the Balloon, Betrayal, Bombshells, The Chairs, Laughter
on the 23rd Floor, Honour, Humble Boy & Take Me Out for Melbourne Theatre Company, Theme & Variations for the Australian Ballet, The Red Shoes for the Australian Ballet School and Singapore Dance Theatre, Barbara Cook in Concert & her Better with a Band, Nigel Triffitt's Moby Dick, Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, Dudley Moore, Michael Feinstein, The River Spectacular, Follies in Concert for Melbourne International Festival, Still Angela (Green Room Award), Tear from a Glass Eye, Language of the Gods (Green Room Award) &
Extremities for Playbox, The Wizard of OZ, Hair, Red Hot and Rhonda, Hot Shoe Shuffle, Into the Woods, The New Rocky Horror Show, Dancin' Dynamite, Seesaw (FEIP Award for
Set & Lighting Design) and Circus Oz.
Green Room and Helpmann Award nominations include Tap Dogs (Sydney Theatre Company), Life After George (Melbourne Theatre Company) and John's Book of Alleged Dances (AB). David designed the site lighting for Expo 88 and was awarded Entech's Stage
~ Concert Lighting Designer for The Puccini Spectacular.
ROSA HIRAKA TA - Costume Designer
Trained as a fashion designer, Rosa has been involved with theatre since 1995 freelancing as a costume designer and maker. In 1996, she was awarded a professional development grant from Arts Queensland. She has worked with Queensland Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite, Zen Zen Zo, Rock 'n' Roll Circus and Brisbane's Major Festivals.
A familiar face at QUT, Rosa has been wardrobe supervisor for drama and dance since 1997. Her recent costume design credits include Dance Bytes 2003 and Riverfestival 2003's West Side Story.
Dance Graduation 2005
Tues 8- Sat 12 November 2005 at 7.30pm, Sat 12 November at 1pm Adults $151 Concession $10
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Students $10I
School groups $10must for dance lovers, the program features almost 70 vibrant performers with a new work Frances Rings of Bangarra Dance Theatre's, named Outstanding Female Choreographer or 2004 at the Australian Dance Awards.
In keeping with Creative Industries Dance's international profile, acclaimed emerging Chinese Choreographer Xing Liang, joins us from Hong Kong as one of the region's hottest new artists. Sydney's funky jazz and tap choreographer Keith Hawley will also bring his flair and rhythm to this high-powered season.
Performed by QUT Creative Industries Dance students
Bookings 07 3864 4455
The cast and crew wish to thank the following organisations and individuals for their ongoing support ...
LIGHTING FOR ENTERTAINMENT
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Council For Cultural Affairs Executive Yuan
John & Helena Chen and William Ko of Winchester M-Pty Ltd for their generous support of the Taiwan-OUT dance exchange.
iii 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.auPATRONS 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.
