Stitch
Sarah-Jayne Howard Study 154
Justin Rutzou Fallen Angels II Harold Collins MBE remember to breathe
Natalie Weir
Dance 08
Gardens Theatre 2 George Street
BRISBANE QLD Australia 4000
Ph. (07) 3138 4455 or [email protected] 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.
Dance Graduation
Director Professor Peter Lavery Operations Manager Jill Standfield Marketing Officer Alison Martin Events Officer Liz Thomas
Administration Officer Monica Cairns Production Coordinator Mark Middleton Workshop Supervisor Brendan Wright Senior Theatre Technician Chris Dickey
Ticketing Assistants Marie Cunningham, Michaela Banks
DANCE 08 WAS PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY QUT PRECINCTS
DANCE STAFF 2008, SEMESTER 2
Full-time
Shaaron Boughen Discipline Leader, Lecturer in Choreography, Performance Studies Csaba Buday Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Choreography
Susan Caulfield-Leclercq Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet Avril Huddy Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Alignment
Evan Jones Lecturer in Ballet
Rachel Mathews Study Area Coordinator, Lecturer in Dance Theory Kym Stevens Lecturer in Primary Education
A/Prof. Cheryl Stock Post-graduate Studies
Sessional
Kristen Bell Secondary Education John Clarke Jazz, Tap
Harold Collins Ballet Technique Fiona Cullen Contemporary Technique Les Livesey Pas de deux
Nicole Galea Tutor
Gene Moyle Dance Psychology Luis Pinto Funk
Justin Rutzou Contemporary Technique Skye Sewell Choreography
David Sheather Funk, Tap Kym Stokes Pas de deux
Zamion Vilmanis Contemporary Technique Samantha Williams Jazz
Dance Administration John Connaghan Aisha Dixon
PASS Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Amy Sheldon Massage Therapist
Jan Smith Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer
Accompanists
Brian Adamson, Lovinia Dickens, Steve Francis, Brett Fowler, Christian Gante, David Muller FOREWORD
Welcome to Dance Grad 08, our final showcase program for this year. Our students have had a busy semester working with our four guest choreographers and look forward to sharing their work with you.
Our first years have experienced the wisdom and skill gained from Harold Collin’s long and prestigious career as choreographer and former Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet. His work, Fallen Angels ll harks back to an earlier work created for QUT and develops it for this new group of eager, young students.
Justin Rutzou is a welcome addition to our teaching team this year and has challenged our second years with their first contemporary work for performance at QUT. Relishing this experience, they have made good use of Justin’s impressive track record as a performer, teacher and rehearsal director.
Equally impressive are the skills that Sarah-Jayne Howard brings to her new work for our graduating students. Sarah-Jayne’s work calls on both acting and dance skills and these student’s endless thirst for new learning experiences has pushed their capabilities into new territory.
We have further tested these students with a second work for their Grad season by our own Natalie Weir. I call her ‘our own’ as she is both a graduate of our institution, an Australian choreographer who has gained an international and national reputation from consistently producing quality work and is now the new Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company. We heartily congratulate Natalie on her new position – it is well-deserved and we look forward to a productive relationship with both Natalie and the company.
But back to tonight. I hope you enjoy these dance works and thank you for encouraging our student’s development through your ongoing support.
Shaaron Boughen Discipline Leader, Dance Creative Industries Faculty
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE) PERFORMANCE
1st Year Alexander Bryce Andrea Dighton Joel Fenton Lachlan Geraghty Lucy Ingham Pia Moore Catherine Mullins Cecilia Petursson Catherine Ryan Amelia Stein Emmy Steiner Hannah Taylor Rebecca Waterhouse
2nd Year Sophie Burgess Gabriel Comerford Gemma Dawkins Jake Deegan Rhiannon Farlow Gemma Hansen Abby Johnson Caitlin MacKenzie Kathryn Neumann Sheridan Newman Jane O’Loughlin Hannah Peake Sheree Saye Marika Steward Hannah Timbrell
3rd Year D’Arcy Andrews Francis Christeller Ian Colless Jenna Drelincourt Sim-Wei Low Hsiang-Ju Lin Sean McColgan Adrienne O’Leary Natalie Phillips Sarah Potter Anthony Trojman Elizabeth Whelan Jason Wood Miranda Zeller Liesel Zink PRODUCTION TEAM
Dance Production Coordinator Susan Caulfield-Leclercq QUT Precincts Production Coordinator Mark Middleton Lighting Designer Jason Organ
Costume Designer Shaaron Boughen
Costume Makers Bianca Bulley, Hannah Gartside, Carla Binotto Stage Manager Kelly Spice*
Deputy Stage Manager (3rd year Pieces) Annabel-Lee Nichols* Deputy Stage Manager (1st & 2nd year Pieces) Vince Scuderi* Sound Coordinator Lewis Carney*
Head Electrician Lisa Eddy* Floor Electrician Shane Green* Lighting Operator Matthew Strachan* Flys Sarah Kennedy*
Crew Guy Gimpel*
* Indicates Creative Industries Technical Production student
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF Technical Production Coordinator George Meijer
Lecturer – Stage Management Sam Ould Administration Officer Miranda Rasmussen
JASON ORGAN – Lighting Designer AssocDipAT, BCAE
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, 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.
NATALIE WEIR – Choreographer
Natalie Weir has been choreographing professionally for more than 20 years, creating over 150 works. She trained at the Ann Roberts School of Dance in Townsville and completed an Associate Diploma in Performing Arts at QUT in Brisbane. She was a founding member of Expressions Dance Company and was offered her first choreographic commission by the company at the age of 18 and has since created at least eight works for the Company.
Natalie has worked extensively throughout Australia, creating works for most of the country’s major classical and contemporary dance companies including; the Australian Ballet, West Australian Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Dancenorth and Tasdance.
Natalie was appointed Choreographer in Residence for the Queensland Ballet in 1994 and the Australian Ballet in 2000. During that time she created seven works for the Queensland Ballet and three works for the Australian Ballet.
Natalie choreographed two works for the American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company after which the American Ballet Theatre in New York performed Jabula. Natalie created a solo for the American Ballet Theatre star Ethan Steiffel. He later performed the work at the International Ballet Festival Marijinsky at the Kirov in St Petersburg (Russia). Whilst in America Natalie was one of four choreographers involved in the Harrison Project Within You, Without You, a tribute to George Harrison.
Natalie received the Choo San Goh Award for Steppenwolfe, created for the Houston Ballet in America. Natalie has also been the recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship towards her development as an Artistic Director. She also received the Lord Mayor’s Fellowship that enabled her to travel overseas and study with Rambert Dance Company, Nederlands Dance Company, and Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
In April 2003, she created Harmonium for the American Ballet Theatre and a full-length version of Turandot for the Hong Kong Ballet, which won at the 2004 Hong Kong Dance Awards, and a new creation of Madama Butterfly.
Natalie created Icarus for Tanzcompagnie Giessen (Germany), toured Germany with The Unwritten (Queensland Ballet), and she traveled to London to set Jabula and The Unwritten at the Royal Ballet School for Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. She has also created a version of Wuthering Heights and Petrushka for the Queensland Ballet, In Her Footsteps for Tasdance, Lacrimosa for the West Australian Ballet Company, and has created Orpheus for the Queensland Ballet Company.
Natalie has just been appointed Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company and will take up this appointment in January 2009.
D’Arcy Andrews Francis Christeller Ian Colless
Jenna Drelincourt Hsiang-Ju Lin
Sean McColgan Adrienne O’Leary Natalie Phillips
Sim-Wei Low
SARAH-JAYNE HOWARD – Choreographer
Since graduating with Honours from the New Zealand School of Dance in 1995 Sarah- Jayne has created and performed roles with leading choreographers and companies in both Australia and New Zealand, touring throughout Europe, Asia, Canada and the US. She has worked with Meryl Tankard (Australian Dance Theatre), Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Garry Stewart (ADT), Kate Champion (Force Majeure), Douglas Wright, Michael Parmenter and Gavin Webber (dancenorth).
While at Meryl Tankards ADT Sarah-Jayne choreographed two solo works Tonight and Veroniqe. In 2004 she was the choreographer for Company B’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Benedict Andrews. Most recently as part of Splintergroup, Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood, and Sarah-Jayne have created a new dance theatre work roadkill. The work was performed in London, Brisbane and Townsville and was presented at APAM 2008. roadkill was named in the Dance Australia’s Critics Survey Award as Best New Work, Most Interesting Australian Artists and Highlight of the Year. At the 2008 Helpman awards roadkill was nominated for Best New Work, Best Male Dance (Gavin Webber) and Best Female Dancer (Sarah-Jayne).
Sarah-Jayne has an ongoing relationship with Gavin Webber at Dancnorth, performing as a guest dancer with the company and most recently as assistant choreographer for the new work Remember me. In 2002 she was selected as one of three finalists chosen worldwide for the inaugural Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and was the recipient of the 2007 Laureate Award, New Zealand’s most prestigious arts award.
HAROLD COLLINS MBE – Choreographer
Harold was one of the original dancers of the Queensland Ballet before joining The National Ballet of New Zealand where he was promoted to principal dancer in 1964.
In 1968 he returned to the Queensland Ballet to dance Albrecht for Garth Welch’s production of Giselle. He then travelled overseas to dance throughout Europe, the United States and Japan working with some of the best companies, teachers and choreographers including Sir Frederick Ashton, Rudi Van Dantzig, Sir Robert Helpman and Sir Kenneth McMillan. During this period, he performed a large number of specially created roles and partnered many famous ballerinas, including Dame Margot Fonteyn and Galina Samsova.
In 1974, Harold returned to Brisbane to become principal dancer with the Queensland Ballet. He was appointed the company’s artistic director in 1978 and remained in this position for 19 years. In 1989 Harold was awarded an MBE for his services to dance and the community. Harold was the first Australian invited to create a full evening of work in Europe and that work, Salome for the Finnish National Ballet, went on to do 32 sold out performances.
Since leaving the Queensland Ballet, Harold has continued to work as a freelance artist and accepted a commission for a new work from The Houston Ballet II, USA. Harold has created three new works for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and has been choreographer in residence at Taiwan National University of the Arts for the past five years.
JUSTIN RUTZOU – Choreographer
As a graduate of the Australian Ballet School and the Victorian College of the Arts Justin has had an extensive and diverse performance career with companies including The Sydney Dance Company, Leigh Warren and Dancers, Queensland Ballet Company, Expressions Dance Company and numerous independent and commercial projects.
As an educator he has taught nationally and internationally and was engaged as a full time member of the dance faculty at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts from 2001-2005, Artistic Director of the LINK Dance Company from 2004-2005 and Artistic Director Associate of Expressions Dance Company 2006-2007. He is currently a sessional lecturer for QUT Dance.
Sarah Jane Potter Anthony Trojman Elizabeth Whelan
Jason Wood Miranda Zeller Liesel Zink
2008 Guangzhou Modern Dance Festival China Tour
Study 154
Choreographer Justin Rutzou Cast 2nd year Dancers
Costume Designer Shaaron Boughen Music 100th Window, Massive Attack
I would like to thank the students for their commitment and contribution of original content to the making of this work. Thank you also to Shaaron Boughen for her beautiful costume designs, Sue Leclercq for all that she does to keep the machine moving and the wonderful staff of QUT Csaba, Avril, Evan, Rachael and the ever-helpful Sandy.
remember to breathe Choreographer Natalie Weir
Rehearsal Assistants Sue Leclercq, Csaba Buday Cast 3rd year Dancers
Duo Liesel Zink & Francis Christeller, Adrienne O’Leary & Anthony Trojman Solo Anthony Trojman, Miranda Zeller
Pas de deux Miranda Zeller & D’Arcy Andrews, Liesel Zink & Francis Christeller Costume Designer Shaaron Boughen
Music Gladiator by Hans Zimmerman, Memoirs of a Geisha by John Williams
Last year I created a duet for QUT Dance 07 graduation season, entre deux. This new work is an extension of that duet; re exploring the sentiment behind the original work.
Why do some past relationships linger in our memory, why are others passionate yet destructive, why do we hurt those we love the most?
In our search for love in life, there are times we feel isolated, disconnected and misunderstood. Why is being alone sometimes just not an option?
My thanks to the 3rd year graduating students of QUT for their input and enthusiasm
Fallen Angels II
Choreographer Harold Collins Rehearsal Assistant Evan Jones Cast 1st year Dancers
Costume Designer Shaaron Boughen Music Michael Nyman, Alana D
It would be good to report that this work was deep, meaningful, life changing and plunders the depths of human emotions – but it is none of that. What else could it be about, I hear you ask? What about that old perennial favourite relationship? No, its not that either. It’s just about dancers, their space and the joy of movement. We all just hope that our reason for being with you is enough.
Stitch
Choreographer Sarah-Jayne Howard Cast 3rd year Dancers
Costume Designer Shaaron Boughen Digital Composer Matt Cornell A social event exploded
fragments hit the canvas running the trajectory of a kiss unfurls the stains of desire
the unsteady furniture of dreams the stitch in the skin
Thank you to the dancers for their hard work, creativity and honesty, and the fantastic team at QUT.
A special thank you to Matt for his assistance in the rehearsal process and for his rockin sound design.
Thank you to my partner Nathan Page and to my colleagues and friends Gavin Webber, Michelle Ryan and Kyle Page.
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