EssEntially DancE 08

Gardens Theatre 2 George Street

BRISBANE QLD Australia 4059

Ph. (07) 3138 4455 or gardenstheatre@qut.com www.gardenstheatre.qut.com

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

EssEntially DancE 08

17 to 21 June 2008

FOREWARD

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Essentially Dance 2008. This year, we have for the first time welcomed our education students to a showcase season of dance work alongside our performance students. Our new Bachelor of Fine Arts course structure has an increased performance focus for our education students and all 62 of our first year students have joined with our second year performance students and spent this semester meeting the challenges offered to them by guest choreographer Keith Hawley. Keith is no stranger to QUT Dance and is himself completing a Master of Fine Arts at QUT with this colourful and vibrant work, Bitter Suite.

Csaba Buday and I have had the pleasure of working with our final year performance students, offering them fresh opportunities for artistic growth in both the creation and performance of our contemporary works. These third year students will be travelling to China to perform this programme in the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival at the end of July.

We hope you enjoy the talent and enthusiasm of our many young students in this evening of new dance works and thank you for encouraging their development through your ongoing support.

Shaaron Boughen

Discipline Leader, Dance

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Director Prof. Peter Lavery Operations Manager Jill Standfield Marketing Officer Alison Martin Theatre Technician Chris Dickey Workshop Supervisor Brendan Wright

Wardrobe Supervisor Rosa Hirakata Administration Officer Monica Cairns Ticketing Assistants Marie Cunningham

Michaela Banks

ESSENTIALLY DANCE 08 WAS PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY

QUT PRECINCTS

Technical Production Coordinator George Meijer Lecturer – Stage Management Sam Ould

QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF

1st year Performance Alexander Bryce Jade Coutts Andrea Dighton Joel Fenton Lachlan Geraghty Lucy Ingham Kimberly Jarvis Pia Moore Catherine Ryan Amelia Stein Emmy Steiner Hannah Taylor Rebecca Waterhouse

2nd year Performance Gabriel Comerford Alenka Csomor Gemma Dawkins Jake Deegan Rhiannon Farlow Gemma Hansen Abby Johnson Caitlin MacKenzie Stephanie Myland Kathryn Neumann Sheriden Newman Jane O’Loughlin Hannah Peake Sheree Saye Marika Steward Hannah Timbrell Kieran Windsor

3rd year Performance 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

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE)

1st Year

Anja Ali-Haapala Sara Andrew

Alice Betts

Olivia Chavarri –Aparicio Camille Chesterton Zoe Clarke Alexander Day Samantha Drury Ashlee Evans Dannielle Gates Felicity Gollan Paula Guild Caitlin Johnson

Kaitlyn Kavney Emily Kite Jessica Lawrance Alisha Matthews Kellie McNamara Sarah Purnell Chloe Richards Lucy Rush Sophia Simpson Lauren Smith Jasmine Stefanovic Abby Swanborough Amber Wasson

Brooke Wendt Tracey Wilks Bonny Yarrington

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE) SECONDARY TEACHING

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.

ROSE HIRAKATA – Costume Designer

A familiar face at QUT, Rosa has long been involved with QUT Drama and Dance productions. Rosa called Australia home in 1990, bringing with her the tapestry of memories and stories of her Peruvian and Japanese cultural heritage. It was in Australia that she trained as a fashion designer, and, later on, to be a costume designer and maker. Rosa has been involved with theatre since 1995. In 1996, she was awarded a professional development grant form Arts Queensland. She has worked with Queensland Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Zen Zen Zo, Rock’n’Roll Circus and some of Brisbane’s major festivals.

Amongst her design credits are: Leyenda, Lives and Loves, Dance Bytes 2003, 2003 River festival’s West Side Story, Harold Collin’s Sheltering Sky for Dance Bytes 2005 and Essentially Dance 2007.

DANCE 08: Dance Graduation

4 to 9 November, 7.30pm Matinee Sat 9 Nov, 1pm

Experience an explosion of energy and skill with original dance works by choreographers on the cutting edge of modern ballet and contemporary dance.

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Tickets $10–$18 | GardensTix 07 3138 4455 www.gardenstheatre.qut.com

KEITH HAWLEY — Choreographer

Keith began dancing at the age of 8 in Brisbane and turned professional at the age of 18. Winning numerous awards in both tap and jazz, it was a natural progression for Keith to be working in musical theatre throughout Australia and around the world, appearing in musicals such as West Side Story, Sugar Babies, La Cage aux Folles, The Mikado, Easter Parade and many more.

Keith collaborated with Jackie Love internationally and began choreographing cabaret shows both in Australia and around the world. Keith choreographed Kelley Abbey in Sweet Charity, Tom Burlinson’s Frank The Sinatra Story In Song and Simon Gallaher’s The Mikado to name a few. Keith worked with some of the biggest names within the industry such as Kylie Minogue, Tommy Tune, Arthur Lawrence, Marcia Hinds, Gary McDonald, Keith Michelle, George Miller, Hugh Jackman, Tina Arena, Sandy Duncan, Rhonda Burchmore, Eddie Bracken and Diana Ross.

Keith’s success grew into both design (having his own label ‘Keith Kalm’) and direction, which has now taken him to teaching throughout the world lecturing in musical theatre, creative industries and choreography. Keith directed and choreographed for many leading international corporate events such as IMG, BMW, SAMSUNG, AMWAY, IBM, FERRARI, QANTAS, CATHY PACIFIC, AUSTRALIAN FASHION WEEK, AVON, MAGIC MILLIONS, CHRISTINA FITZGERALD NAILS, MONT BLANC, RBS, HBC and LOUIS VUITTON.

Keith is also an accomplished photographer and has photographed for The Lion King, numerous dance magazines, record companies, various international agencies for headshots/portfolio work and point of sale work.

Having experienced a varied ensemble of mediums in entertainment and creativity, Keith’s natural progression and success continues to grow. Within 3 months of working with the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts as the Artist in Residence (Dance), Keith won the Hong Kong Dance Alliance Award 2006 for best choreography. Keith has since become one of the most sought after dance teachers, choreographers and event directors in Asia. After Choreographing Diana Ross for the opening of the new Venetian Casino in Macau, Keith has recently been asked to undertake the roll of Dance Coordinator for the Venetian Casino Macau looking after all events and productions within the casino and affiliated operations owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corp.

DANCE STAFF 2008, SEMESTER 1

Full-time

Shaaron Boughen Discipline Leader, Lecturer in Choreography, Performance Studies Csaba Buday Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Choreography, Duo

Susan Caulfield-Leclercq Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet and Pointe Avril Huddy Lecturer in Contemporary Technique, Alignment

Evan Jones Lecturer in Ballet, Reflective Practice

Rachel Mathews Study Area Co-ord, Lecturer in Dance Theory, Musical Theatre and World Dance Kim Stevens Dance in Education

A/Prof. Cheryl Stock Post-graduate research studies

Sessional

Lizzie Chittleborough-Vilmanis Ballet Technique Harold Collins Pas de deux

Fiona Cullen Contemporary Technique, Dale Johnston Ballet Technique Dianna Laska-Moore World Dance Les Livesey Pas de deux

Vanessa Mafe-Keane Ballet Technique Nicole Galea Tutor

Justin Rutzou Ballet Technique, Contemporary Technique Kym Stokes Ballet Technique, Pas de deux

Zaimon Vilmanis Duo

PASS Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Amy Sheldon Massage Therapist

Jan Smith Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer Dr. Gene Moyle Sports and Dance Psychologist

Accompanists

Brian Adamson, Lovinia Dickens, Steve Francis, Brett Fowler, Christian Gante, David Muller and Leanne Warner

prestigious Suzanne Dellal International Dance Festival in Tel Aviv, Israel. 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, QUT, as Lecturer in Contemporary Dance in July 2003 and in April 2007 was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts (Research).

KEITH HAWLEY — Choreographer

CSABA BUDAY — Choreographer Dip, ABS, MA (Research), QUT

A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Csaba has had an extensive career as a performer, choreographer and teacher spanning over 24 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). During this period Csaba toured extensively throughout Australia, South East Asia and Europe, performing at major International Arts Festivals, as well as undertaking video clip and motion picture engagements.

Csaba’s vast experience and knowledge of Contemporary Dance has led to invitations to teach for numerous professional dance companies including: Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Dance North Australia, Expressions Dance Company, Leigh Warren and Dancers, Queensland Ballet, City Contemporary Dance Co (Hong Kong), Cloud Gate Dance Theatre 1 and 2 (Taiwan), Modern Dance Company of Beijing (China) and Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre (Vietnam).

Csaba has choreographed a total of 34 major works that have been presented throughout Australia as well as in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Macau, Vietnam, Israel, Scotland, Belgium, Austria and at the Danses de Mai Festival, Paris. He was the sole choreographer chosen to represent Australia at the

PRODUCTION TEAM

Dance Production Coordinator Sue Caulfield–Leclercq QUT Precincts Production Coordinator Mark Middleton Lighting Designer Jason Organ

Costume Designer / Supervisor Rosa Hirakata

Costume Construction Vicky Martin and Isabelle Lacombe

Stage Manager Lisa Eddy*

Deputy Stage Manager James Merryman*

Assistant Stage Manager (Props) Hamish Absolon*

Assistant Stage Manager (Costume) Kelly Hollett*

Head Electrician Rac Lau*

Lighting Operator Annie Cavanagh*

Floor Electrician Brian Chow*

Sound Coordinator Ryan Marks*

Sound Operator Vince Scuderi*

Sound Assistant Nicholas Toll*

AV / Projection Coordinator Scott Barton*

AV / Projection Assistant Brittany Whiting*

Flys Michael Gill*

Bump In / Out Crew*

Jason Boshler, Kristen Emery, Atalanta Kellaway

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

SHAARON BOUGHEN — Choreographer MA Uni of Kent, BA(Hons) Laban Centre, UK

Shaaron is Discipline Leader for Dance and supervises Postgraduate Studies in Dance. She has worked as a performer and teacher in the UK and Australia and has an extensive practice as a choreographer (over 30 works), curator and costume designer. Shaaron taught contemporary dance techniques for many years and is still involved in choreographing and teaching choreography, alignment for dancers, and collaborative forms of practice across all the disciplines in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. Shaaron’s recent choreographic practice has diversified into collaborative practices with architecture, music, fashion and digital media forms.

Shaaron is the Queensland Dance reviewer for The Australian and has published in Realtime, Innovation In Australian Arts Media And Design and Currency Companion To Music And Dance In Australia. She has facilitated many post-performance discussions with leading international and national choreographers and is on The Australian Dance Awards Panel which was created in 1997 to acknowledge and honour excellence in the professional dance sector in Australia. In July this year, Shaaron will be leading a workshop session – Dance Demystified at the Noosa Longweekend Festival and presenting a paper on Tertiary Dance Training at the World Dance Alliance Conference in Brisbane.

* Indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student

PROGRAM

Bitter Suite

Choreography Keith Hawley

Rehearsal Assistants Sue Leclercq, Avril Huddy, Fiona Cullen Costume Design Rosa Hirakata

Visuals Keith Hawley Music

Change, Vinnie Jones (introducing Joss Stone) Ta Douleur, Camille

The Classic, Drum Battle, Drum Line (Drumline Soundtrack) Daydream, Massivan (Buddha Bar 9 CD2)

Benny Rides Again, Benny Good Man (Big Band Remixed & Reinvented) Rightness, Jill Scott (The Real Thing – Words & Songs, Vol.3)

Stop 4 Love, Basement Jaxx (Remedy)

Woodchopper’s Ball, Tito Puente & Woody Herman (Big Band Remixed & Reinvented) Hit The Note, Jimmy Dorsey (Big Band Remixed & Reinvented)

Flight Ba0247, Mystic Diversions (Buddha Bar 9 CD1)

Strike Up The Band & Mambo Herd 1 & 2, Red Nichols & Woody Herman (Big Band Remixed &

Reinvented)

Minor Swing, Django Reinhardt (Big Band Remixed & Reinvented) Dancers 1st Year BFA (Dance) Performance

1st Year BFA (Dance – Secondary Teaching) 2nd Year BFA (Dance) Performance Duration 50 minutes

This piece has been based on my MFA studies both here at QUT and at HKAPA. During the process my mind, spirit and emotions have roller coasted from great highs to deep questioning lows. All in all I wanted to make this work a reflection of my journey, pushing personal boundaries and experimenting with my chosen genre of dance, Jazz.

I have discovered that Jazz, as an art form, has so many more levels than I had ever imagined.

Its sensitivity to musical, its direct approach to expression and overall its value as a tool for entertainment.

It has been argued that Jazz can be empty of technique, meaning and just be movement for movement’s sake, but I choose to disagree. Jazz is a diverse bag of elements subconsciously collaborating on various levels. If you take a deep look into the work you will find a unique form of expression that is sometimes overlooked because of its ‘entertainment’ value. Its use of stage and space, pattern, accent, unison, light and shade all culminate in a structured ensemble of a distinctive movement style.

It has been an absolute pleasure working on this piece with the QUT students. Ironically the words from the introductory piece and finale voice over comment on something that I felt reflected both the students and myself within the work… “You’ve got to have the balls to change”.

Interval – 20 minutes

skinning memory

Choreography Shaaron Boughen Costume Design Shaaron Boughen Music Zane Trow and Philip Glass

Dancers 3rd Year BFA (Dance) Performance D’Arcy Andrews

Francis Christeller Jenna Drelincourt Adrienne O’Leary Liz Whelan Miranda Zeller Liesel Zink

Duration 20 minutes

This work is part of an ongoing exploration into the way music, design and choreography can work together in an artistic way, each contributing something that the other can not. skinning memory has been choreographed by adapting, modifying and re-placing elements taken from the installation the space between memory and skin (2005), a collaboration beween musician and video artist Christine McCombe, interior designer and architect Dianne Smith and costume designer and choreographer Shaaron Boughen. The dancers, with their qualitative and technical strengths make a unique contribution to this piece of floating memories, which challenges the audience/performer relationship, asking who is viewing whom, when and where?

D

eaDly

B

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Choreography Csaba Buday in collaboration with the dancers Costume Design Rosa Hirakata

Music Space Manoeuvres, Matthew Thomas, David Hirschfelder and Speedy J Digital Video Imagery Csaba Buday and Scott Barton

Cast 3rd Year BFA (Dance) Performance Redback Spider Sim-wei Low

Scorpion Sean McColgan The Fly Jason Wood Praying Mantis Sarah Potter Praying Mantis Anthony Trojman European Wasp Natalie Phillips Japanese Hornet Hsiang-ju Lin Duration 20 minutes

DeaDly Beautiful takes its inspiration from two sources: firstly from my love of original 60’s TV spy episodes such as The Avengers and Mission Impossible and secondly, from my fascination with beautiful yet deadly insects. The characteristics of these insects and how they weave/set out their traps for potential victims can also be found in the behaviour of certain human beings carrying out their day to day lives. It is these traits that have informed the work itself, including the persona of the dancers.

I would like to dedicate this work to my friend Tanja Liedtke who recently passed away under tragic circumstances.

Pause – 5 minutes