essentially
dance ‘19
program
ISO
Choreographed by Jake Mclarnon
Featuring QUT BFA (Dance Performance) 3rd year students KAIREKAI கைரேகை
Choreographed by Csaba Buday in collaboration with the dancers Featuring QUT BFA (Dance Performance) 2nd year students
Interval ÈTUDES
Choreographed by Graeme Collins
Featuring QUT BFA (Dance Performance) 1st year students A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Choreographed by Richard Causer
Featuring QUT BFA (Dance Performance) 3rd year students
welcome.
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Dr Mark Radvan
Discipline Leader – School of Creative Practice QUT Creative Industres Faculty
dance staff.
Dance Team
DR MARK RADVAN (Discipline Leader)
CSABA BUDAY (Lecturer in Contemporary Dance / Resident Choreographer)
AVRIL HUDDY (Study Area Coordinator / Lecturer in Contemporary Dance / Lecturer in Anatomy
& Conditioning)
DR STEPHANIE HUTCHISON (Lecturer in Dance) VANESSA MAFE-KEANE (Associate Lecturer in Dance)
DR RACHEL MATHEWS (Lecturer in Latin Dance / Lecturer in Dance Theory / Production Coordinator – Dance)
ELISE MAY (Associate Lecturer in Dance) ELIZABETH OLD (Lecturer in Dance) Sessional Staff
TOBIAH BOOTH-REMMERS (Guest Artist) JAYDEN GROGAN (Contemporary Partnering) SUSAN HOGARD (Pointework)
SUSAN MASSA (Ballet Technique) ANDREA MORRIS-CAMPBELL (Music)
PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE (Performance Psychology) LUIS PINTO (Hip Hop)
NATHAN SCICILUNA (Fitness) JOSEPH SIMONS (Jazz) ANNE WILBY (Pilates)
SHANE WUERTHNER (Fitness) Dance Health Team
JAN GILDEA (Physiotherapist)
JACK HUDSON-WILLIAMS (Provisional Psychologist - UQ Placement) Accompanists
BRIAN ADAMSON (Piano) BRETT FOWLER (Piano) STEVE FRANCIS (Percussion) CATHERINE YU (Piano)
School of Creative Practice Administration Team KAREN COMER (School Coordinator)
KATE HANNAN (Executive Support Officer to Head of School of Creative Practice)
second year students.
Savannah BARNES Emily BARTLETT Maddison CAMPBELL Tahlia CRAIG Lachlan DOHERTY
Rebecca GILL Jodie HAMMERMEISTER Samantha HARDING Kirrah JOBST Alexia JOHANSEN
Bronte MERRICK Isabella PALMER Sophie ROBERTS Rebecca SCHMIDT Asher SIMKINS
Christiana STEWART Eliza TURTON
first year students.
Kaitlyn VAN DER GRAAF Grace WHITE Chelsea PEARCE-GRIMSHAW
Maalfrid SOENDENAA Hannah BADEN-CLAY Mercedes WOODROW
Kai TABERNER Kate UTTING Anastasia VOGELSANG Emma WALTON (not pictured) Ella HARRIS-LAVER
Saska SCOON Hannah COOK
Madison FARRELL Hannah GROOM Grace CAMPBELL
Ella VILLANOVA-KAIGHIN Emily CHRISTIE
Gia BECKER
Sophie MERTENS Kaitlin BELL Krystal WOOLASTON
third year students.
Savannah BARNES Alivia BOYCE
Maddison CAMPBELL
Georgia BRADFORD Chloe CARTWRIGHT
Alexandra DEWAR Sarah EDWARDS Brock FIEDLER
Rebecca JORGENSEN Tiara LOCKE Erin O’ROURKE
production team.
RACHEL MATHEWS (Production Coordinator – Dance THOMAS EDMISTON (Production Manager – QUT Precincts) GLENN HUGHES (Lighting Designer)
EMMA HEALY* (Production Stage Manager) PERSIA LITTLEWOOD* (Deputy Stage Manager) RYAN SWEET* (Head Electrician)
SAMUEL SEAGROTT* (Lighting Operator) PATRICK CHUN WO LOU* (Floor Electrician) MICHELLE HAIR* (Head of Sound)
LINA/JU TING HSU* (Sound Operator / Archive) ISAAC STEVENSON* (Head of Vision / Archive) TESSA MARINELLI-CLARKE* (Head of Set) KERRY COOPER (Costume Maker)
KATE EVANS (Costume Maintenance)
*Indicates Technical Production Student
Technical Production Staff
TONY BRUMPTON (Course Coordinator) CARLY O’NEILL (Lecturer)
TESSA RIXON (Lecturer)
Produced by QUT Precincts for the Creative Industries Faculty JILL STANDFIELD A/Executive Director
ANDREW EARLE Senior Theatre Technician JAMES MILLIS Theatre Technician
THOMAS EDMISTON Production Coordinator ROSA HIRAKATA Wardrobe Supervisor WARRICK PHILLIPS Workshop Supervisor ALISON CLIFFORD Senior Marketing Officer JESSICA BARRON Customer Service Coordinator
MALLORY CHASE / TRACEY MATHERS Front of House Officer
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.
ISO
Choreographer JAKE MCLARNON Rehearsal Director ELIZABETH OLD
Music Iso JARVIS MILLER and TANYA JONES
Dancers BFA (DANCE PERFORMANCE) 3RD YEAR STUDENTS Costume Designer JAKE MCLARNON
Inspired by the artworks of Jasper Hills, Iso looks at the uniform period of movement occurring alone or at the same time as another event. The works explores the depth, textures and relationship of opposing colours in his works. Originally performed by Scott Ewen and Jake Mclarnon in Expressions Dance Company’s Converge.
KAIRĒKAI கைரேகை
Choreographer CSABA BUDAY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS
Music Syvyydessä Kimallus, U-Bahn MIKA VAINIO & Ø, Headphones (Mika Vaninio’s Mix), BJORK
Dancers BFA (DANCE PERFORMANCE) 2ND YEAR STUDENTS Digital Video ISAAC STEVENSON
Costume Designer CSABA BUDAY
The word Kairēkai comes from one of the oldest languages on earth, Tamil, and in English translates to fingerprint; the initial inspiration for this work. Human fingerprints are detailed, nearly unique, difficult to alter, and durable over the life of an individual, making them suitable for long time markers of human identity. It is this idea of markers and human identity which led to the concept of imprinting. In researching this concept, ideas emerged which served as starting points for movement exploration and development. The body became the imprinter; imprinting on self, others, in space and on surfaces.
I chose the colour red for the costumes as a metaphor for zhūshā (a red paste applied to a Chinese chop). The chop is used to imprint a personal seal in lieu of a handwritten signature, therefore leaving a mark of human identity.
I would like to dedicate this work to two seminal figures who passed away this year within the space of four weeks: Dame Margaret Scott (Founder and Director of the Australian Ballet School), and Jonathan Taylor (Director of Australian Dance Theatre). These extraordinary individuals were my teachers and mentors. Their imprinting remained instrumental in my development as a practicing artist.
ÈTUDES
Choreographer GRAEME COLLINS Rehearsal Director ELISE MAY
Music Selected from Ètudes by KARL CZERNY, orchestra arr KUNDAGE RIISAGER. Recording, orchestra of the LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET, Conductor TERRANCE KERN
Dancers BFA (DANCE PERFORMANCE) 1ST YEAR STUDENTS Costume Designer GRAEME COLLINS
Ètude means study in French, and in musical terms an ètude is a short and challenging piece of music usually for piano. Cerzney's ètudes were very popular in the 19th Century as challenging exercises for a pianist in order to develop specific areas of their technique. Ètudes is also a one-act ballet created in 1948 by Danish choreographer Harald Lander for the Royal Danish Ballet. Lander had Czerny's piano studies orchestrated (by Riisager), and created his ballet as a homage to classical ballet training. It began with traditional ballet barre exercises and ended with spectacular bravura displays of virtuosity by both the men and women. I did not want to follow the ballet class structural format of Lander, but still intended to adhere to the intention of Czerny's short challenging musical exercises. My choreographic approach therefore is based on each section (ètude) being an arrangement of short and (hopefully) challenging phrases of dance.
For these wonderful 1ST year students, I have reworked eight of my original 16 sections, and also hoped that they would find it fun as well as challenging to dance. The main focus was on musicality, dynamics and accuracy within the organization of balletic type choreography and lively and fast transitional movements. There are also a few subtle (and not so subtle) references to the Lander ballet that I couldn't resist!
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Choreographer RICHARD CAUSER Rehearsal Director ELIZABETH OLD
Music First Connection CYRILLE BRISSOT, Excavation Pt. 1 THE HAXAN CLOAK, Empty Space Dance BALANESCU QUARTET, Wilder Mann TEHO TEARDO, Sequence 1 HOSHIKO YAMANE, I'll Be Glad When The Sun Goes Down TEHO TEARDO
Dancers BFA (DANCE PERFORMANCE) 3RD YEAR STUDENTS Costume Designers RICHARD CAUSER AND THE DANCERS
A Little Night Music translated in German is Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, which is a painting I adore by surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning. She wrote about her painting and within her explanation she wrote 'life is an ongoing expedition to survive one’s own intense psychology.'
notes.
as Head of Ballet (15 years), and the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan as a visiting Chair Professor (5 years). Graeme has also taught at the Paris Conservatoire, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Chinese Culture University Taipei, Tainan University, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Hong Kong Ballet and City Contemporary Dance Company, Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, State Theatre Ballet and Tshwane University of Technology South Africa, Singapore Dance Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Queensland Ballet and Expressions Dance Company, among others.
RICHARD CAUSER – Choreographer
Richard graduated with a BFA (Dance) at QUT in 2004. In 2006, Richard joined Expressions Dance Company (EDC), touring extensively throughout Australia and internationally to China, Taiwan, South Korea, and USA.
Earning nominations for Most Outstanding Male Dancer for 2011, 2012, 2017 and 2018 Australian Dance Awards and a Helpmann Award in 2011.
Richard moved to London in 2012, working with dance companies and independent artists touring throughout the UK, Europe, South Korea, India and Singapore, before returning to EDC in 2016. His choreographic credits include works for the Malaysian Dance Festival, Aboriginal Centre of Performing Arts, EDC, QUT, Third Row Dance Company (UK), Centre of Advanced Training (UK), Inky Cloak Theatre Company (UK), and Raw Moves Company (Singapore). Richard recently finished an Artist-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and has now taken on role of Rehearsal Director for EDC under the company’s new direction.
GLENN HUGHES – Lighting Designer
In a career spanning over 40 years Glenn has worked as a Lighting Designer for many companies including the Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Theatre Companies, Playbox, Malthouse, Victorian Arts Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Queensland Ballet, Sydney Opera House, Creative Regions, Real TV, QUT, Barking Gecko, Jute, Melbourne and Sydney Festivals, La Boite and Bangarra Dance Theatre. He has toured extensively with Bangarra Dance Theatre throughout Australia and internationally and has taught lighting design at WAAPA, RMIT and QUT. Recent lighting credits include Essentially Dance 2013-18, Dance 2017-18, The Ladies, Sons of the Prophet, Three Winters, Government Inspector, Angels in America, The Man Who Came To Dinner and A Chorus Of Disapproval (QUT), Swan Lake (QB), Tall Man (Real TV/La Mama), and It All Begins With Love (Creative Regions).
artist biographies
JAKE MCLARNON – Choreographer
Born in Perth, Jake completed his training at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Upon graduating, Jake joined Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) for its European tour of Garry Stewart’s Proximity, before joining the ensemble full time. Other ADT highlights include the Australian season of Garry Stewart’s Be Yourself and Birdbrain. He first performed with EDC as a guest artist for the 2016 remount of When Time Stops before returning to ADT to perform Objekt by Garry Stewart. Jake became an EDC company member later in 2016 under the direction of Natalie Weir, performing in signature works such as Behind closed doors, Mozart Airborne and 4seasons. As a choreographer, Jake’s most recent piece Shift was created for the inaugural 2019 EDC Youth Ensemble production Echo. His work Isochronism created for EDC’s Converge (a collaboration with Queensland Conservatorium) was also performed at the 2018 Australian Dance Awards. Jake also created a work for the 2017 Tenerife Festival in collaboration with visual artist Matt Sheridan and TWFine Art.
CSABA BUDAY – Choreographer
A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Csaba has had an impressive career as a performer, choreographer and teacher spanning over 35 years. He has worked with many of Australia’s leading professional dance companies including The Australian Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre, Dance North and Leigh Warren and Dancers, performing numerous works by notable Australian and International choreographers, including the work of world acclaimed dance maker William Forsythe (Forsythe Company and Frankfurt Ballet). During this period Csaba toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia and Europe, performing at major International Arts Festivals, including the Turning World Festival (London). Csaba has choreographed a total of 44 major works, 10 of which were commissioned by Australian Dance Theatre. His works have been presented in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the UK 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 QUT with a Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice and a Master of Arts (Research) and the Australian Ballet School with a Diploma (Dance).
GRAEME COLLINS – Choreographer
Born in Brisbane, Graeme started dancing at age 16. He trained in Brisbane, Melbourne, London and New York, and performed with London Festival Ballet (English National Ballet), Royal Swedish Ballet, Pact Ballet South Africa, Queensland Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet and Hong Kong Ballet.
His teaching career has been mostly in the higher education dance sector, including at QUT (10 years), The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
dance ‘19 29 Oct-2 Nov
GARDENS THEATRE X-block, Gardens Point campus 2 George Street
BRISBANE QLD Australia 4000
(07) 3138 4455 or [email protected] www.gardenstheatre.qut.edu.au
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© 2019 QUT. CRICOS No. 00213J. Produced by QUT Precincts.
Information correct at time of printing, subject to change without notice.
Headphones by Adrian Nicholas Matthew Thaws, (Bjork Gudmundsdottir) Universal/Island Music Ltd.
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