GARDENS THEATRE 2 George Street
BRISBANE QLD Australia 4000
Ph. (07) 3138 4455 or [email protected] www.gardenstheatre.qut.edu.au
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 and the broader dance community.
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
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
Warning: Theatrical smoke and haze Duration: Approx. 1 hour, 20 minute interval
CRICOS No. 00213J © QUT 2015 Produced by QUT Precincts. Information correct at the time of printing.
Images (cover, pg 2, 9 & 10): Fiona Cullen
INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
2 - 6 JUNE 2015
Essentially
WELCOME TO ESSENTIALLY DANCE 2015
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Essentially Dance 2015!
It’s that time of the year again where our Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) students have the opportunity to get a sense of what a career in the performing arts is all about – performing in a professional environment and being able to connect directly with public audiences. Not only do they have the wonderful opportunity to learn and perform repertoire from a diverse range of professional choreographers, they work alongside production and design teams from across the performing arts industry.
Alongside stagecraft skills, production elements, and working cohesively as a collective dance ‘company’ putting on a full performance season, these shows provide another step in their transition towards professional careers. Each year group has been presented with the challenge of adapting to a different dance genre, experiencing varied approaches to choreography, and learning the nuances of creative practice through the difference between new works vs. the restaging of existing ones – all important skills to be successful in the real-world.
We are very grateful for the support and assistance of various disciplines and departments across QUT that assist in putting on this show, including Drama – Technical Production, QUT Precincts and the School of MECA, and a big thank you to all the choreographers, designers, and the QUT Dance Team without whom this performance season could not be mounted.
Finally, we are grateful to you the audience, for your support and encouragement of our students through your patronage of this performance event. The students have again risen to the challenges presented to them and we are very proud of their progress.
We are glad that you too get to share in the reason they are at QUT – because they love to dance!
Associate Professor Gene Moyle ARAD MAPS MCSEP Head of Discipline – Dance
School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts QUT Creative Industries Faculty
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1ST YEAR
Sophie Barendse, Claudia Buckley, Hannah Carden, Gabrielle Carter, Phillipa Chapman, Bridget Clark, Caitlin Dabron, Madeleine De Grandi,
Elizabeth Ferguson, Greta Gilby, Lauren Graham, Jayden Grogan, Rebecca Hale, Rebecca Murray, Amber Nofal, Georgia Pierce, Madeleine Ryan, Olivia Smith, Lachlan Whelan
2ND YEAR
Hio lao Fung, Isla Gibson, Sophia Guido, Chloe Hambleton, Madison Hendry, Isabella Hood, Jaclyn Jones, Julia Lamke, Brianna Law, David McDowall, Laura McNally, Nadia Milford, Grace Nichols, Felix Palmerson, Ellen Pepper, Tiana Pinnell, Lauren Sherlock, Matilda Skelhorn, Elizabeth Talty, Jacob Watton, Olivia Willis
3RD YEAR
Claire Bathgate-Petersen, Cara Betty, Aiden Birney-Kilner, En Rui Foo, Alexandra Frazer, Chloe Lindbeck, Samuel Marcon, Bonnie Ross, Georgia Taylor
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BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE PERFORMANCE)
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PROFESSOR SUSAN STREET AO Executive Director JILL STANDFIELD Operations Manager
JESS HALPIN Senior Marketing Officer TOM EDMISTON Production Coordinator ANDREW EARLE Senior Theatre Technician
ROSS AITKENHEAD Theatre Technician JESSICA WALSH Customer Service Coordinator
HEATHER JAMES Front-of-House Officer
TONY BRUMPTON Technical Production Program Coordinator,
Stage Management Lecturer
BEN HUGHES Technical Production Lecturer GEORGE MEIJER Technical Production Lecturer
TESSA SMALLHORN Technical Production Associate Lecturer
PRODUCED BY QUT PRECINCTS FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE TEAM - SEMESTER 1, 2015
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SESSIONAL
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE
Head of Dance Discipline - Dance CSABA BUDAY
Lecturer in Contemporary, Resident Choreographer, Undergraduate Study Area Coordinator
AVRIL HUDDY
Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Contemporary, Alignment, Conditioning EVAN JONES
Lecturer in Ballet
RACHEL PEDRO
Lecturer in Dance Theory, Latin Dance DR JENNIFER ROCHE
Lecturer in Dance KYM STEVENS
Lecturer in Dance Education
ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHAARON BOUGHEN
Postgraduate Supervisor ADJUNCT PROFESSOR CHERYL STOCK AM Postgraduate Supervisor
SHAARON BOUGHEN Academic Lecturer ASHER BOWEN-SAUNDERS Latin Fitness LOUISE BREHMER Music Theatre Skills HSIN-JU CHIU Guest Artist
CLAUDIO CLIMACO Capoeira
FIONA CULLEN Contemporary Technique DREW DER KINDEREN Guest Artist JASON DUFF Commercial Dance JEANETTE FABILA Guest Artist MIRANDA GLIKSON Guest Artist ANJA ALI HAAPALA Guest Artist DR KATHERINE HANNA Nutrition LUCIA HARKIN Alexander Technique SUSAN HOGARD Ballet Technique
DR SUE JACKSON Mindfulness Meditation DR KATRINA KELLMAN Music
DAVID KIDD Music Theatre Skills WENDY LARAGHY Pointe/Variations MATTHEW LAWRENCE Ballet Technique/
Pas de Deux/Men’s Coaching DONELLA LOFT Fitness
VANESSA MAFE-KEANE Academic Lecturer/Ballet Technique/Pointe ELISE MAY Guest Artist
GRANT MCLAY Guest Artist BINDU RAJENDREN Guest Artist RIANNON MCLEAN Conditioning SOPHIE NORTHAM Conditioning LISA O’NEILL Guest Artist COURTNEY SCHEU Guest Artist ASHA SHAH Guest Artist IQUAIL SHAHEED Guest Artist EDWINA SHAW Yoga
JAN SMITH Academic Lecturer
LUCAS STIBBARD Music Theatre Skills WAIANA TAGATA Guest Artist
FATI TAGATA Guest Artist HEIMANA TAHIATA Guest Artist ZAIMON VILMANIS Contemporary Technique
LEISEL ZINK Guest Artist
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JASMIN LEUNG Composer
Jasmin Leung is an emerging Australian composer who has studied with Erik Griswold, Gerald Brophy (Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University) and Uroš Rojko (Akademija za glasbo v Ljubljani). She has composed music for many different mediums - solos and chamber works through to larger ensembles, as well as soundtracks to award- winning student films, theatre companies, including The Basics Project and Front Row Theatre Company, independent art shows around Brisbane, and now for QUT Dance.
‘A Short History of Life’ being performed to music composed by Jasmine Leung, performed live by the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Matthew Schwarz.
QUEENSLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
The Queensland Philharmonia Orchestra comprises of over fifty-five musicians, many of whom are past or present students of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Performing over twelve concerts a year, the orchestra specializes in late classical and early romantic repertoire and, under the leadership of Chief Conductor Matthew Schwarz, has recently embarked on a cycle of Mahler symphonies. Other engagements for the orchestra include performing at the State of Origin, the World Forum on Music and hosting a sold out John Williams’ Spectacular. For more information on the orchestra, please visit www.qpo.org.au Violin 1: VIVIAN WHEATLEY *, GRACE CHOI
Violin 2: YEAJI KWACK *, ELIN WILLIAMS
Viola: MATTHEW RYAN * SUNNY (YU-CHEN) YEH Cello: ANDY LEASK *, HANNAH HARLEY
Bass: SAMUEL NOCK *
Flute: CORINNE EDGEWORTH * Oboe: AICHLINN HUANG-RYAN * Clarinet: RUBY JOHNSON * Percussion: NATHAN GATENBY * Piano/Conductor: MATTHEW SCHWARZ
*Indicates Principal Musician
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*indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student
PRODUCTION TEAM
AVRIL HUDDY Production Coordinator (Dance)
THOMAS EDMISTON Production Coordinator (QUT Precincts) GLENN HUGHES Lighting Designer BIANCA BULLY Costume Designer KIERAN CERATO* Production Stage Manager
ROSE CARBON* Deputy Stage Manager SHANE KUMAR* Assistant Stage Manager SKYE LILLISS* Head Electrician
COURTNEY MAYHEW* Lighting Operator
MIKAYLA BISHOP* Floor Electrician ERIN HANDFORD* Sound & Vision Operator MEG STEPHENS* Sound & Vision
Coordinator
ISSAC GOESSLING* Sound & Vision Assistant
JOSHUA BRAITHWAITE* Sound & Vision Assistant
JACK ALCOCK* Head of Stagging & Flys ELLA GORDON* Stagging Assistant JACOB FOGARTY* Crew
KEEGAN O’NEIL* Crew DANCE HEALTH TEAM
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE Performance Psychologist TOMAS THAPPER Provisional Psychologist (UQ Placement)
MELANIE FULLER Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist (Pondera)
QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE TEAM — SEMESTER 1, 2015
ACCOMPANISTS BRIAN ADAMSON LOVINIA DICKENS STEVE FRANCIS BRETT FOWLER JOHN REEVES
CI MECA ADMIN TEAM SUE DANCE
AISHA DIXSON JENNY GREDER SANDRA KAMINSKI SAMANTHA KENNY ANNE MCNEILL BETH PINEL STEPHEN STUART
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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
GLENN HUGHES Lighting Designer
Glenn has worked as a Lighting Designer for many companies including the Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Theatre Companies, Playbox, Victorian Arts Centre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Sydney Opera House, RealTV, La Boite, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Queensland Ballet and the Melbourne and Sydney Festivals. After training in Adelaide he travelled to London, working initially in the West End and then four years at the National Theatre of Great Britain, as a lighting technician.He joined the Victorian Arts Centre in 1983 as Head Lighting Technician and subsequently held the positions of Lighting Master (1984-86) and Production Manager (1987-93) He spent a year with Melbourne Theatre Company in 1994 as touring ¬Lighting Designer before joining the Queensland Theatre Company as Production Manager (1995- 97). He has continued to work widely as a freelance Lighting Designer since 1998. Recent lighting credits include: The Man Who Came To Dinner, A Chorus of Disapproval, Essentially Dance 2013/14(QUT) The Carer (Bay St.Productions /MTC) The Glass Menagerie (La Boite) Tall Man, (RealTV/La Mama) Half and Half (Jute) Black Electric, Spirit of the Lore, Stolen (ACPA) Kin (GOMA/Malthouse) Tales of the Underground (Creative Regions).
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.
THE WEEPING ANGEL
Choreography NATALIE WEIR & BENJAMIN CHAPMAN (EDC) Costume Designer BRUCE MCKINVEN
Original Soloists BENJAMIN CHAPMAN (EDC) Music Lament, MATTHEW JOHN HINDSON Cast 3rd Year BFA Dance Performance
En Rui Foo, Aiden Birney-Kilner or Claire Bathgate- Peterson
This solo is part of EDC’s Signature work, The Red Shoes, which premiered in July, 2014 at the Playhouse, QPAC. Inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale and the 1940’s movie, The Weeping Angel is a physical exploration of the presence of the white angel who brings redemption and forgiveness to the heroine. This solo was developed in collaboration with EDC dancer, Benjamin Chapman.
A SHORT HISTORY OF LIFE
Choreography MATTHEW LAWRENCE Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
Music A Short History of Life, JASMINE LEUNG, played live by Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra
Cast 2nd Year BFA Dance Performance
Aptly, perhaps - considering Albert Einstein’s observations on the relativity of time and space - I cover the history of life, within three short musical movements. The original composition, from Jasmin Leung, traces our evolution between Einstein’s Big Bang, to 2003’s latest cosmological hypothesis on the final destination of the universe: the Big Rip. In-between the ‘Bangs’, there lays our primeval origins. Covering organic genesis - developing from single to complex cell structures – evolving to animals, communities, and our hectic present. And what of the future? I predict a sprint to the finish.
A special thanks to Queensland Ballet’s Principal Conductor, Andrew Mogrelia, for providing the project’s impetus. To Jasmin Leung’s inspiring framework, and Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Matthew Schwarz, for colouring the dots.
PROGRAM
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RED LETTER LOST
Choreography RIANNON MCLEAN Costume Designer BIANCA BULLEY
Music There will be blood, JONNY GREENWOOD Cast 1st Year BFA Dance Performance
Living in a society of conformity, personal thought, behaviour and action are no longer considered valuable. If we allowed conscious thought and feeling to dictate our path…if we were singled out….where do we now exist? Thank you to the first year students for your enthusiasm, commitment & unwavering hard work during the making of Red Letter Lost.. It was a great pleasure working with you all.
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THE GIRAFFE IS ON FIRE
Choreography ZAIMON VILMANIS in collaboration with the 3rd years Music The Equestrian Vortex, Collatina, Mark of Damnation,
A Goblin, BROADCAST; Star Dream Girl, DAVID LYNCH; Eraserhead Side A and B, DAVID LYNCH
& ALAN R. SPLET; Made of Metal, GOUPER; Bell Housing, Red Wind, Antimatter.
Cast 3rd Year BFA Dance Performance Let’s walk up and up and up into the clouds, stepping stones to life.
I want to keep going and going until I am far away.
Clouds have no limits, swish blissfully from side to side.
The giraffe is on fire burning, not by the magic but by losing its soul.
I feel blue, blue like the sky that’s falling.
The world has turned blue.
But why blue?
Blue with envy, blue with beauty, blue with bold anger.
Blue is blue.
- Bonnie Ross
This prose was written in response to Salvador Dali’s painting “The Giraffe is Burning”
(1937). The painting depicts Dali’s own struggles with what direction his country, which was in turmoil at the time, would take. Like Dali, in creating this work, we explored the depths of our subconscious through creative tasks, improvisation, written streaming and dream sharing to bring forward our surreal responses to the problems that we encounter on our own doorstep. “The Giraffe is on Fire” in our own moving painting.
Special thanks goes to the 3rd years for their honesty, openness and trust and Liz Vilmanis for her provocation and strengthening of the vision.
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ZAIMON VILMANIS Choreographer
A revered performer, Zaimon’s twenty year international career has included dancing for Random Dance Company and Attik Dance Company (U.K.), EDC (Brisbane), Leigh Warren and Dancers (Adelaide), as well as a number of independent artists in Australia. In 2008, he moved into the independent dance world to discover his own artistic voice. In 2010, as an inaugural recipient of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts’ (JWCoCA) Fresh Ground Residency, he collaborated with performer, Liz Vilmanis, and video artist, Ryadan Jeavons, on the “A Likely Distrust Project”(ALDP). This collaborative investigation into (DIS)trust realised the strength of his partnership with Liz and initiated the formation of Prying Eye Productions. JWCoCA supported Prying Eye to premiere their first full length work,
“White Porcelain Doll” last year. The work has been nominated for “outstanding achievement in independent dance” for the 2015 Australian Dance Awards. Zaimon represented Australia for the International Young Choreographers Project (Taiwan, 2011) and participated in the Annual Slovenia-Croatia-Australia Artists Dance Exchange (2014). In March, Prying Eye were invited to showcase material for their current work “WOLF”, at Dance Massive Open Studios, marking the next step in Zaimon’s development as a creative collaborator.
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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 an Outstanding Alumni Award for QUT Creative Industries in 2009.Natalie was appointed Artistic Director of EDC in January 2009, fulfilling her long-term dream to build an ensemble of dancers and contribute to the future of Australian Dance.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
BENJAMIN CHAPMAN Choreographer
Benjamin Chapman graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Dance from WAAPA in 2011. 2010 saw him perform with West Australian Ballet in Sleeping Beauty, and again in 2011 in The Taming of the Shrew. During his time at WAAPA, Ben worked with Kim McCarthy, Andries Weidemann, Amaury Lebrun, Sue Peacock, Justin Rutzou and Xiaoxiong Zhang.
EDC performances include R&J (Tours 2012, 2013), Don’t (2012), Propel (the next step), Carmen Sweet (Noosa Long Weekend Festival, Singapore Dance Theatre, QPAC), 4Seasons (Singapore Dance Theatre), When Time Stops (2013), SOLO Festival of Dance (2014) and The Red Shoes (2014). Additional credits include Voltage (Tasdance) and Diaphanous (Ochres Dance).
MATTHEW LAWRENCE Choreographer
Matthew Lawrence trained at The Australian Ballet School. He then joined the Australian Ballet, rising to Principal Artist, before joining Birmingham Royal Ballet – as a Principal – in 2008, then Queensland Ballet in 2013. In Matthew’s illustrious 18 year career, he performed the leading roles in all the great classics, as well as works by modern choreographic luminaries such as;
Bintley, Christie, Duato, Kylian and Wheeldon. Last year, Matthew mentored (teaching/rehearsing) the Young Artists’, and staged
‘Four Square’ from David Bintley’s Take Five for the Dance Dialogues season. Within this season, he also choreographed A Night Out for the Queensland Ballet. He has also created pieces for Birmingham Royal Ballet, Elmhurst School of Dance and Queensland Dance School of Excellence. Now retired from dance, Matthew is a sessional lecturer at QUT, freelance teacher, choreographer and writer – currently as Dance Australia’s columnist.
RIANNON MCLEAN Choreographer
Riannon graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2000. She has had an extensive professional performance career spanning over thirteen years. Riannon has worked with acclaimed choreographers and companies both here in Australia and Overseas. Most recently retiring from Expressions Dance Company under the directorship of Natalie Weir. Riannon has choreographed works for the Place (London) in collaboration with Red-i Dance Company, Dance North, Dance North’s Extensions Company, Cecchetti Queensland, QUT & RAW. Riannon’s teaching capabilities & qualities have seen her teach for Victorian Academy of Ballet, Canada. LDTX Beijing, China. Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble, Switzerland. Australian Ballet Gala, Melbourne. ADT, Expressions Dance Company, QUT, WAPPA, 2Ballerinas, RAW, BCDI, Daniel Jaber & Lina Limosani.
