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Industries Music, nication Design students.
Works by Helena Dingle !Australia), Christina Park !Korea), Hui-chun Peng !Taiwan), Mengna Shi !China)
WoodJ.,ard TheatrJI L Block, Ring Road, Kelvin Grove Campus, OUT 23
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at 7 pm, Saturday 24 September at 6 pmun~er
5 short diverse works of physical theatre, contemporary ond intercultural donee
to delight the senses ond please the eye.
FOREWORD
Welcome to floating further ... .falling further ....
We are pleased to be able to present a second season of Postgraduate Dance this year, following on from our earlier May season in The Loft. This time the refurbished Woodward Theatre is the venue for our works, following straight on from the exciting season of third year choreographic works in New Moves.
It is a pleasure to welcome our collaborators from other disciplines who have made an important contribution to this season. Helena Dingle who is completing her Honours in Performance Studies is premiering her work 'Infinitely Vague and Familiar'. Five Masters students from Communication Design have created video and animation sequences to be integrated into Christina Park's 'Between the Edges' and Hui-Chun peng's 'Flow'. Composer Christine Smale, under:.llllng postgraduate studies in Music has also collaborated with Hui-Chun Peng.
Three of the five works have been created especially for this season of floating further .. .falling further .... whilst two of the works you will see tonight are developments from our May season of floating, falling, grounded. Mengna Shi from China and Christina Park from Korea have delved deeper into their intercultural work of contemporising aspects of dance traditions from their respective countries.
Integral to the creation and staging of the five works are our skilled and tireless technical theatre students, some of whom are 'regulars' for our post-graduate programs. Thank you to a supportive and cohesive team with whom it is always a joy to work, under the experienced direction of technical theatre coordinator Sue Benfer and lecturer George Meijer.
I would also like to thank all our dancers nd film documenters, both graduates and undergraduates, who so generously donate their time an~ skills to work with our post-graduates in between their own S\Udies and busy lives. Thrs nexus between our various Creative Industries communities at alii eve is a cruci I strategy in building<in er iseiplinary and industry networks for
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Thank you for yours pport for tonight s pe orrmance. We als look forward to your attendance at our forthcoming grad~ate showcase seas n Connect\- 'dance dialogues across cultures" at the Gardens Theatre, 8-12 November at 7.30 pm.
See you there.
Associate Professor Cheryl Stock Head of Dance, Creative Industries
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Producer I Coordinator
Technical Production Coordinator Technical Production lecturer Technician, Woodward Theatre Lighting Designer
Production Stage Manager Deputy Stage Manager Head Electrician
LX Operator I Head Electrician Sound
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Project Management for ,,;,.._.,,;,..., Design visuals
Program Wardrobe Bump in/out crew
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Shaaron Boughen Chiu, Hsin-Ju Bridget Fiske Conan Fitzpatrick
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Sutton and the Woodward Theatre McAuliffe
Ying-Ying Liu
Cheryl Stock Sue Benfer George Meijer Warren Sutton Jennifer Hind Alicia Jenkins Tim Hickey Carli Griffin Ben Hamely Ben Shaw Nick Heinemann Natascha Matthes Pam Koger
Cheryl Stock & Pam Koger Rosa Hirakata
Jeff Warnick, Mark Middleton, Louise Daley, Bee Li, Chris Ford, Felicity Roberts-Thomson
PROGRAM IN CLOUD
Choreographer: Mengna Shi
Music: The Hunted composed & arranged by Motofumi Yamaguchi, Nanafushi (Overture &
Seasons of the Drum) composed & arranged by Tetsuro Naito Tsugaru.
Dancers: Hsin-ying Tsai, Ming-li Hsu, Fen-Ian Chuang, Hui-chun Peng, Hsiang-Ju Lin A choreographic exploration combining contemporary movements based on Chinese classical dance and Chinese Tai Chi Boxing in dialogue with the Chinese traditional props of water-sleeves and fan.
INFINITELY VAGUE AND FAMILIAR ...
Choreographer/Design: Helena Dingle Composer: Kate Thomas
Performer: Helena Dingle
'What we are and what we seem is but a dream, a dream within a dream'
This work is dedicated to: Ruby Richter, Laurie Dingle, Jason B, Suesan Watts and Will Serantak.
Special thanks to Kate Thomas for her brilliant sound design and to Conan Fitzpatrick for alchemy by light and lens.
BETWEEN THE EDGES
This work investigates the nature of Sa/puri, a Ko ean nee ori inating from shamanistic practices. Sa/puri means to throw away or exorcise no ous i fl ences. In this dance form specific Korean musical forms influence the dancer ' . v men s hich release their spirits from the cares and constrains of this world. Hearing the
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rum they forget the world around them and dance until they fall down in exhaustion and ake wit~ their spirits returned to their body.PINK KNOT
Choreographer: Mengna Shi
Music: "Narration" & "Madredens/Aifama" from the film Lisbon Story and Time in a Bottle (Instrumental Version- Original: Jim Croce 1973)
Dancers: Myles Newton, Hsin-ying Tsai, Fen-Ian Chuang, Ming-li Hsu, Hui-chun Peng, Hsiang-Ju Lin
This work explores the nature of human relationships through the Chinese concept of yuan, which refers to a special kind of emotional connection and empathy between people.
Pink Knot uses clothing as a symbol of the changing emotional connection between a couple, where they cannot touch directly but express their romantic feelings through contact via each other's t-shirts .
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Choreography: Hui- Chun Peng Composer and Music: Christine Smale Singer: Christine Smale
Animation I visuals I technical: Dian Anggraini, Quan Ren, Yi-Hao Tseng Dancers: Chafia Brooks, Danielle Hocking, 1-Pin Lin
A choreographic exploration of wind and its effects on the body and spirit. The initial section is inspired by the qualities of a gentle breeze which builds up to the strong wind.
Thank you to the dancers, Christine Smale, Dian, Natascha, Ren, Wallace and Xavier for their contributions to this process.
THE CREATIVE TEAM
COMMUNICATION DESIGN MASTERS STUDENTS
The projection footage is provided by five Communication Design Masters students as their main project in the lnterdisciplinarity Creative Industries unit. The international team, consisting of Xavier Kok (Malaysia), Dian Anggraini (Indonesia), Natascha Matthes (Germany), Quan Ren (China) and Yi-Hao Tseng (Taiwan), designed and created the animation and live-action video pieces in close collaboration with the choreographers. The Masters students come from diverse backgrounds such as multimedia, fine arts, IT and biology.
HELENA DINGLE
Currently completing her BCI Honours degree in Performance Studies, Helena's key interest is in movement composition for contemporary performance. Exploring how the body can tell its story, her work exists in a territory between dance and theatre. With a variety of movement based skills and a background in dance Helena is also experienced in design and costume. Most recent works include: ESP Transit Lounge 2005, Puppylove Arts Queensland 2005, Dear Charlotte Metro Arts 2004 Independent Season, The Night I Fell in Love with a Shoe Ann Street Party SOOB Festival2004, House Broken Hearts SOOB Festival2004. Helena is a founding member ofthe arts collective TOY.
CHRISTINA PARK
Christina Park (Kyung Sun) is Master of Fine Arts (Dance) candidate at QUT. She was born in South Korea where she began her dance studies at the age of 6. Christina is trained in Korean Dance which has taken her on performing tours of Russia and America. Apart from Korean dance, she also learned classical ballet from the age of 11. Christina has experienced diverse training styles. At 15, she studied at the Kirov Ballet Academy in Washington, DC. In her own country she performed in 'Nutcracker' in a cooperative season with Korean National Ballet Company. When Christina was 19, she came to Australia to continue her studies in Brisbane with Creative Industries Dance at Queensland University of Technology, where she has performed in works by Harold Collins, Dianna Laska-Moore, Csaba Buday, Jean Tally, Anna Smith and ~ Adams. Christina graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2003. Her choreograp . . Portrayed was created and performed at The Loft in May 2005, and further developed for The Workroom at Expressions Dance Theatre in August.
THE CREATIVE TEAM
HUI-CHUN PENG
Hui-Chun was born in Taiwan and started dancing when she was 9 years old. After graduating from Tao-Yuan High School in Taiwan, Hui-Chun enrolled at QUT where she completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2004. During her time at QUT she performed in numerous works by national and international choreographers including Csaba Buday, Rosetta Cook, Evan Jones, Ming-S hen Ku, Maggi Sietsma, Ricky Sim, Susan Wang and Jeffrey Tan. She was also one of nine graduating students who participated in a collaborative exchange project between
~ive Industries Dance, QUT and the Taipei National University of the Arts, culminating in a p- mance presented at the 2004 CORD/WDA-Asia Pacific International Conference and Festival held in Taiwan. Hui-Chun is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts degree at QUT.
Hui-Chun's work Monkey Business was presented at The Loft in May and also at the 2005 Malaysian Dance Festival in Kuala Lumpur in July. A creative development of Flow was performed for The Workroom at Expressions Dance Theatre in August.
MENGNASHI
Mengna Shi is a graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy. Mengna began dancing when she was 6 years old and was accepted into the Beijing Dance Academy at 12 to study performance (Chinese Classical Dance and Folk Dance) for 6 years and Choreography (Contemporary Dance) for 4 years. During this period, she was awarded 2"" prize for performance and 3"' prize for choreography in national competitions. Mengna also performed traditional Chinese dance works in the USA, Italy, France, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Between 2002 and 2003 she worked at The Opera and Dance Community in Beijing as a professional dancer and created a solo Nian for dancer Hu Zhiwei, which was awarded a choreographic prize in 2004. Currently Mengna is undertaking her MFA in choreography at QUT. During her candidature Mengna has created four works: Yuan, Moon Wondering and In Cloud explore contemporary movements based on elements of Chinese Tai Chi. A new contemporary work Pink Knot was created and performed for The Workroom at Expressions Dance Theatre in August.
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