4 BOLD NEW CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKS

BY STEPHANIE LAKE RICHARD CAUSER JAKE MCLARNON XU YIMING

FEATURING MUSIC COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY

10 - 17 MARCH CONSERVATORIUM THEATRE, SOUTH BANK

THIS IS CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE

CREATIVE TEAMCHOREOGRAPHERS

COMPOSERS (QCGU)

Lighting Designer Ben HughesCostume Designer Alana SargentRehearsal Director Sally Wicks

PRODUCTION TEAM

Production Manager Nick Engler Stage Manager Ariana O’Brien Costume Maker Gayle MacGregor Wardrobe Maintenance Frances Pyper Production Electrician Chris Goeldner

CAST DANCERS

MUSICIANS (QCGU)

Ensemble Preparation Associate Prof. Peter LuffOrchestra Manager Daniel Fossi

Flute/Piccolo/Alto Flute Laura CliffOboe/Cor Anglais An NguyenClarinet/Bass Clarinet Dario ScalabriniBassoon Sasha WalkerFrench Horn Jessica GoodrichViolin 1 Samantha ChiuViolin 2 Akari PriorViola Sarah HootonVioloncello Michael GibsonDouble Bass Bryn KeanePiano Crystal SmithPercussion Steven Bryer Joe Chow Shani Raman Mikaela Thomsen Joyce To

Richard CauserStephanie LakeJake McLarnonXu Yiming

Isabella GeromettaTanya JonesJarvis MillerPadraig ParkhurstMichal Rosiak

Richard CauserScott EwenIsabella Hood Elise May Jake McLarnonJag Popham Alana Sargent

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Natalie Weir and the Expressions Dance Company to the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. This is the first venture into contemporary dance for the Conservatorium, and we congratulate Natalie and Expressions Dance Company for their vision and leadership in making this project a reality.

Converge brings together the creative minds and talents of fantastic choreographers and dancers from EDC, accompanied by original compositions, written and performed by QCGU students. This project is unique in its inception, with choreographer and composer working side by side to create a joint vision, which is now brought to life by the brilliance of the dancers and musicians.

Giving emerging artists the opportunity to showcase their talents sits at the very heart of the Queensland Conservatorium’s ethos of empowering aspiring musicians to find their place on the world stage. We are proud to be a part of Converge and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Expressions Dance Company.

It is with great pleasure I welcome you to Converge - a choreographic platform for both emerging and established creators. This is a vital part of the vision of EDC, that choreographers are given a supportive environment to work with exceptional dancers, so that choreographic talent is nurtured, and we as an organization stay relevant to today, with a vision to the future.

I am also very excited to be presenting this season in partnership with the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU). Not only are we performing in this great venue, we are working with composers and musicians from the Con - this is a rare opportunity for emerging choreographers. The live musicians add such a vibrant immediacy to the performance. My thanks to Professor Scott Harrison, Associate Professor Peter Luff, Dr Gerardo Dirié and all at the Con.

Choreographer Stephanie Lake joins us again, following on from her creation for Mozart Airborne. Stephanie is a well established creator, now with her own company in Melbourne, and she has crafted a fabulous work titled Ceremony. Stephanie is always such a pleasure to work with.

Richard Causer’s piece Imposters shows outstanding originality, as his choreographic voices continues to mature. Jake McLarnon makes his professional choreographic debut with us, creating a beautiful duet, Isochronism. Both Richard and Jake have worked with QCGU composers Isabella Gerometta, Tanya Jones, Jarvis Miller, Padraig Parkhurst and Michal Rosiak. The entire process has been very rewarding, building relationships that I hope will continue into the future.

Xu Yiming returns to us, creating a meditative and sublime piece for four dancers titled Aftermath. Yiming’s involvement is part of our Chinese Australian Dance Exchange Project, which is proving to be a very rich and meaningful initiative.

Our very own Alana Sargent has designed the costumes for the season. Alana has a huge talent in this area, and really understands how the costumes need to work for dancers. Ben Hughes’ lighting design is stunning, he is so collaborative and really works with each individual choreographer to bring their vision to life. A big thanks also to rehearsal director Sally Wicks, she is a huge support to me and the dancers and choreographers.

We welcome Scott Ewen to EDC. Scott has had a substantial career as a both a dancer and choreographer. Isabella Hood joins us as a trainee, having just completed her honours at QUT. We welcome back Jag Popham for this season, who performed with us in Black in 2016, on tour in China. They join EDC ensemble members Elise May, Richard Causer, Alana Sargent and Jake McLarnon. We are blessed to have such stunning dancers with EDC.

Programs such as Converge are essential- a choreographer not only has to have talent, they need to practice their art, it is through these experiences that they can learn their craft and develop distinct choreographic voices for now and into the future. Contemporary dance needs to evolve, to explore, to question and to flourish. I am very proud of this production, and hope you have a wonderful dance experience.

PROFESSOR SCOTT HARRISON Director, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU)

NATALIE WEIRAristic Director, Expressions Dance Company (EDC)

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Anastasia Woolmer, Prof. Scott Harrison, Dr Gerardo Dirie, Associate Prof. Peter Luff, Daniel Fossi, Michael Hibbard, Kendal Alderman and all the staff at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, the team at Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, RoadPro Event Services, and Brisbane Concert Lighting.

WELCOME TO

Cover photo by Dylan Evans PhotographyXu Yiming’s note translated by Lulu Tsao 曹诚漪

This performance will run for approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes including interval.

Photo by Dylan EvansProgram correct at time of printing.

ISOCHRONISM

Choreographer: JAKE MCLARNONDancers: Scott Ewen and Isabella Hood.Composers: Tanya Jones and Jarvis Miller.

Having a uniform period of vibration, occurring at the same time as another event.

Inspired by the artwork of Jasper Hills.

My thanks goes out to both the dancers and my composers for this collaboration. Their creative input and commitment to this piece has been exceptional.

- JAKE MCLARNON

AFTERMATH 后遗症Choreographer: XU YIMING 许一鸣Dancers: Richard Causer, Elise May, Jag Popham and Alana Sargent. Music: Gurdjieff/De Hartmann, Holy Affirming, Holy Denying, Holy Reconciling, Sainte Affirmation, Sainte Negation, Sainte Conciliation | Meditation | Prayer No. 2 | Hymn | Hymn for Easter Thursday

Arvo Pärt, Pari Intervallo

We face everything that life brings forward. We wish to have a book that tells the story of our life.  All in all, in life, we face, we fumble, we ponder, we endure...

我们每个人都经历着生活给我们带来的一切，每个人都想有一本书在诉说的自己的故事。总之我们在生活中，对着、错着、思考着、经历着。。。

- XU YIMING 许一鸣

CEREMONY

Choreographer: STEPHANIE LAKEDancers: Scott Ewen, Isabella Hood Elise May, Jake McLarnon, Jag Popham andAlana Sargent. Music: György Ligeti, Six Bagatelles (Movement 1)Chinary Ung, Khse BuonJavier Alvarez, Metro ChabacanoSteve Reich, Music for Pieces of Wood

Working with an eclectic set of music choices, Ceremony sees the six dancers in a world of ticking machinery, percussive rituals and beasts arising. Born out of curiosity in the individual traits of the performers, what started as a purely abstract physicalisation of the music has evolved into something of a madcap ride. It is a place of intricately threading hands, precise gesture and wildly manipulated bodies. Working with an iconic piece of minimalism - Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood - our challenge was to embody its beautiful polyrhythmic complexity. 

Thanks to Natalie, Sally and the whole team at EDC; to the musicians, Gerardo and all at the Conservatorium; to the design collaborators Ben and Alana (who brilliantly juggles being a dancer in the works and creating the costume designs). Thanks also to Anastasia Woolmer who was part of the development of the work. Huge thanks to the dancers who have given so generously of their bodies and brains. Performing this work requires immense focus and constant counting. I’m very grateful.

- STEPHANIE LAKE

IMPOSTERS Choreographer: RICHARD CAUSERDancers: Scott Ewen, Isabella Hood Elise May, Jake McLarnon, Jag Popham and Alana Sargent. Composers: Isabella Gerometta, Padraig Parkhurst and Michal Rosiak.

“Individuality is a dying species. Mediocrity is the new black.” - Penny Arcade, Longing Lasts Longer

We are all made up of complex layers of identity. Each of these layers we expose in different ways to the people we encounter in our lives. Therefore, our identity is perceived differently depending on what layer we share. We are living in a masquerade ball.

Imposters is a humane concern on how easy our private and most intimate identities are pulled apart, and left exposed leaving us bare and vulnerable.

I would like to thank everyone at EDC for their support and input into this work. I am so proud of what the dancers and I have created. Each dancer put their heart and creativity into the rehearsals for Imposters, making it beautiful to see this work come to fruition.

- RICHARD CAUSER

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RICHARD CAUSER Choreographer, “Imposters” / EDC Dancer

Richard completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at Queensland University of Technology in 2004 and joined EDC in 2006. He earned nominations for

Most Outstanding Male Dancer for both the 2011 Australian Dance Awards (ADA) and Helpmann Awards. In 2012 he was nominated for an ADA for performing his self-choreographed work Wilhelm Scream and again in 2017 for his role in EDC’s Black. Richard spent 2012-2015 working in London as a dancer, choreographer and teacher with various companies and independent choreographers and returned to EDC in 2016. His choreographic credits include works for the Malaysian Dance Festival, Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Expressions Dance Company, Queensland University of Technology, Third Row Dance Company (UK), Centre of Advanced Training (UK), Inky Cloak Theatre Company (UK), and Raw Moves Dance Company (Singapore). Richard is supported by Invest in a Dancer donors Tony Denholder and Scott Gibson.

STEPHANIE LAKE Choreographer, “Ceremony”

Stephanie Lake is a multi award-winning choreographer and dancer based in Melbourne. Her performance career spans over 20 years, touring extensively with leading contemporary companies

Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc and BalletLab. Lake’s choreographic works have been presented in major festivals and venues in Australia and have toured to France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Singapore and Hong Kong. In 2014 Lake won both the Helpmann and Australian Dance Award for Most Outstanding Choreography as well as the Green Room Award (2011). She was a recipient of the prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and Dame Peggy van Praagh Choreographic Fellowship. In 2013 Lake was appointed Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc. She has created works for EDC, Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, Queensland Ballet, New Zealand Dance Company, Dancenorth, Tasdance and Frontier Danceland (Singapore). Lake collaborates across theatre, film and TV, visual art and music video and has directed several large-scale public works. In 2017 Lake was the recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship for Dance.

JAKE MCLARNON Choreographer, “Isochronism” / EDC Dancer

Born in Perth, Jake completed his training at WAAPA, performing in numerous contemporary and ballet works by renowned choreographers such as George

Balanchine, Raewyn Hill and Xiaoxing Zhang. Jake joined Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) for its European tour of Garry Stewart’s Proximity then joining the ensemble full time. Other ADT highlights include the Australian season of Garry Stewart’s Proximity, Be Yourself and Birdbrain. In 2015 Jake choreographed for the RAD Festival in Perth and its 80th Anniversary Gala in Adelaide. Jake 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 a company member later that year to join EDC’s 2016 China tour and has since performed in EDC productions Propel, Natalie Weir’s Behind Closed Doors and Mozart Airborne. In 2017 Jake also had to opportunity to perform a collaborative dance/projection art piece with visual artist Matt Sheridan and TWFine Art as part of the Tenerife Festival. His work Isochronism in Converge is Jake’s choreographic debut with a professional company.

XU YIMING 许一鸣 Choreographer, “Aftermath”

XU Yiming was born in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China. He began his dance training at the Beijing Runliang Dance School in 1997. He joined the Guangzhou Song and Dance

Company in 2001 and with the Beijing Modern Dance Company later that year. Yiming became a founding member of BeijingDance/LDTX in 2005 and became a teacher at the BeijingDance/LDTX Dance Center in 2013. Yiming has participated in various overseas cultural projects and performed in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, South Korea, and the USA. His major works include: The Encounter of Confucius, Waiting Alone (Performed as part of EDC’s Propel in 2017), The Snail, Head Against Earth and Solitude. In May 2017, his work Solitude, commissioned by Ballett Chemnitz of the Städtische Theater Chemnitz in Germany, received a Saxony Artistic Award. in 2017 Yiming performed with EDC in Natalie Weir’s Behind Closed Doors.

Xu Yiming joins us as part of EDC’s Chinese Australian Dance Exchange Project. For more information about this major collaborative initiative, visit expressionsdancecompany.org.au

BEN HUGHES Lighting Designer

As Lighting Designer Ben has credits across theatre, dance and opera including productions with Queensland Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Opera

Queensland, Belvoir, La Boite Theatre Company, Queensland Ballet, Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival, The Danger Ensemble, HotHouse Theatre, The Nest Ensemble, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, JUTE Theatre, Stella Electrika, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Phluxus2 Dance Collective, Collusion, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Woodford Folk Festival, Kooemba Jdarra and Malthouse Theatre. Expressions Dance Company productions include The Host, Carmen Sweet and Propel. In 2013 Ben was Resident Lighting Designer and in 2011 and 2014 an Affiliate Artist with Queensland Theatre. Ben is Associate Artistic Director of The Danger Ensemble, a professional member of the Association of Lighting Designers and holds accredited member status with the Australian Production Design Guild.

ALANA SARGENT Costume Designer / EDC Dancer

Alana graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2010. In her third year of training she was offered an apprenticeship with Sydney Dance Company sponsored by Foxtel, who

chronicled her experience as a dancer into a documentary. This led to a full time position in 2012. Alana performed with the company for four years working with numerous choreographers including Jacopo Godani, Andonis Foniadakis, Alexander Ekman, Emanuel Gat and Stephanie Lake. Her performances included Rafael Bonachela’s Frame of Mind, which won ‘Best Choreography in a Dance Work’ and ‘Best Dance Work’ at the 2015 Helpmann Awards. Alana started costume design in 2015 and her first creations featured in Sydney Dance Company’s season of New Breed. Alana joined EDC in 2016 to perform in Black (China tour), Propel and Natalie Weir’s Behind Closed Doors. Alana was costume designer for Propel and also coordinated costumes for EDC’s 2018 season photo shoot with Dylan Evans Photography. Alana is supported by Invest in a Dancer donor Marian Gibney.

SALLY WICKS Rehearsal Director

Sally graduated from QUT in 1995 and joined Graeme Murphy’s Sydney Dance Company performing: Free Radicals, Salome, Berlin, Beauty and the Beast, The Protecting Veil, New

Blood, Ellipse, Air and Other Invisible Forces, 20th Anniversary Retrospective. In 2003 she joined EDC performing in Maggi Sietsma’s Virtually Richard 3rd, Flight, The Fifth Door, Score, Rites of Spring, Alone Together, If Only and Natalie Weir’s The Insider. Choreographic credits include: Empathy is the Devil (film) which screened at Cannes and was shortlisted for a 2017 Australia Dance Award, Hanta’s Head for EDC, In Time for Sydney Dance Company, So(i)ul for the Lithuanian Exhibition Queensland Museum, WWW with Elizabeth Cameron-Dalman and two scholarships as participant then mentor to the International Dance Web, Vienna. Sally has taught for Bangarra Dance Theatre, EDC, SDC, Ausdance, ACPA, and dance institutions nationally and internationally. In 2011 she obtained a Bachelor of Health Science and has practiced as an acupuncturist and kinesiologist. In 2017 Sally returned to EDC as Rehearsal Director for Behind Closed Doors and represented the company as teaching artist and choreographer for QPAC/The Royal Ballet’s We All Dance community program.

ISABELLA GEROMETTA Composer for Richard Causer

Isabella Gerometta is an emerging Australian composer and conductor. Her works have been performed nationally and internationally at venues such as the Musica Viva festival,

New York City’s ‘The Lounge’, the Palestine Choral Festival and the contemporary music festival QSO Current with premieres by Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Perth Symphony Orchestra and Muses Trio. From 2015-16 she was composer-in-residence with contemporary Australian choral ensemble The Australian Voices with two of her works being featured on their ABC Classics release album Reverie. She has prepared and directed choruses for a number of events with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, working alongside internationally recognised conductors such as Simone Young and Alondra de la Parra. She also composed incidental music for the internationally recognised short film Heathen by award-winning director Siobahn Mulready, featuring at several festivals including Hollyshorts (Los Angeles), Flickerfest (Sydney) and the West End Film Festival (Queensland).

CHOREOGRAPHERS CREATIVE TEAM

COMPOSERS

TANYA JONES Composer for Jake McLarnon

Tanya began composition studies at the Queensland Conservatorium in 2017 and is currently mentored by renowned Australian composer Gerard Brophy. Since commencing,

Tanya has undertaken composition projects with the Yeppoon Rotary Club as part of the annual Capricorn Coast Schools Music Festival, up-and-coming creators from Griffith Film School, and Conservatorium orchestras. Since commencing study Tanya has also participated in the biannual Composition Recital series, creating repertoire for small ensembles, as well as performing in the Conservatorium Javanese Gamelan ensemble. Since 2015 Tanya has been a performer in various Queensland Youth Orchestra ensembles under local conductor David Law, and Director of Performance and Engagement at the UQ School of Music, Warwick Potter. Tanya also had the opportunity to work with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as a guest singer in The Australian Voices in 2017, and is currently studying under Director of Music, Dr Andrew Cichy, towards becoming a Choral Scholar at the Cathedral of St Stephen.

JARVIS MILLER Composer for Jake McLarnon

Jarvis Miller is an emerging composer who is currently studying his second year of the Bachelor of Music in Composition at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith

University. His passion for music began at the age of five when he started learning the cello. Over the years this passion continued to grow which led him to additionally learn the piano and later the trombone. It was Jarvis’ love of cinema that kick-started his fervour for composing, which he began in 2013. The work of film composers Joseph Trapanese, Brian Tyler and Ramin Djawadi have been particularly influential. Jarvis’ compositional style spans a wide variety of genres, from classical to contemporary. As such, Jarvis is able to offer his strength for musical versatility to co-collaborators such as Choreographer Jake McLarnon for this exciting cross-disciplinary project Converge with Expressions Dance Company. In 2017 Jarvis placed second in the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society: Viola Composition Competition, and was also nominated for best film score at the Graduate Film Screenings for Griffith University. Jarvis’ career goal is to compose scores for film with the ultimate dream of working in the USA composing for major blockbuster films.

PADRAIG PARKHURST Composer for Richard Causer

Padraig Parkhurst is an Australian composer, guitarist, and poet. His works have been performed from San Francisco to London, and his poetry has been published in Ireland, Canada and Australia.

Padraig has a Master of Music Studies in Classical guitar performance, and is currently completing a Masters of Music Research studying ‘melodrama’, or the use of spoken word in Western Art Music composition. Padraig was the winner of the 2013 Queensland Conservatorium Guitar Prize, and in 2014 founded the Brisbane Guitar Quartet. In his 18 years of playing he has studied under Karin Schaupp and Julian Byzantine as well as receiving private lessons and masterclasses from Pepe Romero, Ana Vidovic, the Grigoryan Brothers, ZOO duo, Chrystian Dozza and Aleksandr Tsiboulski. One of Padraig’s melodramas, The Other Child of the Deceased is available on iTunes and Spotify. Also available through these outlets is an EP of acoustic folk with his partner Lili Rose Porter, entitled Runaway Train.

MICHAEL ROSIAK Composer for Richard Causer

Polish born flautist-composer Michal Rosiak is an accomplished musician of exceptional versatility. He is a recipient of Polish Ministry of Culture Scholarship, and he gave his debut as a composer

and a soloist in the age of 17, by performing his composition Adagio & Scherzo for flute and orchestra with Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland. He has also appeared as a soloist with Capella Cracoviensis, Chamber Philharmonia Cologne and the Queensland Pops Orchestra.He has been a guest flautist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata of St John, Adelaide Art Orchestra and the Queensland Pops Orchestra. Michal has been appearing regularly as a performer and composer at the Australian Flute Festival. He was also a Director of Barossa Flautissimo in Adelaide and Co-Director of Unbound Flute Festival in Brisbane. His music has been performed in Poland, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, United States, New Zealand and Australia and has also been broadcast by ABC Classic FM. Michal has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Banff Centre in Canada and Bundanon Trust in Australia.

ELISE MAY Assistant to the Artistic Director / EDC Dancer

Elise is a dancer, choreographerand video artist who has worked as an independent artist in Australia and internationally, as well as a member of Expressions

Dance Company, which she joined in 2008. Elise’s interest in performance design, installation, sound and moving image has led her to create works such as Close Proximity, her Screen Dance Laboratory and 101 Ways to Strip. Elise has worked internationally in Taiwan, the US, South Korea, Switzerland and extensively in China. In 2017 Elise created works for EDC’s Propel and Mozart Airborne seasons, as well as choreography for Opera’s Australias Aida. Elise also created a new work for the China’s Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in November 2017. In 2012 she was awarded the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer for R&J. Elise completed a Masters of Arts by Research at QUT in 2016, through which she created Shifting Lenses, investigating the use of moving image and digital media in live performance. Elise is supported through Invest in a Dancer donors Trevor St Baker, PowerArts, Richard Scott, Paul Newman and Lucy Bretherton.

ISABELLA HOOD Trainee

Growing up on a farm in South East Queensland, Isabella began her dance training under the directorship of Dale Coles at Toowoomba school of Dance. She went on to graduate first

class in BA(Hons) of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) at QUT in 2017. During her studies, Isabella worked with choreographers such as Lucas Jervies, Jack Chambers, Csaba Buday, Yolande Brown, Richard Causer and Gareth Belling. In her final year she also performed choreography by Natalie Weir and Graeme Murphy, and took part in a week-long intensive with Lloyd Newson (DV8). In 2017, Isabella’s Honours research led her to perform alongside EDC in Behind Closed Doors. She also performed and understudied in EDC’s Mozart Airborne (with Opera Queensland) and finished her year taking the stage with EDC in Opera Australia’s Aida on the Beach choreographed by Elise May.

SCOTT EWEN EDC Dancer

Western Australian born, Scott attained his Bachelor of Arts (Dance) from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), graduating with the Hawaiian Award for the

Most Outstanding Graduate. Since then, Scott has worked with many of Australia’s most acclaimed companies and choreographers including Garry Stewart & Daniel Jaber / Australian Dance Theatre, Larissa McGowan & Marnie Palomares / Tasdance, Shaun Parker / Buzz Dance Theatre, Sue Peacock, Chrissie Parrott, Alice Lee Holland and Tobiah Booth-Remmers. Internationally, Scott joined ilDance Company where he performed in the international co-production of GODLIKE by Israel Aloni & Odelya Kuperberg across Israel and Sweden. He also performed in works by Brazil’s Leda Muhana and Taiwan’s Jin-Wen Yu at the 2010 World Dance Alliance Global Festival in New York City. Choreographically, Scott has created works for Strut Dance WA, Australian Dance Theatre’s Rough Draft, Australian Dance Theatre Youth Ensemble, Adelaide College of the Arts, New Zealand Dance Company, LINK Dance Company, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, University of Wisconsin (USA), Norges Dansehøyskole (Norway), Tso’s Dance Association and the International Young Choreographers Project (Taiwan), World Dance Alliance Global Festival 2016 (South Korea) and Biennale des Danse Festival (Seychelles). Converge is Scott’s first performance with EDC since joining the ensemble in 2018.

JAG POPHAMGuest Artist

Jag Popham, born in Auckland, New Zealand, started dancing at age 3 training in classical ballet, contemporary and capoeira. At age 17 he decided to further his training at the New Zealand

School of Dance majoring in contemporary, gaining his Certificate in Dance Performance. Since graduating he has worked with EDC performing in several seasons. Black premiered in Brisbane 2016 at QPAC and later on that year the show toured to China, being performed in 5 cities in the Guangdong province. Through different avenues Jag has had the privilege to work with established artists such as Kuik Swee Boon, Thomas Bradley, Xing Liang, Natalie Weir, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Okareka Dance Company.

DANCERSFor Richard Causer and Jake McLarnon, see CHOREOGRAPHERS.For Alana Sargent, see CREATIVE TEAM.

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Established in 1984 and based within Brisbane’s Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Expressions Dance Company (EDC) is one of Queensland’s leading contemporary dance companies. In addition to presenting an annual program of world-class contemporary dance theatre at QPAC and other Brisbane venues, EDC embarks on Australia-wide and overseas tours. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Natalie Weir, the company has earned numerous Australian Dance Award and Helpmann nominations. Natalie’s signature works include where the heart is, R&J, When Time Stops, The Red Shoes, 7 Deadly Sins and Behind Closed Doors. EDC is currently engaged in the Chinese Australian Dance Exchange Project, and will be travelling to Hong Kong and Beijing in 2018 with 4Seasons, a collaboration with City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong).

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