Essentia{{y Vance 12 to 16 June 2007

FOREWARD

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to Essentially Dance 2007. Our students have spent this semester meeting the challenges offered to them by each choreographer and their particular genre and process of making new work. This ranges from the sassy jazz of Sue-Ellen Chester-MacCarthy to Csaba Buday's popularising of 70's disco moments. Successful independent artist Vanessa Mafe and I have created fresh contemporary works for our third year students who are touring them to the Tari '07 Festival in Malaysia next month. Completing the evening's programme is an elegant work by our Dean and former Head of Dance, Prof. Susan Streeis a delight for us to have her work with our students and share her extensive experience with them.

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

Shaaron Boughan Discipline Leader, Dance

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE)

1st Year Jamee Campbell

Ethne Bate Gabriel Comerford Alenka Csomor Gemma Dawkins Jake Deegan

•iannon Farlow

by Johnson Caitlin Mackenzie Kathryn Newmann

Jane O'Loughlin Hannah Peake Sheree Saye Marika Steward

Hannah Timbrel! Anke Van Rooyen Kieran Windsor

2nd Year D'Arcy Andrews

Francis Christeller

lan Colless

.nna Drelincourt

.iang JuLin Sim-Wei Low Todd Madden Sean McColgan Adrienne O'Leary

Natalie Phillips

Sarah Potter Anthony Trojman

Elizabeth Whelan

Jason Wood Miranda Zeller Liesel Zink

3rd Year Alex Bellemare

Jenna Cali Deanna Castellana

Lauren Culnane

Jane Eastwood Alyce Farrell Fiona Gardner Angela Goh Ianthe Goodwin-Brickhill Neroli Jamieson Amy Laughton Alida Mulder Myles Newton Tegan Ollett Monique Singh Kimberley Smith Sophia Tisdall Hsin-Ying Tsai Heidi Vit Charlotte Walker Erin Whelan

DANCE STAFF 2007, SEMESTER 1

Full-time Shaaron Boughen Discipline Leader, Lecturer in Choreography, Performance Studies Csaba Buday Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Choreography Susan Caulfield-Leclercq Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet and Pointe Avril Huddy Lecturer in Contemporary Technique, Alignment Evan Jones Lecturer in Ballet & Pas de Deux Rachel Mathews Study Area Co-ord, Lecturer in Dance Theory, Musical Theatr­and World Dance

Kim Stevens Dance in Education A/Prof. Cheryl Stock Post-graduate supervisor

Sessional Fiona Cullen Contemporary Technique Vicky Hollyman Ballet Technique

Dianna Laska-Moore World Dance Susan Wang World Dance Ko-Pei Lin Contemporary Technique Lisa Wilson Contemporary Technique Melanie Murphy Ballet Technique

Nicole Galea Tutor

PASS Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Rowena Langan Massage Therapist Amy Sheldon Massage Therapist Jan Smith Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer

Accompanists Brian Adamson, Lovinia Dickens, Steve Francis, Brett Fowler, Christain Gante, David Muller, Paul Young, Leanne Warne

PRODUCTION TEAM

Dance Production Coordinator Sue Caulfield-Leclercq

Creative Industries Production Coordinator Ben Hamley Lighting Designer Jason Organ Costume Designer Rosa Hirakata

Seamstress Frances Pyper Wardrobe Assistant Penny Bell

aage Manager Jessica Audsley* ~puty Stage Manager Lauren Edwards*

Assistant Stage Manager (Rehearsal) Emma Cooke* Assistant Stage Manager (Set) Kathryn O'Halloran·

Head Electrician Jon Penn· Lighting Operator Simon Johnson·

Floor Electrician Rae Lau·

Sound Coordinator I Operator Felicity Roberts-Thomson· AV Coordinator I Operator Christian Douglas· AV Assistant Trent Barclay·

Bump In I Out Crew Michele Catargiu*

Guy Gimpel* Jodie Jones·

Lowah* Merryman·

Julian Messer·

Heath Plumb* Jessica Ross·

Indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student

program

AUDIO MOVES- VOL 70

Choreography Csaba Buday in collaboration with the dancers Music The Sugerhill Gang, Madonna Digital Video Imagery Csaba Buday Costume Design Rosa Hirakata Dancers Jamee Campbell

Gabriel Comerford Jake Deegan Caitlin Mackenzie Sheree Saye Hannah Timbrel! Anke Van Rooyen Kieran Windsor

Inspired by late 70's disco, design concepts and movement for Audio Moves- Vol 70 were informed through mine and the dancers research into the era. Movement that was developed, surfaced from drawing on recognisable disco moves, which were then deconstructed and infused with both contemporary and current dance trends. I trust that you will be stimulated by their energy and individualism.

JESUS' BLOOD

Choreography Shaaron Boughen in collaboration with 3rd year students. Music Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet by Gavin Bryars Costume Design Shaaron Boughen Dancers All third year BFA students

We have remained close to the emotional restraint evident in the music of Gavin Bryars which was in­spired by a fragment of a religious song sung by an old tramp living rough in London. The looped phrase of his voice creates the minimalist form of the work and we constructed the movement content around the mix of pain , faith and optimism that the words and tramp's circumstances present.

AN URBAN BALLET

Choreographer Professor Susan Street Rehearsal Assisstant Evan Jones Music Hallelujah versions by Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Bono, KD Lang, Imogen Heap Costume Design Rosa Hirakata Dancers BFA (Dance) 2nd year

I first saw this talented group of dancers perform at Dance Grad, November 06 in a work by Csaba Buday. An extraordinary group both in terms of their talent and unity as a group, which is rare to find in first year undergrad students. I was delighted to be asked to work with the group for Essentially Dance. The idea informing this work is taken from the words 'much unhappiness has come into the world because of things left unsaid'. I was interested to explore the subtlety in both these words and the many renditions of the song Hallelujah. The dancers have been delightful to work with and I thank them for their commitment, work and ideas during the creative process. My thanks also to Evan Jones for his dedicated assistance in bringing this work to the stage.

paper tears, paper tears

6irectio!'Vanessa Mafe.w 211 Choreography BFA (Dance) 3rd year, Vanessa Mafe and Avril Huddy Rehearsal Director Avril Huddy Production· & l'oeil exterieur Mariana Verdaasdonk

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ic/Soundscape David Pyle als Cell · ' ~-~ tume Design Rosa Hirakata

Dancers BFA (Dance) 3rd year

The initial inspiration for paper tears, paper tears is the simple exercise book. OUT's third-year dance students have .transformed these books beyond their familiar association with memories of learning at school and manipulated them to create sounds and stepping stones as well as places to record their personal thoughts, images and texts.

It has beeri challenging to w~~with such a large number of students at one time. Consequently, this challenge is reflected in the way paper tears, paper tears has been structured as a series of vignettes exploring the dynamic between individual and group. The majority of the choreographic material stems directly from personal and group improvisations created by the students themselves. The work was choreographed in silence and on completion, David Pyle composed a score featuring the sounds of the exercise books. Thank you to the students for their invaluable input.

THE DEVIL TAUGHT WOMEN TO DANCE

Choreographer Sue-Ellen Chesler-MacCarthy Dancers Ethne Bate

Alenka Csomor Gemma Dawkins Rhiannon Farlow Abby Johnson Jane O'Loughlin Hannah Peake Manka Steward Hannah Timbrell

This year's piece started out as something entirely different (well in my mind at least!). I had this idea that, similar to last year's piece, I wanted to dedicate the work to the originators of the Jazz movement, in particular the great Earl 'Snakehips' Tucker, but things just started to run their own course yet again! I began reflecting upon how dancers so often receive the strangest reactions when they mention their profession. Quite often the reaction is either smothered in sexual innuendo or at the other extreme, absolute delight because 'you're a ballerina' of course!? In my case the latter was never considered because, 'well, you're not built like a ballerina are you?' Basically, there's usually no middle ground, you either fall into the category of 'Good' girl or 'Bad' girl! It often seems the case that if women start to move their bodies in certain ways there's bound to be a rather strong reaction! David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) once wrote 'the world rotates on a woman's hips', lets face it... a woman's hips are capable of some mighty powerful magic!!

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

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SHAARON BOUGHEN -Choreographer MA Uni of Kent, BA(Hons) Laban Centre, UK Shaaron is Discipline Leader for Dance and is currently involved in Postgraduate Supervision and lecturing into Choreography and Performance Studies. She has choreographed over 30 works and received grants from The Australia Council, Arts Queensland and QUT. She has worked as an independent artist with the Cherry Herring Collective from 1996 -2000 and with Emergency 2-

Her main focus of work lies in the scholarship of interdisciplinarity thro~ Creative Practice. Shaaron's current practice is drawing from and developing her interest in the disciplines of architecture, digital mediums and visual arts. She has an extensive design background from theatre works to product launches to pyrotechnics and has designed costumes for works by many leading Australian choreographers. Shaaron is also the Brisbane dance reviewer for The Australian.

CSABA BUDAY- Choreographer Dip, ABS, MA (Research), QUT A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Csaba performed with the Australian Ballet, the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet and the Australian Ballet Dancers' Company before joining Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in 1984. During his nine years with ADT he danced in numerous works by notable Australian and International choreographers including acclaimed dance maker

William Forsythe (Frankfurt Ballet). Csaba joined Dance North from 1993-1 & and in 1995 he returned to Adelaide to become a member of Leigh Warren -Dancers until September 2000. During 1984-2000 Csaba also performed in several productions for film and television, the most recent being The Diaries of Vaslav

Nijinsky directed by Paul Cox, in which he played the role of the Faun from Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun. He was Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide, 1995 and at the National Institute for the Arts, Taipei, 1996, guest

teacher/choreographer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1996 and Queensland University of Technology, 1999 and 2001. Csaba has choreographed a total of 32 works for both professional dance companies and tertiary institutions

within Australia and overseas. 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 completed an MA (Research) at Creative Industries, QUT, 2007.

SUE-ELLEN CHESTER-MACCARTHY- Choreographer Dip. Performing Arts (Theatre) QUT Sue-Ellen began her career with the Queensland Theatre Company in 1982 and was head hunted to perform the role of 'Anybodys' in West Side Story in 1983. She also performed the role of 'Graziella' in the 1995/1996 Australian/New Zealand season of West Side Story. Her career has seen her work with

many renowned choreographers including Meryl Tankard, Chrissie Koltai, Tony Bartuccio, Ross Coleman, Jane Beckett, Magaret Chapple and Stephen Page. ~ a sought after teacher and choreographer, her teaching credits include some well renowned dance institutions including Sydney Dance Co Studios, UNSW, NAISDA, EDS, Brent Street Studios, Dance World 301, Dance Intensity Workshops, American Jazz Dance Affiliation Workshops (New Zealand) and professional dance companies such as D'Arc Swan, AIDT, Chunky Moves and Bangarra. Sue-Ellen has choreographed theatrical productions, television commercials, music videos and was an assistant to choreographer Stephen Page at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

VANESSA MAFE-KEANE- Choreographer Vanessa Mafe began her career with The Queensland Ballet before moving to Geneva where she danced with Le Ballet du Grand Theatre, dance-theatre group Vertical Danse Compagnie Noemi Lapzeson and was a founding member of a collaborative performance group, Co M-S-K. Returning to Brisbane, her projects include Lines of Site and Durchblicki(Entre)voir!Land(e)scape as well as performance/installations, Listening to People Move,

A MFA (QUT) and Arc of the Question (Artist Residency Gardens ~nts, QUT). Last year, Vanessa created Separating Shadows as part of accented body, Brisbane Festival, and Relocation which formed part of Expressions Dance Company Studio Workshop as well as performing in Clare Dyson's Churchill's Black Dog and Absence(s).

PROF. SUSAN STREET- Choreographer Susan Street's first professional engagement as a dancer was with Ballet Victoria in Petrushka with guest artists, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova. During her years as a professional dancer Susan gave over 1 ,000 performances across Australia before moving to Amsterdam where she worked as a dancer touring extensively in both Western and Eastern Europe. From 1988-1999, Susan worked as Head of Dance at

QUT, chairing the Tertiary Dance Council of Australia during that period. In 1999, she received the Australian Dance Award for Services to Dance Education • in 2000 she was the first Australian dance educator to be promoted to the of full Professor. Susan was Chair of the Dance Fund and a Council member for the Australia Council from 1997 to 1999. She is currently the National President of the Australian Dance Councii-Ausdance and a member of the Board of the Queensland Performing Arts Trust. Susan took up her appointment as Dean of Dance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (APA) in 1999 and during her six years in Hong Kong, was a Director of the Hong Kong Ballet and chaired their Artistic Advisory Committee. She was also an advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Susan is a practicing artist as well as an educator having created 20 new dance works over the past decade for professional dance, theatre and opera companies. In Hong Kong, Susan worked with Lo King-man on his productions of II Travatore and Faust. Susan returned to Australia in 2005 to take up the position of Executive Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.

JASON ORGAN - Lighting Designer AssocDipAT, BCAE A Jason graduated from Brisbane College of Advanced Educat~ 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 Yamin' 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.

ESSENTIALLY DANCE WAS PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY QUT PRECINCTS

Director Prof. Peter Lavery Operations Manager Jill Standfield Marketing Officer Alison Martin Events Coordinator Elaine MacRae Theatre Technician Chris Dickey

e ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Workshop Supervisor Brendan Wright Wardrobe Supervisor Rosa Hirakata Administration Officer Monica Cairns Ticketing Assistant Marie Cunningham

Wine presented in partnership with Merlo Kitchen

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PATRONS PLEASE NOTE

Dance Graduation 2007

6 to 10 November, 7.30pm Matinee Sat 10 Nov, 1.30pm

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