Indigineous Dance Development Strategy in NSWNOTE: Please note a change to our schedule next week due to maintenance at the Peter Forsyth Auditorium. Class on 3 March will be held in Studio 1, Seymour Centre and unfortunately class on Thu 4 March has to be cancelled due to no availability of a suitable venue. If you have any queries about how to get to Studio 1, Seymour Centre, please call our office on (02) 9256 4800
| Class costs: | $10 Ausdance NSW members / $15 non members |
| When: | Class held every Wednesday and Thursday morning, as per schedule below |
| Time: | 10am - 11.30am (1.5hrs) |
| Venue: | Peter Forsyth Auditorium, Frances Street Glebe (behind Broadway Shopping Centre) |
| Level: | Participants must be of advanced contemporary or ballet technique |
| Members class card: | Only $90 for 10 classes |
For further information please contact administration@dance.net.au or 02 9256 4800
| Wednesday | Teacher | Thursday | Teacher |
| 3 March | Dean Walsh | 4 March | CANCELLED |
| 10 March | Dean Walsh | 11 March | Tanya Voges |
| 17 March | Lisa Griffiths | 18 March | Lisa Griffiths |
| 24 March | Lisa Griffiths | 25 March | Lisa Griffiths |
| 31 March | Dean Walsh | 1 April | Dean Walsh |
| 7 April | Lisa Griffiths | 8 April | Lisa Griffiths |
| 14 April | Kristina Chan | 15 April | Kristina Chan |
Ausdance NSW gratefully acknowledges the support of City of Sydney for this project
About the guest teachers...Dean Walsh
Dean Walsh has been an influential member of the Australian independent contemporary dance and performance communities for the past eighteen years working with numerous Australian and international companies, individuals and festivals in performer / collaborator / choreographer / director / artistic consultant / mentor & teacher capacities. He has devised & performed in more than twenty-five solo works, including two full-length, & has toured many of these nationally and/or internationally. He has just completed a highly successful season of his latest collaborative work MirrorMirror with David Clarkson of Stalker Theatre and Dutch choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton as co-director, co-choreographer and co-performer at Parramatta Riverside Theatres, receiving great reviews. This work looks set to tour Central and South America in 2010 and has been picked up by Frans Brood productions for European touring in 2010 and 2011.
Dean toured Japan in 2006 with his solo ‘un-speakABLE’ as part of the Australian / Japan Year of Cultural Exchange & in 2008, at Dancebase, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, he held a three-week workshop & commenced stage one of an international exchange between himself and Scottish dancer /choreographer/director David Hughes and his company David Hughes Dance. Dean’s large-scale physical theatre/multi-media group work, Back From Front, premiered at Performance Space in 2008 attracting an incredibly diverse audience, considerable acclaim and international interest for potential touring in 2011. In 2002 Dean was awarded the prestigious Robert Helpmann Scholarship enabling collaborations with various individual practitioners in Europe and engagements with DV8 Physical Theatre (London) & Paul Selwyn Norton (Amsterdam) – touring with both these companies internationally.
In 2005 he was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for his solo Grounded on Air in the Most Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer category and won this award in 2002 for his role in ADT’s Age Of Unbeauty. He has tutored and taught for the New Dance Development Centre in Holland, DV8 Physical Theatre and many major Australian dance institutions and companies. Dean sits on the board of directors for Ausdance NSW.
Anton
PERFORMANCE- Anton 36 graduated from QUT in 1996 with an Associate Degree in Dance. He has had engagements with DarcSwan, Dance North, Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, The Australian Opera, Legs on the Wall and independents Troy Mundy, Shaun Parker, Meryl Tankard and Tanja Liedkte. He has toured extensively through Australia, Asia, Europe and USA.
CHOREOGRAPHY-Anton stared making dance work at age 23 his choreographies and commissions include works for Dance North and ADT in house seasons, AC Arts SA, Quantum Leap, Extensions, South Australian Children’s Ballet, DirtyFeet at (Dance House Melbourne) Brent St, Pulse 8, Queensland University of Technology, Dead Horse Productions (MeatWorks, Vic Arts Centre), Assistant Choreographer for The Actors Company at Sydney Theatre Company, Adelaide Feast Festival, Midsummer, Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and danceTANK 07 a full length work produced by the Sydney Opera House. 2009 brought opportunity with Australian Opera and a new commission with TASDANCE.
View his work here
He has made four dance films some of which have been shown in the USA, Holland, Italy and New Zealand he has received a nomination for REELDANCE Award 2004 and one for an Australian Dance Award 2006. Anton’s films were shown as apart of Dance Screen in the Sydney Festival 2008 First Night Opening for Sydney Festival 2009 and at London South Bank Centre 2009. He has worked on 4 music videos directing and choreographing two for electronic artists Mr Jigga of Level Two Music and choreographing for Abby Dobson and UK music Artists UNKLE. His video ’Garage Party’ for Mr Jigga was screened as apart of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Other Commercial Choreographies and performance have included work for Fanta, Target and Movement Direction/ Choreography for the 2009 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards creating Choreography for Delta Goodrum, Jessica Malboy, Cassie Davies and Guy Sebastian. View more of Anton's work here
TEACHING CREDITS - AC Arts South Australia, Brent St, Pulse 8, Australian Centre of Physical Education, NAISDA Collage, Western Australian Academy of Performance Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Ausdance NSW, Legs on the Wall, Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australian Dance Theatre, Australian Opera, The Australian Ballet, Sydney Theatre Co (The Actors Company) and Beijing Modern Dance LTDX.
Kristina Chan
Kristina has danced with numerous companies throughout Australia; Australian Dance Theatre touring Garry Stewart’s Birdbrain, The Age of Unbeauty, Plastic Space and Held throughout Australia, Canada, USA, Asia and the UK, Chunky Move touring Crumpled & Corrupted to Korea and Japan, One Extra Co. performing in Narelle Benjamin’s work Insideout and Out of Water, Tasdance, Stalker Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company Tales from the Vienna Woods, Theatre of Image Pixel and Friends, West Australian Opera Aida and dance film River Woman directed by Michelle Mahrer. Kristina appeared on T.V. series Superstars of Dance USA.
Kristina worked closely with independent choreographer/director Tanja Liedtke for 7 years creating works; Endstation Wunderkind, To my Suite, Defiled, Figures Fragile, Twelfth Floor touring Australia 2006,UK and Germany 2009 and construct touring U.K. 2007, Sydney Festival 2008, USA, Canada, Israel and Australia 2009.
Lisa Griffiths
Lisa worked with Chris Jannides before joining Gideon Obarzanek’s Chunky Move where she toured nationally and internationally. In 2003 Lisa was commissioned to make a short dance work for ‘Dance Tracks’ at the Studio, Sydney Opera House. She then joined Tasdance, working with choreographers Natalie Weir, Phillip Adams, Tanja Liedtke and Sue Healey. Lisa has been a guest dancer with Sue Healey Company since 2003 touring nationally and to New Zealand, and has performed in her films “Fine Line”, “3 Times” and “Once in a Blue Moon”. She worked with Meryl Tankard on “Pearl”, Carolyn Carlson in SWIC Project (Zurich), and was offered a scholarship to attend Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. Lisa joined Leigh Warren and Dancers in 2005, touring the USA performing “Quick Brown Fox”, by Leigh Warren and William Forsythe and remained with the company for 3 years.This year Lisa toured the UK with Tanja Liedtke's 'Twelfth Floor.Currently Lisa is developing a new work with dancer Craig Bary.
Craig Bary
Before graduating from the New Zealand School of Dance in 1998 Craig worked with The Royal New Zealand Ballet and Footnote Dance Company. In 1999 he joined Michael Parmenter's Commotion Company and then Garry Stewart's Thwack. From 2000 - 2002 was a member of the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT). He has returned to ADT as a guest artist for the tours of 'Birdbrain' 'Held' and 'Devolution'
As a resident dancer at Tasdance 2002 - 2005 Craig worked with Tanja Liedtke, Shaun Parker, Natalie Weir, Chrissie Parrott, Phillip Adams, Anna Smith, Neil Adams, Fiona Reilly and Graeme Murphy.
As an independent dancer Craig has also collaborated with Raewyn Hill's Soapbox Productions, Douglas Wright Dance 'Inland' and 'Black Milk', Gideon Obarzanek's Chunky Move, Leigh Warren and Dancers, Sue Healey Company and Kage Physical Theatre.
In 2005 he was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and ‘Most Outstanding Performance by a Male’ at the Australian Dance Awards.
In 2007 Craig toured Nigel Jamieson's 'Honour Bound' as the company rehearsal director.
Craig has created a work for the ADT 'Ignition seasons'
2008 and 2009 sees his first development of a new full length work in collaboration with Lisa Griffiths.
Last year he won the 'Best Male Performer' award in New Zealand's Tempo Festival and the 'Distinguished Graduate for 2008' from the New Zealand School of Dance. Craig recently returned from a very successful UK tour of Tanja Liedtke's 'Twelfth Floor' and has been invited to choreograph a new work on Sydney Dance Company this year.
www.craigbary.com
Narelle Benjamin
Narelle has choreographed two works for the One Extra Company. “Gossamer’ for the Sydney Dance Company’s Director’s Cut season 2006, ” and The Dark Room” for the Australian Ballet’s bodytorque season 2007. She choreographed her own production, “Figment” for Sydney festival 2008. “Lulie” and “Pixel” were choreographed for Theatre of Image in 2007 and 2008. In 2005, her collaboration with Wendy Houston, “In the Dark” won Outstanding Choreography at The Australian Dance Awards.
Narelle has worked with many Australian and international choreographers. Her company credits include Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Bangarra Dance Theatre, One Extra, and The Chrissie Parrot Dance Collective. Narelle won The Age Performing Arts Award for Best Performer 1994, and has been nominated for 3 green room awards, a Mo award and Australian Dance Award for outstanding performer. Narelle has worked on several films as a performer, choreographer and director. In 2007 she choreographed two films with the SDC made possible through winning the Hepzibah Tintner Fellowship; POD with filmmaker Samuel James and “The Shape of Water’ with director Cordelia Beresford.
Timothy Ohl
QUT trained, Tim has danced with the Australian Dance Theatre performing Garry Stewart’s Birdbrain, Held, The Age of Unbeauty, Devolution and Vocabulary touring throughout Europe, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia and in New York for G’day USA. In 2006 Tim choreographed a short work “Broken Departed” for ADT’s Ignition season. Since leaving the company Tim has worked with Force Majeure performing The Age I’m In directed by Kate Champion, KAGE Physical Theatre performing Headlock directed by Kate Denborough, Alice Lee Holland performing Preparing to be Beautiful, Shaun Parker for World Youth Day 08 and Sydney festival 09, The Song Company’s Tenebrae 3, Theatre of Image performing in Kim Carpenter’s Pixel and Friends and most recently with Meryl Tankard on The Oracle.
Previous to his time at ADT, he spent four years working in the USA. He has also worked with the World Dance Company and Queensland Opera. In 1997 Tim co-founded Raw Metal Performance Company in Brisbane. Here he acted as an Assistant Choreographer, writer and performer touring to Asia and throughout Australia. Tim is also soon to appear on Channel nines Superstars of Dance.
Fiona Malone
Fiona is a Sydney based choreographer/movement director/ performer/teacher who had a professional international/national career as a contemporary dancer, before becoming an independent artist. She has just completed a Postgraduate Diploma in `Movement Studies' at NIDA and is now returning to the independent dance scene with great enthusiasm.
Having worked professionally for years with a variety of choreographers, companies and artistic genres, her dance classes reflect her movement versatility and articulate knowledge of alignment, and function of movement. With a large emphasis placed on the use of momentum, centrifugal force, breath, floor work and alignment, she teaches an informative and enjoyable class encouraging the body to experience the pleasure of movement.
As a performer Fiona received nomination for 'Most Outstanding Female Performance' for her role in Garry Stewarts Age of Unbeauty by the `Australian Dance Awards’ and worked both nationally and internationally with companies and artists including Garry Stewarts’ The Australian Dance Theatre, Opera Australia, Charleroi Danses (Belgium), CH-Tanztheatre (Zurich), Meryl Tankard, Graeme Murphy, Dean Walsh, Akram Khan, John Utans, Kate DenBorough, amongst others
Also known for her work utilizing real-time technology and movement, The Adelaide Critic’s Circle awarded Fiona The Innovation in Arts Award 2004 for her interactive dance/theatre/technology production The Obcell (which began as a fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre in 2003) and her Hybrid dance work D/vision which was a commissioned work for AIT Arts in Adelaide. Additionally she was nominated for `Most outstanding achievement in Independent Dance' for the The Obcell by The Australian Dance Awards.
Other productions and commissions include: La La Land -(currently in development), Loony Times 07(NIDA), Reticence 06 (One Extra Dance Co. Commission), The Living Sky 06, and The Roll of Honour 05 (both commissions for the Quantum Leap Youth Dance Company in Canberra. Porcelain, D/vision 04 (commissioned for AIT Arts, Adelaide), The Obcell 04, Bamboo Bathing 03 (For Contemporary Arts Centre of South Aus.), Boite 01( Ignition Season ADT), Vertical Bath 01, Ignus Fatuus 00 (Ignition Season ADT), Juxta Classic .
Sol Ulbrich
Sol is an Australian independent performer, choreographer, teacher and arts producer.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Sol’s performance career features engagements with Australian Dance Theatre and Ricochet Dance Productions (UK). He has worked with choreographers including Rosetta Cook, Bill Pengelly, Liam Steel, Garry Stewart, Meryl Tankard, Rob Tannion and Natalie Weir.
Sol’s choreographic career has been recognised by a Choreographic Fellowship from the Australian Choreographic Centre. The short film Restoration which he co-choreographed and performed with Narelle Benjamin won the National Dance Award 1999 for best dance on film.
Further credits include: the State Theatre SA production of Equus; Holding Pattern for AIT Arts; Australian Dance Theatre’s Ignition seasons in 1999 and 2000; Quantum Leap 2002-2004; and Glitch a dance video installation for METIS Science and Arts Festival in Canberra.
Having completed a Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts) from the University of South Australia, Sol held the position of dance and performance Event Co-ordinator for the Southbank Centre, London and Rehearsal Director for Australian Dance Theatre.
Sol was Artistic Associate in a long-term partnership with choreographer Tanja Liedtke, providing artistic collaboration and project management and is acting director for her repertoire.
Sol pursues an interest in multi-disciplinary practice and enjoys the opportunity to facilitate collaborative environments. He has been lecturer in movement for the Circus Space degree course (London) during 2004 and 2005. His extensive teaching and lecturing experience includes classes in Classical, Contemporary and Yoga techniques for Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Expressions Dance Company, Opera Australia, Sydney Dance Studios, Taipei National University of the Arts, Tasdance and DV8 Physical Theatre Company.
Tanya Voges
Tanya studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor in Dance. Since then Tanya has worked with various choreographers through tasdance including Sue Healey, Anna Smith, Byron Perry, Shaun Parker, Tanja Liedtke and Raewyn Hill. Prior to the VCA Tanya travelled around the world dancing on a cruise ship, worked as a freelance dancer in Berlin, Germany and performed in a classical work in England and a contemporary production in Portugal.
Tanya is currently exploring solo practice having accepted a DirtyFeet Residency during Nov 2009 with Sol Ulbrich as her mentor. She is complementing performance work by teaching yoga throughout Sydney, running Yoga for Dancers classes and teaching community dance workshops through Western Sydney Dance Action.
Shaun Parker
Shaun graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1992 and worked with the Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre for seven years, touring throughout Europe, Israel, Japan, Scandanavia, USA and Canada. His international theatre credits include the European tour of Vaguement Derriere with Compagnie ALIAS in Geneva, 17-25/4 with Sasha Waltz in Berlin, and the gala performance of Panda with Meredith Monk in New York, in which he worked as a vocalist and counter-tenor. Shaun also performed in Kate Champion’s Tenebrae Part 1 & 2, at the Sydney Town Hall (in collaboration with The Song Company), Same, Same but Different at the Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne Festivals, and the Chunky Move tour to Klapstuk, Leuven, and Moscow. Shaun has also worked as a counter-tenor with Adelaide Baroque, amongst others.
His acting credits whilst in Sydney include Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Cut Theatre Co.), Abducting Diana (New Theatre), both by Italian political writer Dario Fo, and Wind in the Willows (Australian Shakespeare Company/Glenn Elston). Shaun’s feature film performances include Edge of the World, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, and his own short films NO and Blue Love, which have screened various international dance-film festivals, including Videodance, Athens, San Francisco, Krakow, Poland, London and IMZ Monte Carlo. Blue Love was later developed into a full-length theatre work for the Sophiensaele Theatre in Berlin in 2001, toured to Adelaide in 2002, and had a sell-out season in the Sydney Opera House in August, 2005. It was also selected to spotlight at the dance platform in New York and Adelaide.
Other choreographic credits include Worldes Bliss for Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre, at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with director Jim Sharman, and the solo works man… and SILO as part of DANCE BRIEFS at the Omeo Dance Space in Sydney. His music/dance-theatre work My Little Garden premiered for the Barossa International Music Festival in 1998, and won ‘Most Significant Production’, and ‘Most Promising Choreographer’.
More recently Shaun has worked on a new feature film entitled Book of Revelation, directed by Ana Kokkinos, and was commissioned to choreograph a new work for Tasdance, entitled Divine Harmonies, which was inspired by medieval composer and visionary Hildegard von Bingen.
In 2008 Shaun's latest work, This Show Is About People was featured at the Sydney Festival as part of Movers & Shakers series.
Tamarah Tossey
Tamarah’s career as a dancer and choreographer spans 12 years and is quite diverse working with both company and project based choreographers of different styles and approaches. Among them are Carolyn Carlson (Paris), Sonia Rocha (Zurich), Teresa Rotemberg (Zurich), Irina Pauls (Freiburg), Verena Weiss (Lucerne), Leine and Roebana (Amsterdam), Beppie Blankert (Amsterdam), Arthur Rosenfeld (Rotterdam).
Tamarah has performed solo roles in operas directed by Peter Greenaway and Pierre Audi including choreography by Min Tanaka (Butoh). She has also worked as a dancer for SiWiC since 2003 - an annual summer choreography workshop in Zurich which hires dancers for the choreographers to work with. The artistic directors for SiWiC have been Carolyn Carlson, Nigel Charnock, Susanne Linke and Jochen Heckmann. Tamarah’s choreography has been supported by Dansateliers Rotterdam, Dans Werkplaats Amsterdam and De Fonds voor de Podium Kunsten in The Hague and the Kulturampt Freiburg. Her pieces have been performed in The Netherlands at The Korzo Theater, The Pick Up Club, Paradiso, The Melkweg, and The Muiderpoort Theater. In Germany at Theater Freiburg and E-werk Theater in Freiburg among others. In Berlin Tamarah’s work was invited to the Dance Days Festival at the Sophiensalle in 2001. She has taught and made pieces for students in The Netherlands, Taiwan and Germany. Most recently she created two solos in which she also perform, 'The Cheerleader' (2006) and 'Self Storage' (2007).
Since arriving in Sydney in November 2007, Tamarah has started to practice solo and duet improvisation with Tony Osborne, been involved with different artist exchanges at Critical Path and has taught the Shaun Parker and Pulse 8 Dance Companies.