BODYWEATHER WORKSHOPS WITH FRANK VAN DE VEN
• MELBOURNE 2-day workshop 11-12 MARCH
• SYDNEY special training session Saturday 20 MARCH

Frank van de Ven leads a morning workshop in Sydney...

We're delighted to announce that Frank van de Ven from Body Weather Amsterdam will be in Australia in March for a residency at the Centre for Theatre and Performance, Monash University, where he will work with postgraduates, undergraduates and staff. Whilst he is here, Frank will be leading two public workshops in Melbourne and Sydney. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a leading european Bodyweather exponent so we do hope to see you at these workshops.

MELBOURNE 11-12 MARCH
Thursday & Friday 11am-5pm
@ DANCEHOUSE, 150 Princes St, North Carlton
$180 full price or $150 concession
Information & Bookings: Peter Fraser 0439 012 900 or peterlfraser@gmail.com

SYDNEY 20 MARCH
Saturday 9am-midday
@ Frasers Studios, 10 Kensington St, Chippendale
$30 full payment. Bookings are essential as places are limited.
Information & Bookings: Bodyweather 0410 080 598 or info@bodyweather.net

Body Weather
0410 080 598
info@bodyweather.net
www.bodyweather.net

 

Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival presented by CarriageWorks are holding free Hip Hop Dance classes

These free classes are a part of the lead up to CarriageWorks' Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival. The classes are for everyone; kids, teens, adults, beginners and super-coordinated movers – it’s about breaking it down and giving hip hop dance a go in a fun and casual environment.

Don't worry if you have no experience, come along and you are sure to have a great time and learn some moves (or at least learn some terminology!) that you'll be able to use at Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival on 19 and 20 March.

LOCKING
with Darrio Street
Saturday 6 March at 11am

BREAKING
with Nick Power aka B*Boy Rely
Saturday 13 March at 11am

What do I wear?
Wear something comfortable and loose-fitting, or like what you would wear to do exercise. Shoes are a must, best to wear trainers/sneakers.

Can I bring my children?
Yes, but children MUST be supervised by an adult at all times throughout the class. Supervising adults do not have to take part, but they cannot leave unsupervised children in the class.
 

http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on.php?event=hiphopdanceclass

Sydney Dance Company - New Creations: Bonachela/Linder

Artistic Director and choreographer Rafael Bonachela will present two of his own works in Sydney Dance Company's 2010 Season at Sydney Theatre. In addition he will bring to Sydney for the first time two premiere commissioned works: the first from sensational Australian-born choreographer and dancer Adam Linder, winner of London's 2008 Place Prize for Choreography; the second from Israeli choreographic master Emanuel Gat, winner of his country's Cultural Award in 2005 and star of the 2009 Lincoln Center Festival in New York.

New Creations: Bonachela/Linder
Preview March 20
Season: March 23 - April 10
Tickets: Go online www.sydneytheatre.org.au OR ph: (02) 9250 1999

World Premiere: 6 Breaths
A new work by Rafael Bonachela set to a commissioned score by Italian composer Ezio Bosso (We Unfold).

"Rarely can music and movement have been so perfectly combined." The Stage, London

World Premiere: Are We That We Are
For the first time in Australia, Berlin-based, Sydney-born artist Adam Linder will create and perform in this new work.

"A rising star." Sydney Magazine

SHORT AND SWEET+DANCE 2010
Season Details

Short Sweet+Dance Week 1
Riverside Theatres
Cnr of Church and Market St Parramatta
March 30-April 1
Tuesday-Thursday 8pm
$28/$25
http://www.riversideparramatta.com.au
or phone bookings line 8839 3399

Short Sweet+Dance Week 2
Parade Theatres Kensington (NIDA)
April 7-10
Wednesday-Saturday 8pm/ 4pm Saturday matinee
$ 28/$25

Short Sweet+Dance Week 3
Parade Theatres Kensington (NIDA)
April 13-17
Tuesday-Saturday 8pm/ 4pm Saturday matinee
$ 28/$25

Short Sweet+Dance Wildcard
Parade Theatres Kensington (NIDA)
April 10 2pm
$ 25/ $22

Parade Theatres Kensington ( NIDA)
http://www.ticketek.com.au
1300 795 012 
Visit http://www.parracity.nsw.gov.au

the Loop, Parramatta's Free City Bus, leave the car, take the Loop

GOOD MORNING, MR GERSHWIN – COMPAGNIE MONTALVO-HERVIEU

Venue: Concert Hall
Dates: 8-10 April 2010
Duration: 80 minutes with no interval
Tickets: Go online www.sydneyoperahouse.com OR PH: (02) 9250 7777

Visionary dance choreographers José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu bring the irresistible glamour of the 20s and 30s to life in Good Morning, Mr Gershwin.

Blending tap, ballet, hip-hop and contemporary dance, this exhilarating production takes you on a dream-like journey through George Gershwin’s best-loved Broadway classics and his most famous opera, Porgy and Bess.

‘A life-enhancing, high-octane production that barely pauses for breath.’ The Financial Times

Set against a backdrop of stunning video imagery, Good Morning, Mr Gershwin is a thrilling and sophisticated night of entertainment from one of Europe’s most acclaimed dance companies.

George Gershwin is one of America’s true musical geniuses. A man of energy and substance, he drew on all musical forms and refused to believe in exclusion or discrimination of any kind. His free-thinking spirit flows through the entire production of Good Morning, Mr Gershwin. The performance swings from past to present, playful to thoughtful, raw to refined – unveiling our shared humanity.

Warning: Contains images of nudity. Not suitable for children under 12 years of age.

Choreography by José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu
Music by George Gershwin


 

The Silver Rose - An Australian premiere from Graeme Murphy

Venue: Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Dates: 9 - 29 April
Tickets: Go to www.sydneyoperahouse.com OR PH: (02) 9250 7777

Choreographic legend Graeme Murphy returns to The Australian Ballet stage in 2010 with a dazzling new full-length work. Based loosely on The Rose Cavalier, The Silver Rose is a ballet of romantic intrigue and love gone wrong. The Marschallin, an actress, is still very beautiful but fears her lover might fall for a younger woman. Inevitably he does. Against spectacular Art Nouveau sets, the cast tie each other in romantic knots. It seems in turn-of-last-century Vienna, love is a dangerous game. With music by Australian composer Carl Vine, The Silver Rose is set to be Murphy's sell-out success of 2010.

Choreographer Graeme Murphy
(based on Der Rosenkavalier by Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
Creative associate Janet Vernon
Music Carl Vine
Set and costume design Roger Kirk
Sydney: with Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

ELIZABETH LEA (Australia) – PRESENTATION

29 April, 2010, 7.00 pm for 8.00 start @ The Drill Hall, Rushcutters Bay

Please RSVP for catering purposes (Free Event) projects@criticalpath.org.au

Liz Lea was the recipient of 2009 Critical Path’s National Film and Sound Archive research residency in Canberra. Liz will present the research she undertook at the National Film and Sound Archives. Her work began with the two tours Anna Pavlova made to Australia in the 1920's and, through the collection at the NFSA, the project has expanded to researching materials for a work based around a number of touring dance companies in the 1920s. This piece is called '120 Birds' and will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival 2010

Elizabeth’s presentation will include film, photographs and performance

Coppélia

Three acts of magic, mayhem and mistaken identity

Venue: Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Dates: 4 - 22 May 2010
Tickets: Go to www.sydneyoperahouse.com OR PH: (02) 9250 7777

Coppélia has everything a good story ballet should: a touch of magic, a dash of romance and masses of sumptuous costumes. It all begins at the Harvest Festival, where the appearance of Dr Coppelius and his mysterious 'doll' Coppélia upset the celebrations. Village boy Franz falls for Coppélia but when his feisty fiancée exacts her revenge, he learns the hard way not to romance living dolls. Coppélia has been a family favourite for 140 years now, and this production is one of the very finest, with fairytale sets and costumes and a thoroughly danceable score.

Production George Ogilvie & Peggy van Pragh
Music Leo Delibes
Costume and set design Kristian Fredrickson
Sydney: with Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

 

Arts-Activated Conference 2010 - Registrations now open

Registrations open for Arts-Activated Conference
 
Registrations are open for Accessible Arts’ Arts-Activated Conference at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney over 25-26 March 2010. A range of national and international speakers from the arts and disability sectors will come together to explore the themes of Arts – Access – Excellence through a series of workshops, panels and performances.

A selection of international and local speakers will be presenting including: Sue Williams, Arts Council England (UK), Tony McCaffrey, Artistic Director of Different Light Theatre Company (NZ), Rachel Gadsden, Visual Artist (UK), Majella Flanagan, Coordinator Any Bright Ideas (UK), Rafael Bonachela (NSW), Artistic Director Sydney Dance Company, Philip Channells, Artistic Director Restless Dance Theatre (SA) and Camilla Connolly, Australian Director of the Asperger Women Association (NSW).

The conference is intended for artists with and without a disability, arts workers, disability service providers, policy makers, funding bodies, festival organisers and volunteers, cultural institutions, venues and anyone interested in arts and disability.

Click here to see full details

Chunky Move presents MORTAL ENGINE - Coming to Sydney in May 2010

DATES: 5 - 15 May 2010
VENUE: Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay
TICKETS: Go to www.sydneytheatre.org.au OR Ph: (02) 9250 1999

Following acclaimed seasons in Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne and New York, Mortal Engine returns to Sydney!

Mortal Engine is a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.

Chunky Move's Mortal Engine was the recipient of the 2008 Live Performance Australia Helpmann Awards Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production, and an 'Honourable Mention - Hybrid Art' in the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica, widely regarded as the most important international award for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media.

Direction and Choreography: Gideon Obarzanek
Interactive System Design: Frieder Weiss
Laser and Sound Artist: Robin Fox
Composer: Ben Frost
Costume Designer: Paula Levis
Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper
Set Design: Richard Dinnen & Gideon Obarzanek
Multimedia Engineer: Nick Roux
Performers: Kristy Ayre, Sara Black, Amber Haines, Marnie Palomares, James Shannon, Adam Synnott

"A breathtaking overload of every circuit ... a thoroughly absorbing production ... terrifying, beautiful, unique and absolutely unforgettable." Metro, London

www.chunkymove.com

CRITICAL PATH

The choreographic research and development centre for dance artists in New South Wales.

See www.criticalpath.org.au for current events