Dance Australia – June-July 2017

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DOMINIE LY THGOE

SHINES AT YOUTH

AMERICA GRAND PRIX

After gruelling rounds of

solos and coaching, Dominie

Lythgoe, from Classical

Coaching Australia, made the

top 12 in the Junior Division.

http://www.danceaustralia.

com.au/news/dominie-

lythgoe-shines-at-youth-

america-grand-prix

NZSD RELEASES 50TH

ANNIVERSARY BOOK

The New Zealand School of

Dance has published a

beautiful commemorative in

book in celebration of its

50th anniversary.

http://www.danceaustralia.

com.au/news/nzsd-releases-

50th-anniversary-book

AND THE AHA

WINNERS ARE...

The Alana Haines

Australasian Awards were

held over five days, 13-

April in Wellington,

New Zealand.

See our highlights, including

photographs of the winners.

http://www.danceaustralia.

com.au/news/and-the-aha-

winners-are

WEB HIGHLIGHTS

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IF you’re an aspiring choreographer or

dancer, you’re under 21, and you live in New

South Wales, FORM Dance Project’s annual

Sharp Short Dance is geared to you.

Short Sharp Dance is a competitive

dance festival, held at Parramatta’s

Riverside Theatres, that provides young

choreographers and dancers with the

chance to present short dance works in a

professional context. Each performance

will go through one of three rounds of

heats, judged by a panel of industry

professionals. The heat winners will

present their works as part of the finals on

Saturday, 18 November.

All participants in Sharp Short Dance are

eligible for awards such as Outstanding Male

Performer, Outstanding Female Performer,

Most Innovative Choreography, Outstanding

Solo, Duet and Ensemble Performance and

the Audience Choice Award. Finalists are

also eligible for secondments with major

professional dance companies and artists.

Registrations open 5 June and close 16

October. For more info head to

http://www.form.org.au/sharp-short-dance-2017/

Calling young

choreographers and dancers!

“WITH my cross-bow I shot the albatross.”

Ql2 Dance’s Quantum Leap youth dance

ensemble takes the epic poem “The Rime of

the Ancient Mariner” as a starting point for its

new work This Poisoned Sea, which will play

Canberra’s Playhouse Theatre on 27-19 July.

Exploring feelings of belonging, ownership and

responsibility, This Poisoned Sea asks, “Do we have

an albatross to lead us out of trouble? Have we

already killed it? Can we un-poison the sea?”

“This Poisoned Sea will be epic, thoughtful

and physical,” says artistic director Ruth

Osborne. “Our aim is to make contemporary

dance for all audiences. The dancers are

working collaboratively with the

choreographers: setting off from this epic,

archaic text to find their own truths, their own

stories of our place in the natural world. And to

make a compelling contemporary performance

from that place.”

Choreographer Jack Ziesing worked with a

small group of dancers to present an excerpt of

This Poisoned Sea at the Australian Youth

Dance Festival in Melbourne, in April. The

young dancers are also working with West

Australian choreographer Claudia Alessi and

Ql2 alumnus Eliza Sanders to create the piece.

The work will be performed by dancers

aged 14 to18 from the Canberra region, as

well as visiting dancers who will join the

ensemble for a month in July from as far

afield as Bangkok and Perth.

See http://www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au for

ticket info.

Setting sail from epic poem

PHOTO: VAM PRODUCTIONS

PHOTO: AMBER GRIFFIN PHOTOGRAPHY

Quantum

Leap dancers

in rehearsal.

PHOTO: JENNI L ARGE