| Ausdance NSW Winter Update | Ausdance NSW Winter Update
Australian Dance Week wrap up 2008, Ausdance NSW launch the Speak Up! for dance campaign, Australian Dance Awards and more...
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| Bangarra Dance Theatre's Mathinna | A Girl’s Journey Between Two Cultures – Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Mathinna
Some time ago, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Artistic
Director, Stephen Page, travelled to Tasmania where he met with locals
in the Arts and with Elders of Aboriginal communities. The idea of
telling a Tasmanian story began to gain momentum, and when Stephen saw
Thomas Bock’s portrait of Mathinna, he says “I knew it was Mathinna’s
story that I had to tell.”
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| Nalina Wait - Artist in Residence | Nalina Wait creates new work with Ausdance NSW Dance Space Residency Program
Ausdance NSW’s recent Dance Space Residency initiative is giving a number of
independent choreographers the chance to access rehearsal space for the
development of new works. Last month, we spoke to Nalina just before she went into a two week
residency at Queen Street Studios to rework and refine material for a
new dance piece, Dual.
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| Branch Nebula – Street Culture and Dance | Branch Nebula – Street Culture and Dance
For
the last decade Branch Nebula has been challenging the social
structures governing everyday existence with a unique artistic vision.
They offer audiences a diverse view of popular and contemporary
culture, and place the recognition and exploration of diverse cultural
expression, in all of its multitudinous glory, at the pinnacle.
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| The Dancer's Brain | The Dancer’s Brain
Meagan Simpson is currently studying a Bachelor of Exercise Science at
the Australian Catholic University. She is also a dancer and
choreographer and here discusses new findings in neuroscience – mirror
neurons. Studies have been conducted recently which explore the use
of mirror neurons in dancers, which can ultimately affect how they
learn choreography and pick up dance routines.
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| Critical Path Update | Critical Path Update
Critical Path extends an invitation to an exciting line up of three free public events, 21-25 July and details on the launch of the Research Room Residency Program.
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| Western Sydney Update | Western Sydney Update
Martin Kwanser, Dance Producer at Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC) wraps up the past months' events at CAC and shares with us the details of an exciting Winter and Spring line up.
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| Isadora at the movies | Isadora at the movies Isadora Shortflexor is a writer, cabaret performer and performance
maker. She started dancing with a very tight bun at the age of 4 and
continues to hit the floor more generally with a fringe in her eyes.
She spent her early twenties as a showgirl on the P&O pulling into
ports and bars all around the world, and taking workshops with the
luminaries of modern dance. A performance highlight includes playing a
polar bear in Robert Wilson's "Civil Wars" (Rotterdam 1983). Isa... Read More >> |
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