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PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO MAY BE INTERESTED
New Dance Graduates (1st or 2nd year out)
Development opportunity with Solon Ulbrich
Call for Expressions of Interest
Soft Landing 1 2009
A unique opportunity for tertiary dance graduates to engage, collaborate and forge creative partnerships for the future.
Soft Landing is a collaborative professional development program at QL2 Centre for Youth Dance, Canberra (formerly The Australian Choreographic Centre). Independent dance artist and producer Solon Ulbrich will once again direct Soft Landing 1 for 2009. This program has been developed over several years and has supported many recent graduates during the difficult transition from the tertiary course into the dance profession.
The core of Soft Landing 1 will take place from April 14 to May 10, 2009. You should also be prepared to engage in online discussion and research prior to the studio development; and subject to funding, we will provide limited online and phone mentoring support after this. The development will take place at QL2 Centre for Youth Dance in Canberra and conclude with an "in progress" performance showing at the Centre’s theatre. Artists involved in the development will undertake a full time creative process including: daily technique class; contributing to the development of a new dance performance; and mentored feedback. There will also be opportunities to engage in teaching development and associated production skills. This will be a unique opportunity to maintain and extend dance training, share knowledge and skills with interstate graduates, forge creative partnerships and launch a creative practice for the future.
You must make a clear commitment to the creative process and be available full-time for the four-week period concluding the evening of Sunday, May 10. All participants must make their own arrangements for their stay in Canberra during this period. No accommodation or financial support is available.
All dance graduates within the first two years after completing their degree are eligible.
If you would like to make an expression of interest for Soft Landing:
1) Send your CV including references, photo and brief cover letter expressing your interest in the project to: softlanding@ql2.org.au; and
2) Submit a video with up to 15 minutes of material demonstrating your dance experience and skill. This can be submitted by mailing a DVD to:
Solon Ulbrich C/O Performing Lines, 5/245 Chalmers Street Redfern NSW 2016
Expressions of interest must be received by January 30, 2009
Applications will be assessed by:
· Solon Ulbrich: Project Director
· Ruth Osborne: Artistic Director QL2
Successful applicants will be advised by email by February 13, 2009
Any further queries please contact Solon Ulbrich on 0424 576 616
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For earlybirds: Ella-Rose Trew and Jacqui Cornforth will be talking about "On Course" on the ABC morning show at 7.30am Saturday 13 December with Ginger Gorman.
And On Course is on facebook.
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Seven young choreographers from tertiary dance courses around Australia will come to Canberra over two weeks from Monday to create "On Course" - an evening of new short dance works. Several are originally from Canberra, having got their grounding in dance with QL2 Centre for Youth Dance's "Quantum Leap" ensemble.
Jamie Winbank, Emily Chapman, Caitlin McKenzie, Gemma Dawkins, Jacqui Cornforth, Ella-Rose Trew and Amanda Phillips are working with dancers Abby Johnson, Gabriel Comerford, Gabrielle Kirchner, Lucy Ingham, Luke Curry Richardson, Paul Jackson, Pia Moore, Rene Miller and Jake Kuzma.
"On Course" grew out of QL2's "Hot To Trot" program, where senior Quantum Leap dancers create short works -- seen over 29-30 November this year. Artistic Director Ruth Osborne decided to open it up to Quantum Leapers who had left Canberra to study, and wanted to 'come home' to show what they were doing. And now, dancers around Australia who have heard about it from Quantum Leapers are wanting to be part of it, so she created "On Course" specially for them.
The works will be presented in a short performance season - three shows only - over the weekend of 13 and 14 December.
6pm & 8pm Saturday 13 December,
6pm only Sunday 14 December 2008
QL2 Centre for Youth Dance Theatre
Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Avenue Braddon.
$10 full, $5 concessions — tickets at the door 30 minutes before each show.
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In the Hot to Trot young choreographers’ program, we identify up to 10 experienced Quantum Leapers who have shown choreographic aptitude, and give them space and mentoring to work with a group of dancers , producing a short work for performance at special events. This leads to a November performance season in our theatre. Targeted at Quantum Leapers interested in a dance career, it will give them significant experience to inform their choices.
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 Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter in Tim Burton's Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, with Mia as Alice!
There's more pix here.
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An exciting new 45 minute dance work by and for young people, about food, eating and not eating. Choreographed by MARKO PANZIC (SYTYCD) & ZOE VENTOURA (Kick, Packed to the Rafters) in collaboration with the dancers.
5pm & 7pm Saturday 11 October,
3pm Sunday 12 October 2008
The Tim Murray Theatre, (Canberra Grammar School),
Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra
$15 full, $10 (conc), family of 4 $40 — tickets at the door 30 minutes before each show.
Pig Out is a new piece developed with mostly younger dancers (aged 9-19) in QL2's programs, working with professional choreographers and assisted by some of the older dancers who were involved in My Sister, My Brother in July. Choreographers Marko Panzic and Zoe Ventoura with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne and Assistant Director Vivienne Rogis have worked with these young dancers to create a 45 minute dance work about food and eating.
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"What we’ve learned about dance": a research feedback forum
Intention & Serendipity, Conceiving Connections, Unspoken Knowledges
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PRECIPICE 2008 at QL2 Theatre
An annual festival of improvisational performance.
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Join us for a very different tour — a dance performance moving through the international art collection.
 EXHIBITIONISM brings together a diverse group of young dance artists from around the country mentored by leading Australian choreographer Brian Lucas.
Working alongside a creative team of composers and Gallery staff, they have explored the gallery, responded to artworks from within its collection, and reflected on their personal experiences of “the viewing of art”.
EXHIBITIONISM is the result of their explorations and experimentations, a site-specific performance that moves throughout the gallery, revealing unique perspectives on the very personal and individual act of viewing.
EXHIBITIONISM is about the human experience within Gallery spaces, about the interface between artworks and viewers, and about the ways in which the lines between the viewer and the viewed are sometimes blurred.
Alyce Jasmine Farrell, Natalie Abbott, Elanor Webber, Laura Fishwick, Ebony Wright, Rudi Bremer, Gareth Hart, Yahna Fookes and Chimene Steele-Prior, with Artistic Director Brian Lucas and composers Nicholas Ng and Warwick Lynch.
Tours start 11am, 12 noon, 1.30pm and 2.30pm on Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September.
No booking required, but numbers are limited on each tour.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. QL2 Centre for Youth Dance is supported by the ACT Government.
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Our “Chaos” project incorporates younger and less experienced dancers with senior Quantum Leapers, building confidence and skills whilst creating and presenting a new dance work.
This year, they will work with professional choreographers including Marco Panzic (in the final 12 for So you think you can dance).
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Only 3 more shows: Friday 1 August @7pm; Saturday 2 August @ 2pm, 7pm.
QUANTUM LEAP AT THE PLAYHOUSE 2008
"My sister, my brother"
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Please pass this information on to anyone who you feel may be interested.
Due to the unavoidable withdrawal of one of the choreographers involved in the QL2 Centre for Youth Dance project "Soft Landing 2 - Exhibitionism", we are now able to provide the opportunity for one more emerging dance artist to benefit from this exciting event.
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QUANTUM LEAP AT THE PLAYHOUSE 2008
"My sister, my brother"
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MEDIA RELEASE 24 JUNE 2008
Dance and politics: “The House in motion”
Canberra’s QL2 Centre for Youth Dance has been commissioned by Old Parliament House to create a short dance performance for its relaunch as a museum exploring the past, present and future of Australian democracy. What information resides in the corridors of power? Are we as informed as we would like to be? How much freedom do we have? The work seeks to ask more questions than it answers, and explores how dance can be used to interpret and present ideas, characters and stories from Old Parliament House, making them more accessible to young audiences.
QL2 has engaged Skye Sewell from Phluxus Dance Collective as Artistic Director, together with young professional dancers Nerida Matthaei and Chafia Brooks (also from Phluxus), and Dean Cross, who are also ex-Quantum Leapers. Young Canberra dancers Jake Kuzma and Sam Maxted join them in the live performances.
Skye is developing a “perambulatory performance” where audience and dancers move through five of the historically significant sites in the building, including the Government Party Room and the Senate Opposition Party Room. She has also revealed some of the smaller spaces — the “corridors of power” — by creating a short dance film in collaboration with filmmaker Sarah Kaur (another ex-Leaper!), with 12 young dancers involved in this section. Audiences see this film in the Senate Opposition Party Room where politicians used to view films — a strange “gentleman’s club” atmosphere prevails!
Composer Nicole Canham has created a soundscape with Skye and Kimmo Vennonen, integrating snatches of politicians as well as ordinary people, and will be performing live music as well.
Skye says “This has been a great opportunity — as an artist and as a citizen of this country — to interpret and question the system which affords us the lifestyle that we experience in Australia.”
There will be two public performances of this pilot project, which will enable the staff at Old Parliament House to look at the impact of the dance works on audiences, in the very specific context of this new initiative.
Performances:
Saturday 28 June: public performances 11.30am & 1.30pm
Places are limited. Bookings essential 6270 8282.
Free after entry to Old Parliament House
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So some of you are wondering what on earth is this Old Parliament House project? Well, we've been commissioned by Old Parliament House to research, develop and present a short dance performance for the new "Gallery of Australian Democracy". The idea is to explore how dance can be used ti interpret and present ideas, characters and stories relevant to the Gallery, for young audiences.
We've engaged Skye Sewell from Phluxus Dance Collective as Artistic Director, together with ex-Quantum Leapers Nerrida Matthei and Chafia Brookes (also from Phluxus), and Dean Cross; as well as a group of current Quantum Leapers.
The whole project is very quick: all done by June 30! There will be 2 public performances of this pilot project, so OPH can assess whether it should be re-mounted.
Read about booking here.
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Well things are in full swing with the Democracy project for Old Parliament House.
We had a very successful film shoot at OPH on the weekend and after some very long but also funny and very rewarding hours in editing, Sarah Kaur and I are about half way there with the film and it’s looking beautiful! The pre-recorded music that Nicole has been working on is sounding great, even at the rough edit stage, and I think it will add a layer of complexity and edginess to the entire performance.
We just had our second rehearsal for the choreography tonight and the first of three dance scenes is done. Phew, tick that one off the list! There’s still a heck of a lot of work to be done but I love the overall shape of the piece and my sleepless nights are paying off!
Skye Sewell
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My sister, my brother is an exciting and moving new, full-length dance work in two acts.
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The first official Fundraising Event for "Friends of QL2" -- Organised by the Friends of QL2
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QL2 Centre for Youth Dance presents a work-in-progress show-and-tell
Choice Cuts -- Directed by Solon Ulbrich
11 dancers from across Australia present the results of
4 weeks of collaborative creative development
communicating on the topic of ‘choices’.
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Great news for the boys in License to Move -- on Thursday 20 March the senior boys class will be taught by Daniel Riley McKinley, a dancer in Bangarra Dance Theatre who was a member of Quantum Leap from 1999 to 2003. Daniel will teach some of the Bangarra repertoire in his class.
And the following week, Dean Cross will teach both senior and junior boys. Dean is also an ex-Quantum Leaper and is back in Canberra working on the graduate program Soft Landing.
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