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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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| There's some photos of the QL2 launch in our gallery.
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| You can see our full 2008 program here. Of course I'm sure there'll be more when people come up with an opportunity we can't refuse...
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Ausdance ACT held a great welcome function and info session for the Soft Landing crew, at Canberra Glassworks on Wednesday 5 March.
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