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REVIEW - QL2 DANCE ‘ON COURSE’ 17 DECEMBER 2011
Being offered fifteen short dances by different choreographers in one program is pretty exciting, but a bit daunting, too. How, I wondered, can they make possibly make so many items individually memorable? Well, for the most part, QL2 Dance’s evening of dance, ‘On Course’, certainly achieved it for me.
Now in its fourth year, ‘On Course’ brings together current dance students from tertiary institutions across Australia to choreograph, collaborate and perform. Some current Quantum Leapers also get the opportunity to be involved as dancers, working alongside the tertiary students.
With so many dances on offer, it’s impossible to mention each one here, so I’ll talk only about the ones that come to mind in this moment. If I talked about it tomorrow, I’d probably mention different ones. That’s how interesting they all were.
Mackenzie Burn presented her work, ‘Jack’, which was inspired by a young autistic boy. Here, all the elements – concept, dance and music - combined perfectly to provide a thought-provoking work about the challenges faced by an autistic person in this world. ‘Living With Lucy’ by choreographer, Sean Gearon, effectively showed the highs and lows of a relationship between two people. Mercie Taylor’s ‘Breeze’, a solo work, was particularly notable for her graceful and controlled dancing. It was a pleasure to watch her work.
I particularly enjoyed the concept of, ‘Reports Are Unconfirmed’, by Ashleigh Musk and Courtney Sheu about the daily ritual of reading a newspaper. I loved the imaginative images created in this piece of newspaper pages falling like leaves. ‘What Is Contemporary Dance?’ was an amusing attempt to answer an impossible question. Choreographer, Joel Fenton, provided us with a quirky, imaginative and very enjoyable dance that had the audience laughing out loud on a couple of occasions.
I missed the first item ‘…In Wonderland’, which was presented in the foyer before we entered the theatre. I was busy gasbagging as usual and, with the noise of the rest of the waiting audience, didn’t realize that we should have been watching this foyer performance at the other end of the room. The item was listed in the program, but I hadn’t opened it yet. Maybe an announcement could have been made to capture our attention. Maybe there was an announcement, but I didn’t hear it.
Each choreographer introduced themselves and their individual works, a nice touch, but, as the introductions are part of the performance, it’s not a good look to come onstage clutching your water bottle.
Once again, QL2 Dance provided a quality and entertaining evening of dance. The enthusiastic applause at the end of the evening was well-deserved by choreographers and dancers alike. I’m looking forward to seeing what QL2 Dance has for us in 2012.
© Len Power
Broadcast on Artsound FM 92.7 ‘Dress Circle’ program on Sunday 18/12/2011
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 © Len Power
Broadcast on Artsound FM 92.7 ‘Dress Circle’ program on Sunday 27/11/2011
REVIEW – QUANTUM LEAP ‘HOT TO TROT’ 26 NOVEMBER 2011
I have a problem with dance. If it doesn’t engage me quickly, my mind is off wandering and I might as well not be there. Luckily, I had no such problems last night at Quantum Leap’s program, ‘Hot To Trot’.
Quantum Leap’s ‘Hot To Trot’ is an opportunity for their dancers, who have experienced working with professional choreographers in a collaborative process, to explore their own choreographic potential. Last night’s program presented nine short pieces, each distinctive in their style and content.
I was particularly interested in the conceptual originality of each piece. Basic ideas and themes were given an appropriate extra dimension with accompanying lighting, music, commentary and, in some cases, film. The dance melded beautifully with all these elements providing an entertaining and, at times, thought-provoking experience.
There are some startling images from these dances that have stayed in my head. Tamar Peacock fighting with her own shadow on the wall in her piece about fear of the dark, ‘Achluophobia’, Tori Lee’s group of dancers, each coping with a physical disability in ‘Limitations’ and Ryan Stone reacting to a spooky projected film of his partner, Jess Stone, in ‘Night Terror’.
Harry Morrissey choreographed and danced a particularly engaging piece called ‘Changing Deviant Behaviour’ which showed two teenagers in complete contrast – one on film unmotivated and disorganised and the other, danced by Harry, organised and prompt.
Not every piece was designed to be thought-provoking. There was the sheer fun of ‘Boogie Nights’ by Alana Stenning with an excellent take-off of the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ era of dance with Ryan Stone in the white suit and accompanying dancers obviously having a good time.
I did wonder if those who choreographed and danced their own pieces might be missing out on the important and different experience that comes from directing a group of dancers other than themselves.
In each piece, the discipline and hard work of the dancers was very evident. You don’t have to make allowances for anyone in this company. They all give 100 percent and it shows.
It was a nice touch to have each choreographer introduce each of their pieces and at the end of the evening, dancers and choreographers were available on stage to discuss their work with the audience.
I left the theatre last night knowing that dance has an assured future after seeing the work of these young and dedicated choreographers and dancers.
© Len Power
Broadcast on Artsound FM 92.7 ‘Dress Circle’ program on Sunday 27/11/2011
http://artsound.fm/home/2011/11/25/dress-circle-sunday-november-27-500pm-to-630pm.html
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Be part of the next big Quantum Leap project, starting soon! Performances at Canberra Playhouse in May 2012. Get your application in RIGHT NOW -- or call us on 02 62473103. Please register before the audition day to avoid complete chaos!
You will create this new work with choreographers Lina Limosani (Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move), Jade Dewi Tyas-Tunggal (on tour with ‘6/7 empty’) and Matt Cornell (Shaun Parker, DanceNorth, Legs on the Wall).
Audition 13 November 2011.
Work starts in December, and there are full-time intensives in January and April.
And then you might be selected for other amazing things like our Taiwan international project with STEPS Youth Dance.
TIMETABLE (tbc)
Sundays: 4 & 11 December
Full time 9-20 January
Sundays, then
Full time 14-29 April
Full time 6-12 May (performances 19-12 May)
COST
$400
(Bursaries are available for financial hardship — contact info@ql2.org.au for a confidential discussion.)
WHAT NOW?
Contact us — 02 6247310, info@QL2.org.au, and SEND IN A REGISTRATION FORM.
What is Quantum Leap anyway?
Quantum Leap is QL2 Dance' auditioned youth dance ensemble for ages 15-21, making passionate contemporary dance for all audiences:
Top professional contemporary choreographers
Collaborative projects
Challenging ideas
Great performances
It is demanding, but supportive. You work together to create sophisticated productions that wrestle with big ideas. If you’ve got training, experience or aptitude in contemporary dance, street funk, classical ballet, hip-hop, jazz dance, gymnastics, martial arts, or circus, then you should apply.
“Quantum Leap gave me
the start and focus I needed
to kickstart my career”
Daniel Riley McKinley (Bangarra Dance Theatre)
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It’s all good is a new contemporary dance work about language and truth, created by 30 young dancers (8–16) working with choreographers Caitlin Mackenzie, Gabe Comerford and Chafia Brooks with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne.
BOOK NOW!
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It’s all good contemporary youth dance performance |
| When |
Friday 21 October @ 7pm
Saturday 22 October @ 4pm & 7pm |
| Where |
Theatre 3 (3, Repertory Lane Acton) |
| Duration |
The performance is approximately 50 minutes long.
Please arrive 15 minutes before showtime. |
| Access |
Wheelchair accessible — please inform box office. Mobility impaired have priority for stepless seats: arrive early.
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| Prices |
$18 full | $14 concession | $12 under 15
(Fees apply for online and phone bookings) |
| Tickets |
BOOK NOW!
www.canberrarep.org.au
62571950 or at Theatre 3 (M-F 10am-4pm)
NB online sales end 4pm Friday. Very limited tickets may be available at the door 1 hour before each show.
Unallocated seating -- all seats are good.
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This annual performance project for younger dancers has a record for producing energetic, thoughtful and touching dance works. Our 2010 project Hard Yards was winner of the Australian Dance Award for community or youth dance.
Independent professional dance artists Caitlin and Chafia are originally from Canberra, and were part of our Quantum Leap ensemble; and Gabe discovered us through our On Course program for graduates.
 Caitlin Mackenzie was a Quantum Leaper with QL2 from 2004. As a QUT graduate, she was in our Soft Landing program, and was a member of Link Dance Company in WA. She was in an award-winning work in Short Sweet + Dance, Sydney, and in Garry Stewart’s film Collision Course.
 Chafia Brooks was in Quantum Leap in 2000, and graduated from QUT. She is an independent artist who has worked throughout Australia and overseas, with Claire Marshall, Joseph Lau, Ricky Sim and Dancers (Singapore), Rebecca Hilton, Sela Kiek and Expressions Dance Company.
Gabe Comerford is an emerging artist who has been involved with QL2’s Soft  Landing and On Course projects. A QUT graduate, he has worked with Compagnié MADO in New Caledonia, Dancenorth, and Brisbane based MakeShift Dance Collective. He also made the Top 40 of So You Think You Can Dance Australia. |
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You can read our latest newsletter here.
- QL2 wins two Australian Dance Awards
- “QL2 Dance”: simpler name, same mission
- “Toes on the Edge” in Thailand
- Soft Landing
- Regional NSW & ACT youth dance get-together
- “Identify” Quantum leap project
- Master Classes
- Dance in a box, dance at the library
- Coming up: “It's all good”, Hot to Trot, On Course
So much dance action at QL2!
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 Free Quantum Leap workshop series with photographer Lorna Sim
For dancers in dance photography: you as subject, you as photographer
Lorna Sim is a Canberra based exhibiting photographer — and experienced Quantum Leap photographer. In conjunction with QL2 dance she is offering this series of three free workshops for Quantum Leapers. She will look at equipment, technical issues, staging, lighting, and direction. In conjunction with Ruth Osborne, the workshops will also work on your skills as a subject for photography in dance: taking and giving art direction, choreography for photography, creative collaboration.
“Lorna Sim’s images are always strikingly beautiful and meticulously composed; her creative skills are reflected in the many awards she has received.”
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Sunday 11 September 2011 Sunday 25 September 2011 Sunday 9 October 2011 |
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4pm – 7pm |
| Where |
QL2 Theatre |
| Cost |
FREE to Quantum Leap — but booking essential |
Info
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Ruth@QL2.org.au or 62473103 sim.camera.art@gmail.com |
| Bookings |
admin@QL2.org.au or 62473103 |
Presented by QL2 Dance Inc. There are limited places in this series so book now to secure your place.
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 Sara Black
Contemporary technique workshop
Sunday 28 August | 10am | $20
Award-winning contemporary dancer Sara Black is offering just one workshop in Canberra. This will be an exciting and challenging contemporary technique workshop, followed by a discussion forum—a chance to ask questions about university study and life as a professional dancer.
Originally from Canberra, Sara started dancing aged 14 at Canberra Dance Development Centre, and was an early Quantum Leaper and participant in ‘On Course’ and ‘Soft Landing’. Since graduating from Victorian College of the Arts, she has worked with independent artists Solon Ulbrich, Antony Hamilton, Neil Adams, Byron Perry, and Cadi McCarthy, as well as Lucy Guerin Inc, Not Yet It’s Difficult, and Chunky Move. Sara was awarded Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production for ‘Glow’ at the 2008 Helpmann Awards and was nominated for a Green Room Award. She is a founding member of Rogue, dance collective and has performed in Chunky Move’s ‘Black Marrow’, ‘Mortal Engine’ and ‘Mix Tape’.
“The moment Sara Black steps on stage, we are immediately reminded how the very best dancers have the ability to pair power with vulnerability, to find light and shade within the most complex movement sequences, and somehow imbue abstract gestures with an emotional expression.” THE AGE
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Sunday 28 August 2011
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10am – 12pm (arrive by 9.45am)
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QL2 Studio, Gorman House, Batman Street, Braddon
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admin@QL2.org.au or 62473103
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Presented by QL2 Dance Inc.
There are limited places in this workshop so book now to secure your place.
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QL2 Dance wins two Australian Dance Awards
QL2 Dance was recognised for excellence in contemporary youth dance practice last night in Brisbane, winning two out of the ten prestigious Australian Dance Awards announced at a packed ceremony at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
 QL2 Dance Artistic Director Ruth Osborne was recognised with the 2011 Award for Services to Dance “For her superlative teaching and wide-ranging services to dance for over four decades; for an outstanding contribution to dance education and to the development of youth dance practice in Australia.”
Ruth has devoted her professional life to youth dance, challenging old ideas and developing new methods. She is passionate about recognising and nurturing the nascent artist in each young dancer, and valuing their unique viewpoint, critical thinking and creativity alongside development of physical technique, self-discipline and choreograohic awareness.
QL2’s 2010 junior youth dance project Hard Yards was recognised with the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance “For the joy and vitality of the many young performers, and for the deep understanding of personal stories told through dance in a well-constructed and entertaining show.”
 In October 2010, the iconic Yarralumla Woolshed was transformed by Hard Yards: a unique dance performance about working hard and slacking off. 45 dancers aged eight to eighteen from Canberra and Cowra collaborated with choreographers Liz Lea and Dean Cross, together with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne, to create the work which showed to packed houses.
http://www.australiandanceawards.net.au/award-winners/view/ruth-osborne
http://www.australiandanceawards.net.au/award-winners/outstanding-achievement-in-youth-or-community-dance/ql2-dance
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 Identify is a triple bill of high quality dance by nationally recognised contemporary choreographers, working with Canberra's own youth dance company: Quantum Leap. Not a concert, but three interlinking short works, looking at how young people identify themselves: where they came from, where they are going, who they are online.
Book now at The Q's online box office.
Wednesday 3 August 2011 - 7.00pm
Thursday 4 August 2011 - 10.30am Schools Performance
Thursday 4 August 2011 - 7.00pm
Friday 5 August 2011 - 10.30am Schools Performance
Friday 5 August 2011 - 7.00pm
Saturday 6 August 2011 - 2.00pm & 7.00pm
$28.00 -Adult
$20.00 - Concession (full time student, unemployed, pensioner)
$20.00 - Child
$22.00 - Group (10+)
$17.00 - Group (10+ concessions and/or child)
$72.00 - Family (min 4 people including 2 children)
$22.00 - Members (QL2, Ausdance, CDT)
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Get your audition form in! Chaos: 40 young dancers, great choreographers
More here! and get an audition form here.
Our “Chaos” project each year gives younger and less experienced dancers a great opportunity to get into our unique program, building confidence and skills in a creative and physically challenging environment. For many, it can be a natural progression to Quantum Leap in later years. And plenty of older dancers are involved as well — challenging themselves, and inspiring the younger ones.
It’s all good is an exploration of how we talk about what we feel. Do you really mean what you say? Language changes every day. How do we know what anyone means?
The choreographers
We’ve got three wonderful choreographers to work with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne. Caitlin Mackenzie was a Quantum Leaper with QL2 from 2004. As a QUT graduate, she was in our Soft Landing program, and was a member of Link Dance Company in WA. She was in an award-winning work in Short Sweet + Dance, Sydney, and in Garry Stewart’s film Collision Course. Chafia Brookes was in Quantum Leap in 2000, and graduated from QUT. She is an independent artist who has worked throughout Australia and overseas, with Claire Marshall, Joseph Lau, Ricky Sim and Dancers (Singapore), Rebecca Hilton, Sela Kiek and Expressions Dance Company. Gabe Comerford is an emerging artist who has been involved with QL2’s Soft Landing and On Course projects. A QUT graduate, he has worked with Compagnié MADO in New Caledonia, Dancenorth, and Brisbane based MakeShift Dance Collective. He also made the Top 40 of So You Think You Can Dance Australia.
The performances
Theatre 3, Acton. Suitable for families, primary & secondary students
Friday 21 October @ 7pm and Saturday 22 October @ 3pm & 6pm..
How to get into “It’s all good”
In the audition workshop, we will lead you through a dance class and some fun creative games. You don’t have to prepare— but it will help if you are doing some dance or movement classes before you start. We want lots of different kinds of dancers to have a go. The audition is free.
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Application due Friday 11 March! So do it now!
Audition Sunday 27 March
IDENTIFY will be a triple bill. Each work will look at how you identify yourself: where you came from, where you are going, who you are online.
Application due Friday 11 March! So do it now!
We are looking for energetic, physical, creative and talented young people who want to collaborate with professional artists and other young people to create and perform new contemporary dance. You don’t have to be a highly trained dancer when you start, but you’ll join a group who work hard to make great dance, building their bodies and stretching their minds. There will be creative projects and ongoing mentoring, plus classes to develop your technique, strength and fitness.
We select a wide range of enthusiastic, determined young people with training, experience or aptitude in movement, for example: contemporary dance, street funk, classical ballet, hip-hop, jazz dance, gymnastics, Martial arts, circus.
We welcome young people from Canberra and the region around— dancers travel from the NSW south coast, Cowra, Young, Canowindra, Blue Mountains and Sydney to participate. We also have a Visiting Dancer program for intensive visits by more experienced dancers from further afield.
IDENTIFY
This is the major project for our Quantum Leap ensemble for the year. After auditions in March, it will culminate in a performance season at “The Q” theatre in August.
Choreographer Adam Wheeler (Artistic Director of 2ndToe Dance Collective ) has developed the first piece, 'Toes on the Edge', in January. Jodie Farrugia (Flying Fruit Fly Circus) has worked with another group in February.
The third work, by acclaimed Sydney-based choreographer, Anton (Legs on the Wall, Tasdance) , will be developed in the April and July school holidays with all newly-auditioned dancers, plus experienced Quantum Leapers. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!
The group will be joined for the last weeks by visiting dancers from Bangkok Dance Academy, Maya Dance Theatre (Singapore), and dancers from tertiary courses around Australia. Video producers Bearcage Productions will design and produce a video component, and there will be an original music score.
Application due Friday 11 March (No applications will be accepted on the day of the audition.)
Audition Sunday 27 March 1–6pm. There is no cost to attend the audition, which will be in the form of a dance workshop — a letter with further details will be sent when you apply.
Production & performance week: Sunday 31 July – Saturday 6 August (Sunday 9am–6pm, Monday 3–6pm, Tuesday 9–6pm, Wednesday – Friday 9am–9pm, Saturday 12–9pm & cast party till 11pm)
Classes are essential!
Doing class consistently is vital to develop as a dancer and as a choreographer. If you are not doing quality dance training elsewhere, you will need to do our classes to get into the project, and to keep up so you can be selected for special projects.
You will need to demonstrate to the Artistic Director that you are doing adequate training. This is enforced to make sure everyone develops the necessary techniques to work safely and effectively in the project and to maintain the high standards expected of QL2 productions.
Cost
The total participation cost for the project is $350. This is heavily subsidised, and includes a project T-shirt and QL2 hoodie.
Classes are $84–120/term depending on term length ($12/class) when paid in advance — see our separate classes flier.
Optionally, you can also buy a DVD of the work for $30, and a CD of photos for $10.
Bursaries are available for financial hardship.
Opportunities for Quantum Leapers
Once you are a Quantum Leaper, you are in the running for all kinds of special opportunities. These include our young choreographers’ support program Hot to Trot; master classes by visiting dance companies; highlight health promotion performance at the ACT Youth Dance Festival; a forum on dance careers with professional dancers; and discounted tickets to quality dance performances.
Programs for younger dancers
We also offer classes and projects for younger dancers. Our major project for ages 9+ is “It’s all good” in September–October. To be ready for audition, enrol in our classes!
Financial Hardship?
We are a non-profit organisation, and keep prices very reasonable. However, we know cost may still be an obstacle. We offer a Bursary system to assist you financially if cost prevents you being in our programs. To make an appointment to discuss this, please contact us.
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QL2 Centre for Youth Dance presents an informal performance & discusssion
from the dancer development project Soft Landing 1
If you’re interested in the development of dance, dancers, and performance —this is for you.
(in)human will be an informal dance performance by 8 dancers, developed by research and response to four weeks of new ideas and challenges that have surfaced during the project. A discussion with the artists will follow the showing.
When:
Friday 4 March 7pm
Saturday 5 March 2pm & 7pm
Duration: 60 minutes (performance + discussion)
Where:
QL2 Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Ave, ACT
FREE, but please RSVP by emailing rsvp@QL2.org.au or calling 02 6247 3103
QL2's "Soft Landing" program gives graduate dancers from tertiary courses around Australia a chance to find their feet in a mentored development project in Canberra. It is 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. The 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.
8 performer/ collaborators are involved in Soft Landing 1 2011:
Ashleigh Berry, Caitlin Mackenzie, Emma Fishwick,
Gabriel Comerford, Gemma Dawkins, Janine Proost,
Kate MacDonald, Rebecca Taylor
This showing and discussion will be a revealing glimpse into the possibilities and challenges for these new voices in Australian dance.
Project directed by Amelia McQueen and Solon Ulbrich.
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BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW
On Course: new short dance works created & performed by young dance artists from around Australia — current dance students at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Adelaide Centre for the Arts.
Each piece is less than 10 minutes, there’s an interval so you can catch your breath, and there’s a chance to talk with the artists afterwards in a forum, or in the foyer later.
Two shows only: Saturday 11 December & Sunday 12 December
6pm (ends about 8.15 — one interval)
Tickets: Full $10, Concession $8.
At the door, 30 minutes before each show, or online: QL2.org.au
"On Course" grew out of QL2's "Hot To Trot" program, where senior Quantum Leap dancers create short works -- seen at the end of November in Canberra. 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 we created "On Course" specially for them.
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New dance with passion: Quantum Leap dancers flexing their choreographic imaginations and muscles.
2 shows only: 7pm Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 November
QL2 Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Ave, Braddon.
Tickets: Full $10, Concession $8.
Available online or limited tickets at the door, 30 minutes before each show.
Last year sold out, so make sure you get in quick!
Mentored by Ruth Osborne, these young dancers have created their own short dance works — physical, thoughtful, serious, fun. For some, this is their first choreographic effort; while some have choreographed works for several years before they set off for tertiary dance studies.
The project aims to develop choreographic awareness in young dancers as soon as possible — moving beyond just ‘doing the steps’, to making meaningful dance.
This year, Hot To Trot will include new short works (including dance films) by:
Emma Batchelor, James Batchelor, Amanda Lee, Madison Hegarty, Bhenjamin Radburn, Chloe Chignell, Eliza Sanders and Tamar Peacock.
The dancers include: James Batchelor, Amanda Lee, Madison Hegarty, Bhenjamin Radburn, Chloe Chignell, Eliza Sanders, Tamar Peacock, Sam Young-Wright, Stephanie Livingstone, Brittney Vaughan, Darcy Read, Georgia Holgate, Divya Melaluca-Venugopal, Alana Stenning, Elizabeth Wensing, and Tara Mairs.
Buy your tickets now!
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 QL2 Centre for Youth Dance, in partnership with NewActon, presents a series of free dance performances, devised collaboratively by some of Australia’s most exciting young dance artists.
Performed live on locations throughout the NewActon precinct, these performances are the result of a four-week process entitled "Soft Landing 2", which aimed at enhancing the skills and experience of recent graduates from Australia’s finest tertiary dance training institutions.
Daylight Performances
As the chill of Winter moves towards the warmth of Spring, rug up and come with us on a guided journey through the NewActon precinct. In the commercial and public spaces of the development, dancers will present site-specific works which will allow audiences to see the architecture and environment of NewActon through fresh eyes. Exploring the themes of public and private behaviour, these performances will provide exciting contemporary dance pieces in which audiences will recognise themselves, and in which we they will see reflections of our lives “In The Public Domain”.
Fri 10th /Sat 11th /Sun 12th September
10:30am + 1:00pm | Duration : approx 60 mins
Meet outside UrbanFood Store + Cafe (cnr of Marcus Clarke St and Edinburg Ave)
Evening Performances
In the warm and welcoming indoor spaces of NewActon, be surprised and entertained as the young artists from QL2 animate the precinct in unexpected and entertaining ways. Wander through the foyer of the Diamant Hotel, and on into the restaurants and bars, and come face-to-face with live dance installations and physical imagery that will enhance your experience of these dynamic public spaces. Watch as much or as little as you choose - and then why not stay on drink or a meal to round off the evening?
Fri 10th /Sat 11th September
From 7:00pm | Duration : approx 45 mins
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Audition 15 August -- get your application in NOW!
"Hard Yards" will be about work: slacking off and working hard. Why bother working hard? What happens if you don’t?
Form here: http://ql2.org.au/Auditions_Classes_flier.php
Guest choreographers Liz Lea (London) and Dean Cross will work with the group to create a dance work performed in the atmospheric Yarralumla Woolshed – a bit of the bush in the city, redolent with the sweat of hard work (and sheep!)
“Hard Yards” will have a mix of younger and less experienced dancers (aged from 8 years), together with experienced dancers from our Quantum Leap ensemble (14+) who help inspire and mentor newer dancers. It will build your confidence and skills in a creative and physically challenging environment.
The project is about creating dance, and performing. So the choreographers will invent the work with you.
The performance season will be presented in October, and will be suitable for families as well as primary and secondary school students.
Application due Tuesday 3 August
Audition Sunday 15 August 1–4pm.
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Exciting a Blush
Thursday at 19:00 - 14 August at 20:00
QL2 Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre
Ainslie Avenue, Braddon
New performance collective Autumnal are returning home to present their new dance work, Exciting a Blush.
Five individuals intersect in moments of heightened self-awareness where bodies can betray their keepers by unintentionally broadcasting internal emotions.
Examining what we think of what others think of us, why we care, and why on earth that should affect the capillaries in our cheeks, Exciting a Blush explores the physiology and psychology behind the most peculiar of human expressions, the blush.
Capturing moments of awkwardness, modesty, social blunders and sexual awakenings amidst brand new dance and music, this dance theatre work is Autumnal's debut.
Originating from Canberra, Autumnal members are now carving out their place in Australia’s artistic landscape. Emerging as some of Australia's most exciting new dance artists having performed, collaborated and toured for the likes of Buzz Dance Theatre, Tasdance, Shaun Parker, Lucy Guerin, Clare Dyson, Anton, and Narrelle Benjamin, as well as undertaking their own creative endeavours through both local and international residencies.
Exciting a Blush marks the return of these artists to Canberra, where their careers were ignited and kick started through QL2's Quantum Leap and Soft Landing initiatives. Autumnal's ties to Canberra as a home place, training place, and arts place, have brought them back to share with the community their talent and creative vision, as they proudly return home to make their debut.
Exciting a Blush is also the choreographic debut from Autumnal member Angela Goh. Emerging with a vibrant creative voice, Angela's work is “a treasure... articulate... unforced... with a great respect for the natural workings of the body”.
Composer James Brown, an accomplished sound designer, photographer and animator has collaborated with theatre companies nationally and internationally. He joins Autumnal to create an original score for Exciting a Blush, which also features live music by classically trained soprano and Autumnal member Eleanor Wood.
Autumnal bring their grace, sincerity, fire and youth to this spirited new production making it an essential experience for any one interested in the beautiful, the daring, or the human.
Autumnal gratefully acknowledges the support of
the ACT Government through artsACT
and QL2 Centre for Youth Dance through a grant of space
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QL2 Centre for Youth Dance (Canberra) and Maya Dance Theatre (Singapore) present
Standing in line in order of height
Book now online:
Bringing together Western contemporary dance and Asian classical dance, Standing in line in order of height explores conformity versus individualism in Singaporean and Australian culture.
Choreographers Kavitha Krishnan from Singapore, Ruth Osborne from Australia and Liz Lea from the UK have developed the work with dancers from Australia and Singapore in a collaboration between Maya Dance Theatre and QL2 Centre for Youth Dance.
AUSTRALIA
QL2 Theatre, QL2 Centre for Youth Dance, Gorman House Arts Centre
Ainslie Avenue, Braddon ACT 2612, Australia FIND US
$25 (Full), $15 (Concessions)
BACKGROUND
 Developed through a collaboration between QL2 Centre for Youth Dance and Maya Dance Theatre, the project aims to develop choreographic skills and cross-cultural links between the young dancers: from QUT in Australia we have Hannah Peake, Robert King, Sheriden Newman and Jason Wood who will join four dancers from La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore: Khairul Shahrin, Sufri Juwahir, Adeline Yee, Wei Ling and Samantha Teo.
Maya’s Creative Director Kavitha Krishnan has worked in traditional Asian and contemporary forms in Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Taiwan and South Africa. QL2’s Artistic Director Ruth Osborne is recognised in Australia and internationally for her collaborative work with young people. Working from London and resident in Canberra for the last year, Liz Lea is an award-winning choreographer specialising in contemporary dance and Bharata Natyam classical Indian dance.
Ruth Osborne says the partnership and collaboration “exemplifies a developing new model of dance education in Australia, where university study forms part of a continuum of development for a dance artist, with other strands building strong educational connections between students and the wider ecology of dance.” And that “wider ecology” is a boon for audiences, who will see new intercultural work like Standing in line in order of height.
QL2 Centre for Youth Dance Inc in Canberra, Australia is a non-profit organisation with an 11 year track record of excellence in contemporary dance. It is home of Quantum Leap: an auditioned, selective youth dance ensemble; and to the Soft Landing program: assisting excellent dance graduates to find their creative pathway. It provides integrated programs and projects to support and develop young people in dance at all levels: young dancers from as young as eight, high school students developing their first choreographic ideas, tertiary dance students, and graduates finding their way into the dance profession. At every point, a major focus is on choreographic literacy: encouraging the development of the choreographic mind. For tertiary dance students and beyond, they also recognise the importance of dance artists building connections across the country, reaching beyond the walls of formal study in a single institution.
Maya Dance Theatre was established in late 2006 by a group of artists who are passionate about designing and presenting thought-provoking arts productions. Works by Maya showcase a range of performing art forms and genres with explorative efforts with both independent artistes as well as local and international performing arts groups. With a forte in dance, Maya Dance Theatre also delves into collaborative art performances, where different art forms are cohesively woven in the performances. Transcending cultural, ethnic and national borders, productions by Maya are steeped in strong themes and concepts that offer a distinctive approach to contemporary dance theatre.
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This project has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body.
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 The new flier is out!
If you are interested in joining our introductory programs (ages 9+) or Quantum Leap (15-26), all the news is here!
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 After two great Kick Back’s in 2009, QL2 Centre for Youth Dance in association with Fresh Funk are again bringing two top interstate dance artists to Canberra, to inspire and challenge boys (ages 14-26) to improve their dance. This year, each session is extended to 3 hours!
 Marko Panzic, performer and choreographer, has worked and trained in New York, Los Angeles, London and Australia. He has performed for Australian recording artists including Jade MacRae, Che’nelle, Cosimo DeVito and Vanessa Amorosi. He is a choreographer in the second series So You Think You Can Dance Australia, and will bring his well-known blend of hip hop and contemporary dance to week one of Kick Back.
 Rowan Marchingo is a performer, a choreographer and Associate Director of Australia’s leading physical theatre company, Sydney-based Legs on the Wall. Rowan’s work ranges from large scale aerial dance on the sides of buildings to intimate works of theatre. Rowan will bring gymnastics, contemporary dance and physical theatre to week two of Kick Back.
Local hip hop specialists Geza Szanto and Caroline Wall from Fresh Funk will be joined by Ruth Osborne from QL2 in weeks 3 & 4 to consolidate the material from Marko and Rowan, and present an informal performance in week 4.
Four Sundays: 21, 28 Feb; 7, 14 Mar 2010 • 4.30-7.30pm • $100 all up!
At QL2 Centre for Youth Dance Studio, Gorman House, Braddon
Advance booking essential: kickback@ql2.org.au / 6247 3103
email us: kickback@ql2.org.au
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 On Course: new, young, short dance
In 'On Course' surprises abound: 12 new short contemporary dance works created & performed by young dance artists from around Australia.
They are current dance students at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Adelaide Centre for the Arts (AC Arts).
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 Hot to Trot 2009
Dancers from Quantum Leap as choreographers:
Flexing imaginations and muscles. New dance with passion.
2 shows: 7pm Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 November
After each performance there will be a forum which will give the audience and choreographers a chance to interact and discuss the choreographic experience.
Show + forum runs for about 80 minutes.
Hot to Trot is a favourite with Canberra audiences and in recent years has played to sell out crowds.
Bring your family and make a night of it!
2 shows: 7pm Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 November
QL2 Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Ainslie Ave, Braddon.
A Smokefree event.
Tickets: Full $10, Concession $8.
Tickets are available from the box office 30 minutes before the performance.
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PLEASE PASS THIS LINK ON TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO MAY BE INTERESTED
Call for Expressions of Interest
New Dance Graduates (1st or 2nd year out)
Two One 2010 development opportunities
(Call for Soft Landing 1 has now closed).
Soft Landing 1: ‘the dancer lands’ with Solon Ulbrich – 15 March to 11 April 2010
Soft Landing 2: ‘the choreographer in group-devised work’ with Brian Lucas - 16 August to 12 September 2010
Soft Landing
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. 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. All dance graduates within the first two years after completing their degree are eligible.
Each Soft Landing has a core period of 4 weeks in Canberra. You must make a clear commitment to the entire process and be available full-time for the period, concluding on the evening of the final day.
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.
Full details here
If you have any further queries please contact softlanding@ql2.org.au
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 Just a Stage
A new 45 minute dance work by and for young people.
Just a Stage is about youth, age, and teetering on the edge of the future.
Created by 38 young dancers (aged 8-16) working with professional choreographers.
Artistic Director: RUTH OSBORNE
Choreographers:
LIZ LEA (Lea Dance, London) and
DEAN CROSS (Legs on the Wall) with
MICHELLE NORRIS and SIMON READ
 This project is the entry point for dancers to work and develop with QL2 Centre for Youth Dance, in preparation to joining the Centre's Quantum Leap youth dance ensemble. It provides an introduction to working with a choreographer and moving beyond just "learning the steps". Quantum Leap has produced some of the most exciting and innovative work that a young performer could be involved in, and helped young people along the path to becoming professional dance artists. But it also introduces young dancers to the process of creating new full-length dance works – the process of choreography. This is much more than just “putting steps to music” or “telling a story” — it includes thinking about concepts and emotions, creating new movement with improvisation and exercises, selecting and refining the most effective movement ideas, and of course rehearsing till it all flows. QL2 Artistic Director, Ruth Osborne, works with the ensemble to develop the skills they need to work with professional choreographers, and selects those choreographers specifically for their ability to bring out the best in young dancers — without resorting to just drilling them in ‘moves’.
Three performances only
7pm Friday 16 October,
3pm & 6pm Saturday 17 October
$18 full | $14 conc | $12 under-15
The Street Theatre,
Cnr Childers Street & University Ave, Canberra
Street Ticketing (02) 62471223
Book online www.thestreet.org.au
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“Frame Works”: dance installation at National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
3 days only. Free entry.
 Frame Works is a unique series of new dance works by young artists exploring portraiture, identity and framing across the Visual Arts and Dance worlds.
These pieces are each a direct response to works from within the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, as selected by the individual dance artists. From these starting points, each of these dance pieces will embrace the biographical information that is provided about the identities of both the subject and the portrait artist, as well as exploring the broader notions of “identity”, “depiction”, and “portraiture”.
Under the combined title of Frame Works, these pieces will be presented in a range of evocative sites within the Gallery. Some of the works will last only a few minutes and will be performed in direct response to the presence of viewers, while others will run in a “durational loop” for 60 minutes at a time.
Over a four-week intensive period, the Soft Landing 2 mentoring program (at the QL2 Centre for Youth Dance) has been providing seven tertiary dance graduates with the opportunity to enrich and expand their experiences in choreography, specifically focussing on the “choreographer in solo practice”. Working in collaboration with staff from the National Portrait Gallery, each of these young dance artists is creating a stand-alone solo performance work.
Associate Director at QL2, project leader Brian Lucas, says “Soft Landing 2 will provide support and mentorship to young artists who are seeking to explore solo work. The artists are focussing on the dual territories of biographical and autobiographical creation and performance, using external portraiture as a starting point to explore the ways in which individual artistic response and creation/performance can enhance and enrich the Australian Dance and Visual Arts landscape”.
Soft Landing is a project of QL2 Centre for Youth Dance in Canberra, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery. This project has been supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.
Project Leader:
Brian Lucas
Assistant to the Project Leader:
Laura Boynes
Choreographer/dancers:
Jay Bailey;
Julie Baker;
Keith Chin;
Anna Dougherty;
Ela Ray Markstein;
Hayley Thompson;
James Welsby
Thursday 27 August:
• 3-4pm
Saturday 29 August:
• 11-12 pm;
• 1.30-2.30pm &
• 3-4pm
+++ The final Saturday session will be followed by a forum with the artists and NPG curators - all welcome! +++
Sunday 30 August:
• 11-12 pm;
• 1.30-2.30pm &
• 3-4pm
FREE -- and no booking required.
But if you intend to come to the forum on Saturday, please email us at info@ql2.org.au so we know how many to expect.
  
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Select Option
sometimes we choose,
sometimes it just happens…
 Associate Directors Brian Lucas (QLD), Liz Lea (London), Marko Panzic (So You Think You Can Dance) and Reed Luplau (Sydney Dance Company) will bring their highly individual styles to work with Quantum Leap and Artistic Director Ruth Osborne over six months, developing Select Option — a stunning two-act dance performance of unusual intensity and depth. Video producers Bearcage Productions will create a video set which envelops the action, and there will be an original music score by young Australian composers.
29 July – 1 August 2009 The Playhouse
Performance times and prices*
29 July – 1 August at 7pm, 1 August at 2pm
Adults: $22.00
Groups (minimum 10):* $18.00
Family (minimum 2 adults 2 kids): $15.00
Pensioners: $18.00
Child (15 years and under): $15.00
Full time student: $15.00
Unemployed: $15.00
Govt. Seniors Card Holder: $18.00
Under 27: $15.00
QL2, Ausdance, CDT Members: $18.00
Performance duration 100 minutes including interval
Schools Performances 30 & 31 July at 10.30am
Schools groups $12 per student
Schools performance duration 105 minutes inclusive of interval and forum
Schools Education Kit available on request
School bookings 6247 3103 or schoolgroups@ql2.org.au
*Ticket prices available in person at venue. Additional phone, online and postage charges may apply.
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Final call for proposals - "The choreographer in solo practice" opportunity with Brian Lucas - Soft Landing 2 2009
New Dance Graduates (1st or 2nd year out)
Development & performance opportunity with Brian Lucas
Call for expressions of interest (closes 13 July)
Soft Landing 2, 2009: "The choreographer in solo practice" with Brian Lucas
A unique opportunity for tertiary dance graduates to engage, collaborate and forge creative partnerships for the future.
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2009 AUSTRALIAN DANCE AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Congratulations to QL2 choreographer Reed Luplau for winning ‘Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer’ for his role in Sid’s Waltzing Masquerade, with Sydney Dance Company, choreographed by Azure Barton.
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New Dance Graduates (1st or 2nd year out)
Development & performance opportunity with Brian Lucas
Call for expressions of interest
Soft Landing 2, 2009: "The choreographer in solo practice" with Brian Lucas
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| QL2 Centre for Youth Dance has been shortlisted in two categories of the Australian Dance Awards.
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Select Option
sometimes we choose,
sometimes it just happens…
BOOK NOW!
 Associate Directors Brian Lucas (QLD), Liz Lea (London), Marko Panzic (So You Think You Can Dance) and Reed Luplau (Sydney Dance Company) will bring their highly individual styles to work with Quantum Leap and Artistic Director Ruth Osborne over six months, developing Select Option — a stunning two-act dance performance of unusual intensity and depth. Video producers Bearcage Productions will create a video set which envelops the action, and there will be an original music score by young Australian composers.
29 July – 1 August 2009 The Playhouse
Performance times and prices*
29 July – 1 August at 7pm, 1 August at 2pm
Adults: $22.00
Groups (minimum 10):* $18.00
Family (minimum 2 adults 2 kids): $15.00
Pensioners: $18.00
Child (15 years and under): $15.00
Full time student: $15.00
Unemployed: $15.00
Govt. Seniors Card Holder: $18.00
Under 27: $15.00
QL2, Ausdance, CDT Members: $18.00
Performance duration 100 minutes including interval
Schools Performances 30 & 31 July at 10.30am
Schools groups $12 per student
Schools performance duration 105 minutes inclusive of interval and forum
Schools Education Kit available on request
School bookings 6247 3103 or schoolgroups@ql2.org.au
*Ticket prices available in person at venue. Additional phone, online and postage charges may apply.
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QL2 Centre for Youth Dance in association with Fresh Funk are bringing two top interstate dance artists to Canberra, to inspire and challenge boys and young men (ages 14–26) to improve their dance.
Marko Panzic, performer and choreographer, has worked and trained in New York, Los Angeles, London and Australia. He has performed for Australian recording artists including Jade MacRae, Che’nelle, Cosimo DeVito and Vanessa Amorosi. He is a choreographer in the second series So You Think You Can Dance Australia, and will bring his well-known blend of hip hop and contemporary dance to week one of Kick Back.
Rowan Marchingo is a performer, a choreographer and Associate Director of Australia’s leading physical theatre company, Sydney-based Legs on the Wall. Rowan’s work ranges from large scale aerial dance on the sides of buildings to intimate works of theatre. Rowan will bring gymnastics, contemporary dance and physical theatre to week two of Kick Back.
Local hip hop specialists Geza Szanto and Caroline Wall from Fresh Funkwill be joined by Ruth Osborne from QL2 in weeks 3 & 4 to consolidate the material from Marko and Rowan, and present an informal performance in week 4.
Four Sundays: May 10, 17, 24, 31 • 5-7pm • $90 all up!
At QL2 Centre for Youth Dance Studio, Gorman House, Braddon
Ages 14–26
Advance booking essential:
You can book online, or email us
kickback@ql2.org.au
or phone 6247 3103.
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“Concrete Solace” at QL2
 Concrete Solace is a work by Melbourne’s youngest dance company, Phantom Limbs, comprised of James Welsby and Amy Macpherson. Amid a miniature sized city, this edgy dance work evokes and explores themes of urban parallelism as well as macroscopic and microscopic perspective distortion. Choreographed and performed by James Welsby and Amy Macpherson. 2 performances - 2nd April and 3rd April starting at 7pm for a duration of approximately 30 minutes. All tickets $15.
Presented by Phantom Limbs in association with QL2 Centre for Youth Dance
2 April, 2009 7:00 pm
7 pm 3 April, 2009
At QL2 Theatre, QL2 Centre for Youth Dance, Gorman House Arts Centre Ainslie Avenue, Braddon
Concrete Solace is “an exploration of human parallelism through dance, film and sound.
PhantomLimbsDanceCompany@gmail.com
Direct from the 2009 Adelade Fringe Festival.
Tickets available from the door 30 minutes prior to show.
Supported with a Space Grant from QL2 Centre for Youth Dance.
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 PHLUXUS DANCE COLLECTIVE is working at QL2 Centre for Youth Dance from 23 March 2009, rehearsing their critically acclaimed dance theatre work "the machine that carries the soul".
Phluxus Dance Collective is an all-female collective of young and ambitious dance artists; Chafia Brooks (ex-Quantum Leaper), Nerida Matthaei and Skye Sewell. With assistance from a QL2 "Space Grant" which is providing the reahearsal venue, Phluxus will be presenting "the machine that carries the soul" at The Street Theatre, 3 and 4 April 2009 at 6:30pm.
"the machine that carries the soul" has been described by audiences as “beautiful in its simplicity and intensity” and “wonderfully imaginative”, this dance theatre work delves into the world of the subconscious. Three young women encounter the body's physical manifestations of emotional experience. As they move through a landscape rich in textures and sounds, the differing perspectives of their journey reveals three distinct and unique movement vocabularies. PLUS a unique set made only of thousands of eggshells.
The Canberra season follows on from multi-award winning seasons at The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival 2006, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane 2007 and Short Sweet and Dance Sydney 2007.
“The machine that carries the soul certainly deserves the reputation it garnered at The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2006. It leads the audience through different emotional phases. Rather than being self-indulgent, it is mesmerising in its examination of human interaction and feelings. As choreographers and performers, Phluxus Dance Collective unleash a gust of originality into Australian dance.”
P Escalon – JJJ The Program
the machine that carries the soul was awarded ‘Critics Choice for Best Choreography’ and the 2007 Short Sweet and Dance Festival in Sydney and "Highly Commended" (runner up, Best Dance/Movement Performance) at The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2006.
ON SALE NOW
www.thestreet.org.au
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We've EXTENDED THE DEADLINE for getting applications in for Quantum Leap ensemble AUDITIONS for "Select Option" -- get it here by Wednesday 11 March, and we'll email or phone you with the audition details.
Apparently some people were having trouble getting the form, or filling it in, or getting to a mailbox, or something. Anyway, we don't want you to miss out, so we've extended the deadline.
If you're going to be putting in a late application PLEASE PHONE US on 02 6247 3103 and let us know to expect it.
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Quantum Leap at the Playhouse 2009: “Select option”
This is the major project for our Quantum Leap ensemble for the year. After auditions for 15–26 year olds in March, it will run over 5 months culminating in a performance season at the Canberra Theatre Playhouse in July.
There are times that are full of change — sometimes you choose, sometimes it “just happens”. Change your mind, change your look, change direction, change feet. Which box will you tick?
Choreographers Brian Lucas (Qld), Liz Lea (London), Marko Panzic (So You Think You Can Dance) and Reed Luplau (Sydney Dance Company) will bring their highly individual styles to work with Quantum Leap and Artistic Director Ruth Osborne over six months, developing Select Option — a stunning two-act dance performance of unusual intensity and depth. Video producers Bearcage Productions will create a video set which envelops the action, and there will be an original music score by young Australian composers.
Application due Tuesday 3 March WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH
No application will be accepted on the day of the audition
Audition Sunday 15 March, 1pm – 6pm
A letter with further details will be sent on receipt of application
Parent Meeting Sunday 29 March, 9am – 10am
Sunday Rehearsals March 29, April 5, 9am – 2pm
Full-time intensive 1a Tuesday 14 to Wednesday 22 April, 9am – 2pm
Full-time intensive 1b Tuesday 14 to Thursday 23 April, 2pm – 7pm
Sunday Rehearsals May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 June 7, 14, 21, 28
Full-time intensive 2 Saturday 4 to Monday 13 July, 9am – 2pm
Assembly intensive Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July, 9am – 4pm
Production Week Sunday 26 July to Saturday 1 August
Sunday 9 – 6, Monday 3 – 6, Tuesday 9 – 6
Wed to Fri 9 – 9, Saturday 12 – 9; cast party till 11pm
• You will be selected to work in one or more intensives: 1a, 1b or 2
• All dancers are required for the Assembly Intensive.
• The final schedule will be distributed later.
The total participation cost for this project is $250, plus $30 for annual Associate
Membership of QL2. This is heavily subsidised, and includes a project T-shirt.
There is no charge to attend the audition.
Optionally, dancers can also buy a DVD of the work for $30.
(Note that no video or photography is allowed during the performances.)
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QL2's James & Emma Batchelor in SHORT SWEET+DANCE 2009 Week 2 Wildcards
One show only - 2 works by James & Emma:
"Night Walker" (from Hot to Trot 2007) & "From the Ashes" (from Hot to Trot 2008)
07 March 2009
14:00 - 16:00
Seymour Centre, Downstairs Theatre
Cleveland Street, Chippendale
Sydney, Australia
Phone:
0293517940
boxoffice@seymour.usyd.edu.au
SHORT + SWEET says:
"BITE SIZED DANCE WITH ATTITUDE!
The season, which runs 24 February to 14 March 2009, will showcase the work of over thirty professional choreographers and feature many established and emerging performing artists.
From contemporary, ballroom, hip-hop lyrical, classical adagio, african, break dance and tap- there is a work to suit every taste.
AND…make sure you check out our WILDCARD performances at 2pm on February 28 and March 7. Come and support the work of Australia’s finest emerging artists!"
Quantum Leapers Emma & James Batchelor have been selected to present 2 works in the March 7 WILDCARD performance -- Performed by James, Emma, Ashley Hamilton, Courtney Lee, Sam Young-Wright, and Alenka Csomor.
And you can also see works by Natalie Abbott (who was in Soft Landing at QL2 in 2008), Nerida Godfrey, Sean Marcs and Imogen Cranna.
Book at the Seymour Centre:
http://secure.seymourboxoffice.com.au/tickets/production.aspx?PID=41838
There's an excerpt from "From the Ashes" here:
www.youtube.com/watch
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Classes for 2009 start 10 February
Make sure you arrive at least 15 minutes early to register and pay your class fees!
The 2009 schedule includes:
- Contemporary Technique – Junior (8 to 14) and Senior (15 to 26)
- Classical Technique – basic ballet for those who have not had a high level of technique training
- Stretch and Conditioning – to build strength, fl exibility and alignment.
- Licence to Move – to encourage boys into dance. Based in contemporary dance with various movement forms like martial arts, gymnastics, physical theatre and hip hop, these classes provide a masculine environment to explore dance as a creative expression. The Junior Licence to Move program (ages 8 to 14) is in weekly classes with a male teacher. The Senior Licence to Move (ages 15 to 26) will be run in 4 week blocks with special guest teachers — dates tbc.
Cost
Full term class fees are due upfront at the beginning of each term – equivalent to $12 per class. Or, you can pay $15 per class casually. You also need to pay a once off $30 yearly membership fee. Please arrive 15 minutes before the class if you need to pay.
MONDAYS: Stretch & conditioning
6 – 7 pm QL2 Theatre
Term 1 (8 wks) Feb 9, 16, 23 March 2, 16, 23, 30 April 6 $96
Term 2 (9 wks) Apr 27 May 4, 11, 18, 25 June 1, 15, 22, 29 $108
Term 3 (7 wks) Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 Sept 7, 14, 21 $84
Term 4 (6 wks) Oct 26 Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 $72
WEDNESDAYS: Classical & contemporary
Classical Technique: 4.30 – 6pm The Studio
Junior Contemporary Technique: 4.30 – 5.45pm QL2 Theatre
Senior Contemporary Technique: 6 – 7.30pm The Studio
Term 1 (9 wks) Feb 11, 18, 25 March 4, 11, 18, 25 April 1, 8 $108
Term 2 (10 wks) Apr 29 May 6, 13, 20, 27 June 2, 10 17, 24 July 1 $120
Term 3 (7 wks) Aug 12, 19, 26 Sept 2, 9, 16, 23 $84
Term 4 (6 wks) Oct 28 Nov 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec 2 $72
THURSDAYS: Licence to move
5pm – 6pm QL2 Theatre
Term 1 (9 wks) Feb 12, 19, 26 March 5, 12, 19, 26 April 2, 9 $108
Term 2 (10 wks) April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28 June 4,11, 18, 25 July 2 $120
Term 3 (7 wks) Aug 13, 20, 27 Sept 3, 10, 17, 24 $84
Term 4 (6 wks) Oct 29 Nov 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec 3 $72
NB: No classes on public holidays (Canberra Day – 9 March)
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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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| 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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At the official launch of QL2 Centre for Youth Dance on Tuesday 4 March, over 80 people celebrated our new name, new look, and 2008 program.
 The 'Soft Landing' crew were all there, and as well as a passionate description of our 2008 program by Artistic Director Ruth Osborne, we also had Solon Ulbrich giving a view from 'outside'.
And there was a great performance by James Batchelor, Michelle Norris and Emma Batchelor of a short piece by Alenka Csomor, Late Night Lullabies.
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The first day of Soft Landing 1 with Solon Ulbrich (assisted by Amelia McQueen) got off to a great start today, with Amy Macpherson (VCA), Angela Goh (QUT), Chrissy Norford (QUT), Dean Cross (QUT), James Welsby (VCA), Laura Boynes (WAAPA), Luke Hickmott (WAAPA), Natalie Abbott , Patricia Wood (WAAPA), Sofie Burgoyne (WAAPA), and Stephanie Harper (AC ARTS) all arriving in Canberra.
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In the flesh and in online social networks, young people drive cultural change, mapping new relationships with people and cultures from around the world. Borders and boundaries, privacy and communication, tradition and transgression: is it a global village, a virtual city, a family?
In 2008, Quantum Leap is working with top interstate and local choreographers – including ex- Canberra dancer Paul Zivkovich (Australian Dance Theatre, Bonachela Dance Company London) and Paul White (Australian Dance Theatre; DV8, London,)
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Next week the first Soft Landing gets underway, with renowned choreographer Solon Ulbrich working with 12 dance graduates from universities around Australia, many originally from Canberra. Solon will work with them to develop and perform a new dance work over the next four weeks.
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Quantum Leap's first project for the year, "My sister, my brother", is underway, with over 65 auditioning last Sunday for a 5-month process of creation and rehearsal, culminating in performances at Canberra Playhouse. School groups bookings are already going well. Quantum Leap dancers will be working with top interstate and local choreographers – including ex- Canberra dancer Paul Zivkovich (Australian Dance Theatre, Bonachela Dance Company London) Paul White (Australian Dance Theatre; DV8, London) and Alice Holland (WA) , along with professional composers, and video producers Bearcage Productions.
Is the guts of culture a global village, a virtual city, a family?
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On Tuesday 4 March, QL2 Centre for Youth Dance in Canberra launches its 2008 program and a brand new look.
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We have decided that the Centre will now make youth dance programs its core business.
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Following their success with Unspeakable at the Canberra Playhouse, Canberra's Quantum Leap youth dance ensemble is again at the theatre: this time with Turn the pages, a new piece developed with mostly younger members, working with professional choreographers and assisted by some of the older dancers who were involved in Unspeakable.
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Book now at Canberra Theatre, online or phone!
In Night. Time. choreographers Anton, Jodie Farrugia, Adam Wheeler and Marnie Palomares have worked with young dancers from QL2's Quantum Leap ensemble since February to create four views of night.
