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QUT DANCE 35th ANNIVERSARY

RUNNING TIME (APPROXIMATE) WARNINGS ACT I: 1 HOUR Haze effect, strobe lighting INTERVAL: 20 MINS ACT II: 1 HOUR, 20 MINS

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FOREWORD PRODUCTION TEAM

SUE CAULFIELD-LECLERCQ Production Coordinator (Dance) BEN HUGHES Lighting Designer Welcome to QUT Dance’s 35th Anniversary celebrations including ROSA HIRAKATA Costume Designer our 2013 graduation season! ASHLEIGH BOULDEN* Production Stage Manager With over three decades of contributions to the dance industry AMY HAUSER* Deputy Stage Manager both here in Australia and overseas, QUT Dance takes great ARIANA O’BRIEN* Deputy Stage Manager pleasure in recognising the achievements of our graduates, JULIA MORWOOD Deputy Stage Manager in addition to our former and current staff and students. As a JOSH LLOYD* Assistant Stage Manager result, Dance 13 continues the Alumni theme initiated in our MICHAEL ROGERSON* head Electrician mid-year season of Essentially Dance by extending an invitation BRITTANY WRIGHT* Lighting Operator to the following wonderful choreographers to contribute to this NICOLE NEIL* Floor Electrician milestone event: , Daniel Riley McKinley, Graeme ANDREW WHITTAKER* Sound Designer/Coordinator Collins, Shaaron Boughen, Gareth Belling, Jason Robert, Csaba CHRISTINE FELMINGHAM* Sound and Vision Operator Buday, and AO – whose piece BERLIN has been BRENTON SLATTERY* head of Set and Flys restaged by QUT Alumnus Tracey Carrodus. * Indicates Creative Industries Technical Production student A key focus of our programming is to ensure we provide students with real world experiences, working across different genres of dance and with various choreographers and professional artists. Dance 13 has certainly met this aim with gusto and is something we are confident the students QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF would attest to as well! I am personally very grateful to each of the choreographers for being so ready and willing to contribute their creative talents and provide our students with such fantastic Carly O’Neill Coordinator - Technical Production Major, career building experiences – particularly when many of them were fitting creative development Lecturer - Stage Management periods in amongst their own touring, performance schedules, and even holidays! A special Matt Delbridge Lecturer - Technical Production heartfelt thank you to the dancers from EDC who assisted with rehearsals for Natalie Weir’s works; George MEIJER Lecturer - Technical Production but particularly to Graeme Murphy AO and Janet Vernon AM who not only so generously shared Graeme’s repertoire for the first time with a dance training institution, but flew up from for an afternoon just to rehearse our students in between their very hectic schedule! PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY QUT PRECINCTS

As with any of our performance seasons, there are a range of additional individuals, teams and ProfESSOR SUSAN STREET Executive Director departments that make significant contributions to getting a show like this up and running. I would Jill Standfield Operations Manager therefore like to share my gratitude with: Drama – Technical Production, QUT Precincts, QUT NHI PHAM Acting Senior Marketing Officer Media and Communications, QUT/CIF Marketing, Ben Hughes (Lighting Designer), Rosa Hirakata THOMAS EDMISTON Production Coordinator (Costume Designer), and the School of MECA in helping to produce, stage and promote Dance ANDREW EARLE Senior Theatre Technician 13. A BIG thank you also goes to our Dance Team and Dance Health Team members, who have ROSS AITKENHEAD Theatre Technician invested considerable time, energy and care into supporting the students in their performance Brendan WrighT Set Construction preparation and learning journey. JESSICA WALSh Customer Service Coordinator HEATHER JAMES Front-of-House Officer Lastly, thank you very much for your patronage, support and encouragement of our students as audience members, family and friends. They have worked incredibly hard this Semester (let alone all year!) and we are very proud of the effort they have made to take on the challenges presented to them. We hope you enjoy the show.

Associate Professor Gene Moyle ARAD MAPS Head of Discipline – Dance School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts QUT Creative Industries Faculty

1 Image: 10 Bruised Moments, FenLan Chuang, 2013

QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE STAFF BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS SEMESTER 2, 2013 (DANCE PERFORMANCE) - 1ST YEAR STUDENTS

PERMANENT Accompanists associate professor gene moyle BRIAN ADAMSON Head of Dance, Postgraduate Study Area Coordinator LOVINIA DICKENS CSABA BUDAY Lecturer in Contemporary, Resident STEVE FRANCIS Choreographer, UG Study Area Coordinator BRETT FOWLER SUe CAULFIELD-LECLERCQ Production John reeves Coordinator, Associate Lecturer in Ballet AVRIL HUDDY Lecturer in Contemporary, Alignment, Conditioning SESSIONAL EVAN JONES Lecturer in Ballet MARK BRINKLEY Ballet Technique rachael pedro Lecturer in , TRACEY CARRODUS Ballet Technique & Latin Dance Rehearsal Director DR JENNIFER ROCHE Lecturer in Dance FIONA CULLEN Contemporary Technique KYM STEVENS Lecturer in Dance Education MALI DE GOEY Tumbling ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHERYL STOCK ROD FERGUSON Tai Chi Dance Researcher NICOLE GALEA Academic Lecturer ADJUNCT PROFESSOR SHAARON BOUGHEN KEITH HAWLEY Guest Commercial Examiner Postgraduate Supervisor LUCIA HARKIN Alexander Technique RACHELLE HICKSON Contemporary Technique SUSAN HOGARD Ballet Technique Claire Bathgate-Petersen DANCE ADMINISTRATION DALE JOHNSTON Guest Male Coaching kristine black MARIETTA LAM Hip Hop Examiner Cara Betty sue dance WENDY LARAGHY Ballet Technique Aiden Birney-Kilner karen hendry VANESSA MAFE-KEANE Academic Lecturer, Leslie Brown Sandra Kaminski Ballet Technique & Examiner En Rui Foo Renuka sharma MAJESTIC Conditioning Ally Frazer CLAIRE MARSHALL Guest Lecturer Kim GRANT MCLAY Contemporary Technique Chloe Lindbeck DANCE HEALTH TEAM RIANNON MCLEAN Contemporary Technique Samuel Marcon ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MOYLE RENEE PLACE Dance Education Bonnie Ross Performance Psychologist LUIS PINTO Funk Georgia Taylor BOAZ OZERI Provisional Psychologist (UQ Placement) JASON ROBERT Jazz & Choreographer Laura–Kate Terry MELANIE FULLER Physiotherapist & Exercise ANTHONY SHEARSMITH Male Coaching Physiologist (Pondera) EDWINA SHAW Yoga LISA WILSON Guest Lecturer Study Abroad Students : ROCHELLE YEEND Hip Hop Marielle Ness (Norway) Kristine Sandsmark (Norway) Aleksandra Swiderska (USA)

13 2 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (DANCE PERFORMANCE) - 2ND YEAR STUDENTS JASON ROBERT, CHOREOGRAPHER A graduate of School, Jason was the first Australian recipient of a scholarship and exchange to the prestigious Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival and the Bolshoi Ballet School, before joining the Australian Ballet Company where he performed Soloist and Principal roles. After finishing his ballet career with the under the Direction of Barry Moreland, whom choreographed Hello Dolly for Gordon Frost Organization in Jason’s first musical, he entered the world of commercial dance performing at the Lido de Paris in France, The Royal Palace in Kirrwiller Alsace, and on many cruise line companies as Dance Captain and Company Manager. Assisting Broadway choreographer Sergio Trujillo for Norwegian Cruise Lines, in 2009 he was offered the position of Resident Choreographer for the Sydney and season of the successful Jersey Boys. Jason has performed with numerous Australian idols including Christine Anu, Rhonda Burchmore, Jimmy Barnes, and international pop diva Tina Cousins. He is now happily retired and teaching fulltime at numerous Queensland performing arts CHARLES BALL LISA BARRY CLOUDIA ELDER institutions, passing on knowledge and inspiration to aspiring young artists wanting to pursue dance as a career. TRACEY CARRODUS, REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Brisbane-born Tracey Carrodus trained with the School and received an Associate Diploma in Dance from QUT. She spent six years dancing at Expressions Dance Company before joining in 1996 where she was Principal for nearly 14 years. Her high profile in the arts has been publicly rewarded through multiple awards and nominations as Best Female Dancer and Outstanding Performances by an Individual via the Critics’ Choice Awards, , Australian Green Room Awards, Helpmann Awards, and MO Awards. Tracey has performed extensively throughout the world during her 20-year career. Since retiring at the end of 2007, Tracey has been teaching and coaching Professionals and Pre-Professionals in Classical Ballet and Contemporary Technique at Sydney Dance Company, Australian Ballet, Expressions, Queensland Ballet, QUT, 2ballerinas, ProDance, Ausdance and The Australian and Queensland Opera. She was also Rehearsal Director for the collaboration of Queensland Ballet and Expressions for 2012 Brisbane Festival. Her greatest achievement is being a Mum to her daughter and son.

JAKE HARRISON NATALIE KOLOBARIC ZHI-LING LIN BEN HUGHES, LIGHTING DESIGNER Ben has created the lighting for over 100 original productions for companies including Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Queensland Ballet, Expressions Dance Company, The Danger Ensemble, HotHouse Theatre, The Nest Ensemble, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, JUTE Theatre, Stella Electrika, QPAC, Gold Coast Arts Centre and Kooemba Jdarra. As Associate Lighting Designer his work includes productions with and Barrie Kosky. Ben is Associate Artistic Director of The Danger Ensemble and in 2013 is Resident Lighting Designer at Queensland Theatre Company. Ben is a member of the Association of Lighting Designers and the United States Institute of Theatre Technology. ROSA HIRAKATA, COSTUME DESIGNER Rosa’s long career in Costume Making & Designing has seen her working on over 100 drama and dance shows and festivals around Brisbane. From humble beginnings working at QUT Technical Production’s old shed on Merivale Street (demolished long ago), her involvement with QUT has been long and most gratifying. Working with and mentoring Technical Production students, many of whom are now very successful professionals, are her fondest memories. TZU-YU PAN LEANE UNGERER CHUI-JU WANG Rosa had a two year “retirement” from theatre when she “hung up” her scissors, thinking that this chapter was closed and it was time to pursue another adventure! Somehow the yellow brick road brought her back to theatre, where she realised her heart is. 3 12 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (DANCE PERFORMANCE) - GRADUATING STUDENTS DANIEL RILEY MCKINLEY, CHOREOGRAPHER Daniel graduated from Queensland University of Technology with an Associate Degree in Dance in 2006. Since then he has danced for & Dancers (2005-2006) and (2007-2013). Whilst at Bangarra he toured internationally, nationally and regionally throughout Australia. In 2010 he was commissioned to create his first work on Bangarra titled Riley. In 2013 Daniel collaborated with Artistic Director on Blak, including his second commission Scar, as well as working with Page on Keepers. Daniel has also been nominated for an Australian Dance Award (2010 & 2013) and to apply for the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative (2009).

ASHER BOWEN- SKYE BURKIN JAKE CHAPMAN HSIAO-TING GARETH BELLING, CHOREOGRAPHER SAUNDERS CHEN Australian choreographer Gareth Belling danced with Queensland Ballet between 2002 and 2012. He made his choreographic debut with Collusion Music in Evocations 2005. Since then he has created works for Queensland Ballet, Collusion Music, Expressions Dance Company & Queensland University of Technology. In 2011 Gareth was mentored by Nils Christe and his participation in the Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers and an Impulstanz Research Project was co-funded by a JUMP Mentorship and Arts Queensland. Gareth created bittersweet for Queensland Ballet’s International Gala and Scorched Earth for Brisbane Festival in 2012. He premiered his first full-length work, Transient Beauty with Collusion Music in Restrung Festival at Brisbane Powerhouse. Now pursuing a freelance career, he is undertaking a Master of Fine Arts (Dance) at QUT. Intimate Distance premiered in Ausdance QLD Dance Indie Dance showcase and excerpts of Something Said were performed by QUT Dance at the 2013 Dance Festival. Sweet Beginnings ROBERT FLEHR HAYLEY KERR CHLOE LANHAM ZACHARY was commissioned for Queensland Ballet’s Elegance season. He is the recipient of an Australia China Council grant to LOPEZ undertake a study tour of Chinese ballet institutions in 2013/14.

SHAARON BOUGHEN, CHOREOGRAPHER Shaaron Boughen has an established practice as a choreographer, designer and curator. She is currently involved in research projects around the dancer’s body and image, teaching artistry, and interdisciplinarity. She continues to supervise postgraduate students and act as a mentor to many in the dance profession. Shaaron is the Queensland dance critic for The Australian, serves on the Arts Queensland Arts Assessment Panel and as a peer reviewer for the Australia Council, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty, QUT.

MATTHEW AMELIA SKIN MICHAEL SMITH NGUYEN

CSABA BUDAY, CHOREOGRAPHER A graduate of the , Csaba has had an extensive career as a performer, choreographer and teacher spanning over 30 years. He has worked with many of Australia’s leading professional dance companies (Ballet and Contemporary) performing numerous works by notable Australian and International choreographers including world acclaimed dance maker William Forsythe (Forsythe Company and Frankfurt Ballet). Csaba has toured extensively throughout Australia and Asia performing at major International Arts Festivals as well as appearing at the Turning World Festival in . Csaba has choreographed a total of 41 major works that have been presented in Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United Kingdom. Csaba is a 1999 Choreographic Fellowship recipient (Choreographic Centre, Canberra). Between 2000 GEORGIA WHITE KHADI WOLF-BROOKE and 2003 Csaba held the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Csaba graduated from QUT with a Master of Arts (Research) and The Australian Ballet School with a Diploma (Dance). 11 4 PROGRAM ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

OVERTURE GRAEME MURPHY AO, CHOREOGRAPHER Graeme Murphy AO was born in Melbourne and studied at The Australian Ballet School. Choreographer JASON ROBERT He has danced with The Australian Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Ballet (London) and Rehearsal Director SUE LECLERCQ Félix Blaska (France). In 1971, he received an Australia Council Grant to study overseas. Lighting Designer BEN HUGHES He returned to Australia in 1975 as a freelance choreographer. The following year, he Costume Designer JASON ROBERT was appointed artistic director of Sydney Dance Company (then known as The Dance Music BROADWAY CAST RECORDINGS FROM A CHORUS LINE, Company NSW), a position he held until 2007. During his 31-year tenure, he created WEST SIDE STORY, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, LA CAGE more than 50 works, including 30 full-length productions. Graeme is the recipient of an UX FOLLIES, BOY FROM OZ, CABARET, OKLAHOMA, CHICAGO, AO (2012) for distinguished service to the performing arts, and three honorary doctorates GYPSY, SWEET CHARITY AND CRAZY FOR YOU – Hon. D. Lit. Tas (1990), Hon. D. Phil. Qld (1992) and Hon. D. Lit. UNSW (1999). Cast 1ST YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE He was honored at the Inaugural Sydney Opera House Honor’s (1993) and named a National Living Treasure This is a Broadway piece dedicated to some of the most famous dancing musicals of all time, showcasing (1999) by the National Trust of Australia. He has received a Helpmann Award for Best , Body colour and high cardio paced movement! It’s been a grueling rehearsal period — some of the students have never put on a pair of 3-inch high chorus heels or character shoes for the men. A first and last time of Work – a Retrospective (2001); the prestigious James Cassius Award (2002); the Green Room Award for for everything! Enjoy. Concept and Realisation, (2003); a Centenary Medal (2003); named Cultural Leader of the Year by the Australian Business Arts Foundation, receiving the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Award (2004) and was listed among Australia’s 50 Most Glamorous Exports at a special celebration hosted by the Australian Government R&J ACT II and Austrade (2005). He received the Award for Contribution to Cultural Exchange by the Ministry of Culture, the People’s Republic of China (2008) and the Fred & Adele Astaire Award for Excellence in Choreography in Film for Choreographer NATALIE WEIR Mao’s Last Dancer (New York, 2011). Rehearsal Director AVRIL HUDDY Designer BRUCE MCKINVEN Graeme’s directing and choreographic credits include Metamorphosis, Turandot, Salome, The Trojans, Aida Music JOHN BABBAGE, performed by Topology (); Ainadamar (The of Arts); Beyond Twelve, Nutcracker-The Story of Clara, Swan Cast ASHER BOWEN-SAUNDERS & MICHAEL SMITH or Lake, Firebird, The Silver Rose, Romeo & Juliet and The Narrative of Nothing (The Australian Ballet); (a CHLOE LANHAM & JAKE CHAPMAN or Sydney Dance Company and The Australian Ballet co-production); VAST (The Australian Bicentennial Authority); hAYLEY KERR & ZACHARY LOPEZ Hua Mulan (a Sydney Dance Company and Shanghai Song and Dance Ensemble co-production); Die Silberne Rose (Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich); Water (Shanghai Ballet); Forty Miles–A River of Dreams (Tasdance); Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Choreography at the 2012 Australian Dance Awards, Natalie Weir’s Embodied (Mikhail Baryshnikov) and The Torvill and Dean World Tour Company. He also choreographed Death in R&J featured three versions of events inspired by the star-crossed lovers at the heart of Shakespeare’s Venice (Canadian Opera Company); Samson et Dalila (The Metropolitan Opera, New York); the movie Mao’s Last greatest love story. Act II R&J sees romance blossom in a tale of young love and divided households. Dancer and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies. Romeo and Juliet meet in secret and promises are made, however Fate hands them a devastating blow.

HERSELF/HIMSELF NATALIE WEIR, CHOREOGRAPHER Choreographer NATALIE WEIR Choreographer Natalie Weir is known internationally for her highly physical partner work, Originally performed by RIANNON MCLEAN her organic movement style and her touching insight into humanity. Natalie trained at Rehearsal Director AVRIL HUDDY QUT and was a founding member of Expressions Dance Company, receiving her first Designer LIBBY MCDONNELL choreographic commission by EDC’s Artistic Director, Maggi Sietsma, at 18. Natalie has Music Gortoz A Ran - J’attends HANS ZIMMER created over 160 professional works in her 25+ year career, including major international Cast SKYE BURKIN or collaborations with companies such as , , Hong ZACHARY LOPEZ or Kong Ballet and . Natalie was appointed EDC’s Artistic Director in ASHER BOWEN-SAUNDERS January 2009, fulfilling her dream to build an ensemble of dancers and contribute to the future of Australian Dance. Natalie Weir received QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award in 2009. Choreographed by Natalie Weir specifically for Riannon McLean as part of EDC’s SOLO Festival in 2011, Herself combines bold dramatics with great subtlety and control. This is a solo that invites the dancer to take ownership – it’s personal, gutsy, and beautiful. 5 10 REBEGINNINGS ÉLET [LIFE]

Choreographer GARETH BELLING Choreographer CSABA BUDAY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS Rehearsal Director EVAN JONES Lighting Designer BEN HUGHES Lighting Designer Original concept by BEN HUGHES Costume Designer CSABA BUDAY & ROSA HIRAKATA Costume Designer NOELENE HILL Music VIVALDI: Violin Concerto In G Minor, Op. 8/2, RV 315; The Four Music NOUVELLE VAGUE Seasons (Summer) - 1. Allegro Non Molto NIGEL KENNEDY: Digital images compiled by CSABA BUDAY ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Cast 2ND YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE & Cast ASHER BOWEN-SAUNDERS, CHLOE LANHAM, ROBERT FLEHR (3RD YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE) ZACHARY LOPEZ, MICHAEL SMITH Élet [pronounced air-let] is the Hungarian word for Life. This duet forms the second public outcome of Gareth Belling’s Master of Fine Arts (Dance) research into gender and audience perception of meaning. This is a re-gendering of the first movement of Sweet The work is informed by the lyrics of six songs performed by French cover band Nouvelle Vague. Beginnings, commissioned by Queensland Ballet for Elegance in August, 2013. My thanks go to the Whilst Élet [Life] is created to be absorbed and interpreted openly by each individual, at the core of the dancers for their commitment to this research project, and to Evan Jones for his Rehearsal Direction. choreography lies a desire to move forward, to communicate – to be seen and heard. The work embraces aspects such as loneliness, joy and tension that we experience in our lives and relationships. As the movement opens out from these ideas, the physical shapes of our personal moments are infused with TWELVE ASCENSIONS the elements of sound, colour and rhythm. A rich translation of personal movements through life. Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band masterminded by musicians and Olivier Libaux, and fronted by Choreographer DANIEL RILEY MCKINLEY a bevy of honey-voiced chanteuses. The source of their songs are all covers of punk rock, post punk and Rehearsal Director AVRIL HUDDY New Wave songs, which are reinterpreted incorporating both ‘60s bossa nova style, as well as American Lighting Designer BEN HUGHES styles (particularly blues and country) into the arrangements. Costume Designer ROSA HIRAKATA Music Black History Month SAUL WILLIAMS; Optimistic Voices MGM STUDIO ORCHESTRA; Hammer CLIFF MARTINEZ; Sarajevo MAX RICHTER, BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & QUARTET RUMON GAMBQ Cast 3RD YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE Choreographer SHAARON BOUGHEN & DANCERS Rehearsal Director AVRIL HUDDY I thought long and hard for weeks about what to explore with these graduating dancers. I decided on Lighting Designer BEN HUGHES something that we all fight for, claim, and strive to have for ourselves in our lives. Freedom. Whether that Costume Designer SHAARON BOUGHEN be freedom of speech, political freedom, freedom to choose who you love regardless of sex, freedom Music Death and the Maiden SCUBERT, performed by 1) THE HELSINKI to choose where you live and ultimately having the power to act, speak and think as you want without STRINGS and 2) MURCOF hindrance or restraint. I need to thank the graduating dancers for sharing and opening themselves up to Cast ASHER BOWEN-SAUNDERS, CHLOE LANHAM, ZACHARY this idea. It has been a pleasure and a joy to be back at QUT, my place of study, to create this work for LOPEZ, MICHAEL SMITH these inspiring dancers.

INTERVAL 20 minutes

9 6 4MvtF (FOURTH MOVEMENT) [4MvtF continued] In continuing to follow the sonata theme - usually for a solo instrumental part accompanied by piano - the dance itself is intended as the fundamental feature and therefore, is also devoid of all decoration apart from lighting. Along with simple costumes and staging, the dancers and the Choreographer GRAEME COLLINS movements they create support the idea of the work. The lines and shapes created by the dancers are Rehearsal Director EVAN JONES also purposefully intended to provide a clarity of form, and the work’s clear association to classical dance. Lighting Design BEN HUGHES Costume Design GRAEME COLLINS, SUE LECLERCQ CAST 3RD YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE EXCERPTS FROM BERLIN

Inspiration for this ballet came from the music - as occurs with most of my choreographic works. In Choreographer GRAEME MURPHY AO late 2012 I came across this rare BBC recording by two of the twentieth century’s great music masters Remounted by TRACEY CARRODUS - Yehudi Menuhin and playing sonatas for violin and piano by Joseph Haydn, Franz Rehearsal Director CSABA BUDAY Schubert, and Claude Debussy. I was immediately inspired and excited at the prospect of creating a new Lighting remounted by BEN HUGHES ballet using selected pieces from the recording. I also realised that the playing of Menuhin and Britten was Original Costumes JENNIFER IRWIN a masterwork of interpretation requiring skill and precision combined with control and spontaneity, the Music , MAX LAMBERT same characteristics I wanted in the dance. Cast Chaos - 2ND YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE Melancholy piano solo - NATALIE KOLOBARIC The ballet was initially created on students from the School of Dance at the Taipei National University of heaven - JAKE HARRISON, LEANE UNGERER & CHARLES the Arts in Taiwan, and premiered in May 2013. The ballet’s dominant theme centers on the basic form BALL WITH 2ND YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE and structure of a sonata - hence the title! While in four separate parts, development of the overall dance Loving the Alien - CLOUDIA ELDER & ROBERT FLEHR is shaped by the music’s rhythmical momentum. Each part is discrete and does not necessarily follow on, Complicated Game - 2ND YEAR BFA DANCE PERFORMANCE as the music is by three composers whose work reflects trends from different eras. In 1995 Iva Davies proposed a work for Sydney Dance Company based on songs pertaining to, or Creatively, the work is underscored by the melodies, harmonies and overall sound of the music, as well as inspired by, the city of Berlin. For some years, this work was a mainstay of SDC’s repertoire performed inherent lyrical and expressive qualities as I see or “feel” them. Basic compositional structure is formed by with Iva Davies, then in more recent times, with singer/actor iOTA. The city of Berlin continues to exude choreographic ideas that I believe can both celebrate and reflect those qualities. intrigue and interest and I hope in 2013 (18 years after its premiere) still holds a dark charm for audiences and challenges aplenty for a new generation of dancers. Janet Vernon and I express gratitude to Whether the dancers are transitioning into or out of movements, or performing complex steps and sequences, Associate Professor Gene Moyle for this opportunity to enjoy the hard-working dancers at QUT and love or performing in unison or fragmented, the interpretative qualities in the music drive the momentum. and thanks to Tracey Carrodus (an enduring part of so much of our creative legacy) for instigating this project and meticulously reproducing these excerpts. - Graeme Murphy AO

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