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NSW PUBLIC SCHOOLS STATE DANCE FESTIVAL 2019 9 -13 SEPT 2019

PROUDLY PRESENTED BY THE ARTS UNIT facebook.com/TheArtsUnit Mon 9 Sept - Fri 13 Sept

Evening Performances - 7:30pm Rafael Saying Bonachela Matinee - Fri 12:30pm it Susan without ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DANCE Rix COMPANY DIRECTOR AMBASSADOR DANCE PERFORMANCE THE ARTS UNIT OFFICER DANCE PROGRAM THE ARTS UNIT

Dance brings people together. Saying it without Words marks my eleventh year as Director of the NSW Public Schools Dance Beyond the language we Festival and I take great pride in presenting the “ speak, beyond where we come exceptional work of so many students and their teachers in this exciting week of performance. from around the world, we The title of the 2019 Festival has been inspired by the creative work of the choreographer Akram Welcome to the 2019 State Dance Festival. Over seven all understand the body. We Khan. Akram is one of Britain’s most successful performances, more than 1,500 students, representing and prolific choreographers. Born in the UK to

public schools from throughout NSW, will showcase their can all communicate with our

a Bangladeshi family, his cultural roots connect talents at The Seymour Centre. These to

body. Whether it’s in a ballroom, with South Asia. He trained in the Indian classical

Year 12 students, and their teachers, have been working form Kathak, as well as in western contemporary together all year to prepare for tonight’s performance, the street, a disco, or whether“ dance languages. Throughout his career he has one that I know you will thoroughly enjoy. it’s on stage, dance is a blended these influences in a quest for new ideas, Engaging in dance, as in any art form, is essential to the new creative partnerships, new marriages of story, human experience, challenging us with different points universal language which can feeling and form. of view and compelling us to empathise with others. The He said “What I love about contemporary dance is schools represented in this festival have identified dance bring everyone together. that it gives you the space to interpret the story education as a key strategy in achieving their goals and Rafael Bonachela yourself, all you have to do is suggest something.” those of the NSW Department of Education. Research indicates that participation in arts activities leads to The NSW Public Schools dance program reaches increased student motivation and engagement in Welcome back to the NSW Public Schools State beyond the classroom to extend students’ learning, has a positive impact on academic and personal Dance Festival of 2019. I am so pleased that Sydney opportunities and build their technical and creative wellbeing outcomes and promotes higher self-esteem. Dance Company and The Arts Unit are in our sixth abilities. It is a privilege to see the improvement year of partnership – it has been such an honour to and development of students each year with the The State Dance Festival provides an opportunity to see the quality of work that has been produced by support and dedication of teachers, peers, carers showcase high calibre dance education in public schools all the teachers, students and parents involved with and industry partners. across NSW. Congratulations to schools, teachers and the dance program over the years. I look forward to students whose works have been selected to perform Forging partnerships with professional dance many more years of partnership! in ‘Saying it without Words’. It is a testament to organisations is integral to the success of our your creativity and dedication to dance as an art form. I have been dancing since I was a little boy and programs and we are extremely grateful for our I believe in contemporary dance; it’s exciting, ongoing relationship with Sydney Dance Company, Your participation as audience members, and your it’s moving and it’s transformative for both the The Sydney Opera House contemporary dance support in family and school settings, is truly appreciated audience and the performers. I have seen firsthand programs and The Australian Ballet education team. by tonight’s performers and their teachers. the benefit of investing in what we do – I have had The next 12 months are bursting with workshops Enjoy! the pleasure of watching people of all ages across and performances, so make sure you visit our Rosemary Davis and all over the world respond to dance; website for upcoming programs and events. Director, Arts, Sports and Initiatives be challenged, be inspired and be thrilled. There For now please sit back and enjoy a fabulous is a very real magic that happens when a group of evening of Saying it without Words. young dancers take to the stage and share what they have worked so hard to create. The Arts Unit is such an imperative part of the development of dance in our state; encouraging the next generation of young dancers and of young artists, to dare to create and to explore their own Photos: Ben SymonsPhotos: ideas as people. You have the possibility to imagine what it is for you!

Participating Schools Principal Choreography Participating Schools Principal Choreography

Asquith Girls High School Elizabeth Amvrazis Adelaide Eastley NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Company John Benson Francis Rings

Bilgola Plateau Public School Cindy Gardiner Bree Gardiner NSW Public Schools Primary Ensemble John Benson Angela Hamilton Natalie Somerville

Bradfield College Meredith Melville-Jones Janet Ashiabor NSW Public Schools Junior Ensemble John Benson Katelyn Boshell Lexy Panetta

Bronte Public School Catherine Ryan Carly Olander NSW Public Schools Senior Ensemble John Benson Angela Hamilton Courtney Horton

Burwood Public School Carolyn Wallace-Whelan Danielle Wayman NSW Public Schools State Ensemble John Benson Anouska Gammon Ashley Napoleoni

Campbelltown Performing Arts High School Kirstine Gonano Olivia Melville NSW Public Schools Urban Dance Crew John Benson Pete Evans Neale Whittaker

Central Coast Senior Ensemble Shayne Player Emily Proust Brett Hugo Casey Hadfield

Dance Off! Troupe Andrew Skehan Kim Rhodes Launcelot Roma Pulse Senior Ensemble Melissa Jacka Celeste Maxwell

Eastwood Public School Helen Davis Nicole Gasparre Quakers Hill East Public School Michelle Hedge Laurie Hayhow

Endeavour Sports High School James Kozlowski Helena Kyriacou Ensemble Jennifer Parrett Katrina Joss

Engadine High School Kerrie Jones Vanessa Maroon Riverina Wagga Wagga Chris Davies Kathryn Fisher Primary Ensemble Gili Aboriginal Ensemble Michelle Murphy Sani Townson Jonathon Brown Riverside Girls High School Alison Gambino Tamara Mitchell Gymea Technology High School Peter Marsh Katrina Goodwin Ross Hill Public School Debbie Baker Kym Foley Laura King Hoxton Park Public School Kylie Donovan Kylie Watts Rouse Hill Public School Robert Jarvis Kimberely Cook Nicolette Vecchio Hunter School of Performing Arts Joanne Gray Vanessa Ambrose Jade Hillard Jo Thorn Russell Lea Infants School Dan Sprange Danielle Wayman

Junior Cadi McCarthy Project Kirsty McRae Jaimi Holmes Ryde East Public School Katrina Verinder Leona Mitchell

Kellyville Public School Jenny Walker Jenny Turner Samuel Terry Public School Stephen Lockley Suzanne Shaylor

Kirrawee High School R /Gregory Munsie Elyse Halliday South Coogee Public School Marion Walsh-Gay Lara Richardson Emma Murphy

Menai High School Bernard Ellevsen Emma Imer Elise Millington Springwood Public School Mehmet Mehmet Bec Curzon-Goodman

Muswellbrook Public School Joan Stephens Cindy Hugo Karen Payne Sydney North Junior Ensemble Joanna Leto Clare Corfe Leona Mitchell Tamara Mitchell

Nepean Creative and Performing Maxwell Foord Clare Henville Natalie Somerville Sylvania Heights Public School Clinton White Katelyn Boshell Trish Martin Arts High School Thornleigh West Public School Julie Glanville Emily Lundstrom Newport Public School Natalie Baldi Sandra Nicol Toronto High School Mark McConville Yvette Milwright Newtown High School Sharon Roberts Sarah Banks Danielle Barsi Chris Davies Kathryn Fisher of the Performing Arts Fiona Burg Belinda Scanlan Emma Bathgate-Peterson Louise Roumanos Western Liverpool Community of Schools Kylie Donovan Charli Watts Kylie Watts Nelson Earl Joshua Constantine Westfields Sports High School Andrew Rogers Rebecca Fishburn Michelle Holden Catherine Goss Wollongong High School Paul Ryan Rosanna Goderie Emily Ireland Secondary College Christine Del Gallo Desiree DeBono of the Performing Arts Chris Richards Kristin Scott Mackellar Girls Campuss Woollahra Public School Nicole Molloy Katelyn Boshell Glen Kingsley Leigha Poulton Production Credits

DIRECTOR/PRODUCTION LIGHTING DESIGN WORKSHOP COORDINATION Saying COORDINATOR David Ferguson Glynis Cochrane Susan Rix Sophie Pekbilimli The Arts Unit it The Arts Unit SOUND PRODUCTION SELECTION PANEL without ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Peter Copeland Vanessa Ambrose Allie Gunton The Arts Unit Hunter School of Performing Arts The Arts Unit PRODUCTION TEAM Katelyn Boshell PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Ashley Napoleoni Woollahra Public School Jacquelaine Guy Macpherson Plumpton High School Adelaide Eastley The Arts Unit Cassie Turnbull Asquith Girls High School BACKSTAGE MANAGER Hunter School of Performing Arts Joanne Gilmour Claire O’Halloran Chloe Woodward Bonnyrigg High School Northern Beaches Secondary Allie Gunton STAGE MANAGER College Many Campus Student Dance Development and Matt Stanger Lexy Panetta Delivery Officer The Arts Unit The Arts Unit ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Brittany Smith Alison Mackellar Allie Gunton The Arts Unit Newtown High School of the The Arts Unit Performing Arts Peter Gannon Celeste Maxwell The Arts Unit Rebecca Paulson Glenmore Park High School COMPERE Peter Hayward Susan Rix Arts Coordination Officer Dance Performance Officer The Arts Unit PROGRAM DESIGN AND ARTWORK Alison Murphy Agraphique.com.au PHOTOGRAPHY Cover photograph by Anna Warr Dancers – students: Owen Sloggett and Talia Ferchow Program photographs by Anna Warr Monday 7:30 Tuesday 7:30 01 Hana 06 The Answer is… Interval 16Terminus 01 (dis)Connect 07 Nothing is 12 Fresh Spirits 17Re-Form NSW Public Schools To Dance Hunter School What it Seems Gilli Aboriginal Nowra High School Primary Ensemble 2 Newport Public School 11 Spamalot Years 9-12 of Performing Arts Ross Hill Public School Ensemble Years 7-12 Years 4-6 Years 3-4 CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 9-10 Years 3-6 Years 5-12 CHOREOGRAPHER Nepean Creative and CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER Emma Imer CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHERS Leigha Poulton Performing Arts Angela Hamilton Sandra Nicol Elise Millington Jo Thorn Laura King Sani Townson A message that brings High School Inspired by the polarity Celebrating the golden Life’s journey can Does technology Nothing is what it seems. Jonathon Brown women together to Years 8-12 of ancient traditions and years of the movies. be complex with connect us or Spirits of Aboriginal support each other. CHOREOGRAPHER the ultra-contemporary many challenges. disconnect us? 08 Decisive Intuition Ancestor spirits Natalie Somerville in Japanese culture. 07 Victory Nepean Creative and connect with the fresh 18 Shoes The legend of King Endeavour Sports 17Ole London Town 02Who Dunnit Performing Arts spirits of the Gili. Sylvania Heights Arthur and his search for 02 Dinosaurs High School NSW Public Schools High School Public School the Holy Grail. Burwood Public School Sylvania Heights Years 7-11 Years 3-6 Junior Ensemble 2 Years 11-12 13 Thriller Years 5-6 Public School CHOREOGRAPHER 12 Polarity CHOREOGRAPHER Years 7-9 CHOREOGRAPHER Samuel Terry CHOREOGRAPHER Years K-2 Helena Kyriacou CHOREOGRAPHER Clare Henville Public School Katelyn Boshell Wollongong High Danielle Wayman CHOREOGRAPHER Dictators can have Katelyn Boshell How do you form a Years 4-6 A passionate obsession. School of the The streets of old Katelyn Boshell inhumane policies Discover who was up to true connection? CHOREOGRAPHER Performing Arts London town come alive. The explorers have that effect people foul play. Suzanne Shaylor 19 Who We Are Years 11-12 discovered the last seeking asylum. 18 The Web 09 Paper Scissors A young school girl Newtown High School CHOREOGRAPHER existing dinosaurs. 03 Magical Toys Rock accidently wanders into of the Performing Arts Chris Richards Sydney North 08 Precision Russell Lea Infants a graveyard. Years 10-12 The human body has Junior Ensemble Hunter School 03 Echolocation PULSE Senior Ensemble School CHOREOGRAPHER the ability to deal with Years 4-6 of Performing Arts Northern Beaches Years 8-12 Years 1-3 14 Head Above Water Danielle Barsi extremes of thought CHOREOGRAPHERS Year 6 Secondary College CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER Central Coast Senior An insight into how an and emotion. Leona Mitchell CHOREOGRAPHER Celeste Maxwell Tamara Mitchell Danielle Wayman Jade Hilliard Regional Ensemble individual perceives Years 7-9 An obsession 13 Those Yankees “Will you walk into my A magical place where A process of unbiased Years 9-10 themselves. CHOREOGRAPHER for perfection. the toys to come to life. CHOREOGRAPHERS Hoxton Park parlour?” said the spider choice. Desiree De Bono Tina Harridge 20 Community Public School to the fly. Bats use the vibrations 09 Individuality 04 Stranded 10 Carmen Emily Proust Years 3-6 NSW Public Schools of echoes to navigate Defined 19 Celestial You don’t drown by falling CHOREOGRAPHER Newtown High School Senior Ensemble 1 through the dark. in water, you drown by Muswellbrook Kylie Watts NSW Public Schools Years 10-12 of the Performing Arts Years 10-12 Public School CHOREOGRAPHER Years 8-10 staying there. CHOREOGRAPHER 04 Mindful Movement Out of nowhere Junior Ensemble 1 Years 5-6 Years 8-9 Elyse Halliday CHOREOGRAPHER Courtney Horton Experiences they come across 15 Carry You CHOREOGRAPHERS shoeless Joe! CHOREOGRAPHER A boat is wrecked and Danielle Barsi A powerful force for Bronte Public School Cindy Hugo Lexy Panetta the crew are lost. Explores the flirtatious Wollongong High healing and support. Years 3-6 Karen Payne 14 Dust Inspired by the and strong natured School of the 05 Friends Like Me CHOREOGRAPHER Dare to be different Bradfield College spatial and dynamic personality of Carmen. Performing Arts Carly Olander in a world of social Years 10-11 relationships of Rouse Hill Public School Year 10 CHOREOGRAPHER An exploration of conformity? CHOREOGRAPHER astronomical objects Years 5-6 Interval mindfulness. and evokes the CHOREOGRAPHERS Kristin Scott 10 Contagion Janet Ashiabor The desperation, grief forces between these Kimberly Cook 11 One Entity The fragility and power 05 Pacifica Wollongong High Nicolette Vecchio of memory. and resilience of farmers planetary movements. Riverside Girls Newtown High School School of the “All you gotta do is rub facing drought. High School of the Performing Arts Performing Arts 20 Falling Apart that lamp” 16 A Day at the Years 10-12 Years 10-12 Year 7 15 Bored Room Sports Track Newtown High School CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER 06 Travelling Thornleigh West Asquith Girls of the Performing Arts Tamara Mitchell Joshua Consandine Emily Ireland Westfields Sports Public School High School Years 9-12 Music and movement The ebb and flow of the Disease can spread at High School Years 3-6 Years 8-10 CHOREOGRAPHER become a single entity. wind and ocean. a rapid speed wreaking CHOREOGRAPHER Emma Bathgate- Years 7-8 CHOREOGRAPHER havoc amongst us. Adelaide Eastley Petersen CHOREOGRAPHER Emily Lundstrom What really happens in Human connections can Michelle Holden The contestants arrive lunchtime detention? be fragile and tenuous. The pushbike and ready to start to race. rider are a team. Saying Wednesday 7:30 01 Waitress 06 Turbulence 11 Uprising 16 Guernica it NSW Public Schools Junior Cadi McCarthy NSW Public Schools Riverina Albury Primary Ensemble 1 Project Senior Ensemble 2 Ensemble without Years 4-6 Years 2-6 Years 10-12 Years 7-12 CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER Natalie Somerville Skip Willcox Angela Hamilton Katrina Joss The life of a waitress The feeling of uncertainty The collective journey Inspired by Pablo and expert pie maker. and turbulence as you’re from oppression Picasso’s painting thrown around in a storm. to freedom. depicting the bombing 02 The Race of a small Basque town. Hoxton Park 07 Festival of Spring 12 Beyond the Limit Public School Eastwood Public School Newtown High School 17 Art Attack! Years K-2 Years 3-6 of the Performing Arts Woollahra Public School CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 7-8 Years 5-6 Kylie Watts Nicole Gasparre CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER As soon as the grid flags Eleni Boulas Catherine Goss Katelyn Boshell go down, the race is on! A celebration to herald Exploring beyond the A group of artists break in Spring. limits. into a conservative 03 Redemption art gallery. Toronto High School 08 Phoenix 13 Tipping Point Years 7-11 Wollongong High Hunter School of 18 Left Behind CHOREOGRAPHER School of the Performing Arts Newtown High School Yvette Milwright Performing Arts Year 7 of the Performing Arts On the path to absolution Years 8-9 CHOREOGRAPHER Years 9-12 a light must shine for all CHOREOGRAPHER Vanessa Ambrose CHOREOGRAPHER to see. Chris Richards That magic moment Louise Roumanos The ultimate symbol of when an idea, trend, or There are always those 04 Game of Cards? strength and renewal. social behaviour who support the ones Kellyville Public School crosses a threshold. that fall behind. Years 3-4 09 Earworm CHOREOGRAPHERS Sylvania Heights 14 Scarecrows in 19 Ah… I See Jenny Turner Public School the Dark Westfields Sports Chanelle Lamari Years 3-4 Hunter School of High School Watch as the cards CHOREOGRAPHER Performing Arts Years 10-12 shuffle. Katelyn Boshell Years 5-6 CHOREOGRAPHER How do you get rid of it? CHOREOGRAPHER Rebecca Fishburn 05 Self Portrait Bree Turansky The inventors mind is a Engadine High School 10 Continuance The sun sets on the delicate balance of logic, Years 10-12 Newtown High School farm and the intellect and creativity. CHOREOGRAPHER of the Performing Arts scarecrows awaken ! Vanessa Maroon Years 8-9 20 Stronghold “I paint myself because CHOREOGRAPHER 15 (Dis)Connect Wollongong High I am often alone and Sarah Banks Riverside Girls School of the I am the subject I know The relentless nature of a High School Performing Arts best” Frida Kahlo ticking clock. Years 8-12 Years 11-12 CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER Interval Tamara Mitchell Emily Ireland The relationships Like links in a chain, between the real world we are strongly bound. and the virtual world. Thursday 7:30 Friday 12:30 01 We Must Preserve 06 My Place Interval 16 Purple Rain 01 We Must Preserve 06 Purple Rain 10 Polarity 15 Angie What’s Left Riverina Wagga Wagga Northern Beaches What’s Left Northern Beaches Wollongong High Wagga Wagga NSW Public Schools Primary Ensemble 11 Sleepwalker Secondary College NSW Public Schools Secondary College School of the High School State Ensemble 2 Years 7-8 Mackellar Girls Campus State Ensemble 2 Mackellar Girls Campus Performing Arts Years 9-12 Newtown High School Years 8-12 CHOREOGRAPHER Years 9-12 Years 8-12 Years 9-12 Years 11-12 CHOREOGRAPHER of the Performing Arts CHOREOGRAPHER Kathryn Fisher CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER Kathryn Fisher Years 8-12 Ashley Napoleoni Where are you placed in Desiree De Bono Ashley Napoleoni Desiree De Bono Chris Richards The story of a resilient CHOREOGRAPHER The melting of the polar your family order? Where a blood red sky The melting of the polar Where a blood red sky The human body has young woman. Nelson Earl ice caps will have serious merges with the blue ice caps will have serious merges with the blue the ability to deal with If only we take the consequences for all. 07 Mencolek beyond, your essence consequences for all. beyond, your essence extremes of thought 16 Uprising time and look up to Gymea Technology is revealed. is revealed. and emotion. NSW Public Schools realise we a part of 02 Snowstorm High School 02 The Web Senior Ensemble 2 something greater. Eastwood Public School Years 7-10 17 Oh, the Thinks Sydney North 07 Shoes 11 All That Fosse Years 10-12 Years 1-3 CHOREOGRAPHER 12 She Will Be Found you can Think! Junior Ensemble Sylvania Heights Dance Off! Troup CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHERS Katrina Godwin South Coogee Years 4-6 Public School Years 8-12 Angela Hamilton Springwood Nicole Gasparre Tap someone on the Public School CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 5-6 CHOREOGRAPHERS The collective journey Public School Eleni Boulas opposite shoulder to fool Years 3-6 Tamara Mitchell CHOREOGRAPHER Kim Rhodes from oppression Years 5-6 It’s fun to play in the them into looking in the CHOREOGRAPHERS Leona Mitchell Katelyn Boshell Launcelot Roma to freedom. CHOREOGRAPHER snow, but be careful other direction. Emma Murphy “Will you walk into my A passionate obsession. Inspired by the theatrical Bec Curzon-Goodman not to get caught in Lara Richardson parlour?”, said the style of Bob Fosse. 17 Excerpts from A reflection on the storm. 08 Can’t Hold Us Imagination and creativity spider to the fly. 08 Finesse ‘Unaipon’ (2004) how bullying erodes Quakers Hill revealed through the NSW Public Schools 12 Carmen ‘Two Winds’, self-worth. 03 Star Gazing Public School characters of Dr Seuss. 03 Thriller Urban Dance Crew Newtown High School ‘Motion’ & ‘Religion’ Newtown High School Years 4-6 13 Flamingo Fancy Samuel Terry Years 5-12 of the Performing Arts NSW Public Schools of the Performing Arts CHOREOGRAPHER 18 Aspects Public School CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 8-10 Ryde East Public School Aboriginal Dance Years 7-8 Laurie Hayhow Newtown High School Years 4-6 Neale Whittaker CHOREOGRAPHER Year 5 Company CHOREOGRAPHER Groove your way through of the Performing Arts CHOREOGRAPHER Pete Evans Danielle Barsi CHOREOGRAPHER Years 8-12 Belinda Scanlan favourite old school hits. Years 8-10 Suzanne Shaylor A wildly energetic work Explores the flirtatious Leona Mitchell CHOREOGRAPHER The wonder you feel CHOREOGRAPHER A young school girl inspired by Bob Fosse’s and strong natured Frivolous fun for Frances Rings when looking up at the 09 Sadako Fiona Burg accidently wanders into distinctive choreography. personality of Carmen. feathered friends. Unaipon was Bangarra night sky. Wollongong High What happens in a a graveyard. Dance Theatre’s 13 Who Dunnit School of the 14 Angie dance class? Interval acclaimed show which 04 Too Loud Performing Arts 04 Decisive Intuition NSW Public Schools celebrated the life and Wagga Wagga Woollahra Public School Years 8-9 19 All That Fosse Nepean Creative and Junior Ensemble work of David Unaipon, High School 09 Waitress Years 2-3 CHOREOGRAPHER Dance Off! Troup Performing Arts Years 7-9 the first published Years 9-12 NSW Public School CHOREOGRAPHER Rosanna Goderie Years 8-10 High School CHOREOGRAPHER Aboriginal author, an CHOREOGRAPHER Primary Ensemble 1 Katelyn Boshell The wings of the crane CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 11-12 Katelyn Boshell inventor, philosopher, Kathryn Fisher Years 4-6 The composer insists on are believed to carry Kim Rhodes CHOREOGRAPHER Discover who was up to The story of a resilient CHOREOGRAPHER writer and storyteller. playing his violin at night souls up to paradise. Launcelot Roma Clare Henville foul play. young woman. Natalie Somerville and his wife can’t sleep. Inspired by the theatrical How do you form a 10 Sleep Wake The life of a waitress and 14 Scarecrows 15 Boy Overboard style of Bob Fosse. true connection? 05 Os Ventos Homeostasis expert pie maker. after Dark Western Liverpool Campbelltown Port Hacking 20 Displaced 05 The Race Bilgola Plateau Community of Schools Performing Arts High School NSW Public Schools Hoxton Park Public School Years 5-6 High School Years 9-12 State Ensemble 1 Public School Years 5-6 CHOREOGRAPHER Years 8-10 CHOREOGRAPHER Years 7-12 Years K-2 CHOREOGRAPHER Charli Watts CHOREOGRAPHER Casey Hadfield CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER Bree Turansky A story of adventure Olivia Melville The internal timer that Anouska Gammon Kylie Watts The sun sets on and hope. On the earth’s surface, generates a pressure Every minute, 30 people As soon as the grid flags the farm and the wind is the movement of for sleep. world-wide become go down, the race is on! scarecrows awaken! air in large quantities. displaced, and have to flee their homes. Schools represented in the Friday 7:30 NSW Public Schools Dance Ensembles 2019 Alexandria Park Community Dubbo College Delroy Campus 01 Displaced 06 Spamalot 14 Boy Overboard School Dubbo College Senior Campus Lithgow High School Petersham Public School Interval Annandale North Public School NSW Public Schools Nepean Creative and Western Liverpool East Hills Girls Technology Loftus Public School Picnic Point High School High School State Ensemble 1 Performing Arts 10Hana Community of Schools Anzac Park Public School Lugarno Public School Plumpton High School Years 8-12 High School Years 5-6 NSW Public Schools Armidale Secondary College Port Hacking High School CHOREOGRAPHER Years 8-12 CHOREOGRAPHER Primary Ensemble 2 Asquith Girls High School Elizabeth Macarthur High School Anouska Gammon CHOREOGRAPHER Charli Watts Macquarie Fields High School Riverside Girls High School Years 4-6 Every minute, 30 people Natalie Somerville A story of adventure Banksmeadow Public School Endeavour Sports High School CHOREOGRAPHER Manly Vale Public School Rooty Hill High School world-wide become The legend of King Arthur and hope. Engadine High School Angela Hamilton Bellingen High School Melville High School Samuel Gilbert Public School displaced, and have to and his search for the Inspired by the polarity Burwood Girls High School Evans River K-12 School flee their homes. Holy Grail. 15 Celestial Menai High School South Grafton High School of ancient traditions and Ferncourt Public School NSW Public Schools the ultra-contemporary in Moree Secondary College Sutherland North Public School 02 Snowstorm 07 (dis)Connect Junior Ensemble 1 Georges River College Japanese culture. High School Mosman Public School Strathfield Girls High School Eastwood Public School Hunter School of Years 8-9 Peakhurst Campus Canterbury Girls High School Mulwaree High School Years 1-3 Performing Arts 11 Stronghold CHOREOGRAPHER Glenwood High School CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 9-10 Lexy Panetta Campbelltown Performing Leichhardt Campus Wollongong High Granville Boys High School Narrandera High School Nicole Gasparre CHOREOGRAPHER Inspired by the spatial Arts High School School of the Nepean Creative and Performing Eleni Boulas Jo Thorn and dynamic relationships Cheltenham Girls High School Grafton High School Performing Arts Arts High School It’s fun to play in the Does technology of astronomical Gymea Technology High School Years 11-12 Cherrybrook Technology snow, but be careful connect us or objects and evokes the Newtown High School of the The Jannali High School CHOREOGRAPHER High School Harbord Public School not to get caught in disconnect us? forces between these Performing Arts Trangie Central School Emily Ireland Cobar High School the storm. planetary movements. Homebush West Public School Northern Beaches Secondary Like links in a chain, we High School 08 Sleepwalker Cowra High School Hunter School of Performing Arts College 03 Ah… I See are strongly bound. 16 Paper Scissors Rock Tweed River High School Newtown High School Inverell High School Northern Beaches Secondary Westfields Sports of the Performing Arts 12 Oh, the Thinks you Hunter School of College Mackellar Girls Campus Wagga Wagga High School James Busby High School High School Years 8-12 Performing Arts can Think! Northern Beaches Secondary Willoughby Girls High School Years 10-12 CHOREOGRAPHER Year 6 Cronulla South Public School South Coogee College Manly Campus Winston Heights Public School CHOREOGRAPHER Nelson Earl CHOREOGRAPHER Public School Darlington Public School Rebecca Fishburn If only we take the time Jade Hilliard Northlakes High School Wollongong High School of the Years 3-6 Denison College of Secondary The inventors mind is a and look up to realise A process of unbiased choice. Orange High School Performing Arts CHOREOGRAPHERS Education, delicate balance of logic, we a part of something Kirrawee High School Lara Richardson Oyster Bay Public School Woolooware Public School intellect and creativity. greater. 17 Finesse Denison College of Secondary Laguna Street Public School Emma Murphy Woonona High School NSW Public Schools Education, Panania Public School Imagination and creativity Leichardt Public School 04 Dinosaurs 09 Excerpts from Urban Dance Crew Yarrawarrah Public School revealed through the Sylvania Heights ‘Unaipon’ (2004) Years 5-12 characters of Dr Seuss. Public School ‘Two Winds’, CHOREOGRAPHERS Years 1-2 ‘Motion’ & ‘Religion’ 13 Community Neale Whittaker CHOREOGRAPHER NSW Public Schools Pete Evans NSW Public Schools Katelyn Boshell Aboriginal Dance A wildly energetic work Senior Ensemble 1 The explorers discover Company inspired by Bob Fosse’s Years 10-12 the last existing Years 8-12 distinctive choreography. CHOREOGRAPHER dinosaurs. CHOREOGRAPHER Courtney Horton Frances Rings 18 Who We Are The community is a 05 One Entity Unaipon was Bangarra Newtown High School powerful force for healing Riverside Girls Dance Theatre’s of the Performing Arts and support. High School acclaimed show which Years 10-12

Years 10-12 celebrated the life and CHOREOGRAPHER CHOREOGRAPHER work of David Unaipon, Danielle Barsi Tamara Mitchell the first published An insight into how an Music and movement Aboriginal author, an individual perceives become a single entity. inventor, philosopher, themselves and the world writer and storyteller. around them. NSW Public Schools Dance Ensembles

NSW PUBLIC SCHOOLS NSW PUBLIC SCHOOLS ABORIGINAL DANCE ENSEMBLES DANCE COMPANY The NSW Public Schools Dance Ensembles The Aboriginal Dance Company was formed are an established core program of The in 2011 with the aim of developing the dance Tutors Arts Unit. The program aims to foster the skills and cultural awareness of Aboriginal and development of talented students in dance Torres Strait Islander students in the style of Natalie Somerville and provide training and performance contemporary Indigenous dance. In 2019 nearly Nepean Creative and opportunities in order to encourage the 800 students participated in workshops. The Performing Arts High School pursuit of excellence in this art form. The initiative is a partnership with the world renowned NSW Public Schools Primary ensembles play a major role in staged Australian dance company, Bangarra Dance Ensemble 1; Years 4-6 events held across NSW and form the Theatre. This enables students to work with Angela Hamilton core dance groups performing at Area leading dancers and choreographers, recreating Tutor, The Arts Unit and State Dance Festivals, the Schools works from Bangarra Dance Theatre’s repertoire. NSW Public Schools Primary Spectacular and other high profile events. The 2019 company features 30 students from Ensemble 2; Years 4-6 Ensembles rehearse on a weekly basis metropolitan, rural and remote NSW. at a central Sydney venue. Lexy Panetta NSW PUBLIC SCHOOLS URBAN DANCE CREW Tutor, The Arts Unit NSW PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Urban Dance Crew is comprised of girls and NSW Public Schools Junior STATE DANCE ENSEMBLES boys from Years 5-12 who excel in the dance style Ensemble 1; Years 7-9 This initiative provides students from the of hip hop. Working with outstanding industry Katelyn Boshell state an opportunity to participate in a professionals, the students have participated in Woollahra Public School high quality auditioned dance ensemble. the Boys Hip Hop Dance initiative as well as the NSW Public Schools Junior Students 7-12 come together for weekend Schools Spectacular auditions. The students from Ensemble 2; Years 7-9 workshops and to perform at the State the Urban Dance Crew are some of the best up and Dance Festival and Schools Spectacular. coming talent in NSW in the style of street dance. Courtney Horton Tutor, The Arts Unit NSW Public Schools Senior Ensemble 1; Years 10-12 Angela Hamilton Tutor, The Arts Unit NSW Public Schools Senior Ensemble 2; Years 10-12 Anouska Gammon Tutor, The Arts Unit NSW Public Schools State Ensemble 1; Years 7-12 Ashley Napoleoni Plumpton High School NSW Public Schools State Ensemble 2; Years 7-12 Sidney Saltner Patrick Thaiday Chantal Kerr Bangarra Dance Theatre NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Company; Years 9-12 Neale Whittaker Pete Evans Tutors, The Arts Unit NSW Public Schools Urban Dance Crew; Years 5-12 The Arts Unit Staff

MANAGEMENT AND Nick Cowell Jacquelaine Guy Sara Lewis Peter Copeland ADMINISTRATION Teacher and Student Macpherson Premier’s Reading Music Technology Projects The NSW Department of Education wishes to thank: John Benson Resources Support Production Assistant Challenge Support Officer Officer Leader, The Arts Unit Officer Dance/Drama EVENTS AND ARTS Elizabeth Scott • School principals, teachers, students Our arts and literacy programs aim to: Marianne Powles Cindy Dong Fiona Hallenan-Barker INITIATIVES Music Performance and their families who generously support • enhance student achievement in and Arts Program & Finance Officer Production Assistant Sonja Sjolander Project Officer dance education beyond the classroom Drama Partnership Coordinator Julia Lee Skinner Arts Initiatives Advisor Lindsay Pringle • The staff of The Arts Unit • build teacher capacity and leadership Administrative Music Support Officer showcase excellence Richard Spiewak DEBATING, PUBLIC Lucy Armstrong Rafael Bonachela, Ambassador, • Support Officer (5-12) • Manager Arts Unit SPEAKING AND SPELLING Student Performance and The Arts Unit Dance program Every year more than 64,000 students and Operations David Todd Andrew Lasaitis Events Officer Jennifer Birrell 8,500 teachers directly participate in Arts Unit • The Seymour Centre Management and staff for and Administration Digital Content Producer Speaking Competitions Music Support Officer (K-8) programs across NSW, and an additional Catherine Gilholme their support in the production of the festival Lisa van den Dolder Officer 593,000 students benefit from associated DANCE AND DRAMA Arts Initiatives and Events Susan Hill Arts Programs & Initiatives Officer teaching and learning resources and activities. Susan Rix Tony Davey Music Projects Assistant THE ARTS UNIT Coordinator Debating and Public Dance Performance Julijana Antelmi VISUAL ARTS The Arts Unit provides students and Michelle Stephens Speaking Support Officer Officer Events Production Jenny Beachum teachers with highly motivating and engaging Student Access and Assistant For more information telephone: Allie Gunton Desiree Lane ARTEXPRESS opportunities that inspire their creative Engagement Advisor (02) 8512 1100 or visit Student Dance Premier’s Spelling Bee Tamara Hill Project Officer potential. The Arts Unit delivers programs www.artsunit.nsw.edu.au Anne Baptist Support Officer throughout NSW in dance, drama, music, Development and Arts Initiatives Support Amber Hearn Or join us on Facebook : Conservatoriums Officer visual arts, debating, public speaking, Delivery Officer Officer Visual Arts Support www.facebook.com/theartsunit PREMIER’S READING reading, spelling and special events. Dianne McKinnon Jane Simmons CHALLENGE MUSIC Officer Operation Art Office Manager Drama Performance Tamara Rodgers Stephen Williams Heidi Windeisen Officer Marc Zovaro Premier’s Reading Student Music Programs Operation Art Project Teacher and Student Beth Rosser Challenge Officer Officer (5-12) Officer Resources Officer Drama Project Officer Shannen Rowland-Clarke Ian Jefferson Ioulia Terizis Premier’s Reading Student Music Programs Visual Arts Support Challenge Support Officer Officer (K-8) Officer What’s On - The Arts Unit

9-13 September State Dance Festival Seymour Centre Tickets on sale

14 September - Operation Art 2019 Newington Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park General public welcome 16 November

16-19 September Primary Proms Sydney Town Hall Tickets on sale

2-5 September Festival of Choral Music Sydney Opera House Tickets on sale

21 October Legacy Junior Public Speaking Final

25 October Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition Final Yr 3/4 (25 October) Yr 5/6 (15 November)

24-25 October State Drama Festival Seymour Centre Tickets on sale

8 November Premier’s Spelling Bee State Final General public welcome Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre, Ultimo

22-23 November Schools Spectacular QUDOS Bank Arena, Homebush Tickets on sale

8-14 Feb 2020 Callback and OnStage 2019 HSC Showcases in Dance and Drama Tickets on sale Seymour Centre