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CRICOS No. 00213J © QUT 2011 Produced by QUT Precincts QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL PRODUCTION STAFF Technical Production Coordinator GEORGE MEIJER Lecturer - Technical Production / New Media MATT DELBRIDGE Associate Lecturer - Stage Management CARLY O’NEILL FOREWORD

Welcome to ESSENTIALLY DANCE 2011. This year’s exciting program will showcase our students’ talents through a range of works. The program’s choreographers bring a rich diversity of backgrounds and experiences to the performance arena, from the established practices of Shaaron Boughen, Leigh Warren and Grant McLay, to the emerging choreographic practices of Timothy Farrar and Expressions Dance Company members Riannon McLean and Richard Causer and the exploratory work of Research Masters PRODUCED FOR THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FACULTY BY QUT PRECINCTS student Tiina Alinen. Director Prof. Peter Lavery Operations Manager Jill Standfield Essentially Dance provides a rich learning opportunity for our students and this year’s season has certainly Marketing Officer JACLYN TAYLOR delivered, facilitating artistic growth and professional development for all involved. Our first year students have Production Coordinator JEFF WARNICK risen to the challenge offered by Leigh Warren’s work, Riannon McLean and Richard Causer have inspired the Senior Theatre Technician ANDREW EARLE second years with a new dynamic work and Timothy Farrar and Grant McLay have created works that showcase Theatre Technician JON HARRISON the third year students’ artistry and versatility. Workshop Supervisor Brendan Wright Administration Officer EMMA CAIN Many of our graduating students will soon embark on a trip to China to participate in the prestigious Guangdong Front-of-House Officer MICHAELA BANKS Festival, an exciting artistic and cultural exchange opportunity. They will be performing Shaaron Boughen’s work …. as velvet empties into purple…, so we have remounted it for this season in preparation for their China performances. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2010 saw the retirement of our highly respected leader, Shaaron Boughen. The Dance staff and students have benefited from Shaaron’s creativity, generosity and passion for over 20 years. Shaaron has accepted a position as Adjunct Professor, which will ensure that we continue to profit from her expertise. On behalf of my colleagues, students past and present and the broader dance community, I sincerely thank Shaaron and wish her all the best as she embarks on this next exciting phase of her career.

We hope that you will enjoy this evening and thank you for your ongoing support.

Avril Huddy Discipline Leader BEN HUGHES – Lighting Designer Ben is one of Brisbane’s leading lighting designers, whose work spans a wide variety of performance styles and genres. Ben has designed lighting for companies including Queensland Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre Company, Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland , Metro Independants, Stella BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (dance performance) Electrika, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Kooemba 1st year Performance 2nd year Performance 3rd year Performance Djarra, JUTE Theatre, The Forward Movement, QPAC, Brisbane Cabaret Festival and Ena Besic Maya Birve Emma Barnet Raw Dance Company. Ben also regularly works as an Associate Lighting Designer and Asher Bowen-Saunders Shauna Browne Michelle Barnett Lighting Realiser, and is currently an Affiliate Artist with Queensland Theatre Company Skye Burkin Hsiao-Ya Chen Danika Butler and an Associate Artist with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. Jake Chapman Luke Currie Richardson Siobhan Dumigan Hsiao Ting Chen Robert Flehr Bridget Ewart Caitlin Cross Isobel Larkin Lauren Grow Rebecca Giles Sharon Lee Christina Hayes Hayley Kerr Matthew Nguyen Jake Kuzma Chloe Lanham Kirri Webb Katrina Little Zachary Lopez Emma Marren Georgina Munton Ashleigh Musk HANNAH GARTSIDE — Costume Designer Amelia Skin Jaslyn Reader In 2007 Hannah Gartside gained a BFA in Fashion design from QUT. Hannah was a Michael Smith Portia Risson finalist of the Australian Fashion Graduate of the Year award. In 2010 Hannah gained Georgia White Tehillah Ross a BFA Hons in Fashion Design from QUT. She currently works at a costume maker Khadi Wolf- Brooke Courtney Scheu and dresser for the Queensland Ballet and occasionally runs workshops on Re-making Trudy Schofield Fashion with the Brisbane City Council. Gartside has worked with QUT Dance since Jacob Williams 2008. Kellie Wilson

KIARA BULLEY — Costume Designer Kiara graduated from QUT’s BFA Fashion in 2008. Following graduation she was nominated for the Graduate of the Year award at the Mercedes Brisbane Fashion Festival, where she showed her graduate collection. In 2009 she began working in the costume departments of both Queensland Ballet and Queensland Theatre Company, and was also the Costume Designer and Head of Wardrobe for the Brisbane Powerhouse production of The True Story of Butterfish. Kiara has completed her Honours year in Fashion, while also working as Designer and Costumier for QUT Dance. QUT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DANCE STAFF 2010, SEMESTER 1 TIMOTHY FARRAR — Choreographer Timothy Farrar began his choreographic career with Queensland Ballet in 2000. Full-time While performing with The Australian Ballet he initiated choreographic workshops and CSABA BUDAY Lecturer in Contemporary Technique, , MFA Study Area Coordinator launched the company’s in-house choreographic season Body Torque with his work SUSAN CAULFIELD-LECLERCQ Production Coordinator, Lecturer in Ballet Quick/Time/Trick. This work was further developed with Singapore Dance Theatre in the AVRIL HUDDY Discipline Leader, Lecturer in Contemporary Technique, Alignment Ballet Under The Stars initiative. Timothy’s contemporary works A Little Disconnect, EVAN JONES Lecturer in Ballet Resolution and This Tense were performed by The Australian Ballet as part of the annual RACHEL PEDRO Study Area Coordinator, Lecturer in , Latin Dance Body Torque seasons held at The Sydney Theatre from 2005 to 2007. KYM STEVENS Lecturer in Primary education In 2010 Timothy was awarded Best New Choreography at the Short and Sweet Dance Festival in Sydney for his Sessional duet Few Things Of The Same Kind and this year created No Place Nowhere for Expressions Dance Company. MARK BRINKLEY Ballet Technique TRACEY CARRODOS Ballet Technique Riannon McLean — Choreographer FIONA CULLEN Contemporary Technique Riannon completed a Diploma in Dance Performance at the New Zealand School of NICOLE GALEA Academic Tutor, Ballet Technique Dance in Wellington. She has worked with Merenia Grey Dance Company, Dance North WENDY LARAGHY Ballet Technique Dance Company, Australian Dance Theater, Restless Dance Company and LDTX Beijing. VANESSA MAFE-KEANE Choreographic Studies, Ballet Technique CHARLOTTE Cutting Digital Media Riannon joined Expressions Dance Company in 2007 and has performed and toured SKYE SEWELL Choreographic Studies in 12 company productions; most recently performing Natalie Weir’s solo Herself for NATHAN TIGHT Yoga Solo Festival of Dance. Riannon choreographed her first work for Dance North Dance LISA WILSON Contemporary Technique Company in 2002 as part of Original Spins. She then went on to work with ‘Red - i’ CHANTHALAH WEBSTER-TIGHT Yoga, Anatomy Tutor Dance Company that she founded with fellow dancer Nadine MacLean, choreographing in London for the GRANT McLAY Contemporary Technique Place’s Annual Resolution series 2005-2006. Riannon created Gold solo for Cecchetti medal tests in 2009 and Contemporary Tableau for Cecchetti conference 2010. DANCE ADMINISTRATION AISHA DIXON RICHARD CAUSER — Choreographer

Richard’s choreographic work Delirium opened the national design conference ‘4um? PASS Team (Peak Achievement Skills and Strategies) Advertising and Design Asia Pacific’ and was also presented at the 2005 Malaysian Valquiria Oliveira Massage Therapist Dance Festival in Kuala Lumpur. In 2006 Richard both performed and was a featured JAN SMITH Physiotherapist, Anatomy Lecturer choreographer in Cheryl Stock’s Accented Body (Brisbane Festival). Richard was a GEORGIA RIDDLER Sports and Dance Psychologist member of Expressions Dance Company performing in the Brisbane season of Memory

and Jigsaw, Maggi Sietsma’s On Thin Ice and Natalie Weir’s Where The Heart Is. Accompanists BRIAN ADAMSON Richard has embarked on several Queensland tours as well as international tours LOVINIA DICKENS and most recently embarked on a cultural exchange with LDTX Modern Dance Company in Beijing (China). STEVE FRANCIS Richard performed in the Paris Opera’s Bolero as part of their Gala season in 2009 and also played the role of BRETT FOWLER Assistant Choreographer for the 2009 QPAC season of the musical Eurobeat- Almost Eurovision. Richard has DAVID MULLER choreographed two works Pitch and Entity for The Aboriginal Centre of Performing Arts (ACPA) and has recently ALICE TROTTER choreographed his own solo for Expressions Dance Company’s Solo Festival. Richard has featured in music film clips by John Butler Trio, Darren Hayes, Powderfinger, The Living End, Megan Washington and Sleepy Jackson.

GRANT McLAY — Choreographer Grant McLay has worked with Expressions Dance Company and the Queensland Ballet Company and has taught in various universities and institutions. After working in Phantom of the Opera in London, and the Australia tour, Grant travelled to North America and Europe with Meryl Tankard’s , performing in Furioso and Possessed. Grant has worked with Scottish Dance Theatre, Carol Brown and Emilyn Claid in the UK and Maiden Voyage Dance Company in Belfast. He has worked extensively with Rex Levitates Dance Company in Ireland, including a co-production between Rex Levitates and the National Ballet of China, Beijing and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES PRODUCTION TEAM

SHAARON BOUGHEN — Choreographer, Costume Designer Dance Production Coordinator SuSAN Caulfield–Leclercq MA Uni of Kent, BA(Hons) Laban Centre, UK Lighting Designer Ben Hughes Shaaron Boughen is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty, Costume Designers Hannah gartside, Kiara bulley Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She recently retired from the Costume Constructors CARLA BINOTTO, BIANCA BULLEY, KIARA BULLEY, HAN MAI Head of Dance position at QUT end of 2010 and is currently involved in research projects Set Construction BRENDAN WRIGHT and postgraduate supervision. Shaaron has an extensive practice as a choreographer, designer and curator. She has collaborated with architects, musicians, fashion designers Stage Manager Fiona McKeon* and digital media forms and has an extensive design background from theatre works to Deputy Stage Managers Kirby Elmsly*, Pip Loth* product launches to pyrotechnics also designing costumes for works by many leading Assistant Stage Manager Amy Briggs* Australian choreographers. Shaaron is the Queensland dance critic for The Australian and has published in Realtime, Innovation In Australian Arts Media & Design and Currency Companion To Music And Head Electrician Clark Corby* Dance In Australia. Lighting Operator Mia Schack* Floor Electrician Anthony Spinaze*

TIINA ALINEN — Choreographer Sound and AV Coordinator Harley Mann* Tiina Alinen was born on Aboriginal land and lives in contemporary Australia with Sound Operator Kane Ernst* acknowledgement for Aboriginal cultural heritage. Tiina strongly identifies with her av Operator Andrew Stephens* Finnish cultural heritage. With her community... life is experienced through choreography, Floor Sound Peter Rhoades* teaching, dancing, community life, mothering, massage therapy, photography and filmmaking. As a multi modal life practitioner, Tiina lives the embodied book... Production Assistant - Set/Flys Ben SiebuHr* connecting with culture, people and land through dance. Crew Ashleigh Boulden*, Amy Furman*, Julia Krohn*, AlexandRA Miles*, Joel Redding*, Most recently Tiina held the position of Head of Contemporary Dance at the New Sarah Robertson*, Michael Rogerson* Zealand School of Dance for 2008-2009. Her professional leadership includes many arts projects funded by local, state and federal grants she has initiated, created and developed within Australia and the South Pacific. Currently Tiina is undertaking postgraduate studies through an MA (Research) at Creative Industries, QUT. Her research interest is how to land from an Indigenous perspective can inform and support the creative * Indicates QUT Creative Industries Technical Production student process toward dance making and performance.

LEIGH WARREN — Choreographer Artistic Director & Choreographer, Leigh Warren and Dancers Leigh Warren trained at the Australian Ballet School and then graduated to the Australian A Note from the production Team Ballet. In his final year with the company he was awarded the first Churchill Scholarship Late last year saw the retirement of a long-term friend of Technical Production, Shaaron Boughen. On behalf for the Performing Arts, which he completed at the Juilliard School of Music, New York. of current students of Technical Production, colleagues and graduates of and across many, many years — it is fitting, in this program, to acknowledge the enormous role Shaaron has played in inspiring creativity, strength and Leigh’s distinguished performing career included stints with Ballet Rambert, the Netherlands aspirations for technical prowess in the TechProd student cohort. As a Choreographer, Costume Designer and Dance Theatre and Nureyev and Friends. In 1993 Leigh formed his own company - Leigh Overseer of all things Dance, we say thank you for your dedication to the work, performance and production, in a Warren & Dancers. The company has performed for audiences in Holland, Singapore, true spirit of collaboration and in an atmosphere of intense teaching and learning. London, Indonesia, Korea, Japan and all states of Australia.

From the staff, over-the-years and current, we pay homage to your wicked sense of humor, devilish remarks... ABC TV has filmed a number of Leigh’s works including Lure (1994), Shimmer and Tehillium (1999), and in 2000 and the long days and the late nights “in it together”. Leigh was choreographic adviser for Spectre de la Rose in Paul Cox’s filmThe Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. Leigh and his company have received numerous awards, including the inaugural Adelaide Critics Circle award, four , the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award and four Green Room Awards. George Meijer Technical Production Coordinator In 2007, Warren was presented with a prestigious Ruby Award from the South Australian Government for Sustained Contribution by an Individual. Pint Size Dirt

Choreography Timothy Farrar in collaboration with the Third Year students Choreography Tiina Alinen

Rehearsal Director Avril Huddy Lighting Design Ben Hughes Lighting Design Ben Hughes Costume Design Kari, Hannah Gartside Costume Design Hannah Gartside Music Varttina, Gotan Project, Men at Work Music Aaron Martin, Ezio Bosso, Sascha Budinski Textual Advisor Jo Loth rd Cast 3 Year BFA Dance Performance Film Editor Chloe Speller Photography Choreographer’s family rd Created in collaboration with the 3 Year QUT Students, Pint Size is a work that reflects on how we see our families, how Cast and Co-Creatives Anja Ali-Haapala, Nicola Stavar, Emmy Steiner, Bonny Yarrington they shape us and the influence they can have on us as individuals. The design of the work is heavily influenced by Jan Family, a collaborative visual artist group whose aim is to create alternatives to everyday routines while also looking at This work emerged out of a desire to explore my connection to the land of my birth. I was born on Kalkadoon country, different ways to interact with our environment. Australia and my cultural heritage is the Southern Savonia region and the Gulf of Finland. I am a first generation Aussie born Finn.

Kiitos to the cast, my family, Deb, Teina and his whanau, the Noho and Toi Whakaari, Carita, Dan, L222 community, Warren, Kevin, Sam, Leisel, Leon, ED community and Shaaron.

The Eve of Feasting Audience survey – You are invited to participate in this project. As an audience member, your response to the work will offer invaluable feedback to the research. Please put your survey response in the box provided in the foyer. Kiitos... Choreography Riannon McLean & Richard Causer

Rehearsal Director Sue Leclercq Lighting Design Ben Hughes ... as velvet empties into purple... Costume Design Kiara Bulley Music Rene Aubry, Cibo Matto, Steve Jablonsky, Michael Galasso Cast 2nd Year BFA Dance Performance Choreography Shaaron Boughen

‘They consumed their pleasure & devoured their sorrow & on the Eve of the fest, their taste was of sin’. Lighting Designer: Original design David Murray, Reconstructed by Ben Hughes Music Jon Hassell Thank you to Natalie Weir and Expressions Dance Company. Thank you to QUT staff and especially to Susan Leclercq. Costume Designer Shaaron Boughen rd Thank you to our 2nd year students for their wonderful input and commitment to this piece, and for their unwavering Cast 3 year BFA Dance Performance smiles when devouring mouthfuls of apples weren’t their first choice of fruit! I have been interested in the nature of experience, of sensation in artwork rather than meaning making directly and have taken inspiration for this work from Drawings 1997-2003 by Anish Kapoor. We have created a movement experience using sensation for sense making rather than narrative or contextual cues for meaning making. In this way, how may what might seem as nonsense - how can velvet ever empty into purple - step beyond the world of logical connection and challenge through abstraction. Like Kapoor’s abstract drawings, the abstract movement vocabulary of contemporary dance is apprehended directly through the senses and it is the individual’s imagination that becomes the force for Between seconds comprehension.

Choreography Grant McLay

Lighting Design Ben Hughes Costume Design Kiara Bulley Never Mind the Bindies Music Anonymous Cast 3rd Year BFA Dance Performance Choreography Leigh Warren

I woke at 4am one morning only to fall back asleep and proceeded to have a full length feature movie for a dream. It Produced and Rehearsed by Csaba Buday seemed to go on forever. I then suddenly woke up thinking I had slept through my alarm, to my surprise it was only Lighting Design Ben Hughes 4:01am. Subconsciously we make decisions every second. So what if we? Costume Design Leigh Warren Music Adam Synnott after Drums of Chaos Cast 1st year BFA Dance Performance

“The inspiration for Bindies evolved from my fascination with the ability of dance to induce a trance state through relentless rhythm and movement. The aim was to draw the audience into the hypnotic web of ritual through repetition of movement phrases. The minds and bodies of the dancers become one, enabling them to push themselves beyond the Interval – 20 minutes normal boundaries of human architecture, which in turn releases the spirit, leaving the dancers exhausted yet ecstatic.”

Leigh Warren