Ruth Osborne. Artistic director QL2 Dance
…s to try out their ideas. A new organisational name, QL2 Dance, came into being to encompass the ever-growing range of youth activities Osborne was able to develop and offer to young people. Chaos Project 2016. QL2 Dance. Photo: © Lorna Sim Over the almost two decades that Osborne has been mentoring young people in Canberra, she has received a number of awards for her work, including two Canberra Critics’ Circle Awards and an Australian Dance Awar…
Dance diary. April 2013
…ompany should not carry Tankard’s name as it was important to ‘maintain continuity and … respect for the historical background of the company’….
Dance diary. November 2022
…n. Further information on the 2023 season is available on the Sydney Dance Company website. It includes information on the company’s regional tour, and its season of Up Close, a new venture to bring the company and audiences closer together and which will include a new work from Bonachela called Somos (meaning ‘we are’ in Spanish). Launch of Glimpses of Graeme Hobart, more specifically the Battery Point Community Hall, was the site for the launch…
Dance diary. February 2013
…reened on SBS TV a few days ago. The SBS story is available below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4LkHNCTlw Below I have reproduced a photo of Marie Cuckson, who with Emmy Taussig assembled the Bodenwieser archival material and kept it in good order until she donated it to the National Library and the National Film and Sound Archive in 1998. The acquisition was part of the Keep Dancing! project, which was the forerunner to Australia Dancing. Ma…
Dance diary. December 2022
…in Canberra way back in 1982 when Don Asker, then directing the city’s resident dance company, Human Veins Dance Theatre, choreographed a version of Les Noces for a Stravinsky Festival. Asker collaborated with the Canberra School of Music and, perhaps ‘for the first time ever’, so the media reported, had the music performed as Stravinsky envisaged it. The orchestra, including four grand pianos, soloists and chorus, shared the stage with the dancer…
Belle—A Performance of Air. Movement of the Human
…director, Jenny Ritchie as aerial choreographer and costume designer, and composition by Eden Mulholland. You could have called it millennial twenty-five years ago, let’s call it apocalyptic now. Over and again I found echoes from Major Tom—Take your protein pills and put your helmet on … Commencing countdown, engines on … Check ignition and may God’s love be with you … Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare … I’m stepping through the doo…
Dance diary. April 2020
…elor, who is currently confined in Paris where he has a residency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRPwJQtNnyE George Ogilvie ((1931-2020) I was sorry to hear that George Ogilvie, theatre director, had died in Braidwood, New South Wales, on 5 April 2020. I especially regret that he did not live to see the Kristian Fredrikson book published, although he knew that it was on its way. Ogilvie was one of the executors of the Estate of Kristian Fredriks…
Dance diary. February 2016
…net is Kiara Felder from Atlanta Ballet and she is a joy to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv5UG59pBDM&feature=youtu.be Steven McRae in Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody Steven McRae, with Benjamin Ella and Yasmine Naghdi, in Rhapsody. Photo: © Dave Morgan@DanceTabs.com. Courtesy the Royal Ballet I have always found Steven McRae, Australian-born principal with Britain’s Royal Ballet, a little polite on those occasions when I have seen him live i…
Gailene Stock (and the ballet documentary First Position)
…d most of the original choreography we see is appalling. But it is nicely shot and edited by Bess Kargman and the seven students who are singled out and followed through rehearsals and performances in the Youth America Grand Prix all have interesting backgrounds. But you have to love competitive ballet to love this film. It has many distasteful moments if competitions are not your scene. Michelle Potter, 12 April 2013 I interviewed Gailene Stock f…
Life is a work of art. The GOLDs
…Muruwari nation of northwestern New South Wales. It was performed to music composed and played by Francis Gilfedder. Gissell wrote in her program notes: What a wonderful opportunity for Aussie Elders from all walks of life and cultural heritage to dance together in celebration of the rhythms and memories of this land. Australia now sensed freshly with knowing eyes and ears and footsteps. Black/GOLD is concerned with claiming ownership over one’s s…