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12 - 19 April 2009 - Australian Youth Dance Festival, Mandurah
Ausdance WA presents the 6th Australian Youth Dance Festival.
19 cast members from moonwebs & scorched thongs will be attending the Fetsival to represent STEPS Youth Dance Company including a performance at
Fragments I, Wednesday 25 April, 8pm, MPAC. Tickets available through BOCS.
moonwebs & scorched thongs 3 - 6 April 2009
STEPS Youth Dance Company celebrates 20 years with a new production called ‘moonwebs and scorched thongs‘, which explores and challenges contemporary gender ideals within the Australian environment.
STEPS young dancers will reflect on their lived experience of gender ideals to create this new work alongside a team of professional choreographers. In what has become the STEPS tradition, ‘moonwebs and scorched thongs’ will be an honest and relevant investigation of contemporary youth culture with movement and imagery that is powerful, energetic and poignant.
STEPS artistic team for moonwebs & scorched thongs include:
Project Artistic Director: Alice Lee Holland
Choreographers: Alice Lee Holland, Shannon Anderson, Sofie Burgoyne, Shannon Riggs and Paul Zivkovich
Composer: Sascha Budimski
Lighting Designer: Trent Suidgeest
Set & Costume Designer: Bryan Woltjen
Design Assistant: Fiona Bruce
Costume Maker: Antonella Anastasio
Production Manager: Andrew Beck
Stage Manager: Jenny Toomey
Publicist: Sue Scrutton
Photographer: Ashley de Prazer
Graphic Design: 303
moonwebs & scorched thongs cast are:
Aaron Smeding, Alexander Kane, Matthew Treadgold, James (Jimi ) Pham, Henry McAlpine, Reece Hawthorne, Saffira Mattfield, Sara Shea, Russell Thorpe, Sam Zamora, Harrison Elliott, Tyrone Robinson, Mathias Gebauer, Emily Fiori, Mitchell Harvey, Laura Alban, Isaac Anthony, Triska Cooper, Tahlia Russell, Sheri Elphick, Ieshae Pereira, Wendy Cunnell, Matthew McAvaney, Lewis Kilpatrick, Sarah Coulter-Nile, Tammy McLinden, Portia Smallbone, Ben Chapman, Georgia Porter, Shuling Wong.
PERFORMANCE DETAILS
Season Dates: 3- 6 April
Venue: Playhouse Theatre, 3 Pier St Perth
School Performances:
Friday 3 April 10.30am and 1pm - SOLD OUT
Monday 6 April 10.30am and 1pm - SOLD OUT
Tickets Prices: $9.00 students. 1 Teacher free / 10 students.
Additional adult tickets $12.00
Bookings: Call STEPS 08 9226 2133 or info@stepsyouthdance.com.au
General Public Performances:
Saturday 4 April 2pm and 7.30pm
Sunday 5 April 5pm
Ticket prices: $18.00 standard, $13.00 concession, Children,
$9.90 children (3-8years)
Bookings: Call BOCS on (08) 9484 1133 (booking fees apply)
Website: www.stepsyouthdance.com.au
Contact: Cassandra Lake (08) 9226 2133, info@stepsyouthdance.com.au
Powdermonkey- King of the Castle 2007
Presented by BHP Billiton Nickel West & STEPS Youth Dance Company
Performed at the Goldfields Arts Centre, Kalgoorlie, 2007
Artistic Director- Danielle Micich
Performers/choreography- Alice Lee Holland & Xavier Michelides
Sound score- Kingsley Reeve
Video design- Ashley de Prazer
Costumes- Isaac Lummis
Lighting design- Andrew Lake
Production Co-ordinator- Andrew Newnham
CAST
Amber Andre, Michael Casas, Nash Eddie, Douglas Foulkes-Taylor, Chelsea Hailey, Jelena Johnson, Jenae Johnson, Daniel Scott, Marvi Dollaga, Brandon Ford, Sam Mills, Bree Smith, Jacob Smith, Kieran Joyce, Karin Oosthuizen, Meg Cavazzi, Kate Balderson, Tania Loone, Patricia Toindepi and Lucy Viskovich
nospace - 12 to 15 June 2008
in the tradition of large-scale dance works dash, KISSXX and mania comes this years major STEPS production nospace.
In his first STEPS production as Artistic Director, Sam Fox cleverly exploits the wildly popular social networking website MySpace to explore in dance the implications of the interactive, user-submitted phenomenon.
Never before has computer-savvy youth been under more visible pressure to confirm publicly that he/she has the requisite amount of social clout, with whacky comments, videos and photos. Laid bare are young people’s everyday movements, thoughts and emotional states for public viewing in digital platforms, with clashing values of personal and social development contrasting with consumer data mining.
nospace explores the relationship between our identities and the physical, intellectual, cultural and virtual spaces we inhabit, by invetigating the dancers’ use of these sites and cultural navigation techniques in a world of saturated media, making tangible the virtual/physical/conceptual headspace of 26 young dancers.
The work delivers challenges to the dancers and audience alike: How do you as a young person choose to represent your identity? How much choice do you exercise in MySpace/Facebook? How do you construct your identity without your MyStuff - ipod playlists, phone and fashion? How do you do so with your body, in dance and physical style?
Through the seamless mix of multi-styled movement and the creation of a hybrid media animated set-centrepiece, nospace will immerse the audience in dance from the unseen corridors of web 2.0. *
The creative team of nospace is led by Artistic Director Sam Fox, and includes two of WA’s most exciting professional dance artists, Rachel Ogle and Bianca Martin, with guest Choreographer Paul Blackman, sound created by PIVOT’s laptop-rocker Dave Miller, lighting design by Andrew Lake, custom programming by Dave Primmer and media, animation and set design from Perth’s ololo collective.
Venue: The Playhouse Theatre, 3 Pier St Perth
School Performances: *
Thursday 12 June: 10.30am & 1.00pm - SOLD OUT
Friday 13 June: 10.30am & 1.00pm
Ticket prices: students $9.00 (1 teacher free when accompanied by 10 students) adults $12.00
Bookings: Tickets available through STEPS 08 9226 2133 or info@stepsyouthdance.com.au
General Public Performances:
Saturday 14 June: 2.00pm & 7.30pm
Sunday 15 June: 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $18.00 standard, $13.00 concession, Children, $9.90 children (3-8years)
Bookings: Call BOCS on (08) 9484 1133 (booking fees apply)
*TEACHERS NOTES can be downloaded here - nospace_-_teachers_notes_.doc
dash, Playhouse Theatre - June 13-17 2007
Cast- 30 dancers have been selected from over 50 talented and hopeful young males to perform in dash - STEPS latest production created to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the ‘Boys Can Dance’ program.
dash was presented by
Artistic Director- Danielle Micich
Choreography- Alice Lee Holland, Shona Erskine, Richard Cilli & Danielle Micich
Sound Score- Kingsley Reeve
Video Design- Ashley de Prazer
Lighting Design- Andrew Lake
Costume Design- Isaac Lummis
Performed at the Playhouse Theatre, June 2007
CAST: Lewis Kilpatrick, Russell Thorpe, Daniel Foulkes, Ben Chapman, Dominik Mall, Daniel Moody , Matthew Treadgold, Ashley Turner, Tyrone Robinson, Mohamed Kamara, Peter Fares, Peter Errey, Jaxon Botje, Lachlan Dymond, Yvan Karlsson, Samuel Gilovitz, Blaine Hall-Jones, Samuel Noble, Kane Morriss, Sam Zamora, Sean O’Brien, Ainsley Paik, Andrew Dawson, DJ Valente, Harrison Elliott, Isaac Anthony, Aidan Waite, Kris Bech-Howley, Brendan Harwood, Isabella Stone, Zosia Kilpatrick, Charlotte Martin, Kaila Quinn, Jessica Marino and Brittany Laidlaw.