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The MAPS
initiative offers managing and producing services
to three theatre and three dance groups in
NSW, enabling them to create, present and
tour their work more effectively. MAPS NSW
is supported by the Australia Council for
the Arts and Arts NSW and is managed by Performing
Lines.
The following six companies
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Branch Nebula
Mirabelle Wouters and Lee
Wilson founded Branch Nebula in 1998. They
create distinctive, hybrid movement-based
performance combining dance, theatre, acrobatics,
music and design to create powerful and visceral
experiences for audiences.
Branch Nebula’s work
typically engages with popular culture artforms,
and explores Australia’s cultural diversity
through cross-cultural collaborations. Branch
Nebula’s work is inclusive and relevant
to contemporary audiences. The company is
particularly concerned with creating theatre
that speaks to new and younger audiences.
Branch Nebula’s Helpmann
Award nominated Paradise
City brought together streetstyle practitioners
(professional BMX rider, skateboarder, b-boy)
with dance and theatre artists. It was commissioned
by Sydney Opera House and toured Australia
as part of Mobile States in 2008, as well
as touring to four international dance festivals
in Brazil (2007). Other works include Plaza
Real (co-produced Urban Theatre Projects),
Sentimental Reason
(Sydney & Perth), Cattle
Prod (Belgium) & Mad
Red (Belgium/Switzerland). Branch Nebula’s
new work Sweat (working
title) is currently in development.
www.branchnebula.com
Sweat
– creative development (2009)
Marnie Palomares & Ahil Ratnamohan
Photo: Heidrun Löhr
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post
Mish Grigor, Natalie Rose
and Zoe Coombs Marr are post, Sydney-based
artists who devise and perform original works.
As a company, post are concerned with the
political, and make work that attempts to
communicate these concerns through direct
and involving theatre. A multi art form company,
borrowing from theatre, dance, installation
and performance art, post are passionate about
creating innovative and exciting new work.
post have presented pieces in Sydney, Melbourne,
Adelaide, Newcastle, and Brisbane.
…As young artists coming out of institutions
such as PACT, COFA and UTP, we have a dynamic
connection to the contemporary performance
culture in which we find ourselves and want
to show our work. However, we are also born
of another world, one that comes from the
lower class social ranks of Western Sydney
and Australia, saturated by more popular forms
of media. As members of a generation that
is largely regarded as apathetic, we find
ourselves on a borderline, engaging in an
avant-garde and yet still very much involved
in a mass media existence. As such, we have
a strong commitment to make work that can
exist not only as a valid contribution to
contemporary art, but is also accessible and
relevant to members of our extended communities.
post’s show Gifted
and Talented won 'Best Performance'
at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival, as
well as the Adelaide Fringe Touring Award,
and in 2009 their new piece Shamelessly
Glitzy Work premiered at Performance
Space, Sydney before touring to Brisbane Powerhouse
and Arts House, Melbourne. Their new show
Who’s the Best?
will begin development in 2010.
www.postpresentspost.com
Shamelessly
Glitzy Work (2009)
Zoe Coombs Marr, Natalie Rose, Mish Grigor
Photo: James Brown
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Ride On Theatre
Ride On Theatre is a collective
of professional theatre practitioners: performers,
directors, musicians, designers and technicians,
for whom theatre is a vital resource for collective
cultural conscience, our identity as individuals
and as a community. Ride On was founded in
2003 by NIDA graduates Bojana Novakovic and
Tanya Goldberg.
Ride On’s vision is the creation of
challenging, innovative theatre works, which
always draw upon the vitality of the medium
and expand boundaries relating to our distinctive
culture.
In 2008 Ride On produced three shows: two
adaptations of contemporary Serbian texts
- Fake Porno,
which saw seasons in Melbourne and at the
Brisbane Powerhouse, with three Green Room
Award nominations including best independent
production, and Family Stories at Griffin
Independent; and the Australian Premiere of
Tim Crouch’s An
Oak Tree. Other credits include The
Merchant of Venice (BSharp), Bone
(Darlinghurst Theatre/ Seymour Centre), Debris
(Old Fitz/ Black Lung Theatre) and
Loveplay (BSharp). Ride On's new work
The Story of Mary
MacLane - By
Herself will continue development in
2010.
www.rideontheatre.com
Debris
(2006)
Bojana Novakovic & Tom Campbell
Photo: Jimmy Pozarik
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De Quincey Co
Led by artist Tess de Quincey, De Quincey
Co is Australia's leading Bodyweather dance-performance
company producing an annual program of work
made up of performance, installation &
artworks, research & development, training
programs and artist development programs.
The company uncovers new forms and vocabularies
for dance by turning dance inside out; the
work challenges perceptions, embraces the
imperfect, draws the traditional into the
future and promotes inclusiveness, empathy
and insight. The works provide audiences with
the opportunity to experience performance
art in a genuinely unique and unexpected way.
Significant milestones have included: The
Triple Alice laboratories and performances
in Central Australia; Nerve
9 – a hybrid solo that was first
presented in 2001 in Sydney and Melbourne
and represented Australia in the Biennale
de Danse in Paris in
2002 followed by a Mobile States national
tour in 2005; The
Stirring, a major site-specific event
at CarriageWorks in 2007; and embrace:
Guilt Frame presented by Sydney Theatre
Company in 2008. The company’s latest
project, No Cold
Feet, a large scale, site-specific
work to be performed in Sydney’s Cook
+ Phillip Park, will begin development in
2010.
www.bodyweather.net
Run
– a performance engine (2009)
Victoria Hunt
Photo: Mayu Kanamori
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Martin del Amo
Martin del Amo, originally from Germany,
is a Sydney-based dancer and choreographer.
He is best known for his full-length solos
marked by a fusion of intimate storytelling
and idiosyncratic movement. His interest is
both in art form innovation through the integration
of spoken text into choreographic structures
and in communicating with his audience through
accessible, enjoyable performance.
Frequently collaborating with experimental
sound artist Gail Priest, his work crosses
various art forms and appeals to audiences
interested in dance, contemporary performance,
storytelling and new music.
Martin regularly teaches for a wide range
of dance organizations and companies and has
extensively worked as dramaturg and mentor.
In recent years, he has extended his practice
into choreographing group works. He has created
pieces for the Melbourne Fringe, DirtyFeet,
Pulse8 Manly Dance Theatre and LINK, WAAPA’s
graduate dance company, among others.
Martin del Amo’s most recent solo work,
It’s a Jungle Out There (2009),
recently premiered at Campbelltown Arts Centre,
and will tour to Performance Space, PICA and
Dancehouse Melbourne in February/March 2010.
Previous solo productions include Never
Been This Far Away From Home (2007),
Can’t Hardly
Breathe (2006), Under
Attack (2005) and
Unsealed (2004).
It’s
a Jungle Out There (2009)
Martin del Amo
Photo: Heidrun Löhr
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Sue Healey
Sue Healey is a choreographer,
educator and dance-film maker. With 25 years
of experience, she has created dance in many
contexts as an artistic director, as a commissioned
choreographer for Australian and international
companies and as an independent artist with
her own projects.
Her creative manifesto speaks
to the production of a highly-detailed movement
language. Experimenting with form and perception,
Healey creates dance for diverse spaces; theatres,
specific sites and the camera. Her live works
and films embody technical excellence and
high production values, and employ outstanding
dancers and collaborators.
Works made in Sydney include
3 collections: Niche
series (2002-04), In
Time series (2005-07) and the current
Curiosities series (2008-current).
These encompass 16 works across live performance,
dance film, gallery installations and international
collaborations. They have won awards nationally
and internationally and the major works from
each series have been presented by Sydney
Opera House and have toured to Melbourne,
Canberra, New Zealand and Japan. All 6 recent
dance films have been finalists in major international
film festivals and have been purchased by
ABC television and several European television
networks. Sue’s most recently live piece,
The Curiosities,
premiered at Performance Space in Sydney in
October 2009.
www.suehealey.com.au
As You Take Time (2007)
Lisa Griffiths
Photo: Patrick Neu
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+ Congratulations to Martin del Amo – nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance in the Australian Dance Awards!
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+ Ride On Theatre’s Way to Heaven received outstanding reviews and has broken the Griffin Independent box office record!
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+ Keep an eye on Zoe and Mish from post for their upcoming Next Wave shows – And That Was The Summer That Changed My Life and The Short Message Service.
Click here for more info.
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+ Congratulations to Lisa Griffiths for her Australian Dance Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer in Sue Healey’s The Curiosities.
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