Ausdance WA 2017 Education Program Brochure by AusdanceWA

2017 E D U C AT I O N PROGRAM Curriculum Support and Professional Learning Opportunities for Dance Teachers

K E Y DAT E S DAT E

Monday 30 January

EVENT

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE

for Dance ATAR Year 12 Set Solo Workshops 2017

WORKSHOPS

Dance ATAR Year 12 Set Solo Workshops 2017

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE

for Dance ATAR Year 11 and 12 Contemporary Technique workshop

TRAINING

Dance ATAR Year 11 and 12 Contemporary Technique workshop

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE

for Introductory Dance Making Workshop for Original Solo Composition (OSC) Choreographic Workshop for Structured Improvisation Workshop for Introductory Improvisation Workshop

WORKSHOPS

Introductory Dance Making Workshop Original Solo Composition (OSC) Choreographic Workshop Structured Improvisation Workshop Introductory Improvisation Workshop

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE

for Dance Teachers’ Practical Training Supplement (DTPTS)

CLASSES

Dance Week Free Open Classes at King Street Arts Centre

Tuesday 13 June

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE

for Networking Night I

Tuesday 27 June

NETWORKING NIGHT I

About responding to dance

TRAINING

Dance Teachers’ Practical Training Supplement (DTPTS)

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for Networking Night II

NETWORKING NIGHT II

About solo performance and improvisation

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE

for DTPTS Refresher

TRAINING

DTPTS Refresher

(8) 9 - 10 February Friday 17 February 7, 8 and 9 March Monday 20 March

Saturday 1 April

Friday 28 April Monday 1 - Friday 5 May

Monday 10 - Friday 14 July Tuesday 1 August Tuesday 15 August Friday 8 September Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November

INTRODUCTION Ausdance WA is committed to providing professional learning and resources to teachers of dance across genres and contexts. With the School Curriculum and Standards Authority’s release of the 2017 Set Solo for the Year 12 Dance ATAR course and the roll out of The Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline – The Arts of which Dance is a subject from Pre-primary to Year 10 (reporting from Semester 1 2018), we have planned a significant program of teacher professional learning opportunities and resources. The program aims to ensure that teachers are well equipped to deliver best practice dance teaching for students and participants in primary and secondary schools, in studios, and in community and social contexts. In 2017, we are offering the following program.

CURRICULUM SUPPORT 01 / Dance ATAR Year 12 Set Solo Workshops 2017 02/ Contemporary Technique Workshops 03 / Introductory Dance Making Workshop 04/ Original Solo Choreography (OSC) Choreographic Workshop 05/ Structured Improvisation Workshop 06 / Introductory Improvisation Workshop TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING 01 / Dance Teacher’s Practical Training Supplement 02/ Learn From The Masters 03 / Dance Week Open Classes 04/ Networking Nights 05/ Dance for Parkinson’s Disease Teacher Training 06 / DTPTS Refresher 07/ Creative Moves WA – Maths Through Movement 08 / Regional Teachers Support (Dance in Country Week) Places for all workshops are limited to ensure the optimal learning environment for participants. Please also note that, if there are insufficient registrations, Ausdance WA reserves the right to cancel a workshop. Become an Ausdance WA member and enjoy discounted registration cost. We look forward to providing teachers of dance with an excellent program of professional learning across the year.

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CURRICULUM SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES DA N C E ATA R Y E A R 1 2 SET SOLO WORKSHOPS 2017

9.00am - 3.00pm

Thursday 9 and Friday 10 February 2017

Subject to demand, an additional Workshop will be held on Wednesday 8 February Maximum 25 teachers per workshop

Venue: Studio 1, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $99 Member, $137.50 Non Member (inc GST) Registrations close: Monday 30 January 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Recommended for: Years 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12 secondary teachers, and independent contemporary dance teachers Presented by Kynan Hughes the choreographer of the 2017 and 2019 Set Solo, these workshops will provide support for teachers in engaging with the Set Solo materials (DVD/ CD package) distributed to schools during November 2016. The workshop is relevant for upper school teachers, as preparatory information for students in Years 10 and above who are interested in studying ATAR Dance. Independent contemporary dance teachers are encouraged to attend.

DA N C E ATA R Y E A R 1 1 A N D 1 2 CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP

4.00pm - 6.00pm

Tuesday 7 March, Wednesday 8 March, Thursday 9 March 2017

Venues: Tuesday 7 March, Sacred Heart College, Hocking Parade, Sorrento Wednesday 8 March, Corpus Christi College, 50 Murdoch Drive, Bateman Thursday 9 March, Lumen Christi College, 81 Station Street, Martin Cost: $55 Members, $71.50 Non-Members (inc GST) Registrations close: Friday 10 February 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Recommended for: Teachers only (no students) A two-hour workshop offering an opportunity to further develop contemporary dance skills in preparation for teaching the Year 11 and 12 ATAR Dance course. This workshop is presented by Kynan Hughes.

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CURRICULUM SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES INTRODUCTORY DANCE MAKING WORKSHOP*

10.00am - 12 noon

Saturday 1 April 2017

Venue: Studio 2, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $55 Members, $71.50 Non-Members (inc GST) Registrations close: 20 March 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Recommended for: Years 7-10 secondary teachers This two-hour introductory workshop will provide dance teachers with basic compositional skills for making dance. Led by Bernadette Lewis, this workshop will cover skills such as improvisation to explore new movement, and an introduction to the elements of dance, choreographic devices and structures. Great for a refresher or to reinvigorate your teaching practice, this workshop will provide teachers with strategies to share with students for successful facilitation in the classroom.

ORIGINAL SOLO COMPOSITION (OSC) CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP*

12.30 - 2.30pm

Saturday 1 April 2017

This two-hour workshop aims to equip teachers with additional tools in relation to the Original Solo Composition. Led by Bernadette Lewis, the workshop will cover compositional skills, deciding on choreographic intent in relationship to movement, tasks for movement generation and phrase manipulation, as well as using choreographic devices, structures and BEST to clearly demonstrate ideas. This choreographic workshop will provide teachers with strategies to share with students for successful facilitation in the classroom.

STRUCTURED I M P R OV I S AT I O N WORKSHOP*

10.00am - 12.00noon

Saturday 1 April 2017

Venue: Studio 3, King Street Arts Centre Cost: $55 Members, $71.50 Non-Members (inc GST) Registrations close: 20 March 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Recommended for: Years 10-12 secondary teachers, independent contemporary dance teachers This two-hour workshop aims to equip teachers with additional tools and ideas to successfully prepare students for the structured improvisation practical component of the Dance ATAR Course. Led by Jo Pollitt the session will address choreographic devices and elements in relation to the Set Solo and provide opportunities to explore tasks in relation to the new choreography in 2017. This improvisation workshop will offer teachers strategies to share with students for successful facilitation in the classroom.

INTRODUCTORY I M P R OV I S AT I O N WORKSHOP*

12.30pm - 2.30pm

Saturday 1 April 2017

Venue: Studio 3, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $55 Members, $71.50 Non-Members (inc GST) Registrations close: 20 March 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Recommended for: Years 7-10 secondary teachers

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This two-hour introductory workshop will provide dance teachers with basic improvisational skills in order to generate material and explore new movement. Led by Jo Pollitt, this workshop will explore the use of improvisation to assist with turning literal movement into abstract movement and adding choreographic devices and elements of dance for a purpose. Great for a refresher or to reinvigorate your teaching practice, this workshop will provide teachers with strategies to share with students for successful facilitation in the classroom.

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES DANCE TEACHERS’ PRACTICAL TRAINING SUPPLEMENT - DTPTS

9.00am - 5.00pm

Monday 10 – Friday 14 July 2017

Places are limited to provide the optimal learning environment.

Venue: Studio 3, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $550 Members, $605 Non-members (inc GST) Registrations close and $100 deposit payment due: Friday 28 April 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Submission of video and class plan due*: Friday 9 June 2017 Recommended for: All teachers: primary, secondary, studio, community, social

As part of our ongoing commitment to high quality dance education and professional learning opportunities, Ausdance WA presents the annual Dance Teachers’ Practical Training Supplement (DTPTS) workshop, developed by James Berlyn in collaboration with Ausdance WA. This five-day workshop provides experienced and aspiring teachers with the practical skills and strategies necessary to successfully teach dance in community, recreational and social setting, studios and schools. The DTPTS is designed for professional dance teachers of any style or level of experience. Topics include safe dance, anatomy, teaching styles and strategies, learner styles, ethical and legal requirements, class management and team teaching tasks. The program was originally designed as a practical supplement to an online Dance Teachers’ Skill Set (still in development, Ausdance Victoria), but it serves purely as intensive professional development training. Participants will be expected to submit a video or upload footage (20-30mins) and a brief class plan no less than four weeks prior to the workshop (9 June 2017). The video must contain evidence of the participant teaching, and may be discussed/reviewed during the workshop for learning purposes. Upon completion of the DTPTS workshop, participants may submit a second video and class plan for further feedback and support if desired. *Ausdance WA will provide support for filming/uploading video submissions if needed.

It was truly inspirational and motivational. Thank you for instilling great confidence in me and my ability, as well as my desire to be more creative in my teaching practice. 2016 participant

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES LEARN FROM THE MASTERS

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Venue: West Australian Ballet Centre, 134 Whatley Crescent Maylands Cost: Ranges between $15 and $30 per person depending upon the format Register your interest here: learning@waballet.com.au Recommended for: All teachers: primary, secondary, studio, community, social and advanced-level students A professional learning activity for dance teachers and high-level students to learn teaching practices and training techniques from West Australian Balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic staff and special guests. Held in partnership with West Australian Ballet, participants have the opportunity to meet, watch, talk to, and learn from, some of the most prominent dancers and teachers from across the world. This is a fantastic professional learning opportunity to inspire teaching practice. Sign up to the mailing list by contacting: learning@waballet.com.au You will be advised of details as the opportunities are confirmed, or you can check the websites: waballet.com.au and ausdancewa.org.au Learn from the Masters is presented by Ausdance WA in partnership with West Australian Ballet.

DANCE WEEK OPEN CLASSES

5.00pm - 7.00pm

Monday 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Friday 5 May 2017

Venue: Dance studios, Level 2, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: Free Register your interest here: : www.ausdancewa.org.au/dance-week-open-day Part of the Act-Belong-Commit Dance 100 and in celebration of Australian Dance Week, Ausdance WA invites you to come and try a range of free dance classes on offer every night of the week. Choose from the array of regular classes held at KSAC dance studios, commit to having a go and start a new healthy habit for yourself. Ever wanted to brush up your hip hop, Chinese dance, salsa or swing? These Dance Week Open Classes are for you. For the full list of open classes, visit ausdancewa.org.au Australian Dance Week: Open Classes presented by Act-Belong-Commit and supported by the City of Perth

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

NETWORKING NIGHTS Networking Nights at King Street Arts Centre provide an opportunity for teachers to do just that - network. We have planned two nights during 2017 and have invited guest speakers to join us to get the conversations started.

Night One

RESPONDING TO DANCE

6.00pm - 7.30pm

Tuesday 27 June 2017

Venue: Large Meeting Room, Level 1, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $22 Members, $33 Non-Members (GST inc) *Includes cost of refreshments Registrations close: 13 June 2017 Registration: www.ausdance.org.au/special-events Recommended for: All teachers Years 7 - 12 Dance writers and critics, Nina Levy and Jo Pollitt, will join us to talk about responding to dance performance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; analysis, critical evaluation, interpretation, language, a critical framework and possibly even day dreaming!

Night Two

MAKING: SOLO PERFORMANCE & I M P R OV I S AT I O N

6.00pm - 7.30pm

Tuesday 15 August 2017

Venue: Large Meeting Room, Level 1, King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $22 Members, $33 Non-Members (GST inc) *Includes cost of refreshments Registrations close: 1 August 2017 Registration: www.ausdance.org.au/special-events Recommended for: All teachers Years 7 - 12 Andrew Morrish has more than 30 years experience as a solo performer and in improvisation performance. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll share his thoughts on improvisation both as a tool for creating, and as a performance device, as well as the content, structure and discipline required of the solo performer. Andrew Morrish is a guest of STRUT Dance, The National Choreographic Centre of Western Australia

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES DANCE FOR PD® TEACHER TRAINING

9.00am - 6.00pm

Dates TBC: 2 days for each course

Venue: King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: Introductory $286 Advanced $324.50 (inc GST) Recommended for: dancers, dance teachers and movement practitioners

Introductory Workshop Building on successful trainings in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, the Introductory Workshop is designed primarily to help dance teachers adapt your expertise to work effectively and comfortably with the Parkinson’s population under the guidelines and methodology of the Dance for PD® program. You’ll cover special modules that focus on class structure, pedagogy and exercise design, and participate in a practicum class to develop class content and teaching techniques with experienced master teachers and other trainees, in addition to covering general modules about safety and working with Parkinson’s participants. Although this workshop is specifically geared toward dance teachers, we welcome a diverse group of individuals who may be interested in the workshop for Educational and Professional Enrichment (EPE). In this workshop, you will attend as Active Auditors, participating in all group discussions and modules, while observing the teaching practicum on day two. The EPE program is designed to provide a comprehensive and intimate look at core components of the Dance for PD® program so that a wide variety of individuals without dance training or dance teaching experience can learn about our methods and benefit from our resources. Our introductory workshops are non-certifying. Attendance at one of our introductory workshops is a prerequisite to qualify for our Dance Teacher certification program or Registered Teaching Assistant program. You will be required to complete an introductory online course in order to attend this in-person workshop. Please note that workshop tuition does not include the pre-requisite online course (AU$132), which must be completed before the workshop. You’ll receive details about the online course when you apply.

Advanced Professional Development Workshop This professional development workshop will provide critical tools, advanced strategies and information relating to Dance for Parkinson’s teaching practice. Open to practitioners who have or will have completed the Dance for PD® Introductory Training, the workshop will integrate global best practices in developing and implementing this unique program. Specialised training, guest speakers and peer mentoring will form the basis of the twoday learning, which will also include time for practical activity, discussion, exchange and networking, as well as an optional viewing of the award-winning documentary Capturing Grace. This workshop is a pre-requisite to eligibility for the Dance for PD® Certification program. For more information about this workshop or Dance for PD contact Program Coordinator, Erica Rose Jeffrey at ericarose@danceforparkinsonsaustralia.org or visit www.danceforparkinsonsaustralia.org or www.danceforpd.org Further information: www.danceforpd.org www.danceforparkinsonsaustralia.org Dance for PD® Teacher Training workshops are presented in association with Parkinson’s WA, Ausdance WA, Dance for Parkinson’s Australia and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES DTPTS REFRESHER

9.00am - 5.00pm

Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 November 2017

Venue: King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: $220 Members $302.50 Non-Members Registrations close: Friday 8 September 2017 Registration: www.ausdancewa.org.au/workshops Recommended for: Teachers who have completed either the Ausdance Skill Set for Teaching Dance (presented in WA through Ausdance Vic 2009-2014) or the Dance Teachers Practical Training Supplement (presented by Ausdance WA 2016-2017) This two-day intensive is an opportunity for teachers to revisit and strengthen some of the practical skills explored in previous workshops, while feeding back about their own teaching practice and experiences with others. The DTPTS Refresher is a meeting point for those teachers interested in continued investigation and development of their own teaching practice, developed and delivered by James Berlyn in collaboration with Ausdance WA.

C R E AT I V E M OV E S WA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; M AT H S T H R O U G H M OV E M E N T

Available throughout the year by arrangement

Venue: Your school or Studio at King Street Arts Centre Enquiries: po.wa@ausdance.org.au Recommended for: Generalist Primary School Teachers Ausdance WA has partnered with Creative Moves WA to develop a series of Lesson Plans that integrate dance and mathematics for the West Australian Curriculum. The focus has been to provide generalist primary school teachers with no dance experience with the opportunity to deliver dance in their classrooms as purposefully connected curriculum, encouraging whole body learning and making connections between movement and mathematics concepts. Currently for Pre-Primary, Year 1 and Year 2 levels, these Lesson Plans are now available to purchase from the Ausdance WA website, www.ausdancewa.org.au/shop. Creative Moves WA offer Maths through Movement Professional Learning Workshops for teachers, delivering sample activities and practical skills for implementing the lesson plans. The workshops are available throughout the year and can be conducted at your school or the King Street Arts Centre Studios. Contact po.wa@ausdance.org.au for more information. Maths through Movement is an Ausdance WA partnership project with Creative Moves WA.

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TEACHER PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES REGIONAL TEACHERS SUPPORT - DANCE IN COUNTRY WEEK

Monday 26 - Friday 30 June 2017

Venue: King Street Arts Centre, Perth Cost: Free for teachers attending Dance in Country Week with students Dance in Country Week is an opportunity for professional learning for dance teachers based in regional Western Australia. Teachers accompanying groups to Dance in Country week can participate in the program, which includes warm up and technique classes, workshops in contemporary technique, choreography and two cultural dance forms presented by professional dance artists and teachers. In addition, specific professional learning sessions are scheduled for teachers.

Country Week Dance is the only practical professional learning I get in my subject area as it is too difficult to get released from school … I have learned a great deal from watching the ballet and choreography workshops over the past few years – enough to make me feel confident to transfer many of the skills/activities to my own lessons. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to view these sessions and watch the tutors in action.”

Regional Teachers Support is presented as part of Dance in Country Week, supported by Act Belong Commit for Healthway and School Sport WA.

- Teacher 2016

ABOUT THE TEAM

J A M E S B E R L Y N is an award-winning performing artist and lecturer of more than twenty-five years experience. Trained in dance at VCA, he has worked in dance, dance-theatre, theatre and community art across the country and internationally as a creator, performer, director and curator. His recent performance work includes, The Future Postal Service PIAF 2015, Lord High Executioner – The Mikado 2014, You Once Said Yes at PIAF 2014, Crash Course at PICA 2013, Dreamstore for Awesome Festival 2013 and WomAdelaide 2015, Tenebrae et Lux for PIAF 2013, Variant for Sue Healey and Company in Sydney 2013 and Agamemnon in Matt Lutton’s Elektra for PIAF and WA Opera in 2012. His hybrid one-on-one theatre work and installation Tawdry Heartburn’s Manic Cures (2009) has been seen at major festivals across the country including Perth International Arts Festival, Sydney Festival, Ten Days On The Island, WOMAD, Enlighten ACT, FOLA Melbourne and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. He is the instigator and co-curator of Proximity Festival, Australia’s first and only festival of one-on-one performance. He was a founding co-director of Tracksuit, WA’s adult disability performance company supported by DADAA WA. He is a sessional lecturer in devised performance at WAAPA and is WA’s only accredited facilitator and assessor for Ausdance’s Skill Set for Teaching Dance.

C R E A T I V E M O V E S W A delivers creative dance workshops and programs in a range of settings and was founded in 2014 by professional dancers and teaching artists Rachael Bott and Lanie Mason. Their vision is to see young people across Australia given the opportunity to experience dance as a creative art-form. Their programs ensure participants are involved in a collaborative creative process by allowing them to physically explore ideas and make their own creative movement choices. They are also passionate about utilising dance and movement as a tool for engaging students who can be otherwise disengaged from more sedentary learning, offering complementary teaching that integrates creative and critical thinking with the fundamentals of literacy and numeracy. Creative Moves WA has delivered one-off workshops through to long-term programs in WA schools (both primary and secondary), local councils and out-of-school-hours care facilities. They have also delivered a range of professional learning workshops for both generalist and specialist teachers.

K Y N A N H U G H E S graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts in Dance in 2000. Since then he has worked with a range of companies around Australia including: Leigh Warren and Dancers, Dance North, the Tasmanian Classical Ballet Company and Sydney Dance Company. He has performed and toured a range of new and established works, both in Australia and overseas. Kynan has also choreographed a number of works and taught at various companies and institutions around Australia. Since returning to Perth in 2012, Kynan has attained his Bachelor of Arts and has worked with Sally Richardson, Chrissie Parrott, James Berlyn, BUZZ Dance Theatre and Sue Peacock. He choreographed and performed in With a Bullet: The Album Project for the Fringe Festival and has choreographed works for LINK Dance Company, STEPS Youth Dance Company and for WAAPA. Most recently Kynan has completed two major commissions: one from the Education Department of WA and the other from Beijing Normal University. He is currently still developing Love/Less, co-curating In Situ - a program of site specific work for local independent artists and he is a sessional lecturer at WAAPA. A U S D A N C E WA 2017 E D U C AT I O N P R O G R A M

N I N A L E V Y is a dance writer and critic. Her dance training began relatively late, when she joined an adult ballet class aged 19. Three years later, after completing a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English at the University of Western Australia, Nina successfully auditioned for the Bachelor of Arts (Dance) program at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Nina’s career initially began in dance education. After completing a Graduate Diploma of Education, majoring in dance, in 2002, Nina accepted the position of dance teacher at Applecross Senior High School, where she remained for four years. Nina was also co-principal at Classical Dance Studio, between 2000 and 2016. At the end of 2006, Nina accepted the role of editor of Ausdance WA’s dancewest magazine. In mid 2007, she was appointed Communications Manager at Ausdance WA, where she remained until July 2011. In the same year Nina began working as a freelance writer for Dance Australia magazine. Two years later she was invited to write for The West Australian. Since 2011, Nina has taught dance history at WAAPA and in November 2011 she began editing Dance Australia’s website. From 2015 Nina was acting editor of Dance Australia for short contracts and earlier this year was appointed co-editor of Dance Australia, with Karen van Ulzen.

B E R N A D E T T E L E W I S graduated from WAAPA’s honours program, LINK Dance Company, in 2011. In 2012 she toured regionally with Tasdance, performing in works by Anton, Frances Rings and Marnie Palomares. Locally, Bernadette has performed in works by Buzz Dance Theatre, Sue Peacock, Aimee Smith, Jo Pollitt, Patrice Smith, Claudia Alessi, Didier Théron and Natalie Allen. In 2014 she was nominated for most outstanding female performer at the WA Dance Awards. In 2015 Bernadette was awarded a STRUT SEED residency in which she collaborated with Israeli artists Joel Bray and Oded Ronen to begin making En Route. She was commissioned by WAAPA to create an original work, 10,000Things, for first year dance students and will return in 2017 with a new commission for second year students. Bernadette has been teaching dance for nearly 15 years. Some of her most memorable experiences include Buzz Dance Theatre’s 2013 Big Stretch Tour to remote indigenous communities in the Pilbara region and Dirty Feet’s (NSW) The Right Foot Project. She has taught for many leading dance institutions and organisations including WAAPA, STRUT, West Australian Ballet, Ausdance, FORM Dance Projects (NSW), and Co3. A N D R E W M O R R I S H began performance improvisational work, part time, with Al Wunder’s “Theatre of the Ordinary” in Melbourne in 1982. In 1987 he co-founded the improvisational movement theatre duet “Trotman and Morrish” with Peter Trotman. Together they performed 14 self funded seasons in Melbourne in addition to numerous other one-off performances (including the Greenmill Dance Festival, Melbourne in 1994, 1995 and 1997). They also performed in the United States, most notably in the New York Improvisation Festival in 1995 and 1997. In 1999 they performed in “Antistatic” at the Performance Space (Sydney) and in “Dancers are Space-eaters” at PICA (Perth). In 2000 he moved to Sydney and based his teaching and solo performance practice at Omeo Dance Studio. In 2002 he relocated his work to Europe and now teaches and performs regularly in Australia, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and the U.K. In 2016 he taught and performed in Zagreb, (Croatia), Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, (Germany), Vienna, (Austria), Paris, Bouxwiller, (France), Goteborg, (Sweden), Melbourne, Sydney, Orbost, Adelaide, Canberra (Australia), London, Bristol, Huddersfield, Falmouth, (U.K.), and Poznan, (Poland). From 2008 until 2013 he was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Drama Division of Huddersfield University (U.K.) In 2016 he was awarded the Dance Fellowship of the Australia Council for the Arts (2016-2017).

J O P O L L I T T is a dancer and writer whose practice is grounded in performance improvisation and creative arts research. She is currently completing a PhD at WAAPA, holds an MA in Creative Arts (2001) and has worked with various companies and artists including Tasdance, Jennifer Monson (Syd/Melb/New York) and Rosalind Crisp (Perth, Berlin, Sydney). As the director of the response project - initiated in 2000, Jo works with performers as authorities in revealing traces of lived experience and physical imagination. Choreographed works include Room, Re-render for Chrissie Parrott; Check Point Solo for Rhiannon Newton performed at Judson Church, New York, and Under the Radar Festival, Brisbane; the Beast trilogy with Paea Leach; and Divided. Jo was Co-director of the 1999 Hobart Fringe Festival and the 1998 Tasmanian Poetry and Dance Festival, and was dance curator of Boiler Room - a national improvisation festival in 2002-03. She has created work by commission for PICA, LINK dance company and KATH - The Sydney Opera House, written several dance scripts and been published in various journals and magazines. Jo lectures in improvisation and dance history and analysis at WAAPA, works as a dramaturg and mentor, fronts the writing/dancing project co-works with Paea Leach and is the Creative Director of BIG KidsMagazine with Lilly Blue. A M Y W I S E M A N engages with dance as an artist, a collaborator, a teacher, a writer and an enthusiastic spectator. She completed her BA in Dance with LINK Dance Company in 2008, and has performed with West Australian Opera, Australian electro-pop band Empire of the Sun (touring from 2009-2013) and makes up one-third of Perth-based collective Unkempt Dance. Unkempt strive to amuse and engage a diverse audience with their idiosyncratic style of dance theatre mixed with a little bit of charm. Unkempt won the 2014 City of Perth Dance Award for Fringe World Perth and more recently have been commissioned to create works for the National Architecture Conference, LINK Dance Company and for Co3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first regional primary school tour. Amy has been Projects Manager for Ausdance WA since 2014 and is a member of the STRUT Dance board.

PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Neil Wallace Inside cover, pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14 and Inside Back: Neil Wallace Page 8: Deb Robertson, courtesy of West Australian Ballet Page 9: Sophia Natale Page 10/11: Courtesy of the National Dance Forum, Ausdance Victoria Page 15: Fionn Mulholland Page 16: Amy Wiseman

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