Photographer: Heidren Lohr
Masterclass
When: Friday, March 12, 2021, 3pm-5pm, arrive 15 minutes early to sign in and warm up
Venue: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, level 1, corner Morphett St and North Terrace, Adelaide
Cost: $30 + booking fee
The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Festival and venue partner Dance Hub SA, present a masterclass with Branch Nebula (NSW).
About the Masterclass:
The creative team working on High Performance Packing Tape have been exploring how objects and the body collide in risky situations. Doing the wrong thing. What happens when you change the priorities in terms of risk. The workshop participants are invited to prepare by bringing materials and objects that they would like to work with. Thinking about everyday items that can be sourced from shops, or off the street. Materials that when multiplied may have increased integrity. Or perhaps no integrity. Things you may wish to climb, or be used to change your shape. Its ok to bring more than what you think you will need for your exploration. As a workshop leader, Lee will share some techniques for controlled falling, stages of preparation for a risky manoeuvre, and escape routes. We will work with the props to create short pieces.
Participant level:
Emerging and professional artists: performers, dancers, physical people.
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Lee Wilson is one of the co-Artistic Directors of Branch Nebula. He is based in Sydney, and has toured extensively throughout his 30 year career as a performer and director. Lee trained at UWS Theatre Nepean and with the company Acrobat. Since co-founding Branch Nebula with Mirabelle Wouters 20 years ago, they have created many new works including the Helpmann Award winners Snake Sessions and Whelping Box. Branch Nebula’s aesthetic draws its dynamism from a passionate engagement with street culture. Refined art-making is everywhere, if you know how to look. We champion the exquisite skills of the skater as we do the fluid movement of the contemporary dancer, and we build our work with both.Branch Nebula is one of Australia’s most adventurous performance companies working at the nexus between theatre, dance, sport & street-styles. They work with non-conventional performers to collaboratively devise work that defies categorization. Lee’s credits with other artists include dramaturgy on Nick Power’s dance pieces Cypher, Between Tiny Cities and Two Crews. He has also worked with Roslyn Oades, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Shaun Parker, Shaun Gladwell, Urban Theatre Projects, Kate Champion, Acrobat and Post Arrivalists. Lee has led many workshops including Body of Ideas at Critical Path.
Photo: Heidrun Lohr