Masterclass: Lucy Guerin Inc (Adelaide Festival 2018)

Photo Credits: Show image of SPLIT by Gregory Lorenzutti

The Mill Adelaide in partnership with The Adelaide Festival & ACArts present a masterclass with Lucy Guerin Inc (VIC). The Lucy Guerin Inc season of SPLIT is part of the 2018 Adelaide Festival, ACArts Main Theatre, March 2 - 5. https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2018/split

Details

Date: Monday 5th March, 2018
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Venue: Adelaide College of The Arts/TAFE, 39 Light Square Adelaide, Level 3, Rehearsal Studio
Cost: $25
Participants: suitable for students of full time dance program; trained/graduated dancers; semi professional/professional dancers.  
Inquiries: programming@themilladelaide.com

About the Masterclass

Led by company artistic director Lucy Guerin herself, the masterclass will be an introduction to some of the ideas and movement processes used to develop SPLIT. It will involve a short warm-up followed by a section of choreography taught by the dancers Melanie Lane and/or Lillian Steiner. There will also be some time to develop some individual material, based on tasks devised for the creation of Split.

About Lucy Guerin Company

Lucy Guerin Inc is an Australian dance company established in Melbourne in 2002. Renowned for the skill and originality of its small group of performers, it is a flexible organisation dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance. The company is committed to the exploration of everyday events and the redefinition of the formal concerns of dance. New productions are generated through an experimental approach to creative process, and may involve voice, video, sound, text and industrial design as well as Guerin’s lucid physical structures. Lucy Guerin Inc. continues to produce inspiring and innovative explorations of contemporary dance that resonate within our culture and the global community. The company values the need for risk, integrity and relevance in the creative process and provides environments, time, space and opportunities to question existing notions of dance. Crucially, this is always a choreographic exploration, striving for visual, emotional and physical revelations that could not be generated or communicated in any other artform than dance.

Lucy Guerin Inc has been a major influence on the growing identity of Australian dance, which stems from the company’s programmatic research into choreographic practice supported through several initiatives.

Masterclass: The Kagools (Adelaide Fringe Festival 2018)

The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Fringe present The Kagools Physical Comedy Masterclass.

Masterclass Details

Date: Wednesday 28th February
Time: 9.30am -11.30am
Venue: The Mill Adelaide, Breakout Space, 154 Angas Street, Adelaide.
Cost: $20

About

The Kagools are physical comedy duo Claire Ford and Nicky Wilkinson. An equally sought-after headline act both at home and overseas, their critically acclaimed shows have toured extensively, with recent international appearances including Australia, Norway and Vietnam. Incredibly versatile, they delight everyone from raucous late night comedy club crowds to daytime family festivals. Originally created by comedy duo, Wilkinson Ford (Claire Ford "Simply outstanding and has changed my views and opinions on characters, clowning and female acts in general" – Adelaide TalkFringe, and Nicky Wilkinson, Finalist 'So You Think You’re Funny' and 'New Act of the Year' 2013 "Effortless likeability and an excellent comic timing" – Chortle), as recurring characters in their full-length sketch shows, The Kagools proved so popular with audiences that in 2013 the pair shifted their focus to developing shows featuring them exclusively. Wilkinson Ford became The Kagools and never looked back.

★★★★★ - Mumble Comedy
★★★★½ - "Ingenious…life-affirming" – RipItUp
★★★★ - "Beautifully executed...Perfect viewing for all ages & nationalities" - Chortle
★★★★ - Three Weeks
★★★★ - The Skinny
★★★★ - Arts Review
★★★★ - "They’re here to find the silly child still within us...Perfect" - ShortCom
★★★★ - "Pure genius...comedy gold...side-splittingly hilarious" - BroadwayBaby
★★★★ - TheClothesLine.com.au

Engage: Dancehouse Choreographic Lab

In an exciting new national partnership, The Mill will collaborate with Dancehouse (VIC) and Critical Path (NSW) to present Engage - an annual program of opportunities bringing dance sectors together and providing professional development for dance makers from across the nation. 

The first Engage opportunity is for an SA based dance artist to participate in a Choreographic lab Replay with public outcome led by Eszter Salamon assisted by Boglàrka Börcsök for 10 female performers. 

The Mill will provide the selected artist with a $1000 honorarium to go towards flights, accommodation and a per diem. Dancehouse is providing the workshop cost in kind creating a total value of $1250.

Applications have closed.

ilDance Intensive: 2018

Our friends from ilDance Sweden will join the mill for two intensive weeks of class in January and April 2017.

Morning Class at The Mill

As 2017 kicks off, start your year with gentle morning class to get you back in your body through the beauitful movement teachings of Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer of ilDance (SWEDEN), and thorugh Erin's (THE MILL) Qoya movement classes - which brings you back into the body thorugh various embodiment practices. 

Classes will run Mon Jan 2nd - Fri Jan 6th 2017, 9:30am -10:45am

Cost $10 if prebooked online // $12 cash on the day

*If you wish to purchase more than one class, just choose the number of single tickets you want to buy at checkout and these can be used for any class during the week.

We look forwards to seeing you there!

Rumah Sanur Partnership: Indonesia Exchange

By bringing a team of artists from of South Australia’s The Mill to Indonesia it will introduce and connect the team to a network of contemporary artists and creatives that stretches across Indonesia - from Denpasar to Bandung, Jakarta, Jogja to Pulau to Flores and beyond. Similarly the project will introduce dancer and architect Adhika Annissa (Java) to Adelaide and Australia’s arts community, providing them an opportunity to experience a creative development in the heart of South Australia’s resident artistic community.

Directors Erin Fowler and Amber Cronin and a team of The Mill associated artists, are excited to work in an immersive and unguarded manner for this collaboration. Given the collaborative and location specific nature of this project, the team will work from a clean slate in the initial stages of the project as a starting point for mutual collaboration and exploration. 

Contributing Artists: 1st Stage (Sanur, Indonesia)

• Erin Fowler (SA) - Dance

• Amber Cronin (SA) - Installation

• Jian Liew (Germany) - Music

• Dom Symes (SA) - Writing

• Tom Borgas (SA, Portugal) - Sculpture 

• Adhika Annissa (Indonesia) - Dance/Architecture

Contributing Artists: 2nd Stage (Adelaide, Aust)

• Erin Fowler (SA) - Dance

• Amber Cronin (SA) - Installation

• Jian Liew (Germany) - Music

• Dom Symes (SA) - Writing

• Tom Borgas (SA, Portugal) - Sculpture 

• Adhika Annissa (Indonesia) - Dance/Architecture

ilAward 2017: Mieke Kriegesvelt

The Mill Adelaide has been working in collaboration with the Helpmann Academy, ilDance (Sweden) and the Adelaide College of the Arts over the past 3 years to deliver the annual dance award for a young eligible AC Arts dance graduate.

The Award

The ilAward is awarded to one young AC Arts graduate each year. It provides them with the financial support required to participate in ilDance’s ilYoung program.

The ilYoung program occurs over three months between June & September each year in Sweden, with touring taking place around Sweden & Europe. ilYoung is ilDance’s project based junior dance company. Lee Brummer & Israel Aloni established ilYoung in 2012 with the ambition to structure a platform which would offer professional experience to young dancers who are still enrolled in a dance education. ilDance, initiated and operate ilYoung with the wish to prepare young dancers upon graduation, for the professional contemporary dance sector both in Sweden and abroad.

Every year ilDance conducts an audition process from which ten dancers are selected to join a full time creation process of 5-6 weeks in a professional setting in Europe. During the creation process, the dancers meet the directors of ilDance, international guest choreographers & teachers as well as guest mentors. The creation process is hosted in residencies across Sweden where the cast, choreographers and the creative team interact and engage with the local community in various satellite activities. Following the creation period, ilYoung tours with the new production across Sweden and to other European countries.

This year’s audition for the ilAward is to be held at AC Arts in November, 2017.

““The experience that the dancers gain in ilYoung enhances their individuality and encourages them to unfold their potential to the fullest in a way that gives them the tools and confidence that are necessary to launch a professional career in an ever changing and progressing field such as the contemporary dance field. ilDance’s directors, Brummer & Aloni continue to guide and support the young dancers who participate in ilYoung, also at later stages of their evolvement and of their professional careers””

— ilDance

Selection

The young AC Arts dancer is selected by the Artistic Directors of ilDance, Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, with the support and advice of a panel consisting of:

• A member of the AC Arts Dance Faculty

• A Mill representative

Lee and Israel conduct the audition in Adelaide at the end of the university year and decisions are announced at the beginning of the following year. As the selected dancer joins a cast of dancers in Sweden, the artistic choice will ultimately be the choice of the directors, and panel will ensure that the selected dancer meets the criteria and is a suitable selection.

"For the last six weeks I have been involved in a beautiful, creative and intense project dancing in Sweden with Ilyoung, a youth company developed and directed by Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni. The company consists of ten dancers and together we worked with Lee and Israel on the creation of two separate works, The Solution is Temporary and #Ghetto, over the course of three residencies, each occurring in different Swedish cities; Linking, Harnosand and Gislaved. IlYoung also created opportunities for practicing artists to do residencies for their own work and exploration in the time we weren't using studio space. Because of this we had some fantastic classes and workshops with a range of different artists who shared with us their unique style and practice.

Being constantly exposed to new methods and approaches to movement everyday has been so invigorating and inspiring. I feel as though this process has introduced to me many different facets of the art form and of myself, widening my perspective of dance and performance and what may be available to explore beyond this experience.

I am very excited about touring these works soon. We will tour to five cities in Sweden. I am looking forward to seeing how the works continue to develop over the course of the tour."

Quote from 2017 ilAward Winner Mieke Kriegesvelt Aug 12, 2017

Engage: Tanya Vogues

As the inaugural recipient of The Mill's Engage residency I'm very grateful to have been able to participate in two workshops, one in Perth at Strut and one here in Adelaide at Leigh Warren Dance Hub. I am now midway through a creative research period where I am working on my choreographic practice that involves choreographic scores and performance drawing. The Mill have organised time for me in the new studio at Restless Dance Theatre and also with the third year dance students at AC Arts. So throughout this residency I have felt extremely supported by The Mill to experiment and start to develop a new dance work, and have had the opportunity to meet dancers and visual artists from all around Australia through the workshops and different organisations that have supported this residency. 

The Choreographic Future's workshop titled Choreography Across Disciplines facilitated by Canadian choreographer Ame Henderson, has helped bridge the gap between the new project that I had proposed, to the creative research that I'm involved in. I won't know what the full effect of this residency will uncover until I've seen this choreographic project to the next stage and can look back to reflect on it, but I do feel that the structure of the residency- having been able to attend a workshop in Perth at Strut with Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk prior to this and then having studio time to cultivate my current choreographic interest of mark making, recording a trace and involving an audience by taking the work off the stage and into a gallery setting- means this Engage residency with culminate with a new work that has taken my choreographic practice to a new level and given me a deeper understanding of the possibilities of my craft.

I look forward to continuing discussions with The Mill around the potential to realise an outcome to this creative research that might have connections to some of the other wonderful dance and arts organisations that I've been introduced to, but for now the ENGAGE residency is living up to it's proposal to engage me in the practice of developing my choreographic practice whilst engaging me in the artistic community of Adelaide. www.tanya.voges.net

Engage: 2017

Strut Dance (WA) will partner with The Mill, for the first time in an inaugural incubator project, Engage. The Engage incubator will offer one SA choreographer a residency based between the two organisations in SA and WA with the motivation to create greater connections and engagements between the two dance communities.

Strut Dance offers choreographers and dance practitioners the possibility to engage with leading national and international choreographers, the chance to work with collaborative partners in the making of their own performance and, the opportunity to put their work in front of a willing and informed audience. Strut is committed to developing the WA dance sector and connects their western community to national and international networks. In 2017 these national networks will reach SA in this new partnership.

The Mill is excited to work alongside Strut to support a SA choreographer in the development of a new work through a series of opportunities. 

The successful applicant will undergo a residency incubator with The Mill (SA) and then with Strut (WA). The recipient will have access to studios in Adelaide in order to focus on developing new work, before flying to Perth to under go further development time with Strut. The recipient will also be able to participate in one of a selection of Strut’s international workshops of their choosing (see list of offered Master Workshops below) and will have access to Strut studios at the King St Arts Centre. Return flights and accommodation in Perth are included in the residency. 

The selected choreographer will have a commitment to creating a new work during the residency, engage with the community and facilitate a development showing in both Perth and in Adelaide on their return from Strut.

Applications for the 2017 - 2018 Engage Residency have now closed. 

Congratulations, Tanya Voges who will be undertaking this opportunity.

Choreographic Futures: Ame Henderson

In 2017 The Mill Adelaide welcomes Canadian choreographer Ame Henderson to be the Choreographic Futures Mentor. The Choreographic Futures program is an intensive workshop format, inviting national or internationally acclaimed dance artists to participate in a mentorship/workshop program focused on connecting South Australian artists with aesthetics and activity happening in artistic fields outside the state and around the world. Previous mentors have been Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer from ilDance (Sweden) and Kate Champion from Force Majeure (SYD).

In the first of a two year partnership, The Mill is pleased to welcome Ame Henderson to lead the 2017 installment of Choreographic Futures with a choreographic laboratory open to artists from different disciplines.

Henderson is an independent artist, facilitator and mentor based in Toronto. She is an associate artist with the innovative collaborative company Public Recordings and has a longstanding relationship with Toronto Dance Theatre.  Her internationally acclaimed work, taking shape as performance, publication and exhibition, has been developed and presented at home and abroad in a range of contexts.

In July 2017, Ame Henderson will conduct a ten day workshop Choreographic Laboratory for multidisciplinary artists .The format of the workshop gives participants the opportunity to develop and challenge their own making processes and current research in collaboration with other participants, facilitated by an internationally recognised maker. The workshop, developed in collaboration with Christopher House, has previously been offered at Banff Centre and in Toronto, was created in response to a growing cross-disciplinary interest in choreography. The lab will bring together 12 artists to engage with methods and ideas distilled from contemporary choreographic practice. The program is for professional artists working in disciplines other than dance who are leaning towards choreographic ideas, and for dance practitioners investigating choreography in dialogue with other art forms. The goal of the residency is to explore how choreographic thinking - spatial, temporal and sensory - can enhance a diverse range of artistic practices. 

This project is supported by LWDance Hub, Arts South Australia and Critical Path  

Applications for South Australian participants closes June 30th
Workshop Dates: 10th July - 19th July, Adelaide South Australia
Workshop Fee: $400
This is a 10-day workshop and full attendance is expected where reasonable.
See current Program for more information about the next opportunities.

L-E-V Masterclass

Photo Credit: Gil Shani

When: Monday 20th March, 2017
Where: Adelaide College of the Arts (TAFE SA), Level 3, 39 Light Square, Adelaide SA
Time: 9.30am - 11am (Studio will be open at 9am for dancers to warm up)
Cost: $20
Level: Professional Level Contemporary Dance/Dance Theatre
Bookings: via Eventbrite.

Founder, Dancer & Creator

Sharon Eyal was born in Jerusalem. She danced with the Batsheva Dance Company from 1990 until 2008 and began choreographing within the framework of the company’s Batsheva Dancers Create project.Eyal served as Associate Artistic Director of Batsheva between 2003-2004, and House Choreographer of the company between 2005-2012.

In 2009 Eyal began creating pieces for other dance companies in the world: Killer Pig (2009) and Corps de Walk (2011) for Carte Blanche Dance of Norway; Too Beaucoup (2011) for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Plafona (2012) for Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, Germany.

In 2013 Eyal launches L-E-V with her long-time collaborator Gai Behar. This October, they premiered Untitled Black in collaboration with the Goteborgs Operans Danskompani in Gothenburg, Sweden. Eyal is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Ministry of Culture Award for young dance creators and the 2009 Landau Prize for the Performing Arts in the dance category. In 2008, she was named a Chosen Artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.  

Rebecca Hytting

Born in Huskvarna, Sweden. Rebecca graduated from Balettakademien, Stockholm. After finishing her studies she worked with Kamuyot/Riksteatern, Carte Blanche, Norway, Batsheva Dance Company and GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. She is now a dancer of L-E-V and have also been assisting Sharon Eyal/Gai Behar in creations outside the company. She is a certified Gaga teacher.

Kyle Page / Dance North Masterclass 2017

When: Friday 10th March, 2017
Where: Adelaide College of The Arts (TAFE SA) , Level 3, 
39 Light Square, Adelaide SA
Time: 9.30am - 11.30am
(Studio will be open from 9am for dancers to warm up)
Level: Professional Level Contemporary Dance/Dance Theatre
Cost: $20
Bookings: via EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dance-north-masterclass-tickets-32144531158 or book a spot via programming@themilladelaide.com and pay at the door.

Dance North are performing ‘ATTRACTOR’ at WOMAD. 
Please follow this link to see a clip of this work.
https://vimeo.com/202711227

Dance North

Dancenorth is a contemporary dance company based in Townsville, Tropical North Queensland. An epicenter for artistic exchange and collaboration Dancenorth balances a dynamic regional presence with a commitment to creating bold, adventurous and critically acclaimed contemporary dance. The dancers bios are substantial and I feel unnecessary. They can been found on our website if people are interested.

Masterclass Facilitators: Jenni Large & Mason Kelly

Masterclass Description

The workshop will begin with a class based on methodologies designed to attain strength through fluidity whilst harnessing the intrinsic support system for efficiency, balance and power. We will share repertoire from Dancenorth’s latest work Attractor, a co-production with Lucy Guerin Inc choreographed by renowned choreographers Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek. Together we will explore improvisational structures derived from momentum, evolution and surrender as well as learn phrase material connecting texture and rhythmical sequencing with detailed virtuosity. This is a unique opportunity to gain insight into the rich artistic culture of Dancenorth whilst experiencing choreographic processes from Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek’s latest creation, Attractor.

Kidd Pivot Masterclass

Image Credit: Michael Slobodian

Kidd Pivot Company

Integrating movement, original music, text, and rich visual design, Kidd Pivot’s performance work is assembled with recklessness and rigour, balancing sharp exactitude with irreverence and risk. Under the direction of internationally renowned Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, the company’s distinct choreographic language – a breadth of movement fusing classical elements and the complexity and freedom of structured improvisation – is marked by a strong theatrical sensibility and a keen sense of wit and invention. 

Kidd Pivot tours extensively around the world with productions that include The Tempest Replica (2011), The You Show (2010), Dark Matters (2009), Lost Action (2006), and Double Story (2004), created with Richard Siegal. Kidd Pivot received the 2006 Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, and was resident company at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, with the support of Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, in Frankfurt, Germany from 2010 to 2012.

Masterclass Facilitator: 
Eric Beauchesne – Rehearsal Director

Born in Québec, Eric grew up fishing and hunting before discovering dance at the age of 16. He has been on stage with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal as well as with Canadian contemporary dance icons such as La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, Paul-André Fortier, Louise Lecavalier and Crystal Pite. Performing with Kidd Pivot since 2004, Eric currently collaborates with the company as rehearsal director, and stages Pite’s work on companies worldwide including Ballet British Columbia, Cullberg Ballet, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Royal Swedish Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2013, he was appointed rehearsal director for Nederlands Dans Theater and since then has been based in the Netherlands. Eric devotes most of his spare time conducting improvisation workshops and advocating for climate justice and sustainable practices in the dance world.

Details

When: Thursday March 2nd 2017
Time: 11am - 12.30pm
(venue open at 10.30am for dancers to warm up)
Venue: Level 3 Station Arcade, Adelaide City (old Ausdance Studio)
Level: Professional Level Contemporary Dancers/Dance Theatre Artists
Cost: $20
Booking Details: via EVENTBRITE

Tom Borgas '13 Spheres (Klein Blue) Public Art Program

Tom Borgas installed the new public sculptural work ‘13 Spheres (Klein Blue)’ in Adelaide’s Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga, October 27, 2016 - Nov 28th 2016. Presented by The Mill Adelaide’s Public Art Program and the Adelaide City Council. 

The Mill Adelaide’s Tim Watts says, “We’re very excited to welcome Tom Borgas back from Portugal and engage him in this public art installation. We’re looking forward to seeing how Adelaide responds to the work being in such a prominent location.” The Mill Adelaide’s Amber Cronin explains, “Borgas’ practice is developing a strong, distinguishable aesthetic and is always engaging and purposeful.”

About the work:

Borgas will install thirteen, large blue spheres into the landscape of Adelaide’s central and most recognisable public space, Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga. The work challenges the public to reconsider a familiar environment and experience the space in new ways during events, festivals and ceremonies. The work will continually morph throughout its lifespan with Borgas altering the spheres’ configuration on three occasions. ‘Yves Klein’ refers to the particular shade of blue used by Borgas in this work.

About the artist:

Tom Borgas is an Australian artists who has exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia, The Jam Factory, Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, FELTspace ARI, Hatched 2013 and PICA Salon 2014.

He is the recipient of a number of awards including the NAVA Ignition Prize for professional practice, the Hill Smith Gallery/Helpmann Academy Friends Travel Prize and the 2015 Lismore Regional Gallery Splendour in the Grass New Art Commission. Borgas’ sculptural works behave as interventions in natural environments. The artist creates a dynamic by installing synthetic, geometric shapes into a landscape, and asking the audience to reconsider their surroundings.

Glitchy geometric forms emerge suddenly from known surroundings as a polarity to their location, spilling over from their digital existence and into the landscape. Borgas describes his work as, “dealing with the narrowing divide between digital and analogue – or virtual and real.” Further examples of the artist’s public sculptural work can be found here: www.madebytomborgas.com

Collaboration Workshop with Amber Cronin and Erin Fowler

This Is Not Art festival (Newcastle) hosted directors Amber Cronin and Erin Fowler for a workshop sharing their collaborative approach which was the foundation for The Mill.

Artists and Directors of The Mill, Amber Cronin and Erin Fowler started developing new work in the areas where their background cross over, multi-disciplinary performative work. Amber and Erin are interested in the intersection between dance, performance with visual arts, installation based work. Over the past 3 years they have developed a unique and concentrated dialogue between these two backgrounds as they explore, learn and investigate both the performance and visual arts worlds through their work as Artistic Directors of The Mill Adelaide.

ATLAS is an example of immersive experiences, transporting audiences to other worlds, and finding new models, creative processes, and ways of working that can serve their two artistic backgrounds. The workshop will be an afternoon session on ‘working collaboratively’ with a particular focus on working across disciplines and with individuals, mentors, and with new collaborators considering ways to forge new connections.

Masterclass: Eko Supriyanto

Founder and artistic director for EkosDance Company and Solo Dance Studio in Surakarta Indonesia, Eko is the leading Indonesian dancer and choreographer of his generation.
Trained in Javanese court dances and the Indonesian martial arts of Pencak Silat since the age of seven Eko’s performance career spans major works and tours throughout Indonesia, Europe, America and the Asia Pacific. Eko holds a PhD in Performance Studies (2014) from Gadjah Mada University and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Dance and Choreography from the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures (2001).

Eko’s performance career stretches between major commercial productions to dance research projects. He was enlisted as a dance consultant for Julie Taymor’s Lion King Broadway production and choreographed and performed for major international productions including Peter Sellars Le Grand Macabre, John Adam’s Opera Flowering Tree in Vienna, the Barbican Centre in London and the Lincoln Center in New York, Garin Nugroho’s Opera Jawa, MAU Lemi Ponifasio’s Tempest, Solid.States with Arco Renz, and was a featured dancer in Madonna’s 2001 Drowned World. His recent major work is Cry Jailolo with seven youth dancers from Jailolo North Maluku and will be touring in Japan, Australia and Europe in August- October 2015. 

Cost

FREE for GreenRoom members
$15 per class for non-GreenRoom members (please bring cash on the day)

Bookings

Open to professional dancers. Places are limited – so get in quick!
Secure your place via info@themilladelaide.com and bring cash payment on the day.

Workshop Details

Eko’s Class will run for 1 hour 30 minutes
Dress for Class. No late comers will be allowed. 
For more info contact: info@themilladelaide.com

Australian Dance Awards: Forum

The Mill Adelaide, in association with the Australian Dance Awards, is excited to be hosting an afternoon forum on Saturday the 12th of September, the day of the awards. Invited panelists attached to the Australian Dance Awards will be responding to and discussing: "A contemplation and examination of the literal definition vs. practical implementation of independent dance/artistic practice in the current financial support structure in Australia”

We look forward to having a robust discussion about the current arts dynamic in South Australia/Australia.

Panellists

• Peter Louca, Chief of Staff to the Minister for the Arts

• Anouk Van Djik, Artistic Director of Chunky Move www.chunkymove.com.au

• Jason Cross, Director of Insite Arts www.insitearts.com.au

• Israel Aloni, Co-Director ilDance (Sweden) www.ildance.se 

• Erin Fowler & Amber Cronin, Co-Directors The Mill www.themilladelaide.com.au

Details

Doors open: 11:30am
Discussion: 12pm - 2pm
Please stay for a drink and nibbles following the formal conversation, before heading to the awards later that evening.

Nebula Deluxe: Mill Immersive Event

Audiences were invited to an all-inclusive music, theatre, dinner, drink and dance experience, from The Mill and The Happy Motel. Join us at a full moon for a curated arts event for the ages in the exotic rainforest environment of the Adelaide Botanic Garden’s Bicentennial Conservatory. 

Come celebrate the intricacies and mysteries of our great Universe. Peer into the unknown; familiarise yourself with the machinations of the machine, and the lilting loops of the eclipsing moon. 

All eyes are on the future - unlike World Fairs of the Past, Nebula Deluxe concentrates on puzzling problems rather than trumpeting triumphs. Our imaginations circle far beyond the fading memories of Paris, London, Chicago and St Louis. 

Come lift your spirits under the light of the blue moon in the Adelaide Botanic Garden’s Bicentennial Conservatory.

Witness groundbreaking exhibitions that venture far beyond our skies in ATLAS - an immersive cinema, soundscape experience created by 6 artists within a planetary dome.

Featuring

• The Mill

• The Happy Motel

• Nan & Betty

• Young Muscle DJs

• ATLAS Cinematic Theatre Dome

  • Aida Azin

  • Abby Howlett

  • Henry Walker

  • Naomi Keyte

  • Liam Somerville

  • Felicity Arts

  • Future Memory
    

• Entropy by Peter Sheedy and AC Arts Dancers

• Erin Fowler

• Ben Roberts

• Callan Fleming

• Lochlan Maybury

• Antoine Jelk

• Hew Parham

• Ashton Malcolm

• G.A.G. Wines

• Moon Themed Karaoke

• Wax & Wayne’s Goodtime Bottleshop

• Pink Moon Saloon

• Young Henry’s

• Tarot Readings

• Abby Jane Howlett

• Lighting by Chris Petridis

Atlas

A 20 min video work consisting of four short videos made collaboratively by ten South Australian based visual artists, musicians, and film artists.  ATLAS is a collaborative project which facilitated the development of four short film based works which consider things beyond our skies within a planetary dome. These immersive works and soundscapes are presented inside the 180 degrees of cinema. 

ATLAS LOOP

1. "Watch the Stars" (2015) Aida Azin & Abbey Howlett

2. "Rawling Star" (2015) Henry Jock Walker, Amanda Lee Radomi & Hugh Black, Luke Hancock

3. "Away from the Sun" (2015) Liam Somerville & Naomi Kristina, Tom Capagreco

4. "Future Memory" (2009) Amanda Phillips & Alexander Waite Mitchell

ATLAS is a fulldome immersive cinema experience made during the 'Dome It - fulsome production workshop series' led by Amanda Phillips and Alexander Waite Mitchell of Felicity Arts. The 2015 fuldome films are co-commissioned by The Mill Adelaide and Felicity Arts thanks to Arts South Australia. All works have been made in collaboration and consultancy as part of 'Dome It' with production by Felicity Arts. 

Choreographic Futures: ilDance 2015

With the generous support of the Helpmann Academy and Klein Family Foundation, The Mill is expanding the size and reach of the 2015 Dance Residency Program to offer the national dance community an oppourtunity to make lasting connections within SA, and globally, through the international presence and networks of the residency.

The Mill welcomed Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, artistic directors/choreographers of Swedish dance company, ilDance - Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni – to mentor the Choreographic program. The 2015 Choreographic Residents were: Chelsea Evans, Callan Fleming, Erin Fowler and Alexandra Knox. Alongside the residency, four dancers participated in a new choreographic work by ilDance, Not Just Yet on the Dance Residents. The Dance Residents were: Cazna Brass, Hayley Kollevris, Erin Fowler and Andrew Taeli Haycroft

Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, ilDance is an independent and international contemporary dance company and production coordinating collective. ilDance’s artistic directors, Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer bring an exciting international presence to Adelaide having performed with and choreographed for some of the world’s top dance companies including Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin), Emanuel Gat (Israel), and the Gothenburg Opera (Sweden) as well as teaching for international companies including DV8 (UK), the Royal Swedish Ballet School, Sydney Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre. Having visited The Mill in late 2013, Lee and Israel bring remarkable mentoring expertise and refreshing, nurturing artistic inspiration to Adelaide’s dance community.
www.ildance.se

““During our classes we share our methods of movement and training, opening the door into our world and sharing our vocabulary. We work with a large focus on anatomy and the power of the mind when it comes to movement and range. Minimum effort and maximum possibilities and outcome. During the classes we work on breaking routines and movement habits and exploring movement as an individual.” – ilDance (Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni)”

The second offering of The Mill’s Choreographic Residency program was highly successful. It offered 7 South Australian dance artists opportunity for development, artistic exchange, mentorship and presentation. The program also attracted parts of the South Australian dance community including secondment students from AC Arts, local independent artists, and Australian Dance Theatre dancers and staff. 

The Mill's unique model offers a residency with multiple choreographers and mentors working alongside each other, and are hopeful to continue building and offering this program with new internationals into the future. 

The final showing was performed in partnership with Australian Dance Theatre, as a co-presentation of ADT’s Rough Draft program. 

Residents were awarded 4 weeks of studio time in which to develop a new or existing choreographic project. During this time residents were able to explore their choreographic practice under the expert mentorship of Lee and Israel, as well as engage in workshops, professional development sessions, and forums. The residency ended in a public showing of the works created open to the program’s supporters, industry guests, the artist’s peers and the general public.

The Residency included:

• A 2-day choreographic Masterclass open to the broader South Australian dance community

• Facilitated meet and greet sessions with the mentors, residents and artists at The Mill Adelaide

• Daily class for the dancers and choreographers – led by Lee and Israel as well as local SA established dance artists. 

• One on one mentoring sessions with Lee and Israel

• Weekly group feedback sessions and facilitated discussions

• Professional Development sessions for the residents in the areas of Marketing, Project management, documentation and technical production with selected industry professionals.

• Artistic forums/industry panel sessions open to the broader dance and arts community

• Professional documentation of the work and development process

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Masterclass

When & Where

March 5th, 10:30am (studio open from 10:00am for dancers to warm up)
Rehearsal Studio, Level 3, Adelaide College of the Arts
39 Light Square, Adelaide SA 5000

Cost

$30 (please bring cash on the day)

Bookings

Open to professional dancers. Places are limited – so get in quick!
Secure your place via info@themilladelaide.com and bring cash payment on the day.

Workshop Details

Cedar Lake's classes are designed to give dancers a well-rounded overview of contemporary ballet and the repertoire of Cedar Lake. The first portion of the class begins with a warm-up and the second portion incorporates the principles and techniques of choreographers whose work will be presented in the performance city.