Virtual Gallery: Dance Launchpad 2022

Presented by The Mill and supported by venue partner Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), Dance Launchpad is a professional development program designed to support emerging dancers to build experience in the professional industry, by working with local South Australian choreographers.

The program nurtures the ecology of dance in SA by commissioning established SA choreographers to make new work, and share their industry knowledge with emerging SA dance artists.

In 2022 the outcome was the creation of two choreographic works, Loom by Amanda Phillips and Semblance by Tobiah Booth-Remmers. These works were performed by emerging dancers Jess Minas, Amelia Watson, Isobel Stolinski and Amelia Walmsley, presented as a double-bill performance at ADT’s Odeon Theatre.

This program resulted in professionally filmed showreels for the four dancers, which you can watch below.

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Full length performances

Composer: Alexander Waite Mitchell

Videographer: Peter Drew

Lighting designer: Aaron Herczeg

Videographer: Peter Drew

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Amelia Walmsley

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Amelia Watson

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Isobel Stolinski

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Jess Minas

Virtual Gallery: City Mobilities 2021

City Mobilities was a three-day intensive that explored ideas about the way we access and move in public spaces, supported by City of Adelaide. This was a follow-up workshop, building on the first workshops in 2020 and 2021.

Over the three days, participants worked with lead artists Tom Borgas (The Mill resident artist) and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director) to explore how they could rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities.

This was an opportunity for participants to expand and develop their initial ideas into something more developed and considered, explore new ideas and further establish collaborative connections with like-minded peers and colleagues.

“This was an excellent workshop. I found the process that we were guided through led to everyone presenting interesting ideas a activities. This has definitely informed how I will approach generating ideas in my own arts practice going forward.”

Photos: Morgan Sette

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Virtual Gallery: Quartz Pistol, Umbrella Festival 2021

Quartz Pistol and The Mill present NATURE VS NURTURE, a three-part live video inspired by the deep sea, hydrothermal vent ecosystems where life on Earth is said to have originated.

Quartz Pistol AKA Abbey Howlett shares with you three tunes, representative of three different stages in her songwriting career featuring Myka Wallace on drums and Moses Carr on keys. Special thanks to Umbrella Festival and ArtsSA.

DOP/producer: Joli Vision

Second Camera: Will Hamilton-Coates

Set design: Abbey Howlett

Costume: Abbey Howlett

BTS shots: Back2back Media

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Virtual Gallery: Cinematic Experiments

Cinematic Experiments was a 10-day professional development project, presented by The Mill in partnership with artist Margie Medlin and Mercury CX, funded by Arts South Australia.

In response to creatives pushing further into exploring digital spaces, this intensive workshop challenged a mixed cohort of dance, performance, film and design artists to explore the development of interdisciplinary, hybrid and digital platforms. The stimulating, experiment-based structure built digital technologies skills for participating artists and ignited new ways of thinking and practicing. 

The partnership between The Mill and Mercury CX reflected the labs interdisciplinary aspirations.

Below you will find some of the images and videos captured during this project.

Virtual Gallery: City Mobilities 2020

City Mobilities was a two-day intensive that explored ideas about the way we access and move in public spaces, supported by City of Adelaide.

Over the two days, participants worked with lead artists Tom Borgas (The Mill resident artist) and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director) to explore how they could rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities.

“Learning more about the practice of the facilitators, Paul and Tom, gave us a realistic understanding of what it takes to create a public art project. I enjoyed the exercises and opportunity to share ideas with peers with the knowledge we could work collaboratively in the not-too-distant future. Furthermore, the workshop validated my interest in performance art in public.” 

Photos: Morgan Sette

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Virtual Gallery: Dance Launchpad 2020

Presented in partnership with Helpmann Academy, Dance Launchpad is designed to support recent graduates and emerging artists to build experience in the professional industry, by working with local South Australian choreographers and directors. This inaugural program, supported by Dance Hub SA, Hopgood Theatre and Cirkidz nurtures the ecology of dance in SA.

Recent Adelaide College of The Arts Graduate Jacinta Hriskin is the 2020 recipient of Dance Launchpad.

Jacinta (Jazz) has been working with three local choreographers; Tobiah Booth Remmers, Lewis Major, Erin Fowler and videographer Chris Herzfeld/Camlight Productions.

The process has resulted in three short solo works for Jazz and a professional showreel, which you can watch below.

Videography and photography: Chris Herzfeld of Camlight Productions.

Artist Feedback

Dance Launchpad was a brilliant opportunity that came about as a result of Covid-19. Initially, it was such a pleasure to physically work face-to-face in a studio environment and connect with local dance artists here in Adelaide.

Working with three different choreographers opened me up to the variety of ways that people work and run their creative process. Each choreographer was unique in the way they produce material and used concepts such as imagery, brainstorming, research and improvisation.

The filming day was a successful experience in a very professional environment. I witnessed and got involved with the behind the scenes aspects of performing. This involved theatre setup and packdown, as well as working with a schedule and coordinating lighting and set designs. I was elated to be on a stage again and perform the works.

The editing process of the footage taken by Chris Herzfeld was another great learning experience. It encouraged me to be decisive, choose key points and find effective transitions for my showreel.

The whole program was extremely valuable to myself as an emerging professional dancer. It is the perfect platform to promote networking with the industry and establish myself as an artist in Adelaide.