Kidd Pivot Masterclass

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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

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.

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.

Batsheva Adelaide Workshop - March 4th, 11am

Gaga/Naharin is a movement language developed over the last decade by Ohad Naharin, Batsheva’s long-time artistic director, in the Batsheva studios. This expressive and dynamic movement language is used daily by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company and Batsheva Ensemble as the basis for their distinctive technique.

Gaga offers a new way to reach a deeper knowledge and understanding of one's self via the body and its movement. Gaga encourages, teaches and cultivates multi dimensional movement, efficiency and texture of movement, the use of explosive power, the connection between pleasure and effort, quickness, clarity of intention, stamina. It enables recognition of one's own movement habits and helps to acquire new ones.

Essentially, Gaga increases one's understanding of the body’s weaknesses and strengths, as well as its response to them. Through Gaga, one works to break down physical barriers in order to reach a greater comprehension and control of instinctive movements.

Ultimately, Gaga empowers the experiences of pleasure, stillness, positivism, and happiness. The Gaga movement language is a tool that can be utilized by dancers and non-dancers alike.

When & Where

March 4th, 11am (studio open from 10:30am)
Studio 1, The Mill Adelaide
Level 1, 27 Bewes St, Adelaide 5000
(off Angas st just 20m walk from The Mill).

Bookings

$35
Places limited to 30 participants – so get in quick! Book via www.themilladelaide.com/events/

Workshop runs for 1 hour 15 minutes. Dress for Class, barefoot or socks. Comfortable clothes