SALA Masterclass: Chris Orchard (drawing), 'Identity and the Avatar'

The Mill in partnership with SALA Festival present a masterclass with Chris Orchard (SA).

Masterclass Details:
Date: Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th August, 2018
Time: 10.00am - 4:00pm
Venue: The Breakout at The Mill
Cost: $400
Participants: some drawing studio experience is a minimal requirement.
Inquiries: programming@themilladelaide.com

Booking essential: https://chrisorchard.eventbrite.com.au

An old aphorism states that every time we make a representation of a head we are representing ourselves. This 2-day studio-based workshop will navigate notions of identity through the drawing of the head. For hundreds of years artists (in particular), have made images and objects based on the head, from observation and invention. The Avatar, the invented being is often a character the artist uses to examine the human condition and elements of Identity.

Participants will be guided through a series of strategies that provide opportunities to make small and large scale drawings of the head, their own and others and through repetition observe the evolution of the physiognomy of the entities drawn. In part I remain fascinated by the variability of the hand made, the slippages that become doors to invention.

Artists to consider include DaVincis’ Grotesques, Holbein, Antonia Carriera, William Blake, Goya, Van Gogh, De Chirico, Giacometti, Botero, Dobell Paula Rego, Mike Parr, Barry McGee, Jenny Saville, William Kentridge, Godwin Bradbeer.

Easels and Drawing boards provided. Participants are expected to provide:

• 12x Sheets Bulky Newsprint. NOT Butchers paper.

• 12x Sheets 200 gsm Cartridge.

• 1x box natural charcoal, thick sticks, about pencil thickness.

• 2x Charcoal pencils, medium.

• 2x Sticks compressed charcoal, medium & soft.

• White latex erasers.

• Masking tape.

• Retractable blade utility knife.

• A rag, napkin size, old Tshirt or bed sheet.

• Small personal mirror, like a compact mirror to fit the palm of the hand.

About The Artist:
Chris Orchard held his first solo exhibition 1975. 1982 Founding member of Central Studios Adelaide. Over 60 solo and group exhibitions to the present. Former Head of Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art. 1984-1987 joined Air and Space Studios Berry St London. 2000 residency at Gunnery Studios Sydney. 2002 taught Drawing at the New York Studio School. 2011 Awarded the Arts SA Fellowship. 2012 Three month studio development of new work at Present Company, Brooklyn, NY. In 2017 awarded the SALA feature artist with a publication by Wakefield Press, “Christopher Orchard, The Uncertainty of the Poet with text by Peter Goldsworthy, Margot Osborne, Julia Robinson, Roy Ananda and Rod Taylor. Maintain studio practice in Adelaide and New York to the present. Represented in Adelaide by BMGArt, in Sydney by Wagner Contemporary Galleries and in New York by Stephen Rosenberg Fine Art.

www.bmgart.com.au
www.wagnercontemporary.com.au
www.lintonandkay.com.au

Umbrella Festival: Who Run The World

A potent showcase of female South Australian musicians, curated over two nights in July

Who Run The World is the idea of local female musicians Erin Fowler and Emily Bettison, who both reside at The Mill (Erin as Director and Emily as singer, songwriter and producer at her recently built sound studio.)

Bettison and Fowler have each curated an evening of music featuring a bevvy of local female artists.

Thursday July 12: PASSION POP: Shining a light on female pop artists, curated by Emily Bettison Artists: NAKATOMI // FERRNS // KADO

Three of Adelaide’s finest female-fronted pop outfits. Indietronic, alternative future-pop duo NAKATOMI combine the fully-charged vocals of Em Smart along with musical partner Hamish Cox. Bettison’s eclectic, alternative pop act FERRNS will also grace the stage, exploring electronic pop with soul and R’n’B stylings to create vibrant, infectious tunes to promote joy, empowerment and movement. Kaitlin Feagan of KADO (formally Alice Girl), who blends glitter with alcoholism to bring you nostalgic tunes in the style of alternative alco-pop.

Bringing pop to the fore, audiences can be sure to have their feet moving and dance the night away.

Thursday July 19: STORY AND SONG: An evening of storytelling and song, curated by Erin Fowler Artists: NAOMI KEYTE // SITARA // HANNAH YATES

A stunning line-up of artists with  unique and intimate ways of telling a story – be it through song, poetry, film or dance. Award-winning singer songwriter from the Adelaide Hills, Naomi Keyte will work with multi-award winning photographer (and The Mill Associate Artist) Che Chorley, who’s passion and affinity for the ocean sees him create mesmerizing photography and film. Chorley's recent exhibition THE SEAN AND SHE was a stunning celebration of the female form. Fowler's band SITARA  - with sister Tess - will perform their 2017 visual album, Alchemy, against their projected 40 minute film,  incorporating Tess’s experience in theatre and screen, and Erin’s work as a choreographer and dancer. To complete the line up, is local songstress Hannah Yates who floats storytelling lyrics on nylon string lullaby rhythms to soothe you through deep nostalgia and into an eerie and uncomfortable place. Hannah interweaves storytelling, folk and haunting soul with a hint of cheeky with the purpose of preserving the Kaurna language and culture of the Adelaide Plains.

Doors and food from 5:30pm
Music from 6:30pm
Food trucks (vegan options available): Soza’s Sri Lankan Street Food (July 12th) // The Taste of Spain (July 19th) Drinks and mulled cider by SPARKKE // Hither & Yon

In conjunction with the two performance evenings, The Mill will also host 2 open dance classes for women, accompanied by recorded music from female South Australian artists. These will run be facilitated by Fowler – a trained Qoya teacher. Qoya is a movement practice specifically for women blending yoga, dance, feminine movement, ceremony and sisterhood. It is open to women of all ages, experiences and ability and music is a key part of a Qoya class.

Who Run the World has been supported by the Umbrella Winter City Sounds Festival, through Music SA as well as beverage company, SPARKKE.

Employment Opportunity: Visual Arts and Community Engagement Co-ordinator

Call Out Details

Online Applications Open: June 18, 2018
Applications Close: July 2, 2018
Interviews from: July 16, 2018

The Mill is seeking a Visual Arts professional to add to our small, capable team. This is an exciting opportunity for a visual artist, curator or arts administrator to pursue their passion for visual arts by delivering exhibitions and events that contribute to contemporary discourse around professional creative practice.

The Mill is looking to attract applicants who exhibit strong artistic vision, and will utilise the existing machinery, momentum and networks of the organisation to deliver this to an exceptional level.

The Mill's visual arts program highlights the practice of art-making.

Our Exhibition Space program, in partnership with the Adelaide City Council, aims to make process more available to audiences by positioning them as central to artistic research. The Exhibition Space operates with a studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation. It presents four funded residencies per year, each up to 3 months in duration, alongside short, feature exhibitions - June 2018 - May 2019.

Each resident artist commits time to developing their practice through discussions, forums, workshops, research and artist talks - both with the artistic community and the general public.

The broader visual arts program may also include curating additional events and other visual arts opportunities (awards, exhibitions, masterclasses, etc).

Alongside the delivery of the visual arts program, this role will further develop the energy and sense of community within the Mill - between our Associate Artists, staff and external hirers. The role is also central to securing further visual artists to join The Mill community as studio tenants.

Importantly, scope exists for the successful applicant to bring their own voice and energy to the 2018-19 visual arts program. The Mill is looking for someone who values our commitment to highlighting creative process and is invested in exploring our new residency format with us, as well as exploring their personal curatorial vision through feature exhibitions.

This position is part-time (1 - 1.5 day per week).

The successful applicant will;

• Work alongside The Mill's Director/s, Programming Manager and General Manager in delivering a unique vision for The Mill's visual arts program.

• Work closely with artists to execute a curated series of exhibitions and events (openings, artist talks, workshops, etc) and professional development opportunities in line with The Mill's program championing creative process.

• Attract strong exhibition participants, audiences and community engagement.

• Be familiar with social media and work with The Mill’s marketing and press systems to promote visual arts events via online campaigns.

• Be familiar with gallery hanging processes in order to effectively manage The Exhibition Space.

• Evaluate cultural outcomes through data collection and analysis.

• Be an active and well-connected participant in the visual arts community.

• Assist with growing the permanent visual artists community at The Mill.

• Engage with The Mill's Associate Artist community to develop a strong culture of visual arts practice in our artist studios.

Remuneration:

• A permanent part-time contract (1 - 1.5 days per week) for 6 - 12 months.

• Renumeration terms provided on expression of interest.

• Superannuation and work cover paid additionally.

Selection Criteria:

• A strong curatorial / artistic vision and interests.

• Evidence of an established, professional creative or curatorial practice (CV).

For inquires contact Erin Fowler, The Mill Director via email or phone.

Applications have now closed.

Call Out: Writer in Residence 2017/18

Call Out Details

Online Applications Open: 5th June 2018
Applications Close: 29th June, 2018
Notification: 13th July, 2018

The Mill's Writer in Residency fosters arts writing and criticism by emerging South Australian arts writers. The program provides a 12 month studio residency at The Mill on Angas Street, and four pieces of commissioned writing for circulation via our publication partners.

The residency has two main aims - to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the arts AND to support writers in their professional development.

This is an opportunity for a writer to establish a permanent base from which to pursue their own artistic project/s alongside producing works commissioned by The Mill. The Mill is interested in engaging with writers whose work is cross-disciplinary in nature or, in some way intersects with different creative forms.

This program aims to create a broader audience for arts writing.

The Writer in Residence is provided with

• A dedicated writers' studio for 12 months, embedded in The Mill's creative community.

• Access to The Mill as an Associate Artist, including 24-hour access to their studio, wifi via GIGCity, use of the meeting area, kitchen, exhibition and event spaces.

• Opportunities to meet and collaborate with a artists from a diverse range of disciplines and creative backgrounds, who use The Mill as a permanent or casual base for operations.

• Four pieces of work, commissioned by The Mill, and developed in conversation with the artist, The Mill and our publication partners.

• An opportunity to grow creatively and professionally with support from The Mill and our networks.

Selection is made by a panel consisting of Associate Artists and members of The Mill management. Successful applicants will be chosen based on the following criteria;

Essential Criteria

Applicants must:

• Have a demonstrated commitment their writing practice.

• Show interest in arts writing, and/or in being aligned with the creative community at The Mill.

• Provide details of a major creative project / work-in-progress to be developed during the residency, with support from The Mill.

• Propose at least one of the four commissioned pieces in their application, and commit to delivering all four in line with publication guidelines. This writing should contribute to national conversations around visual and / or performing arts - aesthetics, practice, curation, etc. For example, writers may choose to respond to / critique specific visual art works or exhibitions, comment on trends developing across creative or curatorial practice, investigate innovative modes of creation, present research into an area of professional artistic practice.... etc. Pieces should align with the writer's interests in visual or performing arts and give consideration to potential publication outcomes.

• Articulate the impact this opportunity will have on their artistic and professional development

• Be committed to contributing to the diverse writing community in Australia.

• Meet application requirements and be prepared to establish a writing studio at The Mill.

• Agree to write an evaluation report at the conclusion of the residency.

Desirable Criteria

Preference will be given to applicants who;

• Demonstrate an interest to share creatively or collaborate.

• Propose artistically strong, interesting work.

• Show an interest in multi-disciplinary projects.

• Have undertaken tertiary-level study in a writing field.

• Show interest in being part of a writing community and network.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the value of this residency?

The Writer in Residence is provided with a private studio space at The Mill for a period of 12 months (value $3,775), and is paid for each of the four commissioned works ($200 each).

What do you require from me?

You will be required to meet regularly with The Mill and our publication partners to discuss pitches, progress and outcomes. You are required to submit four commissioned works over the 12 months of your residency, as well as two Associate Artist profiles for publication through our channels.

What hours do I have to be there? 

We don't expect you to work 9 'til 5, Monday to Friday, as we understand you may have a job or study commitments. However, we do expect you to make use of the space each week and be an active member of The Mill community while you are in residence.

When does this residency take place? 

The residency has set dates from August 2018 - July 2019. Dates will be confirmed with The Mill when the residency is allocated. Commissioned works will be spaced throughout the 12 months and delivered (quarterly-ish) in line with publication timelines. 

What is the major creative project? 

This residency is aimed supporting writers in their professional development. It provides an opportunity for you to delve into your own creative work to a new level, in a dedicated studio and surrounded by supportive artists and The Mill management. The major creative project can be anything you're currently working on, or aspire to create. It can be anything - creative, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose... Tell us what excites you about writing. The strength of your proposal will inform the selection process, but is not a defining factor. You are also free to make use of The Mill's other spaces in the pursuit your writing.

What are the commissioned works? Can I choose what to write about? 

The commissioned works are a way for you to engage with the creative community (locally, nationally and beyond) and contribute to critical dialogue surrounding artistic work that is of particular interest to you. You may choose to respond to visual art works or exhibitions, curation, performing arts practice, trends and modes of expression, or create written work researching a particular area of interest within professional artistic practice.

Who does the writing belong to at the end of the residency? 

Copyright of all work produced by the Writer in Residency, commissioned by or as part of the residency, remains solely with The Mill. Any other work developed by The Artist remains solely with them.  

For inquiries contact Erin Fowler, The Mill Director via email

Applications have now closed.

ilDance Professional Development Opportunity in Sweden 2018: Felicity Boyd and Zoe Gay

The Helpmann Academy and The Mill have presented their ilDance Professional Development Opportunity, valued at over $17,000 per recipient, to two emerging South Australian dancers.

Zoe Gay Photo By Sophia Calado

The opportunity will enable Zoe Gay and Felicity Boyd, both dance graduates from Adelaide College of the Arts to undertake a three month ilYoung residency with ilDance, an international and independent contemporary dance company based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Felicity Boyd: Photo by Sophia Calado

Zoe and Felicity, who will depart Adelaide for Sweden in June, were selected for the residency following an intensive audition process with the directors of ilDance, Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni. The audition saw a dozen local dance graduates vying for selection to take part in the ilYoung residency program, ilDance's project based junior company.

The ilDance Professional Development Opportunity is the result of a partnership between The Mill and Helpmann Academy. The award provides an opportunity for emerging South Australian dancers to create strong and meaningful connections with both artists and organisations across Sweden and Europe and will potentially become a platform for future creative opportunities and cultural collaborations.
The residency will take a group of 10 young dancers, including Zoe and Felicity, from around the world, across Sweden where the cast, choreographers and creative team will engage with the local community in various activities whilst developing a new production by Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer.

Felicity Boyd said that winning the ilDance Opportunity was a dream come true. “It is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class choreographers and be exposed to a different dance community, and to collaborate with other dance artists. The value of the IlDance award cannot be overstated - to travel internationally and to have the opportunity to expose my practice to new concepts, physicalities and new ways of thinking about dance is a great privilege. I feel so lucky and grateful to have been chosen. I am ecstatic about taking up this chance to further my knowledge and am excited to see where this will take me.”

Zoe Gay said winning the ilDance Opportunity was an honour. “I am so excited to be given this opportunity to grow and develop as a dancer, under the mentorship of such inspiring choreographers. This experience will no doubt open doors and offer a whole new insight to how I want to portray myself as an artist, how I want to move, and I what I want to further explore.”

Erin Fowler, The Mill Co-Artistic Director, and Jane MacFarlane, Helpmann Academy CEO, said that it was important for young graduate dancers to gain exposure to other influences, build their networks and find opportunities develop as an artist outside of what they already know.

“It can be difficult to find enough opportunities for development locally, so this award will hopefully allow a young dancer to have a significant experience to develop their career, and, to bring that back to the community here in SA.” Erin said.

“The Helpmann Academy is delighted to be collaborating with The Mill Adelaide to enable South Australian dancers to experience this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with ilDance. “ Jane said.

Artist Call Out: The Breakout Residencies 2018 - Free Range Residency

The The Mill’s Free Range Residency is an open project development platform available to artists working in the performing arts. The aim of the residency is to offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community, for artists to develop new or existing work. Successful applicants will receive 2 - 4 week’s use of The Mill’s Breakout space (as per the artist’s requirements). To apply for this unique opportunity, artists must complete and submit the following online application form.

Call Out Details

Online Applications Open: 1st May 2018
Applications Close: 15th May, 2018
Notification: 22nd May

Inquiries contact Katrina Lazaroff The Mill Programming Manager via email

Applications have now closed.

Artist Call Out: The Breakout Residencies 2018 - Spotlight Residency

The Mill’s Spotlight Residency is an open project development platform available to artists working in the performing arts. The aim of the residency is to  offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community, for artists to develop new or existing work. Successful applicants will receive 2 - 4 week’s use of The Mill’s Breakout space (as per the artist’s requirements), plus an honorarium of $2000 provided by The Mill. This residency must result in a 'work in progress' performance outcome. To apply for this unique opportunity, artists must complete and submit the following online application form.

[image credit: Chris Hertzfeld]

Call Out Details

Online Applications Open: 1st May 2018
Applications Close: 15th May, 2018
Notification: 22nd May

Inquiries: The Mill Programming Manager Katrina Lazaroff.

Applications have now closed.

Artist Call Out: The Breakout Residencies 2018 - Back Porch Theatre Residency

The Back Porch Theatre Residency is an open project development platform available to artists working in the performing arts and mixed arts disciplines. It is co-presented by The Mill and SA based theatre company, Back Porch Theatre.

Back Porch Theatre

The aim of the residency is to establish a platform for CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) artists to develop new work. Successful applicants will receive one week's access to The Breakout (at no charge) for one week, plus an honorarium of $500 (from The Mill) and mentorship by Back Porch Theatre.  The focus of this residency is to establish a platform for culturally and linguistically diverse artists.

Call Out Details

Online Applications Open: 1st May 2018
Applications Close: 15th May, 2018
Notification: 22nd May

Inquires contact Katrina Lazaroff The Mill Programming Manager via email

Applications have now closed.

John Blines: Memorias Exspirare

The Mill is excited to welcome John Blines as the debut artists in our new visual arts residency series. Blines' work, Memorias Exspirare, explores intrusive childhood memories and their effect on mental health. The intent is to process memories that impact Blines' adult psychological health, through making. It is  personal therapy and experimentation within the broader arts in health framework.

Over the course of three months Blines will establish a ‘studio’ within The Mill's Exhibition Space and create  small objects, evolving and growing the collection as he delves deeper into memory. The exhibition also included previous ‘memory’ works as research, inspiration and nostalgia.  

Blines will be present in The Exhibition Space on Sundays, Mondays and Thursday mornings. For more details watch this space and find The Mill's John Blines Face Book Event page.

This exhibition will also feature public engagement sessions, workshops, discussions and participatory making sessions. (Dates and times TBC.)

The Mill's Exhibition Space program presented in partnership with the City of Adelaide, highlights the practice of art-making and aims to make process more available to audiences.

Projects in The Exhibition Space aim to draw audiences deeper into the process of making, positioning them as central to artistic research. The Exhibition Space operates with a studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation.

The Exhibition Space presents four 12-week residencies per year, alongside short feature exhibitions. Each resident artist will commit time to developing their practice through discussions, forums, workshops, research and artist talks - both with the artistic community and the general public. The Mill will expedite research by facilitating connections to community groups the artist may wish to engage with, to help broaden their practice.

The Mill believes art positions itself within transitions and passages; it opens opportunities for public incursions into the private and vice versa. Our residency program considers this as the potential performativity of practice.

Artist Callout: Umbrella Festival at The Breakout

The Mill is curating a program of live music for this year’s Umbrella Winter City Sounds festival (July 13 - 29). We're looking for songwriters, storytellers, balladeers and bards or bands with a cross-disciplinary tilt.

Our new performing arts venue, The Breakout, is an intimate CBD performance space and the perfect setting for SA’s finest songbirds to warble this winter. The Breakout is more a theatre than a bar, providing audiences with an intimate and up-close environment to really ~listen~ to music.

Umbrella Festival registrations close May 11. Please send us your EOI by May 7th (next Monday) so we can confirm your booking.

Applications have now closed

Applications should include

• Your gig idea. We’re looking for storytellers, multi-disciplinary artists, and those doing something a little bit different with their performances (as well as great musicians).

• A demo of you music, or a link to where we can listen online.

• Your proposed dates and times.

• The names of all artists / groups appearing at your event.

Details

• The hire fee is $400 per event (up-to 3 artists / sets), Tuesday-Sunday. Get together with some friends and share the cost!

• The hire fee includes a sound technician, 16ch PA (please provide your own microphones, guitar amps, etc), lighting, staging, bar & front of house staff (for a maximum call of 3hrs).

• Earliest showtime is 5:30pm, and bump out is to be completed by 11:00pm.

• Artists are free to set their own ticket prices and take full box office profits.

• The Breakout has a capacity of 50 - 80 pax.

• The Mill will be selling warm, mulled cider and tasty treats at all Umbrella shows.

• The Mill will list all gigs on themilladeliade.com, our social media accounts and circulate an EDM about the line up.

Back Porch Showing in The Breakout

A Charcuterie of Smoked Meats and Abnormalities

4 dates · 19 April – 22 April

We're doing some semblance of a performance.

FAQ Answers:

• Bring cash for tickets and booze.

• Tickets are $10. Set your expectations accordingly.

• No you can't book tickets in advance, don't email us, we don't care. Just show up or don't.

• There's no audience participation, you'd just slow us down.

• It's a short show. We haven't timed it. It's short.

• Don't think about it too much. We haven't.

• Don't bring your kids. I mean, do what you want but that's on you.

• If you're worried about getting a seat, don't be. We'll fit you in. Nice and snug.

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Akram Khan Masterclass

The Mill Adelaide in partnership with The Adelaide Festival & AC Arts present a masterclass with leading international dance company Akram Khan Company (UK).

Akram Khan Company's season of XENOS is part of the 2018 Adelaide Festival, Her Majesty's Theatre March 16-18 https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2018/xenos

Image Credit. Show Image XENOS

Masterclass Details

Date: Friday 16th March, 2018
Time: 9am - 11am
Venue: Adelaide College of The Arts/TAFE, 39 Light Square Adelaide, Level 3, Rehearsal Studio
Cost: $25

Participants: aged 18+; suitable for students of full time dance program; trained/graduated dancers; semi professional/prof. dancers. It’s a wide range of qualification - in short, experienced trained dancers.
Inquiries: programming@themilladelaide.com

Bookings online via Eventbrite: https://akramkhanmasterclass.eventbrite.com.au/

About the Masterclass

Rehearsal Director for XENOS, Mavin Khoo will lead a masterclass that will start with a warm up developed to facilitate the stylistic qualities of Khan’s work: speed, articulation of the body, rhythmic musicality and physical precision. Followed by a creative session drawing from motifs used in the creative phase of XENOS, dancers will be introduced to Khan’s process of devising solo material.

About Mavin Khoo

Mavin Khoo is internationally recognised as a dance artist, teacher, choreographer and artist scholar. His initial training was at the Temple of Fine Arts, Sutra Dance Theatre and Sri Wilayah Ballet School in Malaysia. He the pursued his training in Bharata Natyam intensively under the legendary dance maestro, Padma Shri Adyar K. Lakshman in India, Cunningham technique at the Cunningham studios in New York and Classical Ballet under Marian St. Claire, Michael Beare, Nancy Kilgour, Paul Lewis, Ayumi Hikasa, Raymond Chai and Tory Jestyn. As a contemporary dance artist he has worked with Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, Shobana Jeyasingh, amongst others. His commissioned works include creations for the Venice Biennale and Canada Dance Festival to name a few. Images in Varnam (2001) was commissioned by the Royal Ballet Artists Development Initiative and was followed by another ROH2 commission Let me... with Royal Ballet dancer Kristen McNally.

Khoo is considered one of the few Bharata Natyam male soloists to have carved a niche for himself as an international touring solo artist, whilst still regularly dancing at all major venues in India, including the Music Academy and Kalakshetra in Chennai.

His own company, mavinkhooDance, was founded in 2003. Productions include Parallel Passions (2003), Chandra/Luna (2004-2005), Devi: The Female Principle (2006), Strictly Bharata Natyam (2006), Devi: In Absolution (2008), Dancing my Shiva (2010), 00.00 - 00.01 (2011), Akasha (2012), I am with you, Muruga (2013) and Intoxicating the Blue Lord (2016).
Khoo holds a MA in Choreography from Middlesex University. He was faculty member of the Dance Studies Department (at the School of Performing Arts) at the University of Malta. In 2014, he was appointed artistic director of ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble, where he also choreographed and danced until 2017.

Khoo now maintains his touring work as a mature artist with a focus on solo Bharata Natyam performances and specifically commissioned contemporary duet works. He continues to act as Rehearsal Director for Akram Khan Company working on productions such as XENOS (2018), iTMOi (2013) and Giselle (2016) with English National Ballet.

Bangarra Dance Theatre Masterclass

The Mill in partnership with The Adelaide Festival & ACArts present a masterclass with Bangarra Dance Theatre (NSW). Their season of BENNELONG is part of the 2018 Adelaide Festival, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre March 15-18. 
 

Image Credit; Show BENNELONG, by Vishal Pandey

Masterclass Detail

Date: Tuesday 13th March, 2018
Time: 10.30am - 12noon
Venue: Adelaide College of The Arts/TAFE, 39 Light Square Adelaide, Level 3, Rehearsal Studio
Cost: $20
Participants: should have a minimal of 5 years dance training and have a solid understanding of contemporary and classical ballet.
Inquiries: programming@themilladelaide.com

Bookings essential via Eventbrite: https://bangarradancetheatremasterclass.eventbrite.com.au/

About the Masterclass

This class will be led by four Bangarra Company dancers'
Tara Robertson, Tyrel Dulvaire, Rika Hamaguchi and Baden Smith! This masterclass is designed for dance students/professionals with formal dance training. After a brief introduction about Bangarra, a short warm up will follow in the Bangarra contemporary style. The workshop will then progress to the teaching of selected repertoire from the current season or from the vast body of work created by the company over the past 20 years. A brief Q &A session with the dancers will end the session.

About Bangarra

Bangarra is an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander organisation and one of Australia’s leading performing arts companies committed to engaging with the community beyond the performance. They are widely acclaimed nationally and around the world for our powerful dancing, distinctive theatrical voice and utterly unique soundscapes, music and design. Authentic storytelling, outstanding technique and deeply moving performances are Bangarra’s unique signature.

Clown Academy: Clowning Playshop

Access your inner Clown. Enjoy being you. Appreciate the power of laughter and joy!

What to Expect:

Each workshop covers three main elements:
1. Physical Movement: mime, slapstick, movement, dance.
2. Improvisation: The role of Status, short and long form improvisation; structure of game playing; developing your unique character; regional styles of clowning; theory types of laughter.
3. Technical Work: Circus skills, mask work, making fun music, manipulation of everyday objects, puppets. Creating routines: the process, structure and content of solo, partner and group performances. It is suggested that you wear loose comfortable clothing as the sessions are interactive.

Who can participate? Everyone! No matter your age or profession, with or without previous clowning experience. Artists - to broaden their range as professionals. Guidance is provided for the creation and staging of acts. Social/Health Workers- to integrate the art of clowning as a medium of intervention and healing through fun and laughter.

About David Cronin

In the 1970’s there were three stunt performance groups in Adelaide, ready for the film industry to take off. David Cronin trained and performed with two of them and three years later was teaching the craft in Sydney. David trained in mime, acrobatic and circus skills with Boris Svidensky from the Moscow Circus in a Drama School in Israel, then continued with Cornelia Vladimir Rodzianko in their Berlin theatre ensemble ‘Stimme und Bewegung.’ David went on to work freelance and started teaching theatre in Europe. Further training with polish theatre group ‘Gardienize’ [Grotowski training] and other artists & directors, e.g. Yoshi Oida. Across his colourful and varied career David has: studied mask, mime and Clown at the International Theatre School in Rome with Emanuel Gallot-Levalee, had a long lasting career as a solo, duo and group clown and entertainer and a sixteen year career as a Clown Doctor in Adelaide. He currently: teaches and coordinates Laughter Yoga Adelaide, is a corporate speaker for humour and health in the work place/school, directs and produces shows and performs in libraries, schools and festivals.

It is suggested that you wear loose comfortable clothing as the sessions are interactive.

For more information visit on David visit  www.davidcronin.love   

Workshop queries email: davidcronin3@bigpond.com

Full Sunday Intensive Workshop

Date: 29th April 

Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm

Cost: $75

Places limited

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“Clowning is the courage to be vulnerable”

Micheal Getman International Residency: May - June 2018

The Mill and Adelaide College of The Arts present the Micheal Getman Residency and Masterclass Series, May-June 2018 @ Adelaide College of the Arts.

Details

Dates: Tuesday 8th May
Time: 10.45am - 12.15pm
(Join 2nd & 3rd year AC Arts Students)

Dates: Monday 14th & 21st May
Time: 10.45am - 12.15pm
(Join 2nd and 3rd year AC Arts students) 

Dates: Tuesday 15th & 29th May
Time: 10.45am -12.15pm
(Join 1st year AC Arts students)

Date: Wednesday 23rd May
Time: 6pm - 8pm
(For: Adelaide/National Independent Dance Community)

Date: Saturday 2nd June
Time: 10am - 12noon
(For: Adelaide/National Independent Dance Community)

About Micheal Getman

Born in Israel to a Russian/Jewish parents, Dora & Zacharia. Michael received his professional training at the Bat Dor School of Dance, under the directory of Ms. Ordman, Tel Aviv, Israel. After graduating He started his journey as a professional dancer and performer. Michael worked and interpreted works by Ohad Naharin, Amanda K Miller, Marguerite Donjon, Bill Forsythe and Michael Schumacher. At the age 17 Michael joined the young Bat Sheva Ensemble Company Directed By Naomie Perlov and Ohad Naharin. After a year at the Junior company he was invited by Ohad Naharin to join the Bat Sheva Dance Company. In 1999 Michael Joined ‘The Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly Dance Company’, Directed by Amanda K Miller. Between 2002-2003 Michael was dancing at the Stats Theatre Saarbrucken, Artistic Director Marguerite Donlon, before joining the last season of Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly 2004. His first Choreographic project, a site specific project, was an artistic collaboration with artists from the field of dance, music/sound, and theatre; facilitating an old cotton factory in Saarbrucken, Germany 2003.

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