expand, public program

Expand: Holly Childs and Angela Goh, 'CLIFFHANGER'


Photo: Supplied by artists

Showing

When: Friday, November 13, 2020, 6 - 7pm
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)
Cost: Free

Workshop

When: Friday, November 13, 2pm to 4:30pm
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)
Cost: $25


Holly Childs and Angela Goh will be in residence at The Breakout at The Mill during November, as part of Expand in 2020.

Angela Goh is a Sydney-based choreographer and dancer, and the winner of the 2020 Keir Choreographic award, and Holly Childs resides in Adelaide, working as a writer. Together, they will be developing CLIFFHANGER, a new, multi-art-form work bringing together dance, performance, text and installation. Read more about Angela and Holly’s journey via a blog post, here

The residency will culminate in a public showing of the work-in-development and a workshop, which will offer insight into the CLIFFHANGER project.

What participants can expect:

The workshop will explore the initial research strategies and materials of CLIFFHANGER, working with the “cliffhanger” which is both a narrative device to keep audience attention suspended, and a physical state of literal suspension. Holly and Angela will lead participants through various modes including discussion, movement practices and writing tasks. As this is a multidisciplinary focused workshop, diverse skills and experience are welcome and will be considered in the tasks and processes explored.

What to bring:

Please wear comfortable clothing/shoes and bring a notepad, pen and water.

About the artists:


Thank you to ACE Open for supporting NSW artist Angela Goh with accommodation for this residency.

public program, galleries

Exhibition: Evie Hassiotis, 'Xenitia'


Evie Hassiotis, Sitsa, 2019, mixed media on wood, 95 x 79cm, photo: supplied

August 3 - September 27, 2020

Opening event: Sunday, August 9, 2-4pm

Artist talk: Friday, August 21, 5:30-6:30pm

Showing as a part of SALA Festival concurrently with Face up, Yana Lehey


Please join us in The Mill Showcase gallery for SALA exhibition Xenitia a solo exhibition by Evie Hassiotis.

Roughly translated, Xenitia means self imposed exile. This project explores Greek migration to Australia during the 1950’s, speaking from Evie’s personal experience alongside the experiences of her family and friends. Evie has investigated the impact of migration, following narratives through the generations in order to more deeply understand how culture is transmitted and how migrant families have built communities and culture in Australia. Evie’s expressive multi-arts practice builds layers of understanding through the use of collage and paint alongside dolls made by individuals within her community, and a film ‘Made in Greece’. She speaks about community, identity and the role of art in the understanding of the self.

***The Mill’s galleries have reopened to the public following government guidelines, please observe social distancing and make sure to practice good hygiene. ***

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Dance Launchpad: Jazz Hriskin, 2020 recipient

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, will nurture the ecology of dance in SA. Established artists will be commissioned to make new work, and share their industry knowledge with one emerging dance artist annually.

Recent Adelaide College of The Arts/Flinders University Graduate Jacinta Hriskin is the 2020 recipient of Dance Launchpad, a new program to support the growth and development of South Australian emerging  dancers.

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

The process will result in three short solo works for Jazz and a professional showreel to showcase her skills as a dancer, for promotion nationally and internationally.

Project Dates: July - August 2020

Filming Date: August 7

Showing: TBA


Photographer: Tyler Marsland

Photographer: Tyler Marsland

A woman stands looking at the camera, she has long brown hair in a pony tail and is wearing a colourful top and statement earrings.
Lewis Major wears black pants and a tartan shirt, he is standing in front of a brick wall
Tobiah Booth-Remmers looks at the camera, he is wearing a black top

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Adelaide Fringe: 2020 program

In keeping with the Adelaide Fringe’s open-access approach, The Mill housed another un-curated season in 2020. Our venue was made available to artists from any discipline to present work of any genre.

Our program consisted of 90 shows from 16 local, national and international companies.

Venue hire was kept as low as possible in order to minimise risk for artists trying something new, and 100% off door sales went directly to performers.

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Abattoir Noir

Theatre

A wildly entertaining cabaret-style expose of the cruel practices inherent in the meat industry.

"Infuriating, sad, numbing, funny, shocking... ethically confronting but doesn't ever forget to entertain" - Bendigo Courier.

"A strong, DIY aesthetic meets true artistic commitment and the highest levels of technical expertise" - Jane Crawley, Creative Victoria.

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Theatre

Winner of the Adelaide Fringe Sustainability Award presented by Visualcom.

The apocalypse is over. The last woman alive has been rescued by unknown alien benefactors. But she has no way of explaining to them that if they want her to survive, they're going to have to feed her.

A new one-woman show about what will be left, after.

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The Bakers

Circus and Physical Theatre

Three bakers, one bakery! Dough up the walls, flour in your eyes. Join The Latebloomers, award winning creators of 'Scotland!', for another dose of the ridiculous and the sublime.

★★★★ "This is top drawer slapstick that will leave you wanting an encore" The Advertiser.

★★★★★ "Truly perfect comedic timing" FringeFeed.

Winner Best Comedy weekly award Adelaide Fringe 2019.

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Theatre

Aggy & Frederick may be self-loathing, socially anxious and addicted to food, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With Aggy once again falling for the wrong guy and Frederick's most fulfilling connection being with his internet provider, they review the best (and worst) moments of their past relationships. 'Boys Taste Better with Nutella' uses comedic storytelling, kitsch dance moves & hazelnut spread to explore relationships and self-worth.

Awarded FRINGE WORLD 2019 Weekly Award for BEST THEATRE.

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Theatre

Locked in a room for nine months in a house she once called her home. A poignant ode to Ireland's hidden past, the audience is invited to witness and journey with this forsaken Daughter of Ireland.

This work was developed through research about church and state-sanctioned abuse against women in Ireland over the last 100 years. It is an experimental and challenging performance, which hopes to give a voice to those silenced.

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Comedy

iPhone Addictions Meet Sci-Fi Predictions!

The year is 2020 - the human race is almost completely extinct, robots now rule Earth, controlling our every move. One man was too lazy to ever catch up with technology, could he be our only hope? Could he be the one to accidentally start the resistance?

Join Eddie Ray on this part cabaret, part action movie adventure.

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HarleQueen

Comedy

Winner of the Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award.

A vaudevillian-style, one-woman celebration of female fools. Join the 'HarleQueen' on a journey through the history of women who blazed a trail in comedy!

"The breath of fresh air that we didn't even know we needed" - Art Murmurs.

"Our indisputable Queen of Fools" - Theatreview.

WINNER: Best Comedy Dunedin Fringe, Adelaide Tour Ready Award NZ Fringe.

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Lenka

Music

Lenka is an Australian singer/songwriter, formerly of the band 'Decoder Ring', who has been releasing solo albums and touring worldwide. In 2019 Lenka visited Adelaide as part of the Pub Choir phenomenon on tour with Ben Lee.

2020 will see Lenka release 'twin' EPs, one with covers and one with originals and embark on an Australian tour.

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Lucy & Me

Comedy

Sphenn and Lucy (his red bicycle) are the bestest of buddies. They do everything together from brushing their teeth to yoga, but after Sphenn loses his job in an unavoidable accident, these two need a job and fast! Luckily they're very inventive...This show is the sweetest of love stories, all rolled up in outrageous comedy.

"What a delight. The world building is so impressive, the comedy so well
thrown, this piece pelts along like no-hands down a hill." - Sydney Arts Guide

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The Monster

Music

Exclusive invitation to be part of Phillip Lee Curtis' live listening party where you get to play a part in the making of an album! An interactive night of original songs and stories.

Winner 2019 Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Weekly Award.

"A powerful beyond belief performance" StageWhispers.

"A masterful performer" Australian Arts Review.

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Moof’s Adventures

Theatre

Moof is fairly regular. It might be the prune juice. He, and his life, are perfectly ordinary. But he can't help but ask himself... is this all there is?

Back Porch Theatre is proud to present this absurd, joyous and abstract ode to courage in its world premier from Adelaide theatremaker and clown, Lochy Maybury.

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Comedy

This is the story of Nunny. Nunny loves plastic more than her mum and her future husband combined. She lives a life of plastic wrapped bananas, triple bagged groceries and her ultimate dream is to become a top of the line Tupperware lady.

'Plastica Fantastica' is a ridiculous award-winning one woman show performed by Jennifer Laycock.

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Theatre

It is a time of extremes... An immersive prologue reveals a dark and disturbing world not so far from our own. May is a photographer who must document dissenters who have 'rebelled' against the Organisation, an authoritarian regime.

This is the South Australian premiere of this award-winning play inspired by the history of Cambodia's S-21 prison.

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Theatre

Kristen's been having nightmares. This place is burning and it's all her fault. Best that she hijack her friend's dream and journey through the womb for answers! How to exist as a person born of a culture that profits from the denying of another? How do we go home when the house is a stolen one? Rip it up. Rip up everything we think we know.

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Voices of Joan

Theatre

Now more than ever we need to draw inspiration from the galvanising wisdom of rebels; the people who are not afraid to speak truth to power and have the courage to take action.

In this intimate solo performance, actor and theatre maker Janie Gibson delves into the past to invoke the spirit of Joan of Arc and unearth the damning voices of her oppressors in a spell to dissolve the patriarchy.

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Theatre

A "beautifully vulnerable" semi-autobiographical verbatim play examining social justice through the lens of fatism, fatphobia, and discrimination. "Inspiring, brave, authentic, educational and confronting", 'Wellness' aims to open up taboo conversations and question well-meaning motives around us.

Written by Ella Arendelle, we touch on sensitive subject matter and deeply personal stories. Verbatim theatre has a sting that can't be matched.

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The WFT?! Show

Comedy

According to the Guinness book of facts, falsehoods and frivolities, Milton White, JNewtz & Mick Moore provoke you to look at things a little differently in our crazy 1st-world-problem "I'm Offended" lives.

They're not looking to educate, exploit or offend however if they do, you only have yourself to blame for going!

Being offended is a part of life. Being dead, is part of being dead. So enjoy being offended to know you're still alive.

public program, galleries

Exhibition: Kirsty Martinsen, 'Our Lady: en feu'

Artwork: Kirsty Martinsen (photographer: Alex Makeyev)

June 15 – July 29, 2020

Opening event: Sunday, July 19, 3-4pm

Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free


Please join us in The Exhibition Space for Our Lady: en feu, a solo exhibition by Kirsty Martinsen.  

***The Mill’s exhibition space will be open to the public from June 15, please observe social distancing and make sure to practice good hygiene. ***

Our Lady: en feu (Notre Dame: on fire) is a significant new body of work by painter and colourist Kirsty Martinsen. Inspired by the images of Notre Dame Cathedral ablaze in 2019, the work explores powerful moments within recent history: the #metoo movement, recent political conflict, human-induced climate change, the Australian bushfires, and most recently COVID-19. Kirsty uses her medium to comment on our individual and cultural responsibility to the world we live in. The centrepiece, and namesake of the exhibition is a life sized portrait of a woman in crucifix position. Kirsty draws our attention to humanity and fragility while simultaneously recognising the role that humans have played within these disasters.

Kirsty’s use of colour and gesture is emotive, highlighting the urgency that she feels to draw attention to these profoundly affective events. Within each work she captures fleeting moments, a whip of flame enveloping the spire of the cathedral sits alongside a glowing Sturt Dessert Pea, pointing toward the sacred, which can be found in many forms. Through this series of works, Kirsty questions ‘what we as humans respect and value and the state of the anthropogenic world we live in’. 

writers in residence

Writer In Residence: Jess Martin

The Mill’s Writer in Residence program is focused on fostering arts writing and criticism by emerging arts writers. This year The Mill will partner with Fine Print magazine for writing and editing support and with Scotch College for an additional Writer In Residence educational program.


virtual gallery

Exhibition Space Residency: The Bait Fridge, 'Art Basics'

“Collective practice is the mitochondria of the BF cell. All of our individual practices have been challenged and mulched by the collective environment of the Bait Fridge. It has taught all Baities at different times how to let go of sole authority over their own work (independence is an illusion! No person is an island!), and that can be an incredibly liberating experience but also something uncomfortable! The Bait Fridge is a constant exercise in creative compromise and resourcefulness, and everyone in the crew has gone on to draw from the group in different ways in their personal projects, whether it is by reaching out for people to perform in their work or get involved in some way, or even just to have a tight community to use as a springboard when we need support.” ⏤ Emmaline Zanelli


This program has support from

 
 

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Breakout Residencies: Announcing Successful Recipients 2020

Brink Productions Residency: Jo Stone

Solo Development; July/August, 2020

Presented in partnership with Brink Productions

A solo development based on the diaries and final writings of Kafka. A reflection on a final hour: a play of mourning, remembrance and ultimately a celebration of life.

 
Brink Productions 2020 recipient Jo Stone has long brown hair and is wearing a black jumper
 

Jo Stone graduated from Flinders Drama Centre and works in theatre, television and film. She formed Stone/Castro with Paulo Castro in Europe 2002. Jo has taught for various institutions over the last 20 years including disability arts, professional workshops and school drama workshops 1-12 and with STCSA/The Road home creating new work with Veterans with PTSD.

Theatre credits: Welcome the Bright World / Sewell (Charles Sanders/ STCSA umbrella), The Country /Martin Crimp (Stone/Castro) Adelaide Festival 16, Infected / Stephen Sewell (Charles Sanders), White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (Nassim Soleimanpour), Blackout (Paulo Castro) Adelaide Festival 14, Information for Foreigners (Benedict Andrews), Danton’s Death (Paulo Castro), Congratulations (Stone/Castro), B-File (Paulo Castro) (nominated Best performer Green room awards 07), Superheroes (Stone/Castro), Pyjama Girl (LadyKillers) and Please Continue by Duncan Graham (David Mealor), MiWi 3027 development (STCSA/ Country Arts SA) Julian Meyrick. Directions: Dis-integration (DanceNorth), Untitled, SOF#1 and Fragments of Faith (AC Arts Dance Dept), Private Lives (Feast Festival 09), and Superheroes (Stone/Castro),‘Fury’/ Joanna Murray Smith (AC Arts Acting Dept). Movement Consultant/Director: Thursday (Brink Productions), Metro Street (STCSA), Pornography (STCSA), Jesikah (STCSA). Dance theatre/Self devised/ Opera performances: Foi (Sidi Larbi Cherokaui / Co les Ballet C de la B, Blue Love (co-directed/performed with Shaun Parker), Big in Bombay and Back to the Present (Constanza Macras), Writing to Vermeer (Peter Greenaway), Madam Butterfly (Moffatt Oxenbould /Matthew Barclay) State Opera SA and Cube (ADT) Adelaide Museum. Film credits: The Big Nothing (Sharptooth Pictures) (nominated Best Actress FirstGlance Film Festival Hollywood), Grounded (Luke Wissell), Going for Gold (Glen Pictures) and Double Happiness Uranium (Cole Larson). TV credits: Children’s TV series Music Shop (Ch:9 Series 1, 2), Changed Forever, Plonk Series 2, ABC mini-series Anzac Girls and Pine Gap.


Spotlight Residencies: Felicity Boyd & Zoe Gay of Motus Collective

The Credits; August, 2020

Work in Development: The Credits is a dance-theatre work focusing on the undeniable relationship between performer, creator and audience. Through examining our power and choices, The Credits deconstructs the traditional theatre experience as we know it.

 
Felicity Boyd and Zoe Gay
 

Felicity Boyd has spent the last eight months touring Europe, three as part of Swedish dance company ilYoung. She has worked with artists from Batsheva Dance Company, Hofesh Schecter, Gothenburg Opera, Sascha Waltz & Guests and Wim Vandekeybus of Ultima Vez. In 2019 she performed in Jessie McKinlay’s A Supposed Truth, performed for Gravity and Other Myths at RCC Adelaide Fringe, and co-founded Motus Collective. In 2018 she worked as a replacement dancer on Australian Dance Theatre’s South, toured and performed with The Human Arts Movement, and toured and performed with Lewis Major Projects on Losers. She graduated in 2017 from Adelaide College of the Arts with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts (Dance). In 2020 Felicity performed Howl alongside of Aphids, which premiered at the Art Gallery throughout the Adelaide Fringe.

Zoe Gay graduated from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2017, where she had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers such as Jo Stone, Larissa McGowan, Tobiah Booth-Remmers and Kialea Nadine- Williams. In her second year of training, Zoe joined Australian Dance Theatre for their production of Objekt choreographed by Garry Stewart. Upon graduation, Zoe received a scholarship from Helpmann Academy and The Mill to travel to Sweden and join IlYoung, a youth dance company run by Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer. While in Europe, she also spent time with National Dance Company Wales, Norrdans and completed a residency with IcoDaco. Upon returning to Australia, Zoe has had the opportunity to work with many established artists including Lina Limosani in her production of Not Today’s Yesterday, Larissa McGowan in her production of Cher and Jessie McKinlay in her Fringe performance of A Supposed Truth. In 2019, Zoe co-founded Motus Collective, a collective aimed at exploring inter-disciplinary connections and creations. The collective run improvisation classes weekly and have conducted residencies at ADT, The Mill and recently performed in VitalStatistix Adhocracy program, performing a self-choreographed work called Old Body: New Management. In 2020, Zoe performed in the award winning Retrieve Your Jeans at the Adelaide Fringe.


Spotlight Residencies: Adrianne Semmens & Jennifer Eadie

Leave only your Footprints; August/September, 2020

Work in Development: This project builds upon a collaboration between dance practitioner Adrianne Semmens and writer Jennifer Eadie and the text created together, Leave only your Footprints, facilitated by The Mill Adelaide Writer in Residence program, and commissioned by Delving into Dance in partnership with Critical Path as part of the Digital Interchange Festival 2019/20.

 
Jennifer Eadie and Adrianne Semmens
 

Adrianne Semmens is a dance practitioner with experience working across the arts, education and community sectors. Born in Adelaide, Adrianne is a descendant of the Barkindji People of NSW and a graduate of NAISDA Dance College and Adelaide College of the Arts.

Adrianne’s professional experience includes: the Australian Ballet’s Dance Education Ensemble; Wagana Aboriginal Dancers (NSW) and Erth Visual & Physical Inc; Adelaide Fringe Festival seasons with choreographers Jade Erlandsen (2014 & 2011) and Cathy Adamek; and Spirt Festival performance Songlines choreographed by Gina Rings (2011). More recently Adrianne has performed the work of Kaine Sultan-Babij (for Dance Rites 2019) as a member of Kurruru’s Senior Dance Ensemble and has returned to her own choreographic explorations, including Unravel, a site specific work during Panpapanalya, the 2018 Joint Dance Congress. A qualified teacher, Adrianne maintains a passion of dance education, supporting Kurruru Art and Culture Hub’s education program, providing professional learning opportunities and tutoring for the University of South Australia’s Arts Education Course.

Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist, living and working on Kaurna Yerta. Currently, she is a lecturer in the Aboriginal Pathway Program at the University of South Australia and a PhD Candidate in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. She is a graduate of UNSW Art & Design. Her creative practice combines text and art to explore connection to place, while her research focuses on ecological rights and approaches to caring for Country. Recently, Jennifer was Writer in Residence at The Mill (2019/20) and Scotch College, Adelaide (2020). Her art and writing has been published in Critical Path, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Borderlands e-journal, Extempore and Frankie Magazine.


Free-range Residencies: Monte Masi

U want me to see you, I see u my son. Now go flourish with that clout u received; June and September, 2020

Work in Development: This is a performance which examines desire, online shopping trends, and what we do with the things that we buy (and say) late at night.

 
Freerange Residency 2020 recipient Monte Masi
 

Monte Masi is an artist living and working on Kaurna Land who makes performances, videos, and text works which examine the labour of looking and the ways we look together. Recent exhibitions and performances have included IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII performed at the Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide; Born (as part of Transcriptions for Fine Print), performed at the Art Gallery of South Australia, 2018; INSPI-RAY SHUN-SHUN APP-LI-KAY SHUN-SHUN at Hobiennale 2017, Hobart; and Work in Progress: Investigations South of Market at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. In June 2019 he attended Behaviour Swarm, a performance art-focused residency program at the Banff Centre for Creativity, Canada.

Previous curatorial and collaborative presentations have included The Case for Nonsense, presented at the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Art on Tap for the Australian Experimental Art Foundation and Model United Nations at Open Engagement, USA. Additionally, Monte was a co-founder and co-director of the artist-run gallery FELTspace from 2007 to 2010. Monte holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts, as well as Visual Art and Education degrees from the University of South Australia. He is the recipient of several grants and fellowships including the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, John Crampton Traveling Scholarship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant and Arts South Australia project grants.


Free-range Residencies: Steph Daughtry & Hannah Rohrlach of Post Dining

Eating Tomorrow; June/July, 2020

Work in Development: A brand new interactive performance around the themes of future foods, featuring a progressive narrative exploring what and how we might be eating over the next 100 years.

 
Steph Daughtry and Hannah Rohrlach
 

Steph Daughty and Hannah Rohrlach co-founded creative production company Post Dining in 2015, exploring the artistic merits of using food as a tool to explore socio-political concepts, and to push the boundaries of intimate audience engagement. This often involves collaboration between local artists, musicians and designers, and they have produced work with the Australian String Quartet (ASQ), MOD., Open State Festival and are currently in the development stage of new work in collaboration with Tai Kwun Arts Centre in Hong Kong, London based Feast Festival, and the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Awards: 2019 Nominated: Adelaide Critics Circle Award, Independent Arts Foundation Award for Innovation; 2019 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Interactive, Film or Digital; 2017 New Venture Institute, Venture Dorm Finalists;
2017 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, John Chattaway Award for Innovation; 2016 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, Best Emerging Artist Award; 2016 Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award, High Commendation for Interactive Category.


Free-range Residencies: Jamila Main

How To Eat Rabbit; July, 2020

Work in Development: This project is an early stage development of new play How To Eat Rabbit, a one-act play featuring two characters written by Jamila Main.

 
Freerange Residency 2020 recipient Jamila Main
 

Jamila Main is a trained actor and self-taught playwright based on unceded Kaurna land. A graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts Acting program (2018), Jamila performs across stage and screen, most recently as Leen in the acclaimed Aleppo, A Portrait of Absence (Adelaide Festival, 2020) and Karin in Set Piece (Anna Breckon, Nat Randall, Vitalstatistix, 2019).

Jamila’s plays have received accolades from STCSA (Immaculate, Commendation, 2016; How To Eat Rabbit, Merit, 2019), HotHouse Theatre (When I Was Eleven, 2016), Feast Festival and Writer’s SA Queer Short Story Competition (Butterfly Kicks, Winner, 2018; Queer Utopia is on the Roof of a Westfield, Winner, 2019), with Butterfly Kicks shortlisted for the 2020 Queer Playwriting Award in Midsumma Festival. In 2019 Jamila was selected for ATYP’s National Studio, mentored by Lachlan Philpott, a participant in Playwriting Australia’s workshop with Patricia Cornelius, and interviewed Kate Mulvany for the This Is How We Do It podcast. Jamila sits on various MEAA committees, is one of the founding artists of RUMPUS and currently serves on the RUMPUS Finance Committee, is an Endometriosis advocate, and a 2020 Carclew Fellow. Jamila is currently producing Butterfly Kicks to be staged at RUMPUS.

public program, galleries

Exhibition: The Mill Showcase


Photo: Andrew Eden, image supplied

March 23 - July 29, 2020

Andrew Eden, Blake Canham-Bennett, Annabel Hume and Mark Mason


*** Please note that due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, The Mill’s galleries and studios are closed to the public. If you have any questions, please email our Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas***

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase profiles our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.

This sophomore edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Andrew Eden, Blake Canham-Bennett, Annabel Hume and Mark Mason.

About the artists:

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Visual Artists in Residence: The Bait Fridge, 'Art Basics'


Image: Courtesy of The Bait Fridge

March 17 - May 29, 2020

Art Basics home workshop
When: Sunday, April 19, 10am
Cost: Free

Art Basics performance
When: Sunday, May 24, 11am
Cost: $15 car performances


The Bait Fridge are our incoming Artists in Residence in The Mill's Exhibition Space in 2020. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, this residency is developing new ways of creating digital content so that the residency can be available online. The Bait Fridge collective will be in residence from March 17 to May 29. With a focus on artistic process, this two-month residency allows audiences direct access to creative research and making. This residency is presented in partnership with City of Adelaide.

The Bait Fridge is a multi-disciplinary collective from South Australia whose members collaborate under a unified banner to create works and performances which combine the practices of music, art, dance, costume and theatre. Through this project The Bait Fridge will be developing ideas, costumes, performances, sculpture and music. Working with materials that other people might consider to be trash allows the collective to see beyond traditional boundaries of artists practice. Each of the members of the collective brings their own unique energy, while working collaboratively, with each other as well as audiences, allowing The Bait Fridge to explore new ways of creating and bringing new understandings to concepts of ‘art’ and the role of the ‘artist’.

The Mill invites you to witness The Bait Fridge’s creative practice digitally and gain insight into their collaborative process as the residency unfolds across a 10 week period.

Although we are currently practicing social distancing, in light of COVID-19, we will be presenting digital content for you to enjoy from the comfort of your homes. Please keep an eye on our social media for updates.

Collective practice is the mitochondria of the BF cell. All of our individual practices have been challenged and mulched by the collective environment of the Bait Fridge. It has taught all Baities at different times how to let go of sole authority over their own work (independence is an illusion! No person is an island!), and that can be an incredibly liberating experience but also something uncomfortable! The Bait Fridge is a constant exercise in creative compromise and resourcefulness, and everyone in the crew has gone on to draw from the group in different ways in their personal projects, whether it is by reaching out for people to perform in their work or get involved in some way, or even just to have a tight community to use as a springboard when we need support.’ -Emmaline Zanelli

The Mill in Conversation Podcast

During the residency The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas recorded a podcast with members of the Bait Fridge. Visit The Mill’s soundcloud to listen to podcasts with previous residents Carly Tarkari Dodd, Sonja Porcaro & Matthew Fortrose.

Workshop

In April The Bait Fridge collective held a ZOOM workshop that explored costuming and performance.
Artist collective The Bait Fridge will be exploring themes from their project 'Art Basics' as part of The Exhibition Space Residency program at The Mill.

Log in from home (We'll post a link on the day) for a creative session using household items! Bait Fridge artists will talk about their creative process, their use of materials and the collaborative & performative aspects of their project.

Details:

FREE- please register your place via Eventbrite
Open to anyone
Beginner skill level
use your own household materials
Now presented via ZOOM

masterclass series

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Tushrik Fredericks, ‘Black Velvet’ Contemporary Dance


Photographer: Radina Gancheva

Masterclass

When: Thursday February 27, 2020, 1:30pm - 3pm

Where: Adelaide College of The Arts, Rehearsal Studio Level 3, 39 Light Square, Adelaide

Cost: $22


The Mill in Partnership with The Adelaide Festival, present a contemporary dance masterclass with Tushrik Fredericks.

Tushrik Fredericks and company are here in Adelaide performing ‘Black Velvet’ in The Adelaide Festival.

About the masterclass

Drawing information from many different movement techniques/languages, this class consists of physical research which informs the physical/mental being in things that we are familiar and unfamiliar with. The contemporary dance masterclass will research listening to what is between us, inside of us, and around us.  In an effort to allow similarities and differences to exist. It jumps into high levels of connection, activation, stretch, endurance, and groove.  Also leaving space for the finding of small gestures that connect to a bigger picture of the moment.

About the artists:


This program has support from

 
 

masterclass series

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Nick Power, 'Breakdance and Choreographic Process'


Photographer: Victor Frankowski

Masterclass

When: Friday, March 13, 2020, 3-5pm

Where: Adelaide College of The Arts, Studio 1, Level 3

Cost: $27


The Mill in partnership with the Adelaide Festival, present a masterclass with Nick Power.

Nick Power and company are here in Adelaide performing ‘Between Tiny Cities’ and ‘Two Crews’ in The Adelaide Festival. It’s a MUST SEE! Book your tickets to ‘Between Tiny Cities’ and ‘Two Crews’.

About the masterclass:

This masterclass will include foundation elements of Breaking, history of the form and will explore the choreographic tools and techniques that Nick uses to create contemporary hip hop performances.  All styles are welcome, expect a fun and engaging workshop around technique and creative process fuelled by funky beats.

Participant info/level: For professional & tertiary level contemporary, breakdance and hiphop dancers and actors/physical theatre performers/movers.

Participants should wear: Loose, athletic clothing / dance wear or whatever they feel comfortable in.  We will dance in shoes, sneakers are best.


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public program, galleries

Exhibition: The Mill Showcase


Photo: The Mill resident artist Morgan Sette

January 17 - March 15, 2020

Opening event: Friday, January 17, 6-8pm

Where: The Mill Showcase, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

*** Please note that due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, The Mill’s galleries and studios are open by appointment only. If you wish to make a time to come and see our exhibitions, please email our Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas***


In 2020 The Mill will be launching a new gallery to sit alongside our remodelled Exhibition Space. Dedicated to artists who are working in our studio spaces, The Mill Showcase is a space to display some of the artworks and products that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase will profile our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.

The innaugural The Mill Showcase features work by Peter Fong, Matea Gluscevic, Morgan Sette, and Ozlem Yeni alongside The Mill’s limited edition prints by Small Room, Matthew Fortrose, and Naomi Murrell and Nadia Suartika.

About the artists:

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Exhibition: Lucas Croall, 'BEAST'


Artwork: Lucas Croall.

February 12 – March 15, 2020

Exhibition opening: Wednesday February 12, 6-8pm

Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free


The Mill is excited to present this new body of work by Adelaide ex-pat and former The Mill resident Lucas Croall. BEAST takes the form of a series of prints presented alongside the plates used for their creation. The content of the exhibition seeks not only to consider the themes of the artist’s work but also to offer insight into the medium of printmaking.

‘BEAST investigates notions surrounding the tension between civilisation and wildness. By putting particular focus on the impossible demands that civility places on the human animal, the work seeks to highlight the familiarity of life’s most troublesome beasts.’

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Exhibition: Selina Wallace, 'Perfectly Imperfect'


Selina Wallace, Perfectly Imperfect (Lasso), 2018-19, C-type photograph on silver halide lustre paper, 76.2cm (w) x 50.8cm (h)

January 15 – February 7, 2020

Opening event: Friday, January 17, 6-8pm

Artists talk: Sunday, February 2, 2pm

Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free


Perfectly Imperfect is a photographic series which seeks to document the tension between conventional cultural constructs and the lived experience of gender roles. Placing herself within the image, Selina performs her ‘femininity’ and ‘domesticity’ in unconventional ways. Against the backdrop of the Australian natural and urban landscape, Selina poses with discarded domestic objects that she has found on the side of the road. The cord from a vacuum cleaner becomes a lasso, an iron is transformed into a necklace (or maybe something more sinister).

‘Domestic implements connote housework, and in turn; women’s work. Subverting the viewer’s expectations via the use of performance and humour are critical elements of Perfectly Imperfect. The detritus of abandoned household objects discovered on suburban footpaths drives me to make images outside of accepted norms. Travelling to remote parts of Australia, I do not need the domestic items I carry, but they are a reminder of the societal expectations that weigh me down.

Cultural constructs can be escaped, and through my performance in Perfectly Imperfect I seek to do just that, with the aim of brief personal liberation from constraint.’ 

About the artist:

ilDance Professional Development Opportunity

IlDance Professional Development Opportunity Audition 2019

Photo: Hedda Axelsson from Q&A by Rachel Erdos and cast of ilYoung 2018

Photo: Hedda Axelsson from Q&A by Rachel Erdos and cast of ilYoung 2018

Presented in partnership between The Mill, Helpmann Academy and IlDance.

The ilDance Professional Development Opportunity provides the opportunity for an emerging dancer from Adelaide College of the Arts (TAFE SA / Flinders University) to work with ilDance’s project-based junior company, ilYoung, and to tour a new dance work throughout Sweden.

The opportunity will provide valuable mentorship from ilDance company’s founders Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, as well as experience working and touring with a professional dance company.

ilDance is an international and independent contemporary dance company that initiates and operates several pioneer projects. The company was founded in 2012 by its current Artistic Directors, Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer, and it is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Residency and Tour Dates, 2020 TBA

The total value of the development opportunity is approximately $17,000. This is comprised of both cash and in-kind support.

Applicants must be final year students or graduates from the Adelaide College of the Arts / Flinders University Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) program. Graduates must be within five years from their final year of study to apply.

Eligible dancers are invited to register for an audition:

Date: Saturday 7th December 2019

Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm

Venue: Adelaide College of the Arts, Rehearsal Room, Level 3

Note: We recommend that the dancers bring along a bottle of water and a small meal with them for the audition day.

Following the audition, applicants will be shortlisted. These applicants will progress to the next round of assessment and be asked to complete a written application. The successful applicant will be notified end January 2020.

To register:

Email your CV and answer to the following question to director@themilladelaide.com

"What interests you about this opportunity and how will it benefit you?"

For more information about this audition:

Contact The Mill Director - 0406991330 / director@themilladelaide.com

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Engage: Immediate Release Call Out - HOTBED Workshop Cindy Van Acker / Switzerland


Workshop

When: November 4-8, 2019, 12-5pm (Monday-Friday)
Where: WXYZ Studios, Melbourne
Morning Class: Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI)


The Mill in partnership with Dancehouse (VIC) is offering one South Australian dance artist a position in HOTBED workshop with Cindy Van Acker / Switzerland. HOTBED is presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Dancehouse (VIC).

The Mill will provide the successful SA artist with $1000 toward travel and/or accomodation for the opportunity. Dancehouse will cover costs of the workshop and provide a free Dancehouse membership to the artist.

For full information:

https://lucyguerininc.com/news/hotbed-workshop-cindy-van-acker

http://www.ciegreffe.org/

http://dancehouse.com.au/performance/performancedetails.php?id=344

How to apply to The Mill:

This workshop is open to professional dancers and dance-makers only.

Please send a short expression of interest (150 words max) plus your current CV and a link to an example of your work/performance in a single document to director@themilladelaide.com

Deadline for public EOI: 5.30pm, Thursday 24th October.

In the EOI, please tell us what your specific interest is in this workshop’s content.

Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 25th October.

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Visual Artist in Residence: Carly Tarkari Dodd, ‘Shackled Excellence’


Photo: Carly Tarkari Dodd by Kayla Dodd

Photo: Carly Tarkari Dodd by Kayla Dodd

October 1 - December 10, 2019

Weaving Workshop: Sunday, November 17, 11am-1pm, $15

Artist in Conversation and Exhibition Finissage: November 24, 3-5pm


The Mill welcomes Carly Tarkari Dodd, our new Artist in Residence in The Mill's Exhibition Space. Carly will be in residence from 1 October working on her project Shackled Excellence. With a focus on artistic process, this two-month residency allows audiences direct access to creative research and making. This residency is presented as part of Tarnanthi, Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.

Carly Tarkari Dodd is a proud Kaurna\Narungga and Ngarrindjeri artist who is passionate about expressing her Aboriginal heritage through art and storytelling. Through this project Carly will develop a body of work that uses sculptural practice to discuss topics of contemporary Aboriginality. Using weaving techniques, she will create a number of 3-dimensional works that celebrate the achievements of Aboriginal people alongside highlighting some of the injustices that Aboriginal people face. The process and materiality of the weaving process will be central to the development of these works, and will sit alongside the conceptual and cultural research that underpins Carly’s project. The Mill invites you to witness Carly’s creative practice and gain insight into her process as the residency unfolds across a 10 week period. During her residency Carly will be presenting a number of public programs!

‘I’ve started weaving a trophy, which is going well. I’ve never made a shape like that before. I’ve been talking to my dad about sports. I feel like there is a lot of political Aboriginal art about history, but there’s not much on sport. Dad was one of the top players in his footy team, but he didn’t get acknowledged for that really. My Brother as well, Travis Dodd, has achieved a lot in soccer in Australia. So, this exhibition is a way of showcasing their achievements.’

The Mill in Conversation Podcast

The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas sat down with Carly to talk about her practice for The Mill’s podcast. In our chat Carly talks us through the genisis of this project, and the way the works have evolved through her residency.

About the artist:


Shackled Excellence is presented as part of Tarnanthi Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

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The Mill Fundraiser: So You Think You Can Dance [BAD]

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DANCE YOUR BUTT OFF FOR THE MILL!

When: October 18, 2019, 6.30pm doors open/registration sign in, 7pm- 9pm opening/performances/raffles

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Format: Dancers / dance teams improvise a 1-2 minute routine to a random song, in a random dance style (styles & songs picked from a hat on the night).

Winners to be decided by public vote - so bring your friends!


Each year, The Mill provides creative studios and artistic programs for over 400 local artists. Help The Mill continue to deliver opportunities for SA creatives, and build audiences for new work.

We need your support! Contribute to our annual fundraising target by attending our bad dance dance-off.

'So You Think You Can Dance [BAD]' is supported by Creative Partnerships Australia through Plus1.

That means each dollar you spend or donate on this event will DOUBLE!

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Win prizes:

1x double pass to a 2020 Adelaide Festival dance show.

Double passes to a 2020 Adelaide Fringe show at The Mill.

Door prizes and raffles on the night.

Get involved:

Buy your tickets to attend.

$15 to register (per dancer)

$20 for audiences

$10 children

Donate if you can’t attend!

BAR OPEN ALL NIGHT!

Nibbles Provided!

Inquiries: info@themilladelaide.com

....WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU THERE!


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'So You Think You Can Dance [BAD]' is supported by Creative Partnerships Australia through Plus1.
 

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Engage: Announcing Adrianne Semmens for the First Nations development project at Critical Path Sydney

The Mill in partnership with Critical Path (Sydney) congratulates South Australian First Nations Australian dance artist, Adrianne Semmens as the successful applicant for the opportunity to attend a 3-day development project in Sydney, NSW.

She will participate in a three day project which will explore and share where participants find themselves in their artistic practice now, their connections and responsibilities to community, and work to explore how they represent their work (in text, image and when speaking about it) along with what they communicate with others. Finally they will look at how they can support each other to take their respective practices forward.

The project will have the input of guest First Nations Australian artists, and has been planned with advice from BlakDance.

Claire Hicks, the Director of Critical Path will be facilitating the agreed framework for the program, with other guest artists, working together to roll out the activities together across the three days.

The Mill will provide a $1000 bursary toward accomodation and travel for the 3 days to Adrianne. Critical Path will also provide a small fee/honorarium of $500.

About the artist:


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