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1988: DANCE
FEAST – Darwin Civic Park, Darwin |
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Work
: Director's Notes : Creative
Personnel : Performers : Scenario
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| Work |
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This meal and dance performance consisted
of five groups combining to make a Feast of Dance:
A children’s group, two youth groups, an adult’s
group and an older adult’s group. The children
and adults groups already existed as Dance Mob classes
taken by Sarah
Calver. The performance project swelled
the numbers in each group. The older adults group was
initiated by the project, and continued on with classes
and performances. (They are now the Grey
Panthers.)
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Illustration: Tim Newth
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The age range of the performers was between
4 and 74 and was a special element of Dance Feast.
Each group worked with a visual element – ‘a
wall’ which was particular to their stage of
life. The children had a wall of water, the youth a
wall of sound. Adults had a wall of light while the
older adults had a wall of flowers. The whole performance
celebrated the particular energy of each stage of life
and the continuity and abundance of the whole cycle.
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Dance Feast was an evening length performance
that combined a meal and social dancing to a local
band (Loose Wheels). All took place on the lawns of
Civic Park, Darwin City. Dance Feast was part of the Dance
on Darwin Project.
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| Director's
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In making this Dance
we began with the idea of walls. Elemental walls: walls
to push over, jump on, pass through:
unexpected walls, walls of bodies. A wall for each group
of dancers, somehow characteristic of their particular
stage of life. The walls became points of growth to move
through as one dance flows into another. And the dance
became a celebration of the energy, rhythm and reason
for the cycle of life. |
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| Creative
Personnel |
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| Performers |
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Darwin Dance Mob – Kids
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Sonya McDermott
Kiarna Adams
Kellsey Ansell
Cara Raskin
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Adam Roth
David Smith
Amber Goodfellow
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Darwin Dance Mob – Youth
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Celina McKean
Joanna Cain
Mary-Anna Chevalier
Krista Morgan
Chris Madden
Sam Lant
Amanda Pine
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Ricky Barnes
Evelyn Temple
Amy Brown
Donna Bessley
Stephanie Quinn
Szabina Horvath
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Darwin Dance Mob – Adult
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Kerry Laizans
Janice Tidmarsh
Leanne Gunnulson
John Etty
Judith Ventic
Corolyn Ford
Rachel Long
David Lapsely
Scott Trenwith (Music)
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Wendy Harvey
Fiona Seccombe
Victoria Healy
Beth Shelton
Tim Newth
Rai Farfarniuk
Stephanie Francis
Sarah Calver
Maggi Phillips
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Darwin Dance Mob – Older
Adults (Grey
Panthers)
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Willis Gerrig
Gladd Morris
Elsie Thompson
Pat Townsend
Margaret White
Wendy James
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Jocelyn Perkins
Gail Morris
Joy Soulier
Marie Porter
Lyndell Fyson
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The Star Piquettes (singing group)
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Richenda Bridge
Jane Carpenter
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Marianne Piercy
Rebecca Riggs
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The Loose Wheels Band
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Allistair Wyvill
Harry Dawson
Tom Marinucci
Rebecca Riggs
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Jane Carpenter
Tanya Heaslip
Rowan Saice
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| Scenario |
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Wall of
Water – Kids
Choreography: Sarah Calver and Group
Music: Splish Splash by Doctor John
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Wall of Sound – Youth
Choreography: Maggi Phillips and Group
Music: Cry Wolf by Mark Isham, The Sound of Business by David Byrne
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Wall of Light – Adults
Choreography; Beth Shelton and Group
Music: Composed and performed by Scott Trenwith |
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Wall of Flowers – Older Adults
Choreography: Beth Shelton and Group
Music: Honey Suckle Rose by Fats Waller and performed by the Star Piquettes,
Toy Waltz by Charles Chaplin, Apple Blossom Time by Neville Sleeson and performed
by the Star Piquettes and the group |
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