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1988: DANCE
ON DARWIN – Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin |
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Work
: Director's Notes : Media
Response : Participant's
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Creative Personnel : Performers |
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This project highlights the wide variety
of community dance in Darwin. The artistic team consisted
of dancer/choreographers Beth
Shelton (guest from Melbourne),
Maggi Phillips, Sarah
Calver, and visual artist Tim
Newth. This three-month project offered workshops in
modern dance, choreographic skills, and visual design.
The workshops focused around two performance events:
Dance Feast October 2 1988 and Dance
on Darwin Day October 16 1988.
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Illustration: Tim Newth
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| Director's
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Dance on Darwin is a
celebration of the strength, richness and diversity
of dance in Darwin. |
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The dance of many cultures and styles
will be performed together, both numbers and quality
showing that dance is alive, well and a thriving part
of our community. |
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The day culminated in the Dance on
Darwin project. A joint project of Brown’s Mart
Community Arts project and the Australian Association
of Dance Education NT (now Ausdance NT). This performance
follows the other major component of this project DANCE
FEAST, a new work created and performed by the Dance
on Darwin
artists and members of the community. |
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Sarah
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| Media
Response |
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“There is a
lot happening here and individual groups suddenly
all have
respect for what the others are doing.”
Stephanie Francis, NT News Oct 6th 1988
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| Participant’s
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“Discovering
how much my body loves me when I am using it
creatively.”
Kerry |
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“I am past the days
of having stars in my eyes but it has put a
glimmer
in them.”
Glad Morris – older Adults
group, later became the Grey
Panthers
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“This makes me feel
that although we are old we are not past it.”
Pat |
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Performers
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Outdoor Performers
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Betty Washington’s School
of Ballet – Highland dance piper Jim Cameron
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Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre -Puppets
and windsocks from Black Rainbow. Corrugated
Iron operates from Brown’s Mart and offers
workshops and performance opportunities for people
aged 8-25
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Darwin Theatre Group – Gecko
Puppet
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Celebration Dancers – Prayer
of St Francis (Contact Jenny Green) Christian
Liturgical Dance. Celebration dances of St Peter’s
Anglican Church has been functioning for the
past two years and is an affiliation of Dance
Fellowship of Australia
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Dance Co-Op – Participation
Folk Dance led by Sue Ross. This group was formed
in 1986 as a result of workshops given by Gary
Dawson.
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Darwin Dance Mob – Wall of
Water, & Wall of Sound, from Dance Feast.
(Contact Sarah Calver) Dance Mob did their first
full-scale production in 1978. They are a community
dance group that performs original works.
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Italian Folk Group – Carnival
(Contact Sylvia Costerelli)
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Tang Soo Tao – Tai Chi Display
(Contact Sam Brenthal). Tang Soo has been teaching
martial Arts in Darwin for 16 years, covering
self- defence, yoga, meditation, Taoist philosophy,
Tai Chi Chuan, and Tibetan meditations. They
are affiliated with His Holiness The Dalai Lama,
the King of Tibet.
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Foyer Performance
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NT Scottish Association Country Dance
group – The reel of the 51st division, and
Frasers Favourite (Contact Judy Brock). Operating
for three years and a subsidiary of the NT Scottish
Association Inc
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Darwin Dance Acadamy – Swing
Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Lucille Waltz (Contact Lyn
Skenner)
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Darwin Dance Mob – Flower Wall
from Dance Feast
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Singers – The Star Piquettes
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During Interval
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Filipino Cultural Group – Kuratsa,
a Spanish courtship dance (Contact
Judith Ventic)
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Wandering Stock – Kate Claire
and Racheal Swain
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Theatre Performance
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Maori Cultural Group (Contact Fay
Draper)
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Darwin School Of Ballet – Almost
Mozart, choreographed by Michelle Forbes. This
school has been running for 15 years with classes
in Ballet, National
and Modern
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Dance Co-Op – Adult Group – Avant
Deux Travers (Brittany, France) A dance using Hungarian
steps. Never on a Sunday, based on Greek steps
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Robeson Dance Studio – Samba,
Cha Cha, Jive (Contact Helen Robeson). The studio
has been operating in Darwin for the past 3 years,
promoting ballroom
dancing
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Casuarina Dance Ensemble – Ten
nine eight seven. Choreographed by Sarah Calver and the group. Year 11 & 12 students at Casuarina
Secondary
College
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Fiji Dance and Cultural Group (Contact
Lavinia) – Meke In, Fijian fan dance. Usually
performed by ladies and on this occasion by Adi,
this dance celebrates a safe return of warriors
from a tribal war. Meke Wesi, usually performed
by men and today by Francis, is an enactment of
a great battle
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Palmerston School of Ballet (Contact
Jan Hedenig) - opened in 1984, teaches Cecchetti
Classical, Ethnic, ISTD, Modern, Tap and Jazz
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Scottish Country Dance Society (Contact
Angus Henry) - Loch Erichtside Australian Ladies
Group, founded January, 1988 dedicated to furthering
and teaching
Scottish Country Dancing
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Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre – two
excerpts from Black Rainbow – Desert Dane
and Finale
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Timor Loro-Sae, East Timorese Cultural
Group (Contact Mrs Montiero) -
Loo Sae, Saeaka – snake dance
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Italian Folk Group – Tarantella
for Sylvia, Taormina in Feste
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Howard Springs School of Ballet (Contact
Yvonne McDonnell) Classical Dance, Portuguese Folk
Dance
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Irish Dance Academy (Contact Anne
Todd)
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Indian Classical Dance. Dancer Rukshana
Ramachandran. This is one of several forms of Indian
Dance. It describes the pranks of the childhood
of divine Lord Krishna. First as a childhood of
a mother, and then as a cowherd, and then omnipotent
God commanding the spellbound devotions of Saints
and Devotees
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Tang Soo Tao
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Interval
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Dance Mob – Flame Wall from
Dance Feast. Music Composed by Scott Trenwith
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Ravenscrag Highland Dancing H.D.A.
NT
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Betty Washington School of Ballet – Masques
and Cossacks
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Dance Co-Op - Juniors Darwin High
School Class (Contact Patricia Smitheyman). Hora
Zemer, Tzadic Katama, Tserva Tserva. (Israel)
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Bev Cowan’s School of Ballet
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Just Us – Kayleigh/Lavender
Blue. Performed by Emma Fowler and Julie Horn
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Betty Washington School of Ballet – Anchors
Aweigh
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Sri Lankan Dance group (Contact
Mala Wijenayake) – Sigiriya Maiden’s
Dance Usually performed at the palace in the
presence of Kings and Queens of Ancient Sri Lanka
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Dance Connection (Contact Debbie
Hatton) - Medley Modern, Tap, Jazz. Formed March
1st 1980, now Darwin’s only full-time professionally
equipped dance centre. Over 60 classes weekly.
The studio teaches all styles and employs fully
qualified teachers.
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Bev Cowan’s School of Ballet
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Darwin Dance-Time Studio (Contact
Steven Farrawel) - medley of New Vogue & English
Old time dances. Group formed in 1987
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Betty Washington School of Ballet – Hungarian
dances
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Greek School Community group (Contact
Juliette Sellies) - Who Pays the Ferryman?
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Thanks to all the dancers, teachers
and organizers for their contribution and enthusiastic
support. To the Performing Arts Centre office and
technical staff for making our ‘home’ for
the project such a haven. To Brown’s Mart Community
Arts Project, Arts Council, National Arts Week – Stephanie
and Kelly, Darwin Theatre Group, Frida, Migrant Resource
Centre, Marilyn Coleman, Australian Association of
Dance, Mary Crabbe, Jo Harrison, Ryan, Leanne, Mailin
Chan, Janet Robertson, Helen Haritos, Ron Calvere,
Cheree Simms-Farmer, Kaye Dyson, Dino Hodge, Jacqui
Yard, Meredith and Andrea, Vaughan, Phil Becker,
Lill Gerner, Margaret Brickhill, Richard Andrews,
Jo Harrison, Scott Spencer, Conrad Page, Anna Phillips
and Alex Bridge.
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This project was generously funded
by the Australia Council and the Department of Health
and Community Services.
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