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1992: FLYING OFF THE EDGE – Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin |
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Work : Director's Notes : Audience Response : Creative
Personnel : Performers :Scenario |
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Work |
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A season of six new dance works, choreographed by local Darwin dance artists, five evening performances, three schools performances with lecture demonstrations, and seven hundred and eighty audience members.
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ILLUSTRATION: Tim Newth
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A grant from the Aboriginal Arts Unit of the Australia Council for the Arts enabled us to employ Dorathea Randal as an Aboriginal Torres Straight Island Residency. The other dancers were part of a group called Local troupe which was made up of professionally trained dancers living locally in Darwin. |
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The aims of this project were to allow the project officers, Sarah Calver and David McMicken to choreograph at a higher level, to give other Darwin choreographers an opportunity to utilize their skills, to give Darwin audience a chance to see dance other than Community based, and to provide a short term “company structure” for the dancers. |
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Director's Notes |
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When we come to the edge of a cliff, we can either stay away through fear, or throw ourselves to our deaths: or we can jump off in full confidence and know that we will fly. As a group of professional artists, we believe in flying; FLYING OFF THE EDGE. |
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We have, for your entertainment and pleasure, a ponderance, a varied evening of dance. Many of the works in this program use text; some prewritten, some written especially for the show, some written by the choreographers themselves. We also incorporate the use of slides in much of the work. When the use of dance, music, visual effects, text, and theatre technology all come together, the end result is this many layered performance, dance theatre. |
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You may have the question in your mind “what does it all mean?” This question will remain unanswered unless you speak it out loud. |
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Audience
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"Every Aspect of the performance is saying “Welcome!” to the audience – you have come to see something." |
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“ ...so vivid that they directly communicated the living, breathing feel of the live performance to the audience.”
Samantha Liddle |
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Creative
Personnel |
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Performers |
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Scenario |
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FLYING OFF THE EDGE
“Who asked for it? Where might it lead?” |
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| Choreography |
Maggi Phillips, Berenice Franklin and Dancers |
| Dancers |
Berenice Franklin with Sarah Calver, Lisa Campbell and Dorathea Randall |
| Music |
Excerpt from Mark Isham’s FILM music |
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IN THE CORNERS OF THE MIND
“Imagination, like shadows of light, flees across and shelters in the hidden places of the mind.”
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| Choreography |
Maggi Phillips and Dancers |
| Dancers |
Full company |
| Music |
Richard Robins – QUARTET |
| Music |
Maggi Phillips |
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KING OF BIRDS
“A pure dance piece showing the clarity of lines with a strong feeling of hovering in the moment.” |
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DIFFERENT FROM EVERY ANGLE
“This was inspired by a poem written by Steve Holliday and the times I have shared with my daughter Tessa. Through the integration of images, sign language and modern dance, this piece takes us on a journey exploring life and people.” |
Each person is a jewel
Multifaceted
Flaws can be fascinating
Hold them up to the light
Turn them in your hand
Different from every angle
Steve Hollliday |
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| Choreography |
Sarah Calver |
| Dancers |
Full Company |
| Music |
Zakir Hussain |
| Text for song |
Steve Holliday |
| Voice |
Rachel O’Shea |
| Slides |
Berenice Franklin |
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DROWNING LIKE AN ANGEL
“There was a time, a time in my life when I fell in love. There was a time in my life when I thought that I really could fly, where I believed (for a moment) that I was an Angel. There was a time in my life where I very much doubted the Angelic position I had put myself in. There was a time when this Angel lost the feeling of his wings.” |
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DANCING IMAGES FROM THE DREAMING
Dance speaks in a very special language, both to the dancer and to the watcher. It speaks of things “read between the lines”, things that are impossible to put into words. It speaks of past, present and future in a traditional contemporary style: to express the complicated emotions and ideas involved in growing up in my culture. |
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Harmony, Fear, Anger, Guilt, Sadness.
It lifts the spirit from the Dreamtime. |
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