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WDA Global Summit 2008

Dance Dialogues: conversations across cultures, art forms and practices

Bookings essential through qtix 136 246 or www.qtix.com.au
All dialogues are included free with registration for wda global summit

Dance Dialogues One—Dame Peggy Van Praagh Memorial Address 

Date: Monday 14 July
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm
Venue: Cremorne Theatre QPAC
Tickets: $25.00 (AUD)

Provocateur: Shirley McKechnie (Choreographer, Educator, Researcher and Author)
Speaker: David McAllister (Artistic Director The Australian Ballet)
Speaker: Prof. Susan Street (Executive Dean Creative Industries & National President of Ausdance)

Dance Dialogues Two—Transcultural Conversations

Date: Tuesday 15 July
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm
Venue: Cremorne Theatre QPAC
Tickets: $25.00 (AUD)

Provocateur: Prof. Dr Mohd Anis Md Nor (President WDA-AP, Director of Cultural Centre, University of Malaya, author, dance luminary)
Speaker: Rustom Bharucha (Indian interculturalist, activist, theatre director, international author Theatre and the World, The Politics of Cultural Practice)
Speaker: Li Cunxin (dancer/author/stockbroker Mao’s Last Dancer)

Dance Dialogues Three—Sustainability

Date: Wednesday 16 July
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm
Venue: Cremorne Theatre QPAC
Tickets: $25.00 (AUD)

Provocateur: Barrie Kosky (Director of theatre and opera, Artist)
Speakers: Lucy Guerin (Artistic Director Lucy Guerin Co),
Marilyn Miller (National Indigenous Dance Coordinator, Treading the Pathways), Gideon Obarzanek (Artistic Director Chunky Move), Maggi Sietsma (Artistic Director Expressions Dance Company), Gavin Webber (Artistic Director Dance North)

Dance Dialogues Four—Mind Body Connections

Date: Thursday 17 July
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm
Venue: Cremorne Theatre QPAC
Tickets: $25.00 (AUD)

Provocateur: Lyndon Terracini (Artistic Director Brisbane Festival, music artist)
Speaker: Gina Czarnecki (International multi-media artist & film maker; winner Delegates’ Award-IMZ Dance Screen 2005 & Best Dance Film-Australian Dance Awards 2006 for Nascent)
Speaker: Leigh Warren (Artistic Director Leigh Warren and Dancers Australia)

Dance Dialogues Five—Rethinking the Way we Make Dance

Date: Friday 18 July
Time: 4.30 – 7.00pm
Venue: The Loft CI Precinct QUT (100 seat capacity only)
Tickets: $25.00 (AUD)

Provocateur: Nanette Hassall (Choreographer, Educator, Head of Dance WAPPA)
Speaker: Lloyd Newson (Choreographer & Founder/AD DV8 Physical Theatre)
Speaker: Boi Sakti (Sumatran, Bessie Award Winning Choreographer)

Please note that this Dialogue will include the choreolab showing commencing at 4.30pm—bookings essential with registration.

* Speakers/provocateurs may change without notice

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