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Ausdance WAEvents 2008Dance DialectsDance Dialects is a project supporting the creation and presentation of new multi-cultural dance works by professional artists. Workshops took place in August, and rehearsals are now underway for a new culturally diverse dance work. Senior cultural dance artists, Lynn Martlew, Danielle Pender, Premala Sangarananda, Zhi Dan Chang and Michelle Locke have been collaborating with artistic director Danielle Micich, choreographer Shona Erskine and composer Ash Gibson Greig for the new work. Showings of the work in development are scheduled for 23 – 24 January 2009 at 8 pm and 25 January at 6.30 pm, at King Street Arts Centre Studio 3. Events 2009Australian Youth Dance Festival: Sunday 12 April – Sunday 19 April, 2009Mandurah, Western Australia. Dance Week 4 – 10 May 2009Dance Week is a national celebration of dance and there will be various performances, workshops and events by professional and educational organisations throughout the week. Ausdance WA will be providing a programme of WA dance events happening in May to celebrate Dance Week. The programme will be available early in 2009. Country Week 29 June – 3 July 2009Are you a teacher in a regional secondary school? Country Week is for you and your students! This programme is designed for students from WA regional schools and involves a week of dance activity focusing on skill development, chorographic development and performance. The programme is run as part of the Schools Country Week Program. Venues: King Street Arts Centre & Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts West Australian Dance AwardsNominations are now open for the 2009 West Australian Dance Awards. Here are the nomination forms.
The West Australian Dance Awards (WADAs) have been presented annually since 2005. There are nine awards in total and they are:
Anyone can submit a nomination and we encourage all dance audience members to do so. The judging panel then creates a shortlist of about three nominees per award, with the exception of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for which there is no short-listing process. The short-list is published in the e-bulletin, on the Ausdance website and in dancewest magazine. The panel then chooses the winners from the short-list. The winners are announced at a special event held in celebration of the WADAs in the second half of the year (date and venue TBA). Outback Dance—dates TBAAusdance WA ventures to the Outback! In collaboration with a regional community, Ausdance WA will develop an integrated program that includes dance workshops for schools and the community, professional development opportunities for regional artists and community performance. |
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Copyright 2007 Australian Dance Council—Ausdance Inc. Acknowledgements |