2018STRUTDance Program
“I am where I am today because STRUT created incredible opportunities for me to work with
internationally renowned leaders and then make that leap into leadership myself. Thank you.”
STRUT member
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Maxine Doyle
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Hofesh Shechter
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Crystal Pite
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The
Collaborations
Program
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Collaborations 1
Stephanie Lake /
Robin Fox
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Collaborations 2
Jo Lloyd /
Anny Mokotow
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Perth Festival -
Connect
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Recurring
Performance
Opportunities
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SEED
Residencies -
Home and abroad
VisionSTRUT Dance is the national centre for choreographic development, based in Perth, Western Australia. It is our vision and privilege to continue making Perth a beacon of excellence, innovation and opportunity for artists and audiences across Australia.
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Welcome
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An introduction
to STRUT Dance
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Membership
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2018 Core
Activities
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The Master
Workshop Series
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The Feilman
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Pathways to
Excellence
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The Rogues
Program
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Professional /
Public Class
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Our Partners -
Our Thanks
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Welcome 2018 STRUTDance Program
As the Chair of STRUT Dance - the national centre for choreographic development based in Perth WA - it is with immense pride and excitement that I welcome you into our 2018 program.
At present, there are very few contemporary dance organisations in Australia that can support a full-time ensemble and enable choreographers to rigorously develop their craft. We are therefore a nation of agile, independent artists, hunting and gathering opportunity Australia wide. And STRUT Dance is all about opportunity - the opportunity for artists to engage with national and international leaders and collaborate across art forms so that they can develop, articulate and ultimately platform their own choreographic voices. This is a unique model of opportunity in Australia, and I am not shy to say that what STRUT offers is indeed a unique model of opportunity internationally.
We begin the year by strengthening our relationship with the Perth Festival.
STRUT regularly hosts the Festival’s own performing artists through their Connect program. 2018 sees the inclusion of one of our own Master Workshop deliveries within the Festival’s own Perth Works program - Punchdrunk’s Maxine Doyle, whose three-year partnership with STRUT is now reaching its most thrilling phase.
The Maxine Doyle program plays in the exciting space where dance collides with theatre - site, character and a proximity to audiences - an intoxicating and compelling combination for any artist to interrogate. This physical theatre program is a perfect counterpoint to the more dance focused methodology that underpins those of Hofesh Shechter and Crystal Pite. These two world leaders are now operating at the top of their game and we are truly honoured to be expanding these partnerships into the future.
It is wonderful to witness STRUT welcoming actors, directors and physical theatre practitioners into the membership, alongside our dance artists and with that, begin to address an ever increasing hybridization of dance and theatre territories.
STRUT’s Collaborations Program further explores this hybrid conversation with Australian greats Stephanie Lake, composer Robin Fox and cross art-form practitioner Jo Lloyd - all unpacking their long-standing artistic and collaborative relationships for our members.
This year we are very excited to launch a new scholarship program with The Feilman Foundation – The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence – which will provide scholarship opportunities into the STRUT program for recently graduated artists.
STRUT’s own level of excellence and impact is both reliant upon and a testament to our ongoing WA partnerships with TURA New Music, the State Theatre Centre of WA, Subiaco Arts Centre and those companies and organisations around Australia and the world that help make our offer so unique and our community so vibrant and supportive. New into this mix from 2018 is Community Arts Network, a partner organization helping us to invite the multicultural and indigenous voice into the room.
STRUT Director Paul Selwyn Norton has himself recently returned from an extensive foray into the Indonesian dance sector with the intention of building reciprocal pathways of access with our nearest neighbour.
Add to that the myriad of development, residency and performance outcomes from our members and without a doubt, STRUT is packing serious punches in 2018. From global phenomenon Hofesh Shechter to our public class participants, from the Perth Festival to our own King Street Arts Centre studios, from all over the world to our proud city of Perth – what a scale and what an offer.
And it is with that offer that I invite you, our trusted members, artists and supporters on this innovative and inspiring journey with STRUT Dance.
STRUT StaffDirector Paul Selwyn Norton
General Manager Alica Byfield
Finance Officer Natalie Johnson
STRUT BoardChair Jon Smeulders
Deputy Chair June Moorhouse
Amy Wiseman Franklin Gaffney Laura Boynes Lisa Jackson Louis Mostert Michael Murphy Ricky ArnoldPhotography
Simon Pynt
Dancers Alex Perrozzi David Mack Natalie Allen Sophia Natale
Jon Smeulders Chair STRUT Dance
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An introduction to STRUT DanceA program of internationally benchmarked training, collaboration and performance opportunities unique in Australia.
BODY
STRUT offers sustained exposure to world-class dance techniques and choreographic methodology to enrich the body’s range of practice and ignite and inspire development. Usually quarantined to major dance organisations, these artists and their work are now available, as choreographic models of excellence, to the independent dance sector exclusively through STRUT.
2018 will witness a deepening of our partnerships with some of the most pertinent and visionary artists around Australia and the world -
Crystal Pite / Kidd Pivot (CA)Hofesh Shechter (IS/UK)Maxine Doyle (UK)Stephanie Lake (AU)
Sustained exposure to these techniques, as core ongoing training, will be supplemented by a focus on current contemporary technique, physical theatre disciplines and improvisation from the likes of Jo Lloyd (AU), Robin Fox (AU), Damian Jalet(BE), Michael Clark (UK) and KylePage (AU). The latter artists as part of our ongoing relationship with the Perth Festival’s Connect program.
COLLABORATION
Key to a choreographer’s development is learning how to collaborate with other artists in readiness for the stage. We provide the resources, the space and the leadership to coach those artists into asking the right questions.
STRUT has developed a dynamic and responsive program that builds skills in collaboration. In partnership with the State Theatre Centre of WA and the Subiaco Arts Centre, STRUT continues to provide pathways to encourage future collaboration across all stage art forms. The 2018 program will see many kinds of innovative collisions between choreography, music, text, improvisation and dramaturgy.
PERFORMANCE
Throughout the year, choreographers are offered the opportunity to develop and present work with production values at all levels. For maximum impact, the majority of these performance opportunities segue straight from training or collaborative programs directly into the public realm, where key learnings can be implemented directly back into practice. From studio showings to full evening presentations at the State Theatre Centre of WA, all manner of platforms, sites and festivals are available for expression.
This year will see a further development of STRUT’s exclusive partnership with Maxine Doyle. Maxine Doyle is one-half of Punchdrunk, pioneers in site-based dance theatre performances the world over. Punchdrunk design large scale, immersive experiences for promenading audiences. Sleep No More and The Drowned Man are now cited as some of the most attended and critically lauded performances in recent history. The outcome of this first development will be presented in the 2018 Perth Festival / Perth Works program.
It was like being in London, Madrid or New York. How does this kind of brilliance happen here in Perth outside of the Perth Festival? I am coming back tomorrow and bringing everyone I can with me. They have to see this show!
One Flat Thing, Reproduced audience member
STRUT Dance offers independent choreographers, dance and physical theatre practitioners the possibility to engage with national and international masters, the chance to work with collaborative partners in the making of their own performance, and the opportunity to put their work in front of a willing and informed audience at all levels of expression.
As a national organisation now operating globally, STRUT’s programs are open to all and operate on four levels:
BODY, COLLABORATION, PERFORMANCE and EXCHANGE
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EXCHANGE
STRUT recognises the value in reciprocal partnerships and continues to successfully align programs that build capacity with world-class local, interstate and international organisations. These provide international residencies/exchange opportunities that focus on choreographic and research opportunities.
Australia
The Dance Sites Network (DSN) is one such model and is a research and development vehicle that rotates international artists and choreographic teams around Australia. DSN core organisations include STRUT (WA), Dancehouse (VIC) and Critical Path (NSW).
STRUT has also developed a new relationship with The Mill in Adelaide (SA). The Mill is unique in SA providing arts programming adjacent to its vibrant community of resident artists. It is a multi-artform creative incubator that programs and supports collaborative practice through developing new work and facilitating sustainable career pathways. STRUT SEED recipients are now able to request The MILL as their host organisation for their residency.
Membership
- Access to master workshops, STRUT performance seasons, professional development opportunities, scholarships and professional class
- Eligibility to apply for all levels of the STRUT program, including SEED Residencies and performance opportunities in the studio and on stage
- Administrative support and marketing advice for your own projects
- Access to King Street Arts Centre studios at discounted rates for select projects
- Regular email news updates including the STRUT Member News
- Discounts at our various hospitality and local retail partners
All this for $50!
STRUT membership is now nationwide, encompassing and encouraging a community of passionate, professional independent choreographers, dance artists and physical theatre practitioners.
Who can become a STRUT member?
Anybody aged 18 or over, who is involved in professional dance and theatre practice, 3rd-year undergraduates plus advocates and devotees of contemporary performance.
Visit strutdance.org.au to sign up as a member!
International
STRUT also regards international residencies as a pivotal mechanism of support and provision for choreographic development and has invited a consortium of international choreographic centres to develop a reciprocal residency exchange program.
In 2018 / 2019 STRUT will continue to provide pathways of exchange with the following organistions:
- Banff Centre – Canada
- New York Live Arts – US
- ilDance - Sweden
STRUT’s $10,000 SEED Residency grants, which kick-start the development of a new work from Australian artists, are now available for STRUT members to broker at one of these organisations. (see SEED Residency).
To take full advantage of the STRUT Dance program, participants are invited to become members from January 2018 and engage with all the following benefits:
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The Master Workshop SeriesThese exclusive training intensives, delivered by some of the most visionary national and international artists, build cumulatively into unique performance outcomes of their own and offer the independent sector choreographic models of excellence and aspiration that are usually quarantined to large company structures.
2018 will witness a deepening of our partnerships with The Hofesh Shechter Company (UK), Crystal Pite (CA), and Punchdrunk’s Maxine Doyle (UK).
The international components of the Workshop Series will be interwoven with Australian masters, including interstaters Stephanie Lake, Robin Fox, Jo Lloyd and Anny Mokotow who all herald from Victoria.
Unlike many before them, these Australian artists have chosen not to default abroad but have drilled down into their own practice, developing very successful models on home soil. These national masters are truly aspirational to our membership, hence their prominence throughout the STRUT program.
Taster
Master Workshops usually follow a two-week full day format. This year, we are introducing a new way to access these great artists for those participants who are unable to make a two-week commitment. Each workshop will offer a single half-day event comprising professional class and a taster workshop.
Look out for the Taster within each workshop description.
2018 Core ActivitiesSTRUT’s program provides a robust and holistic range of core activities to underpin professional choreographic practice and development:
- Choreographic Training
- The Master Workshop Series
- Collaborations Program
- Creative Developments
- Recurring Performance Opportunities
- SEED Residencies
- National and International Exchange Programs
- Professional - Public Class
- The Rogues Program
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The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence The Feilman Foundation was established in 1976 by Mrs Ethel Feilman to make donations to causes which were important to her family and in recent times has grown with the addition of the estates of Margaret and Patricia Feilman.
In recognition of the valuable role that STRUT plays in dance sector development, the Feilman Foundation is generously sponsoring STRUT to provide avenues of access to the 2018 Master Workshop Series for recent graduates transitioning out of tertiary academies.
This will take the form of scholarships to cover workshop fees, which we understand can be a challenge for students who are just stepping into the industry.
Scholarships are available across the Maxine Doyle, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter and Jo Lloyd workshops and are limited, at this stage, to graduates of West Australian or Victorian academies.
If you are a recent West Australian or Victorian graduate and are interested in applying for one these scholarships please follow the link HERE.
Image: Rahi Rezvani
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Maxine Doyle
STRUT’s three-year partnership with Maxine Doyle is now reaching its most thrilling phase. Maxine is the choreographic wunderkind behind Punchdrunk’s seminal works Sleep No More and The Drowned Man and her own recent independent creation After Lethe.
In 2018 Maxine will be delivering the next level of master workshops with her team, Sarah Dowling and Conor Doyle - both long-standing members of Punchdrunk. Sarah and Conor will join Maxine to continue unpacking the core principles and methodology that has made her vision so sought after the world over. The intention is to devise an original performance for STRUT in 2019 with a cohort of creatives from across this program.
Master Workshop
Date Feb 12 – 23 (9.30am – 4.00pm, Mon – Fri)
Workshops will follow two streams - one for dance artists and one for actors and physical theatre performers. Maxine, Sarah and Conor will lead all workshops. Each day will begin with a training session relevant to each discipline and then move into the workshop proper. Disciplines will unite at various touchpoints across the workshop.
Price$400
Showing / Perth Festival - Perth WorksFeb 22 6:30pm
NB: The showing will be part of the Perth Festival - Perth Works program. Click HERE for more information.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries - Culture and the Arts (WA) and the Feilman Foundation, there are a number of scholarships available for this master workshop.
- STRUT Scholarships of $1000 each, to cover the workshop fee ($400), STRUT annual membership fee ($50) and out-of-pocket expenses ($550). This opportunity is open to Western Australian artists across all disciplines.
- Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence scholarships of $400 each, to cover the workshop fee. This opportunity is only open to recent dance graduates (you must have graduated in 2015 or later) from Victoria and Western Australia.
For an application pack, please email [email protected].
Taster Workshop
DateFeb 17 (9:30-1:00pm)
A single half day event comprising professional class and a bespoke workshop for dance artists, actors and physical theatre performers.
Price$40
Audition
DateFeb 24/259:30am – 5:00pm
This audition will identify a cast to go forward to the creative development later in 2018 (Sept 10 – 21). This audition is free and open to all disciplines. Workshop attendance is not compulsory, but strongly advised. You must be available for both days of the audition.
For me, Maxine Doyle is the best thing on the STRUT program so far…She brings you to the edge of what a stage artist can become… and then pushes you right over!Maxine Doyle workshop participant
Image: N.Klinger
maxinedoyle.com
Venue for all activitiesKing Street Art Centre, Perth
ParticipationAll EOI’s should be directed here: [email protected]
With thanks to the following partners:
This program was made possible by the generous support of:
Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries - Culture and the Arts (WA), The Australia Council for the Arts, The City of Perth, The Feilman Foundation, Perth Festival, Tura New Music, Community Arts Network and Jeffrey Jay Fowler.
2018 sees a partnership between STRUT Dance, TURA New Music, Community Arts Network and theatre director/actor/ writer Jeffrey Jay Fowler to broaden the invitation to other disciplines and begin building the multi-disciplinary and multicultural cast for the final performance outcome.
As well as the Master Workshop, STRUT is also offering a half day Taster workshop and a separate audition for the first creative development, which will take place in September 10 - 21.
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Hofesh Shechter
STRUT Dance is thrilled to be expanding its partnership with the globally phenomenal Hofesh Shechter Company. This Master Workshop Series will lead to a bespoke performance outcome in 2019/20 created by Hofesh himself.
Leading members from the Hofesh Shechter Company will lead 2 two-week workshops exploring Hofesh Shechter’s
movement fundamentals – Groove & Rhythm, Totality, Energy & Emotion and Floorwork.
They will share repertoire from across Hofesh’s works, his older pieces alongside more recent works, creative tasks and his imagery – a fascinating insight into Hofesh’s creative process.
Due to the demand for this artist, STRUT will hold two master workshops in 2018.
Workshop 1
DateApr 9 – 20
TasterApr 14
ShowingApr 19 6:30pm
Venue – all activitiesKing Street Arts Centre, Perth
Price$ 400
ParticipationEOI’s are now open and will be accepted on a first come first served basis [email protected]
Hofesh Shechter Image: Hugo Glendinning
Workshop 2
DateDec 3 – 14
Taster Dec 8
ShowingDec 136:30pm
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarships to cover the $400 workshop fee through The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence scholarship program are available for this workshop. These scholarships are only open to recent dance graduates from Victoria and Western Australia.
Check your eligibility and apply HERE.
With thanks to the following partners:
Image: Rahi Rezvani
hofesh.co.uk
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Crystal PiteSTRUT is thrilled to continue its partnership with this Canadian visionary who has built a global reputation as the choreographic leader of Kidd Pivot. Crystal’s repertoire now sits in most of the major dance companies the world over.
Sandra Marin Garcia has been central to Crystal Pite’s creations inside the Netherlands Dance Theatre and restages Pite’s work all over the globe. She will lead a two-week master workshop on the principles governing Crystal’s repertoire and choreographic methodology.
I saw Crystal Pite’s ‘Betroffenheit” in the Perth Festival and it totally changed my pre-conceptions on the visceral power of dance theatre and how it can strike directly to the heart of all matters. Crystal Pite workshop participant
Workshop
Date Jun 25 – Jul 6
Taster
Date Jun 30
Showing
Date Jul 5
Price$ 400
VenueKing Street Arts Centre, Perth
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarships to cover the $400 workshop fee through The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence scholarship program are available for this workshop. These scholarships are only open to recent dance graduates from Victoria and Western Australia
Check your eligibility and apply HERE.
Participation
EOI’s are now open and will be accepted on a first come first served basis [email protected]
With thanks to the following partners:
Image: Kidd Pivot
Crystal Pite Sandra Marin Garcia
kiddpivot.org
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The Collaborations ProgramMore often than not, resources do not allow for collaboration across art forms at an early developmental level. STRUT has devised dynamic and responsive programs for choreographers that build skills in collaborative processes.
In partnership with the State Theatre Centre of WA and Subiaco Arts Centre, STRUT designs pathways to encourage
future collaboration across all stage art forms. We feel that these conversations should commence at ground zero and be continually nurtured. The aim is to provide all parties with the necessary vernacular and skills to develop performance works of greater resonance and depth.
These collaborations are situated inside theatre venues ensuring the value-add is reciprocal to all parties.
STRUT’s Collaboration Program was a huge benefit to my career as an emerging artist, helping the trajectory of my career, by being introduced to choreographers and collaborators that I am lucky enough to still be working with today.Dane Yates – Composer Collaborations Program
Outcomes include:
- Young artists learning about collaboration across stage art forms and having the opportunity to implement that learning directly back into practice on stage, in order to prepare them for future creative development
- Artists and participants being able to network across art forms for future creative collaboration
- Artists learning about the realities and demands of the stage environment
- Building capacity around marketing and promotion: helping artists talk about their work at all stages of development
- Young artists being able to pitch their own creative ideas directly to the State Theatre Centre of WA and the Subiaco Arts Centre
- Building capacity around audience development for Contemporary Dance
2018 will focus on Choreography and Music Composition with Stephanie Lake and Robin Fox and Choreography, Text, Improvisation and Dramaturgy with Jo Lloyd and Anny Mokotow.
Image: Jo Lloyd / Gregory Lorenzutti
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Collaborations 1
Stephanie Lake / Robin FoxChoreography / Music Composition
STRUT Dance and TURA New Music present the next level of collaboration programs for choreographers and composers. Australian great Stephanie Lake continues her three-year partnership with STRUT as choreographic leader and joining her is longtime musical partner and composer Robin Fox.
Together they will design a dynamic mix of assignments, speed dates and developments to equip choreographers and composers with tools in how to communicate and collaborate across disciplines.
Robin Fox will be performing his own concert in a special event, hosted by TURA New Music.
There will also be a showing of the outcomes of this workshop at the Subiaco Arts Centre.
Thrilling, visceral dance, which may trouble your dream state for a while…
Exeunt Magazine, Glasgow
So thankful that you have included Stephanie Lake in the program. Usually we cannot touch her brilliance unless we are over East or part of a dedicated project. I am going to follow her the whole way.
Recent WAAPA graduate and STRUT Member
Collaborations Workshop
Date Sep 24 – Oct 6
Showing
Date Oct 5
Taster
Because of the format of this workshop, a Taster is not available.
Robin Fox Performance tura.com.au
Price$ 300
VenueKing Street Arts Centre / State TheatreCentre of WA / Subiaco Arts Centre
ParticipationEOI’s are now open and will be accepted on a first come first served basis [email protected]
With thanks to the following partners:
Robin Fox Stephanie Lake
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
stephanielake.com.au
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Collaborations 2
Jo Lloyd and Anny Mokotow A Room of Dramaturges
Choreographer Jo Lloyd and Dramaturg Anny Mokotow present a rigorous workshop focusing on the intersection of dance and dramaturgy.
Sharing the belief that dramaturgy is a practice inherent in the processes of production and stimulated by the dancer as much as the choreographer, Lloyd and Mokotow will impart methodologies developed from Lloyd’s recent choreographies.
In Lloyd’s work Confusion for Three (2015), hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unraveling system of choreography. Utilising this work as a process/ performance model, participants will engage with clear choreographic parameters, enabling them to investigate/negotiate their physical and conceptual dramaturgical choices.
This workshop will conclude with a performance, presenting a new iteration of ‘Confusion’, unique to the participants and the context. This is an exceptional opportunity for dance artists to engage with two assured practitioners and be exposed to new practices, whilst investigating the dramaturgical role of the performer.
Workshop
Date Nov 12-23
Taster
Date Nov 17
Showing
Date Nov 22
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarships to cover the $400 workshop fee through The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence scholarship program are available for this workshop. These scholarships are only open to recent dance graduates from Victoria and Western Australia
Check your eligibility and apply HERE.
With thanks to the following partners:
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
ParticipationEOI’s are now open and will be accepted on a first come first served basis [email protected]
jolloyd.com
Price$ 400
VenueKing St Arts Centre The State Theatre Centre of WA
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Perth Festival ConnectEvery year the Perth Festival creates a program of fantastic dance artists to engage with. As part of the Festival’s Connect Program, STRUT will host free workshop intensives with the following artists:
Image: Yoshikazu Inoue / Damien Jalet & Kohei Nawa
Date Feb 10
Time 10am – 12pm
Venue King Street Arts Centre
Kyle Page
Run by Kyle Page, Artistic Director, Dancenorth - this workshop explores the technique and choreography he and Amber Haines use in their Dancenorth creations, including Perth Festival event Attractor.
Dancenorth is a contemporary dance company based in Townsville, Tropical North Queensland. An epicenter for artistic exchange and collaboration, Dancenorth balances a dynamic regional presence with a commitment to creating bold, adventurous and critically acclaimed contemporary dance.
Under the Artistic Direction of Kyle Page, Dancenorth delivers an ambitious and far-reaching program including the creation and presentation of new work, national and international touring, professional development opportunities for dancers and choreographers as well as national and international residencies and research projects.
Date Feb 10
Time 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Venue King Street Arts Centre
Michael Clark Company
Run by practitioners from Michael Clark Company in association with STRUT Dance, this workshop explores the technique and choreography used by Michael Clark Company in their Perth Festival event to a simple, rock 'n' roll…song.
Michael Clark Company was founded in 1984. The company has since toured worldwide to perform at leading houses in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, as well as on its home stage at the Barbican, where it has been a resident company since 2005.
Hailed as “British dance’s true iconoclast”, Michael Clark is a defining cultural figure. Since emerging in the 1980s as a prodigy at London’s Royal Ballet School, he has remained at the forefront of innovation in dance. From the outset, Michael Clark’s performances have been marked by a mixture of technical rigour and experimentation, intense and fine-tuned choreography intersecting with elements of punk, Dada, pop and rock. His productions repeatedly break new ground, provoking and electrifying audiences.
Date Mar 3
Time 10am – 1pm
Venue King Street Arts Centre
Damian Jalet
Run by Damien Jalet - this workshop explores the technique and choreography used by Jalet in his Perth Festival event Vessel.
Damien Jalet is a French and Belgian freelance choreographer and performer. His work is often collaborative, creating intricate collisions between dance and other artistic media such as visual arts: Antony Gormley, Marina Abramović, Nawa Kohei, Jim Hodges, fashion: Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Hussein Chalayan, Riccardo Tisci, Bernhard Willhelm, theatre: Arthur Nauzyciel and music: Fennesz, Loscil, Winter Family, Editors, Florence + the Machine.
With thanks to the following partner:
These workshops are free - register your interest HERE
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Recurring Performance Opportunities
Pilot
Pilot is an “open mic night” for independent dance - a series of low-key studio events or off-site pop-ups, spontaneous and fresh. This is not about hours of rehearsal but triggers of inspiration…
One Pilot per season - Access is an open invitation to our public class participants to stage a small series of works.
Performance dates Mar 2, May 5, Oct 26 as Access, Dec 14
Venue King Street Arts Centre
ParticipationOutsourced to curating artist Bernadette Lewis. Please contact Bernadette HERE for more information.
Next
Next is core to STRUT’s ongoing commitment to developing a pipeline of opportunity for choreographers to present a longer work with higher production values. Usually curated from studio based independent work from across the season, Next performances can now hit the stage proper.
Performance Dates Sept 20 - 22
VenueTBC
Participation This project will be curated from across the 2017/18 Short Cuts seasons
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Short Cuts / In-SITU
Short Cuts
The popular platform of independent choreography where artists are provided with resources to develop work and present it in a studio setting.
Performance Dates Jun 14 - 16
VenueStudio 3, King Street Arts Centre
Participation EOI and selection procedure by a panel of industry experts.
In-SITU
In-SITU in an annual season of original site-specific works from WA independent dance artists. Initiated by performance trio Unkempt Dance in 2014, In-SITU has now become a unique opportunity for an artist/producer to explore an exciting new model of presenting independent choreography in enticing and unexpected locations throughout the cities of Perth and Fremantle.
What began as a pop-up performance in Joe’s Barber in King Street in 2014, In-SITU then travelled to Fremantle Arts Centre in 2015. Courtesy of producing duo Emma Fishwick and Kynan Hughes, In-SITU took over the Courtyard of the State Theatre Centre of WA in 2016 with St George’s Cathedral being the latest expression.
Under Fishwick and Hughes’ trusted curatorship the 2018 In-SITU now heads to another surprise venue.
Performance Dates Apr 5 - 7
VenueUnexpected locations across Perth
Participation EOI and selection procedure by a panel of industry experts and In-SITU producers
I love coming to the In-SITU program. The choreographers made St. George’s into such a thrilling new space and with all that live music. It was like seeing and ‘hearing’ the Cathedral for the first time.
In-SITU audience member
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SEED Residencies – Home and Abroad
Four artists per year are granted residencies of up to $10,000 each.
These residencies have been successful in offering financial and administrative resources to choreographers so that they can really knuckle down into a new process. Many SEEDs have gone on to receive futher support and develop into full evening works presented on Festival platforms.
We accept applications from all over Australia. However the WA/Interstate success rate mirrors STRUT’s own state to federal funding ratio of three to one.
Selection is by formal application to be reviewed by an independent panel of industry experts.
2018 successful SEED applicants are
Emily Bowman (WA)Genevieve Osborne withSomething Machine (ACT)Quindell Orton (WA)Rachel Ogle (WA)
STRUT wishes these artists a wonderful journey with their SEED.
SEED residencies may be brokered with one of STRUT’s national or international partners including:
The 2019 SEED Residency applications will open in June 2018.
National International
The SEED residency gave me the opportunity to just really dig deep and find the core of the work, which then kick-started a whole series of other brilliant opportunities. The momentum has now catapulted me into festival contention.
STRUT SEED recipient 2016
With thanks to the following partners:
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The Rogues Program
An initiative to create opportunities for artists who have taken a more idiosyncratic or non-institutionalised pathway into performance. STRUT’s desire is to draw from a culturally and artistically diverse pool of artists who, in turn, help build a more robust cohort of STRUT Members.
To this date, STRUT has successfully supported 15 Rogues through parts of the 2014-17 program.
Please email us at [email protected] if you need more information or if you have something in mind.
Just take a look in any local gymnasium or hip-hop class and there is bound to be a phenomenal artist lurking somewhere, bursting with potential and hunger…now just go up to them and see if they are game! That’s really how I started… STRUT Director - Paul Selwyn Norton
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Public Class
STRUT continues to open its doors to fans who just feel the need to join us on the dance floor. Our public contemporary classes are geared at an amateur level – for beginners and intermediates – but are led by a professional, with an emphasis on technique, musicality and joy. Open to anyone, with any level of experience in dance.
WhenBeginner: 5:40 – 6:55pm, Tuesdays
Intermediate: 7:00 – 8:15pm, Tuesdays
VenueKing Street Arts Centre
357 - 365 Murray Street, Perth
ParticipationCheck Public Class HERE.
Once a season STRUT public class presents its own studio performance, platforming the techniques and training that participants have been playing with across the year.
Professional Class
Aspirational training for professional dancers and physical theatre practitioners.
STRUT recognises the necessity of technical training as part of an artist's physical maintenance and preparedness to work. STRUT is committed to providing the sector with inspirational dance teachers and mentors from all over Australia and abroad. This will be focused during the Master Workshop Series and any performance outcome delivery.
So please check the dates of the Master Workshop Series to make sure that you are up to date and able to engage.
Professional / Public Class
So much fun and the teachers are really engaged. Now we even get to present our own mini-season of creative work!Public Class participant
When9:30 - 11.00 am, Mondays – Fridays
VenueKing Street Arts Centre
357-365 Murray Street, Perth
Price$12 per class for STRUT Members
$16 per class for non-members
$90 for 10-class card (STRUT Members only)
ParticipationOpen to all professional-level dancers and physical theatre practitioners.
STRUT is committed to providing studio space to independents who want to hold their own professional training outside of STRUT’s regular schedule. Studios can be booked through STRUT Dance (members only).
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From Hofesh Shechter to our public class members, from The Perth Festival to our King Street Arts Centre studios, from all over the world to our proud city of Perth – what a scale and what an offer!Jon Smeulders, Chairman STRUT
Our Partners – Our Thanks
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STRUT Dance
First Floor, 357 – 365 Murray St Perth WA 6000
PO Box 7011, Cloisters Sq Perth WA 6850
61 8 9321 4066
strutdance.org.au
