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2019
STRUT DANCE
PROGRAM
"Unparalleled in reach, profound in impact and abundant in
opportunity, it is truly game-changing what STRUT Dance is
doing for the Australian contemporary dance sector."
Independent Artist & STRUT Member
VISION CONTENTS
STRUT Dance is the national centre for choreographic
development, based in Perth, Western Australia. It is our 03 / Welcome 15 / The Terri-ann White Scholarship
vision and privilege to continue making Perth a beacon
of excellence, innovation and opportunity for independent 04 / STRUT Dance - An Overview 16 / The Lewis Major Projects Scholarship
Australian dance and physical theatre artists.
06 / Membership 16 / The Rogues Program
07 / 2019 Core Activities 17 / Recurring Performance Opportunities
07 / The Master Workshop Series 19 / Major Performance Outcomes
08 / Hofesh Shechter 19 / SUNSET
10 / Crystal Pite 20 / Stephanie Lake & West Australian Opera
11 / The Collaborations Program 21 / Perth Festival Connect
12 / Collaborations: Melanie Lane & Adena Jacobs 23 / SEED Residencies
13 / STRUT Scholarship Program 24 / Professional & Public Classes
14 / The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence 25 / Our Partners - Our Thanks
WELCOME
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It is with extraordinary pride
Blue Room Theatre and Co:3 Australia, for independent work, And Then Some,
that I welcome you to the 2019 as new development and presentation in partnership with The Blue Room
STRUT Program. partners across our program. Theatre and Co:3 Australia.
Looking across the fantastic offering We also see the wonderful Victorian Our thanks to this incredible cohort of
that we have in store for 2019, I cannot choreographer and recent Keir partners and artists who have helped
help but cast my mind back five years Choreographic Award winner, Melanie make our 2019 program so rich, diverse
to when it all began with that first Lane, join us with Adena Jacobs as our and nationally impactful.
workshop program in 2014 with Ohad next Collaborations Program leaders
Naharin's Batsheva Dance Company. and we are thrilled to have Ballet Id, the From our public class performances
Salihara Arts Centre and Nan Jombang Access, right up to the Perth Festival’s
I watched Ohad himself direct soloists Dance Company as new Indonesian presentation of Maxine Doyle’s
from WA Ballet and Batsheva, dancing residency and exchange partners. SUNSET, from the studios in the King
alongside graduates from WAAPA Street Arts Centre to the State Theatre
and VCA. I thought, if this is just the We proudly welcome The Minderoo and the Sunset Heritage Precinct,
beginning, how extraordinary is the Foundation and The Ungar Family I invite you to STRUT with us into 2019.
potential reach and impact of the Foundation as exciting, new supporting
STRUT program? What a unique partners as we do Prof. Ian Lawrance,
partnership we have with Batsheva STRUT’s 2019 philanthropic campaign
Dance Company. If this is how we start, ambassador.
where can it all go from here?
Yes, 2019 is all about celebrating new
And indeed, where is it going? and exciting partnerships. However, we JON SMEULDERS
recognize and honour all those artists, Chair STRUT Dance
In 2019, STRUT Dance is all about funders, sponsors and friends who have
forging new partnerships and pathways brought us to where we are today. STRUT Staff STRUT Board
of opportunity for our members, Director Chair
dancers and artists. The phenomenon of Hofesh Shechter Paul Selwyn Norton Jon Smeulders
will strike not once, but twice in 2019,
We extend a fantastic partnership with with a double workshop delivery and a General Manager Deputy Chair
Perth Festival as the co-commissioner keen eye on the audition for his brilliant Alica Byfield June Moorhouse
of SUNSET from Maxine Doyle, with work tHE bAD, later on down the track. Administration Franklin Gaffney
more than 40 Australian creatives, Cindy Salgado returns to Perth to take Carly Armstrong Lisa Jackson
technicians and management, employed the lead on the Crystal Pite program. Louis Mostert
Finance Officer
on a thrilling activation of the Sunset Stephanie Lake creates a thrilling new Michael Murphy
2019
Natalie Johnson
Heritage Precinct. work for the West Australian Opera’s Ricky Arnold
Pinnacles season. And our great friends
Artist Members
And as we wave goodbye to this unique at the State Theatre Centre, the home STRUT Brochure
STRUT DANCE
Amy Wiseman
three-year partnership with Maxine, one of contemporary dance in WA, as Photography
Emma Fishwick
that has supported the development well as supporting our Collaborations Simon Pynt
Laura Boynes
of over 210 Australian artists, we say Program, will provide a new platform
PROGRAM
Dancers
hello to the West Australian Opera, The Mel Tan
Sarah Wilson
Christopher Hill
STRUT AN
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DANCE OVERVIEW
A program of internationally benchmarked training, STRUT Dance offers independent choreographers, dancers
and physical theatre practitioners the possibility to engage
collaboration and performance opportunities with national and international masters, the chance to
unique in the Australian landscape. 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.
As an organisation operating globally, STRUT’s programs
are open to all and operate on four levels:
BODY, COLLABORATION,
PERFORMANCE & EXCHANGE
BODY
STRUT offers sustained exposure to world-class dance
techniques and choreographic methodology to enrich the
body’s range of practice and ignite development. Usually
quarantined to major dance organisations, these aspirational
programs are now available to the independent sector,
exclusively through STRUT.
2019 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) and 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 Melanie Lane (AU), Adena
Jacobs (AU), Dada Masilo (ZA), Michael Keegan-Dolan and
Gideon Obarzanek (AU). The latter three artists are part of our
ongoing relationship with the Perth Festival through its Festival
Connect program.
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COLLABORATION EXCHANGE
Key to a choreographer’s development is learning how to STRUT recognises the value in reciprocal partnerships
collaborate with other artists in readiness for the stage. We and continues to successfully align programs that build
provide the resources, the space and the leadership to coach capacity with world-class local, interstate and international
those artists into asking the right questions. organisations. These provide international residencies
and exchange opportunities focusing on choreographic
STRUT has developed a dynamic and responsive program development and research.
that builds skills in collaboration. In partnership with the State
Theatre Centre of WA, STRUT continues to provide pathways The Dance Sites Network (DSN) is one such model and is a
to encourage future collaboration across all stage art forms. research and development vehicle that rotates international
The 2019 Collaborations Program will see many kinds of artists and choreographic teams around Australia. DSN core
innovative collisions between choreography, dance, theatre organisations include STRUT (WA), Dancehouse (Vic) and
direction and acting. Critical Path (NSW).
PERFORMANCE STRUT also regards international residencies as a pivotal
Throughout the year, choreographers are offered the mechanism of support for choreographic development and
opportunity to develop and present work with production has invited a consortium of international choreographic
values at all levels. For maximum impact, the majority of these centres to develop a reciprocal, residency exchange
performance opportunities aim to segue straight from training program on a rotating basis. In 2019, these include:
or collaborative programs directly into the public arena, where
key learnings can be implemented back into practice. From _
studio showings to full evening presentations at the State Korzo Theatre (NL)
Theatre Centre of WA, all manner of platforms, sites and _
festivals are available for expression. Komunitas Salihara Art Centre (IN)
_
A series of innovative presentation platforms have been The Banff Centre (CA)
developed though new partnerships with The Blue Room
Theatre with Winter Shorts, plus Co:3 Australia and the STRUT's $10,000 SEED Residencies can
State Theatre Centre of WA with And Then Some. be used by successful members to undertake
their residency with one of these partner
2019 will also witness a new journey with the West Australian organisations. (See SEED Residencies).
Opera and Stephanie Lake and the final performance outcome
of STRUT’s exclusive partnership with Maxine Doyle –
SUNSET. 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. The Drowned Man and Sleep No
More are cited as some of the most attended and critically
lauded performances in recent history. SUNSET will be
presented during the 2019 Perth Festival.
I was born in Perth and have watched the Festival from
the side lines, my whole life…Now, I am dancing in
the Festival with Maxine Doyle’s SUNSET. Thank you
STRUT, this is all your doing!
– Independent Artist and SUNSET creative
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When artists over East talk
MEMBERSHIP about what’s happening
out West, what they really
mean is what’s happening
STRUT membership is worldwide, encompassing and
encouraging a community of passionate, professional at STRUT? Here’s looking
independent choreographers, dance and physical at you WA.
theatre makers.
– Independent Artist and STRUT Member
To take full advantage of the STRUT Dance program,
participants are invited to become members from January
2019 and engage with all of the following benefits:
_
Access to master workshops, STRUT performance
seasons, professional development opportunities
_
Eligibility to apply for all levels of the STRUT program,
including SEED Residency and performance
opportunities in the studio and on stage
_
Administrative advice for your own project
_
Regular email news updates including the
STRUT Member News
_
Discounts at our various hospitality and local All this
for $50
retail partners
Who can become a STRUT member? So don’t wait.
Anybody aged 18 or over, who is involved in
professional dance and physical theatre practice, STRUT on in!
cross disciplinary artists interested in the
Collaborations Program and any STRUT fans wanting
a more up close and personal experience. Join before 31 January
to access the special
Visit strutdance.org.au/memberships to sign
early bird price of $40.
up as a member!
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ACTIVITIES
STRUT’s program provides a robust and holistic
range of core activities to underpin professional
choreographic and physical theatre practice:
STRUT is the Netflix of Dance. Every year
Choreographic Training - SEED Residencies
the quality of the program is phenomenal
The Master Workshop Series
The STRUT Scholarship Program and we don’t have to leave home to
Collaborations Program
The Rogues Program access it…it all just comes to us!
Recurring Performance Opportunities –Independent Artist and STRUT Member
Professional / Public Class
Major Performance Outcomes
THE MASTER
WORKSHOP SERIES
These exclusive training intensives, delivered by some of Taster
the most visionary national and international artists and Master workshops usually follow a two-week full day format. This
organisations, build cumulatively into unique performance year, we continue to offer access to these great artists for those
outcomes of their own and offer the independent sector participants who are unable to make a two-week commitment
models of artistic excellence and aspiration that are usually – the Taster. Each Taster will offer a single half-day event
quarantined to major company structures. comprising professional class and a two hour workshop.
2019 will witness a deepening of our partnerships with the Look out for the Taster within each workshop description.
Hofesh Shechter Company (UK) and Crystal Pite (CA).
The international Master Workshop Series will be interwoven
with Australian masters, including interstaters Stephanie I adore coming to Perth to share the artistry
Lake, Melanie Lane and Adena Jacobs.
of Hofesh Shechter with STRUT. There is just
so much hunger and vitality in the room…
Australian dancers, you rock!
– Hofesh Shechter Master Workshop Leader
HOFESH
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SHECHTER
STRUT Dance is thrilled to be developing May Workshop August Workshop With thanks to the
its partnership with the internationally following partners:
renowned Hofesh Shechter Company, Dates Dates
inviting leading members of the company May 6 - 17 Aug 12 - 23
to deliver a series of two-week workshops
in May and August 2019. Showing Showing
May 16 / 6:30pm Aug 22 / 6:30pm
These workshops provide a rare
opportunity to delve into Hofesh Workshop Price Workshop Price
Shechter’s unique choreography, sharing $400 $400
and exploring his movement fundamentals
and imagery through past works - Taster May 11 Taster Aug 17
a fascinating insight into Hofesh’s Price $40 Price $40
creative process.
Venue all activities Venue all activities
This master workshop series will lead to King Street Arts Centre, Perth State Theatre Centre of WA
a bespoke performance of tHE bAD in
2020, re-designed for STRUT by Participation for Workshop May / August
Hofesh’s creative team. Details of the Registrations open Feb 1 and payment will be accepted on a first
application and audition process are on come first served basis.
the following page.
Register for the May Workshop HERE.
Due to the demand for this artist, STRUT
will again hold two Hofesh Shechter Register for the August Workshop HERE.
workshops in 2019.
Scholarships There are ridiculous amounts of people filling up
Scholarships to cover the $400 workshop
fee through The Feilman Foundation Hofesh’s intensives in London and Europe and literally
Pathways to Excellence Scholarship thousands at his auditions. But with STRUT, I am
Program are available for this workshop.
These scholarships are only open to able to get right up to the bone of Hofesh’s vision and
recent dance graduates from Victoria consequently have a much more valuable experience.
and Western Australia.
– Independent Artist and STRUT Member
The Lewis Major Projects Scholarship
provides a financial contribution towards
workshop fees and expenses.
See STRUT Scholarship Program
Image: Gabriele Zucca
HOFESH
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SHECHTER
Audition for Hofesh
Shechter’s tHE bAD
In 2020 Hofesh Shechter will be re-creating a bespoke version
of tHE bAD for STRUT Dance. Access to this opportunity
will be through a formal audition process. The rehearsal and
performance seasons for tHE bAD will be in early 2020.
Audition Dates
Aug 24/25 - directly after the August workshop
Audition criteria
This opportunity is open to all professional dance artists and
tertiary students who will have graduated by 2020. Audition
applicants will have to be able to demonstrate that they have
undertaken a minimum of two Hofesh Shechter Company master
workshops with STRUT or equivalent intensives overseas.
Audition application
Please supply your CV with a clear head shot and a short
EOI detailing your experience with, or future commitment to,
Shechter workshops/intensives. These documents should be
combined into a single pdf and forwarded to:
communications@strutdance.org.au
** NOTE: Multiple PDF documents will not be accepted.
Audition applications close Fri 2 Aug 2019.
A mature and magnificent work
…sulphurous, visceral and
surprisingly tender
–Neil Norman, The Stage (tHE bAD)
Image: Gabriele Zucca
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CRYSTAL
PITE Image: Michael Slobodian
STRUT is honoured to continue its partnership with this Scholarships
Canadian visionary who continues to build a global reputation Scholarships of $1000 to cover the workshop fee and
as the choreographic leader of Kidd Pivot. Crystal's work sits in travel/accommodation expenses through the Terri-ann
the repertoire of some of the most significant dance companies White Scholarship are available for this workshop. This
the world over. Cindy Salgado, a founding Kidd Pivot member, opportunity is open to all professional Australian dance
returns to STRUT to lead a two-week master workshop on the artists, including recent graduates and previous Terri-ann
principles governing Crystal’s repertoire White Scholarship recipients.
and choreographic methodology.
Scholarships to cover the $400 workshop fee through
Workshop Dates Taster Nov 23 The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence
Nov 18 - 29 Price $40 Scholarship Program are available for this workshop.
These scholarships are only open to recent dance
Workshop Showing Venue all activities graduates from Victoria and Western Australia.
Nov 28 / 6:30pm State Theatre Centre
of WA, Perth The Lewis Major Projects Scholarship provides a financial
Price contribution towards workshop fees and expenses.
$400
See STRUT Scholarship Program.
Participation
Registrations open Feb 1 and payment will be ** Applicants can apply for any of the scholarship
accepted on a first come first served basis. opportunities for the Crystal Pite program, but can
only receive one.
Register HERE.
With thanks to the following partners:
I have participated in all the Pite
workshops since the get-go and
yes, there is no stopping me now.
I am going all the way to the
magnificent finishing line.
– Independent Artist and STRUT MemberTHE
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COLLABORATIONS
PROGRAM
Resources do not often 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, STRUT
designs pathways to encourage future collaboration across
all stage art forms. We feel that these conversations should This was a brilliant opportunity
commence at ground zero and be continually nurtured. The aim
to really share, discover and
is to provide all parties with the necessary vernacular and skills
to develop performance works of greater resonance and depth then dream together! I am now
and deliver these to the public.
making my third work with the
choreographer who I met in the
Outcomes include:
_
2016 Collaborations Program.
Young artists learning about collaboration across stage art
– Independent Music Composer
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 discussing opportunities to present their own
activity with the State Theatre Centre of WA
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COLLABORATIONS
Melanie Lane & Adena Jacobs
Choreography and Theatre Direction
Join recent Keir Choreographic Award winning choreographer Melanie Lane and Fraught Outfit artistic
director Adena Jacobs in a two-week exploration of the intersectionality of dance and theatre practice.
A space that invites and unpacks processes of interdisciplinary collaboration, collisions and co-creation.
The workshop will offer participants:
_
Dialogue that interrogates the parallel practices between theatre and dance
_
Methods and principles for transforming narrative into physical practice
_
Processes of generating material around imagery and narrative
Workshop Dates Taster Sept 7
Sept 2 - 13 Price $40 Participation
Registrations open Feb 1 and payment will be
Workshop Showing Venue all activities accepted on a first come first served basis.
Sept 12 / 6:30pm State Theatre Centre of WA
Register HERE.
Price
$400
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.
The Lewis Major Projects Scholarship provides a financial contribution towards workshop fees
and expenses.
See STRUT Scholarship Program.
With thanks to the following partners: I asked STRUT when they were
finally going to bring Melanie Lane
to Perth and now here she comes.
It is so great when an organisation
just listens…
– Independent Dance Artist and STRUT Member
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti2019 STRUT_Dance Program_13 STRUT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM STRUT recognises the financial challenges facing independent artists when trying to sustain an ongoing practice. In response, we have developed avenues of access into the Master Workshop Series through an annual scholarship program. This program is underpinned by the generous support of foundations and individuals who believe and champion STRUT’s objective to develop independent choreography and dance-theatre across Australia. The STRUT Scholarship Program offers four pathways: _ The Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence _ The Terri-ann White Scholarship _ The Lewis Major Projects Scholarship _ The Rogues Program Image: Rahi Rezvani
THE FEILMAN
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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
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 continues to provide
recent graduates avenues of access into our 2019 Master
Workshop Series.
This will take the form of scholarships to cover workshop fees,
which we understand can be a struggle for students who are just
stepping into the industry. Scholarships are available across the
Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter and Melanie Lane & Adena Jacobs
workshops and are limited, at this stage, to graduates of West
Australian or Victorian tertiary programs.
If you are a recent graduate and are interested in applying
for one these scholarships, please follow the link HERE.
This scholarship made all the
Applications close COB Fri 18 Jan 2019.
difference in enabling me to come
over to Perth and work with Hofesh
Shechter – thank you STRUT and I
With thanks to the following partner:
know that I am not alone in my thanks.
– Independent Artist and Feilman Scholarship Recipient2019 STRUT_Dance Program_15
THE TERRI-ANN
WHITE SCHOLARSHIP
Terri-ann White, publisher and writer, has generously Eligibility:
agreed to continue providing scholarship pathways into _
STRUT’s Master Workshop Series in 2019. The focus of Applicant must be a STRUT member
this scholarship is to provide access to the Crystal Pite _
November workshop. This opportunity is open to all professional Australian dance
artists, including recent graduates and previous Terri-ann
The scholarship will provide Australian dance artists with White Scholarship recipients
$1000 each to cover the workshop costs and travel/ _
accommodation expenses. Access to this opportunity will be Applicants can apply for any of the scholarship opportunities
through an EOI process to be reviewed by a panel to include for the Crystal Pite program, but can only receive one
Terri-ann White and industry experts.
Applications are now open. Download the application pack HERE.
Applications close COB Fri 18 Jan 2019.
I am not exaggerating when I say that it Terri-ann White is the director of UWA Publishing and a writer.
(Crystal Pite) was perhaps the single most She is fiercely interested in dance and has always been
fascinated by what happens when artists working in
significant workshop I have undertaken in different forms come together to make work.
my dance career to date. I left Perth with
STRUT thanks Terri-ann White for her generous support
a renewed interest in dance theatre and a in enabling the ongoing development of independent
Australian artists.
wealth of knowledge and inspiration that
will help drive my own creative practice.
– Scholarship recipient2019 STRUT_Dance Program_16
THE ROGUES
PROGRAM
THE LEWIS
An initiative to create opportunities for artists
who have taken a more idiosyncratic or non-
institutionalised pathway into dance. STRUT’s desire
MAJOR
is to draw from a culturally and artistically diverse
pool of dancers who, in turn, help build a more robust
cohort of STRUT members and Australian artists.
PROJECTS Rogue scholarship recipients are given free access to all of
STRUT’s Master Workshop and Collaborations programs.
SCHOLARSHIP To this date, STRUT has successfully supported 6 Rogues
through parts of the 2014-18 program. Any individual or
organisation may nominate a Rogue for consideration. If you
have someone in mind, come and talk to us…
Lewis Major Projects has generously
created a bespoke opportunity for a South We congratulate Callum Mooney who has
Australian artist to engage with the master been nominated as a 2019 Rogue.
workshop series.
$1000 can be applied across fees for any of
the workshops (up to two in total), STRUT
membership and expenses.
Applications are now open and comprise a CV
and 250 word motivation letter in single PDF
format to: communications@strutdance.org.au
** NOTE multiple PDFs will not be accepted.
Being a Sydney based performer,
Applications close COB Fri 18 Jan 2019.
opportunities to connect with
This opportunity is only available to graduated international and national
dance and physical theatre artists who are
residing in South Australia.
choreographers are quite slim.
Having this opportunity as a Rogue
with STRUT will really help me
STRUT thanks connect with these choreographers
and establish greater networking
within the dance world. So, I am
happily heading to Perth for 2019!
– Callum Mooney2019 STRUT_Dance Program_17
RECURRING
PERFORMANCE
OPPORTUNITIES IN SITU
In partnership with Tura New Music
In SITU is an annual season of original site-specific works.
It is a unique opportunity for dance and music artists to explore
an exciting model of presenting independent performance in
enticing and unexpected locations throughout the cities of
Perth and Fremantle.
STRUT and Tura New Music offer a facilitated and co-creative
space for choreographers and composers to share practice,
resources and presentation platforms.
Beginning as a pop-up performance in Uncle Joe’s Mess Hall
in King Street in 2014, In SITU then travelled to Fremantle Arts
Centre, the Courtyard of the State Theatre Centre of WA,
St George’s Cathedral and most recently, the Old Girls
School in East Perth.
In SITU also provides the opportunity for WA emerging
producers to flex their muscles around site-based curating.
To date Unkempt Dance, Emma Fishwick and Kynan Hughes
have held this post. In 2019, the In SITU baton passes to a
SHORT CUTS
new team of curators: Serena Chalker, Daisy Sanders and
The popular platform of independent choreographic work
Geordie Crawley.
where artists are provided with resources to develop and
present new ideas in a studio setting.
Performance Dates
Dec 4 - 7
Performance Dates
Apr 11 - 13
Venue
To be announced later in the year.
Venue
Studio 3, King Street Arts Centre
Participation
EOI and selection procedure by a panel of industry experts
Participation
and In SITU production team.
EOI and selection procedure by a panel of industry experts.
With thanks to the following partner:
It all started with Short Cuts.
Such a wonderful springboard
into the independent scene!
– Independent Dance Artist and STRUT Member2019 STRUT_Dance Program_18
RECURRING PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES
WINTER SHORTS AND THEN SOME Work considered for And Then Some will be drawn from the
A new partnership between The Blue Room Theatre and A new partnership pathway between STRUT Dance, Co:3 following pathways or programs:
STRUT Dance. A program of four short choreographic works Australia, the State Theatre Centre of WA and The Blue Room _
selected from STRUT’s 2019 Short Cuts and The Blue Theatre. An initiative to increase the pipeline of development Short Cuts – the 2019 program
Room Theatre’s micromove seasons, underpinned with extra and presentation opportunities for the independent dance _
development, technical and marketing support, Winter Shorts sector. And Then Some is core to these organisations’ Winter Shorts or micromove – either of the 2019 seasons
will be presented as part of The Blue Room Theatre Winter commitment to developing pathways for independent artists _
Nights program. to present longer work with higher production values. STRUT SEED Residencies – all SEEDs from 2018 and 2019
undertaken prior to the EOI are eligible
Performance Dates In 2019, And Then Some will be a fully produced evening of _
Jul 23 – Aug 3 independent contemporary dance – a double-bill from two Co:3’s Co:Lab and associated programming – from either the
choreographers/choreographic teams in the State Theatre 2018 or 2019 development programs
Participation Centre’s Studio Underground. The intention is that And Then _
EOI and selection procedure by a panel of industry experts Some will become an annual offering to the sector, with one Independent choreographic developments funded through
and stakeholders. of the works selected to receive a further development and external sources and organisations, with development
presentation opportunity as part of Co:3 Australia’s 2020 undertaken in either 2018 or 2019
Performance Season on the Heath Ledger Stage.
** NOTE: works presented in both Short Cuts and micromove
Performance Dates have two pathway options – either directly into And Then Some
Oct 30 – Nov 2 or through the Winter Shorts platform. Selection for each will
be dependent on project readiness and will be panel driven.
Venue Artists may choose to apply for both opportunities.
State Theatre Centre of WA - Studio Underground
2020 Co:3 Performance Season Opportunity:
And Then Some Application Curated from the 2019 And Then Some season by a panel
EOI and selection procedure by a panel of industry experts of program stakeholders.
and program stakeholders.
With thanks to the following partners:MAJOR
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PERFORMANCE A STRUT and Perth Festival
co-commission world premiere.
OUTCOMES
SUNSET
By Maxine Doyle
Presented in association with Tura New Music.
Leave your comfort zone and enter a mysterious world where
you wander with the spirits of Perth’s colourful past. Discover
forgotten secrets in the dusty shadows of one of our city’s
most intriguing and significant heritage sites, Sunset down
by the iconic Swan River.
From the renowned UK director-choreographer Maxine Doyle
(co-director of Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man, Sleep No
More) comes a visceral dance-theatre performance that is
epic in reach but intimate in experience. Inspired by the
riverside precinct’s rich and unique history and the bushland
that surrounds it, SUNSET transforms the former Sunset
Old Men’s Home into a waiting room between worlds, where
classical myth collides with WA stories and local heroes can
waltz with gods.
SUNSET will bring together a stunning cast of Australian
artists, an original score by WA composer Rachel Dease,
set and costume design by Bruce McKinven and light design
by Matt Adey.
SUNSET also will be the inaugural event to launch the
We thank the following partners: Heritage Precinct as a new performance venue for Perth and
is the outcome of STRUT's three-year partnership with lead
artist Maxine Doyle; an exclusive artform development program
that, since 2016, has seen more that 210 artists from all over
Australia engage with Maxine’s vision and methodology.
Performance Dates / Times Venue
Feb 7 / 8pm Sunset Heritage Precinct,
Feb 8 - 10 / 8pm & 9.15pm Nedlands
Feb 13 / 8pm
Feb 14 - 17 / 8pm & 9.15pm Price
$59 - $65
Duration 60mins
Book HERE.
Pre Show Conversation
Thu 14 Feb 7pm
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MAJOR PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES
STEPHANIE LAKE AND
STRUT celebrates its partnership with Stephanie Lake - a brand new commission in
collaboration with the West Australian Opera’s Opera in the Pinnacles.
WEST AUSTRALIAN Stephanie’s choreography plays out in the exquisite collision of highly wrought dance and
theatrical ingenuity. For the WAO season, Stephanie will weave a series of signature and
dynamic duets through some of the most spectacular arias in the WAO repertoire.
OPERA Performance Date
Apr 27
This performance is part of Opera in the Pinnacles presented Location
by Act-Belong-Commit and the Minderoo Foundation. Nambung National Park
More information
West Australian Opera is committed to bringing magical operatic West Australian Opera
moments to all Western Australians. Join us for Opera in the Pinnacles We thank the following partners: WAO Opera in the Pinnacles partners:
and relish an evening of heart-racing, heart-breaking, heart-warming
opera where the power of the human voice set against this iconic desert
landscape makes for a memorable experience like no other.
– West Australian OperaImage: Simon Pynt Image: Sarah Walker
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PERTH
FESTIVAL
CONNECT
Every year the Perth Festival creates a
program of fantastic dance artists to engage
with. As part of the Festival Connect
Program, STRUT will host free workshop
intensives with the following artists.
MAXINE GIDEON
DOYLE OBARZANEK
Who Maxine Doyle Who Gideon Obarzanek
Date Sat 9 Feb Date Sun 10 Feb
Time 12 - 2:30pm Time 1 - 2:30pm
Venue Sunset Heritage Precinct Venue King Street Arts Centre
Maxine Doyle is the co-director and choreographer of Join choreographer and director Gideon Obarzanek,
Punchdrunk's seminal creations Sleep No More and The accompanied by members of Dancenorth.
Drowned Man and is the director and lead creative on the
STRUT Dance / Perth Festival co-commissioned world Gideon returns to Perth Festival with One Infinity, a cross-
premiere of SUNSET. cultural music and dance work he directed. One Infinity came
from a collaboration between Australia’s recorder virtuoso
Maxine and her team will lead a bespoke workshop Genevieve Lacey and China’s Jun Tian Fang Ensemble, with
unpacking the principles that have governed the creation and dancers from Dancenorth and Beijing Dance Theater.
performance of SUNSET. The workshop will take place at the
Sunset Heritage Precinct on set and is open to dance artists,
directors, actors and physical theatre practitioners.
With thanks to the following partner:Image: Colm Hogan Image: John Hogg
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PERTH FESTIVAL CONNECT
How to Connect
These workshops are free - register your interest HERE.
With thanks to the following partner:
MICHAEL DADA
KEEGAN-DOLAN MASILO
Who Michael Keegan-Dolan Who Dada Masilo
Date Feb 16 Date Feb 28
Time 12 - 3pm Time 2:30 - 4pm
Venue State Theatre Centre of WA Venue His Majesty’s (access stage door)
Over more than two decades, Michael Keegan-Dolan has Join Dada Masilo and company in class, in which she will teach
developed a unique and energetic style of dance and theatre - her unique choreography. Her classes are fast and eclectic -
working with dancers alongside singers, actors and musicians fusing Flying Low, Forsythe, ballet and African dance.
in many of his productions.
Dada was born and bred in Johannesburg, South Africa and
In this class, learn how these processes integrate in play. trained at The Dance Factory, where she is now Artist-in-
Rather than technical analysis, focus on the act of doing; work Residence. After training abroad at P.A.R.T.S in Brussels,
with different energetic dynamics; explore the skillful use of the she returned to South Africa and presented three commissions
senses and their application to work, rhythm and musicality. from the National Arts Festival including Romeo and Juliet
(2008), Carmen (2009) and Swan Lake (2010), which have
This workshop is open to dance artists, actors, musicians, since toured extensively throughout Europe.
directors and choreographers.2019 STRUT_Dance Program_23
SEED
RESIDENCIES
at home and abroad
Four artists/artistic teams per year are to receive residencies New SEEDs / New Partners
of up to $10,000. STRUT Dance and the Komunitas Salihara Arts Centre in
Jakarta are beginning a new partnership to create pathways
These residencies have been successful in offering financial of exchange with shared artists and collaborators. To launch
and administrative resources to choreographers so that they this initiative, STRUT and Salihara are supporting the
can really knuckle down into a new process. Many SEED choreographic team of Natalie Allen and Samuel Harnett-
I'm super excited to recipients have gone on to receive further support and develop Welk to undertake the first Indonesian SEED.
full evening works presented on festival platforms.
spend six weeks at STRUT congratulates Natalie and Samuel and wishes them
Komunitas Salihara Arts We accept applications from all over Australia, however the an enriching experience.
WA/Interstate allocation mirrors STRUT’s own state to federal
Centre with Samuel funding ratio of three to one. This SEED was made possible with the support of the
Harnett-Welk to do some Australian Government through the Australia Council for the
Selection is by formal application to be reviewed by an Arts, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the
serious investigating independent panel of industry experts and stakeholders. Australia Indonesia Institute.
into our improvisational
2019 successful SEED applicants are: The 2020 SEED Residency applications will open in June 2019.
practices. We anticipate
that the great amount of Emma Fishwick We thank the following partners:
Scott Elstermann
inspiration and cultural Eliza Sanders and James O’Hara
exchange by the local Yilin Kong and Michael Smith
artists, the environment STRUT congratulates these six artists and wishes them
a wonderful journey SEEDing their next creation.
and history will richly
feed our creation of
Alternative Universes.
Natalie Allen –
Indonesian SEED recipientPROFESSIONAL PUBLIC
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CLASS CLASS
Aspirational training for professional dancers and physical STRUT continues to open its doors to those who just
theatre practitioners. feel the need to join us on the dance floor. Our public
contemporary classes are geared at an amateur level – for
STRUT recognises the necessity of technical training as beginners and intermediates – but are led by professional
part of a dancer’s physical maintenance and preparedness artists, with an emphasis on technique, musicality and joy.
to work. STRUT is committed to providing the sector with
inspirational dance teachers and mentors from all over Open to anyone over 18 with any level of experience
Australia and abroad. This is mostly focused during Master in dance.
Workshop Series and any performance outcome delivery.
Once a year STRUT public class participants present
So please check the dates of the Master Workshop Series their own studio performance, Access, platforming the
to make sure that you are up to date and able to engage. techniques and training that participants have been
playing with across the year.
STRUT sometimes offers professional classes outside So much fun and the
these times. So please check the STRUT classes CLASSES teachers are really
website page. When
Beginner: 5:40 - 6:55pm, Tuesdays engaged! I am a diehard
When Intermediate: 7:00 - 8:15pm, Tuesdays Access dancer!
9:30 - 11.00 am
Mon - Fri Venue – Public Class participant
King Street Arts Centre
Venues
King Street Arts Centre Participation
State Theatre Centre of WA Click HERE to find out more and to book your
place in these classes.
Check the STRUT website for details
Access - Public Class Performance
Price A performance invitation for public class participants
$12 per class for STRUT Members to STRUT up and dance in work co-choreographed
$16 per class for non-members by public class participants and teachers.
$90 for 10-class card (for STRUT Members only)
Date Oct 4
Participation Time 6:30pm
Open to all professional-level dancers and physical Venue King Street Arts Centre
theatre practitioners.
** STRUT is committed to supporting independents who
want to hold their own professional training outside of
STRUT’s regular schedule.
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OUR PARTNERS
OUR THANKSSTRUT plays a vital role in introducing Australian artists to the global benchmark of contemporary choreographic masters. It is so exciting to now see the organisation collaborate with an international innovator like Maxine Doyle on a bold new site- specific work in Perth. – Wendy Martin, Artistic Director of Perth Festival STRUT Dance First Floor King Street Arts Centre 357-365 Murray Street Perth WA 6000 PO Box 7011 Cloisters Square Perth WA 6850 T | 61 8 9321 4066 strutdance.org.au
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