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08 Feb Symbiosis

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[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join an exclusive after dark walking tour through the Australian National Botanic Gardens with illuminated live dance, music and spoken word by award winning dance company, Australian Dance Party and collaborating artists. This unique sensory experience explores the volatility of the natural world in the age of the Anthropocene. An embodied study of symbiotic relationships: parasitism, mutualism and commensalism, provokes a crucial reflection on human-ecological relationships and the response-ability we hold in shaping our ecological future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Due to popular demand and sell out season! We have released tickets to two additional Symbiosis shows - Wednesday 10th March 6pm and 8:15pm[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][button icon="" target="_parent" hover_type="enlarge" text_align="center" text="Book here" link="https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/Show.aspx?sh=SYMBIOSI21" color="#dd3333"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][button icon="" target="_self" hover_type="default" text_align="center" text="FAQs " link="https://australiandanceparty.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/d/F0E6A1DF6F18EBBC2540EF23F30FEDED/44497CE0E9D1DAF938A555EB6E97B45B" color="#ffffff"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdBB_QQwxq0" align="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

23 Nov Symbiosis: In development

Posted at 19:41h in

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] We are in the process of creative exploration in the development of a new site-specific episodic dance work set amid the Botanic Gardens. The human species are awakening to the volatility of the natural world in the age of the Anthropocene. Symbiosis draws from plant and human biology to invite a crucial reflection on the human-ecological relationship through an embodied study of three types of symbiosis; parasitism, mutualism and commensalism. Through choreography, music and somatic and sensory experience, Symbiosis re-positions the human as a part of nature, and within it, the response-ability we hold in guiding these fragile relations. Experienced as a ‘tour’, audiences adventure in groups to not just witness, but to collectively move, sense, be ‘with’ the work and its themes, immersed in the environment around them. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="16px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

26 Oct Move to Zero 2.0

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[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Earth is warming at an alarming rate, causing adverse affects to ecosystems. Present and future generations, risk the loss of a healthy planet and important cultural and environmental legacy of our past. Human induced climate change, including the production of Co2 emissions, are large contributors to these detrimental changes. Taking responsibility for change we can move to reduce and counteract these negative impacts. As an artist-activist company, we devised a movement for this change Move to Zero first in 2018 with four short films and in 2020 Move to Zero 2.0, three films each with a focus on transport. Strut Your Stuff Vehicles are responsible for over 60% of emissions in the ACT, producing around 2.4 metric tonnes of carbon per car per year. So why not ditch the keys and Strut Your Stuff! Walking to and from your destination, or to the bus or tram, is not only good for the environment, it is oh so good for you! Snatch up 30-60 mins of exercise a day while you walk through the street, park or neighbourhood. Along the way meet up with a friend, have a chat on the phone and take in the natural...

07 Jul Lake March

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[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] ‘Lake March’ is a spontaneous dance and music performance unfolding along the pathways of Lakes Burley Griffin, Ginninderra and Tuggeranong across two weekends in August. Families, friends and exercise buffs of all ages flocking to the Lake to fill up on nature, gossip and sweat will unsuspectingly be treated to an artistic happening, a shared moment of surprise, reflection and joy. Along the water’s edge, eight dancers continuously move in a spatially distanced procession to live musical accompaniment honouring these watery spaces as places of connection, reflection and for some, trauma. Ignited by the turbulent context we are experiencing globally in 2020, the artists draw on notions of absence – of human-to-human touch, of a just and stable world, of collective joy – experiences for which we yearn. Lake March was awarded a Canberra Critics Circle award for 'courageously working within the restrictive conditions generated by Covid-19 to bring an innovative and entertaining production of dance and live music, presented in several outdoor venues, to an audience of dance goers and the wider Canberra Community’. THE NELKEN LINE World famous director, Pina Bausch’s ‘The Nelken Line’ was released to be performed by citizens across the globe, uniting communities...

01 May Pandemic Behaviours

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[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]During this period of isolation, Australian Dance Party artists have been staying sane, creative and physical by making a series of experimental dance films at home that respond to this strange existence during lock down in covid-19. Over the coming weeks we will be sharing them with you. We hope you may follow our adventures, who knows where our behaviours will lead! If you are in a position to support us on Patreon or Donate, we would be most appreciative in a time where we are not receiving income from live performances.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/ao5OUz7qrpg" align="right"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/PKwhHF74fx8" align="right"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/l8zi5xEis6M" align="right"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/UmIJPR-NdaM" align="right"][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/roerU-R2e6I" align="right"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/8jMh4_pxUnQ" align="right"][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/sozBnbH_8gQ" align="right"][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/HVlQhppxL7Y"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/P365X3uXbAI" align="right"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/XxgbKJfRnwU" align="right"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/m-tdMwNubQQ" align="right"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

10 Mar YGen to IGen

Posted at 15:18h in

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Composed of a lineage of professional and emerging/youth dancers and dance makers spanning sixty years, this mass movement of cross generational dance reflects upon fears, hopes and imaginings of possible futures. Inspired by the festival theme ‘Today I, Tomorrow you,’ the creative agency and collaborative process is shared across all ages and is as much a part of the work as the performance. Commissioned for Art, Not Apart[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="16px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

10 Mar Autumn Lantern

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[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dancers and musicians weave movement, music and light symbolic of lanterns lighting the way through festival, or city spaces. Responsive to place and the activity present there, Autumn Lantern playfully reveals the character of the natural and architectural spaces and the choreographies already present within them. Follow them as they thread a mystical, waltz and hum through your event from twilight into the darkness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="16px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

01 Aug From The Vault

Posted at 14:56h in

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a secret warehouse, once an old storage bunker for valuable goods, from the vault unlocks a timely reflection on values; what is truly important today and why we choose to keep it safe. The work features live cello by Alex Voorhoeve (Canberra Symphony Orchestra) and sound design by electronic music producer Andy McMillan (Doppel). Shortlisted for 2019 Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Canberra Critic's Circle Award 2019 Alison Plevey and the Australian Dance Party For From The Vault. Choreographed and directed by Alison Plevey in collaboration with dancers Olivia Fyfe, Stephen Gow, Eliza Sanders, Alana Stenning and Ryan Stone and with live music and sound by Alex Voorhoeve and Andy McMillan, evocative lighting by Mark Dyson, costumes designed by Imogen Keen and dramaturgy by Karla Conway, From The Vault was an outstanding endeavour. Brilliantly conceived and executed, it was the dance highlight of the year.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="16px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reviews: Michelle Potter - On Dancing Bill Stephens - Canberra Critics Circle[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

31 Mar Dance Week 2019

Posted at 18:12h in

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Celebrate the launch of Ausdance ACT Dance Week and International Dance Day. Get ready for a fabulous night of grooving, moving and mingling with your fellow dance lovers of the ACT. Hosted by Ausdance ACT and Australian Dance Party, hear from Arts Minister Gordon Ramsay, and the International Dance Day message, then see performances from GOLD, Fabulous Fan Dancers, ADP and more. DJ, Mr. Michael sets the dance floor in swing amidst drinks, chats and finger food. What better way to celebrate our love of dance and all that it brings to community and society? Let’s Dance![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="16px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][button icon="" target="_self" hover_type="default" text="Register your place" link="http://danceweek2019launch.eventbrite.com/"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

28 Sep ENERGEIA

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