Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin City

Sunday July 9, 2017 
Darwin Fringe Festival

Following the success of Fresh Tracks in 2016, Tracks Dance Company presented a second series of short dance works in 2017 created and performed by local choreographers, artists and dancers. Fresh Tracks reaches new audiences for Tracks, and brings new audiences to dance, through the annual Darwin Fringe Festival program.

Through the support and presentation of these works, Tracks makes a commitment to the growth of new, independent dance in Darwin. Participating artists begin the creation of their works through the Tracks Development Program, before being offered additional studio space and artistic guidance to undertake further development towards presentation in the Fresh Tracks program.

Fresh Tracks is an opportunity for audiences to experience the physical and conceptual realms being explored within contemporary dance making in our community, and showcases the talent, potential and dedication of our local artists.

See here for participant comments and photographs from Fresh Tracks 2016.

Program 2017

Water Ballet

Choreography: David McMicken
Performed by: The Grey Panthers - Toni Vine-Bromley, Val Hristova, Marg Lee, Marge Duminski, Darryl Butler, MaryAnn Hinton, Patricia O'Neill, Jenni Sanderson, Janine Sutter, Ellen Hankin, Jo Parish, Filomena De Castro, David McMicken, Kelly Beneforti
Music: Holiday For Strings- The Voices of Walter Schumann; Whatever Lola Wants- Les Baxter; Prelude No.7 in A, Op.28- Chopin, The Magnificent Seven- Bernstein, Tito Rodriguez; Alika- Webley Edwards

Drawing on Esther Williams movies of the 1950’s: As Esther once said, (and she could have been talking about the Grey Panthers): "The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.”

In Hand

Concept: Kate Mornane
Choreographed and performed by: Kate Mornane, Jenelle Saunders, Tara Schmidt
Video: Kate Mornane and Dan Hartney
Music: Cascades- Goldmund; Sleeping Lotus- Joep Beving; Wallpaper- Woo

Beautiful, useful, sensory and strange; our hands connect us to the physical world.  This piece is an exploration of emotion, memory, communication and cooperation through hands.  It is partly improvised to reflect the hand’s instinctive responsiveness to its surrounds and choreographed together to transition from an immediate to expansive world.

Landscapes of Intent

Concept and choreography: Kelly Beneforti in collaboration with the dancers
Performed by: Cathy Young, Anokai Lancaster, Hayley Kelly, Rochelle Chin, Julia Richardson, Merlene Hutt
Music: Against Archives - Felicia Atkinson;  Pier VII - Gramatik & Luxas; Camel and Melt! - Flying Lotus; Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

This piece has been shaped in large brush-strokes, starting with an idea about the geological processes that formed Uluru, and landing somewhere in a space of joy and surrender. Of the many ideas that we have explored together, I think that the formation, transformation and constant renewal of landscapes - those outside of us and the landscapes of our own bodies - is the concept that best defines the work.

Dreams & Echoes

Concept and choreography: Darryl Butler
Performed by: David McMicken, Darryl Butler
Music: A soundtrack compiled by Darryl Butler from the sounds of running water, the call of Bell Birds, original electronic music and spoken word by Darryl, together with excerpts from Echoes by Pink Floyd and Piano Concerto No 1 by Chopin

The intent of the work is to consider the influence of our younger lives on our current self. An exploration of connections and entanglements between past and present. The concept is derived from the ageing process and our often clumsy capacity to reconcile our present with our past. “Who am I and how did I become who I am?”

In this duet the dancers sometimes move using body to body contact and sometimes connected by a rope. Both connections are metaphors for levels of awareness and other less tangible influences. Echoes, dreams, emotions, actions and thoughts that reach in both directions across the time barriers of our advancing age.

Breaks

Choreography: Felicity Wardle, Nikki Jefferies, Catherine Hanson
Performed by: Felicity Wardle, Nikki Jefferies
Music: Man of No Ego - Blinkers Removed; Panic - Forest Swords; I'll drown- Soley; Tear strips off - Tipper

Breaks: verb

3rd person present: breaks
1. separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain.
2. interrupt (a continuity, sequence, or course).

Sooner or later, we all break ... And then?

Thank You

Alan James and the Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin Fringe Festival volunteers, The Grey Panthers

Project Partner

Presented in the 2017 Darwin Fringe Festival

Sponsors

Darwin International Airport, Southern Cross TV

Government Partners

Tracks Inc is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; and is proudly sponsored by the Northern Territory Government.

Tracks 2017

Artistic Co-Directors: David McMicken and Tim Newth
General Manager: Agnès Michelet
Administrator: Jessica Mellor
Production Manager: Angus Robson/Mathew McHugh
Dance Animateur: Kelly Beneforti
Bookkeeper: Noya Chong Wah

Committee Members: Mary Durack (Chairperson), Glenn Bernardin (Treasurer), Michael Grant, David Taylor, Ken Conway, Stephanie Cvirn, Venaska Cheliah. David McMicken, Tim Newth, Agnès Michelet (Ex-Officio
Members)

Public Fund Trustees: Rev. Steve Orme, Dr Anita Toth, Ippei Okazaki

Patron: His Honour, The Honourable John Hardy OAM, Administrator of the Northern Territory