Tracks Dance Studio, Harbour View Plaza, Darwin

Darwin Fringe Festival 
Sunday 14 July 2024, 3pm and 5pm

A Message from the Curator

Fresh Tracks returned to Darwin Fringe, offering an exciting meeting place and performance platform for artists working with diverse styles, stories and concepts in choreography. 

Fresh Tracks is a program of short, experimental dance works to expand your vision of the moving body; alive and vibrant. A place for refreshing ways of seeing, feeling and thinking. With diverse approaches to dance and choreography, Fresh Tracks is an opportunity to witness raw, intimate and generous performance.

Developed and performed by Northern Territory makers and dancers, these new works are offered as a reflection of their curiosities and experiments. Stay for the artist talk to learn how the choreographers test their ideas, take risks, and sit in the uncertainty of the creative process. Dance artists reveal the extraordinary in the everyday-ness of being human, inviting us to consider our connections to ourselves, each other and our environment.

Fresh Tracks is nestled within the Development Program at Tracks Dance Company. The artists are drawn from our ongoing residencies, Choreolabs, and programs, and from our broad family of connected movers and makers. Our Development Program aims to provide support to grow and deepen the capacity of the dance community and audiences in the Northern Territory of Australia

We thank our audience for coming along and witnessing these works-in-development, enlivening them in a new way through your presence and perspectives as an audience.

-Kelly Beneforti

FRESH TRACKS PROGRAM
Local, independent dance-makers were invited to create short-form, experimental works and share insight into their creative process with local audiences through an artist talk. Fresh Tracks is a unique opportunity to see what is new and fresh in Northern Territory dance and hear about the fascinating experiences and discoveries by the artists making it.

This year the performances showed the breadth of Tracks' work, from seniors to youth, Indigenous, contemporary, and resident artists, and from Darwin and Alice Springs.

Creative Team

Curator: Kelly Beneforti
Choreographers & Performers: 
Sheila Rose and Kelly Beneforti 'Sliding Doors and Open Windows'
Clare Heath, Darryl Butler, David McMicken, Lyn Minchin, Natina Demetriou, Nikki Charlesworth-Canning 'Va(porous)'
SJ Spillett, Sophia Hodges, Jules Gabor, Rama Wisuda 'ABCD'
Miriam Nichols 'To Face The Sun'
Jenelle Saunders, Tara Schmidt 'Mapping The Glimmer'
Production: Duane Preston
Programme design: Jocelyn Tribe

Company Partners

Tracks Inc is proudly sponsored by the Northern Territory Government.

Tracks 2024

Artistic Director: David McMicken
Company Director: Sean Pardy
Associate Artistic Director: Jess Devereux
Production Manager: Duane Preston
Dance Animateurs: Kelly Beneforti & SJ Spillett
Creative Producer: Britt Guy
Administrator: Debbie Micairan & Jocelyn Tribe
Bookkeeper: It Figures
Auditors: AMW Audit

Committee Members: Chairperson: Max Dewa Stretton/David Taylor. Treasurer: Glenn Bernardin. Ordinary Members: Andrea Wicking, David Taylor, Max Stretton, Lachlan Peattie, Rachael Wallis, Anna Lindsay, Venaska Cheliah, Sarah Rennie. Ex-Officio: David McMicken, Sean Pardy