Choreolab 2025
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Tracks Choreolab 2025
Course Timeframe: Intensive on Feb 8th 2-5 PM
Followed by regular Monday & Thursday sessions: February 10 - April 12 from 5:30 until 8PM
Choreolab offers a unique, specialised environment to delve into choreography, collaboration, devising, and dance-making. Over 10 weeks, learn, explore and experience choreographic skills and processes in a relaxed group setting, and create short dance works together with the support of the Tracks creative team.
The program is co-led by Jenelle Saunders and David McMicken with special guest facilitators across the course, including James Mangohig (Music), Alyson Evans (Theatre and Characterisation), and Rachael Wallis (First Nations, Contemporary).
Choreolab began with a half-day Intensive, where we submerge into an immersive, rich and playful environment for choreographic creativity together. The program is aimed at participants with some level of experience in dance or movement (in any style) or with a current arts practice, and curiosity into the choreographic craft.
2025 Choreolab participants: Anita Lakatos, Antony Sinni, Bibi Ahmed, Flynn, Grace Dong, Jennie Attrill, Jocelyn Tribe, Kyhanna Tabakovic, Nadine Lee, Sheila Rose
Program
Grid - View Points
Connection to Country - Nadine Lee
Solos 1 - (created to personalised music created by James Mangohig). Joc,
Jenni, and Bibi
Tree Hugging Cheese - movement manipulation
Solos 2 -Sheila, Anita, Ky, Tony
Big Score
Solos 3 - Flynn, Grace, Nadine
Feathers (Rachael Wallis)
Company Partners
Tracks Inc is Tracks Inc is proudly sponsored by the Northern Territory Government, and assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding and advisory body.
Tracks 2025
Artistic Director: David McMicken. Artistic Leadership Team: Rachael Wallis, James Mangohig, Jenelle Saunders, Alyson Evans. Company Director: Sean Pardy. Production Manager: Duane Preston. Dance Animateur: Kelly Beneforti (On parental leave). Administrator: Jocelyn Tribe. Bookkeeper: It Figures. Auditors: AMW Audit
Committee Members: Chairperson: Max Dewa Stretton/David Taylor. Treasurer: Glenn Bernardin. Ordinary Members: Andrea Wicking, Claudia Lee, David Taylor, Max Stretton, Lachlan Peattie, Rachael Wallis, Anna Lindsay (until March), Venaska Cheliah, Sarah Rennie. Ex-Officio: David McMicken, Sean Pardy
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Choreolab showing
Sessions
2:00pm 12th April
4:00pm 12th April
Venue
Tracks Dance Studio, Darwin
Cost
Full: $20
Concession: $15
*Not including $1.50 booking fee
Audience feedback
"Great to see individual & group creativity... impressive local talent, not just choreography& dance but including music composition"
"I love Tracks dance"
"Great movement and music"
"It made me ‘feel’ a huge range of emotions and connectedness to the musical scores.
The music 🎼 & choreography blended together and beautiful to watch./"
"Very engaging"
"Dancers were so playful!"
"Great display of artistic skills"
"It was amazing and each dancer had something unique"
"I thoroughly enjoyed the performance for its thoughtful presentation, its community-centred approach and how it normalised the presentation of works in progress.
Great entertainment and very inspirational music and dance"