STUDIO RESIDENCIES - SPACE TIME 2024/25

STUDIO RESIDENCIES - SPACE TIME 2024/25

Space Time Residency

A creative sanctuary for local, independent dance/movement artists, offering time to deepen their craft within Tracks dance studio. With access to our studio during the Wet Season (November to February), artists are invited to immerse themselves in their own self-guided explorations, culminating in a final Sharing. Each year, up to four proposals are selected, with an emphasis on nurturing independent dance voices from any movement style/genre.

This offer is not for the operation of commercial dance classes, for information around studio hire head here.

Space Time Residents of 2024

 

Venaska Cheliah

"Looking to explore the season in our life currently as we venture into ending and starting significant decades in our life. Exploring our feminine awakening and what it means to return to familiar movements or starting anew. What it means to move and connect with ourselves and another being. The fear to move, the weight of self judgement and expectation, but also the willingness to push past it and embracing the feeling. Conversations around weathering storms, staying grounded."

Jules Gabor

"As an emerging creative producer and dancer, my goal is to use the residency to help explore ways we can use contemporary, hip-hop and K-Pop styles of dance to bring young people together through a film project and/or festival outcome (Darwin Fringe or self-produced event) to share with local and national audiences. The time in the residency will be used to develop choreography and support other performers through the process of creating dances and working towards an outcome."

 

Space Time Residents of 2024

 

Molly O'Hagen

"My residency consists of the workshopping of a new commercial/contemporary dance work, with elements of physical theatre. This work is inspired by the climate I have experienced moving to Darwin from New Zealand, inspired by the heat, the sunsets, the rain and the landscape. I want to explore how the climate impacts our movement and emotions and relationships. Physically, I hope to challenge myself to workshop movement in partners, and I hope to achieve a substantial base to build my Fringe show from."

 

Ade Suharto

Dance artist Ade Suharto was based in Darwin for 6 months. We offered some studio time in return for her offering a masterclass and sharing her process in the lead up to presenting a short dance works inspired by Fitri DK's 2019 woodcut prints addressing women's protest movements in Java and Flores. This work was called "Of The Land" and was presented at MAGNT Ampitheatre, followed by a Q&A. The work honours her ancestral connection to land and women's strength and was commissioned by MAGNT to compliment the new acquisitions from the Stephen Shaul Collection highlighting cultural resilience.

 

The Brunettes (The Trio - working title)

Kate Mornane, Jenelle Saunders and Tara Schmidt continued their long-term collaborative explorations. They took full advantage of a weekly studio time over most of 2024. They concluded the residency with an informal gathering with Tracks staff at the end of the year to discuss how the residency went, some of their key movement curiosities and future recommendations. They fully appreciated the studio time without the restrictions of having to make a work, allowing them to focus on their skill development, realisations of ideas and ongoing creative practice.

 

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