Text by Adrianne Semmens & Jennifer Eadie

Delving into Dance in partnership with Critical Path, invited those engaged in dance (in whatever capacity) to share thoughts as to why dance matters now…

Together we have commissioned five texts for publication from Australian artists and writers for the digital Interchange Festival 2019. The artists that present their work are Adrianne Semmens & Jennifer Eadie, Alison Plevey, Ira Ferris, Simon Ellis & Shaun McLeod and Tsuki Becoming.

Adrianne Semmens is a dance practitioner with experience working across the arts, education and community sectors. Born in Adelaide, Adrianne is a descendant of the Barkindji People of North Western NSW and is currently working with Kurruru Arts and Culture Hub. Identity and place continue to be reoccurring themes within Adrianne’s practice, investigated throughout her own choreographic explorations and community based projects.

Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist living on Kaurna yarta. Currently, she is a lecturer in the Aboriginal Pathway Program at the University of South Australia and Writer in Residence at The Mill Adelaide. https://jennifereadie.blogspot.com/

Featured

Dalisa Pigram

‘We value everyone equally, but you know, of course each person has a role to play in the team that's been created, but no one is, you know, less valuable than another.’

Daniel Riley

‘My daughter Billie, she was in rehearsal today. My son Archie grew up the first two or three years of his life, like, on tour with me when I was with Bangarra Dance Theatre and just being in the artistic environment and being surrounded by people is such a beautiful gift, I think, that I can give to them as well.’

Antony Hamilton

‘When I'm making dance and when I think about choreography or art, I often relate my early childhood experiences to the things that I make now as well.’

Alice Topp

‘I guess for a lot of people, ballet is still very much an evolving, developing language. I think people think it was probably stuck in a time and hasn't progressed. But modern ballet is very challenging and arresting and it's finding new ways of working with an old structure.’

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Elizabeth Cameron Dalman

‘In my hibernation my creativity turned to writing. I spent hours happily at my computer with my writing, which sometimes feels like choreography. The results of these writing hours are some rough chapters recounting special experiences of my life, and in particular, my life here at Mirramu.’

Lillian Crombie

‘Now your got this time work on your dreams’

Gregory Vuyani Maqoma

‘So I've been refusing the temptation to put work on online to put work on platforms where they eliminate that very core function of connecting people’

Edna Reinhardt

Edna Reinhardt, a passionate creative dance and yoga educator with decades of experience in the field.