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Delving into Dance

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Dalisa Pigram - Transcript

October 17, 2022

‘The challenge has been to create these processes that we can carry Country with us. So whether we’re, you know, performing internationally or you know on other people’s Country here in Australia, we’re carrying part of that - that process is always with us. So if it was a production that’s had choreographic processes that have been out on a specific site or a place that that has given us material, we carry that with us.’

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In Season Thirteen
Daniel Riley, stands looking towards the camera, hands clasped in front of his body, wearing a black linen shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

Daniel Riley - Transcript

October 17, 2022

‘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.’

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In Season Thirteen
Antony Hamilton, stands in a rehearsal room, looking off to the side. Looking at a lard set piece out of frame.

Antony Hamilton Photo by Peter Rosetzky

Antony Hamilton - Transcript

October 17, 2022

‘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.’

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In Season Thirteen
Alice Topp sits against a grey background,  wearing a black singlet and looking towards the camera. Her long hair sits over her shoulders.

Alice Topp - Transcript

October 17, 2022

‘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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In Season Thirteen

Elizabeth Cameron Dalman - Transcript

December 24, 2020

‘keep creative, it can be in the garden, it can be any kitchen, it can be wherever but we're dancers and we can dance anywhere.’

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In Season Twelve
Lillian Crombie painting by Kathryn Farrawell for Archibald Prize.

Lillian Crombie painting by Kathryn Farrawell for Archibald Prize.

Lillian Crombie- Transcript

December 24, 2020

‘thanks everybody for listening in on my story and that you know, hope you've learned something.’

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In Season Twelve
Gregory Maqoma

Gregory Maqoma- Transcript

December 24, 2020

‘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’

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In Season Twelve
Edna Reinhardt

Edna Reinhardt- Transcript

December 24, 2020

‘I've always tried to get boys dancing. It's like a mission for me. Because it's always seemed odd to me that our culture is a bit you know, doesn't encourage boys to dance very much.’

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In Season Twelve
Lloyd Newson Dance DV8

Lloyd Newson- Transcript

December 7, 2020

‘and I just wish people would be a bit more honest about what they're making rather than trying to pretend it’s something else because fundamentally I feel that’s dishonest to the public.’

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In Season Eleven
Juliet Burnett Dance, Ballet

Juliet Burnett- Transcript

December 7, 2020

‘I move over to the bloody other side of the world, and I feel in many ways more connected to my Australian-ness and my Indonesian-ness? How is that possible?’

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In Season Eleven
James Vu Anh Pham Dance Australian Dance Theatre

James Vu Anh Pham- Transcript

December 7, 2020

‘What I love about the dance world is that it has the possibility of bringing together so many different cultures, so many different people, beliefs, ways of thinking, ways of being in a space.’

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In Season Eleven
Dan Daw Dance

Dan Daw- Transcript

December 7, 2020

‘We’ve got this false sense of what time is and that it’s just happening to us. But it’s not. We’re in full control of that time.’

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In Season Eleven
Cadi McCarthy dance

Cadi McCarthy- Transcript

December 6, 2020

‘A mistake is a fleeting moment, and what is a “mistake”, anyway? Don’t get caught up on the small things like that. Mistakes happen, or things happen.’

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In Season Ten
Adam Rutherford Dance, Birmingham

Adam Rutherford- Transcript

December 5, 2020

‘The ability to physically communicate a message non verbally, is a powerful, powerful tool that all audience members can appreciate, can understand, you know, dance was, is, a tribal act.’

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In Season Ten
Aparna Nagesh Dance

Aparna Nagesh- Transcript

December 5, 2020

‘I’ve also been doing my research in terms of the whole trying to remove the whole binary construct of gender and the fact that people can be fluid or non-binary.’

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In Season Ten
Anna Kenrick Dance

Anna Kenrick - Transcript

December 5, 2020

‘Good dance session, whether it's with whatever community, should be multi-layered in terms of what are we learning about dance, but also what we’re learning through dance, because if we just focus on what the kids are learning about dance, we forget they’re human beings and that we should be developing them as human beings too.’

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In Season Ten
Daniel Riley Dance Bangara

Daniel Riley- Transcript

December 5, 2020

‘It was a light bulb, I was like, ‘This is what I’m meant to do, this is destiny, this is a way I can connect to my culture, into my heritage and grow my identity.’’

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In Season Ten
Isabella Stone dance

Isabella Stone - Transcript

December 5, 2020

‘There's a space where young people can start to understand those things about themselves. And yeah, and be challenged to maybe take on the characteristics of another person or be interested in other person, but that everyone's got the time to ask questions and be listened to.’

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In Season Ten
Adam Wheeler Dance

Adam Wheeler - Transcript

December 5, 2020

‘Dance lets me connect, let's dance, let's reconnect with the world at such a deep level that I can't imagine any other industry or platform allowing that to happen.‘

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In Season Ten
Amrita Hepi

Amrita Hepi

February 5, 2019

“As a dancer, I'm interested in finding at the moment, in finding dualities between objects, persons, place…”

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In Season Eight
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