CHRISSIE PARROTT DANCE & CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

Renowned Australian Dancer & Choreographer Chrissie Parrott is returning to Southern Edge Arts next weekend!

WORKSHOP 1: CONTEMPORARY DANCE
WHEN: 1PM-2PM SATURDAY 13TH JUNE
COST: $10

WORKSHOP 2: CHOREOGRAPHY
WHEN: 2:30PM-4:30PM SATURDAY 13TH JUNE
COST: $20

OR DO BOTH WORKSHOPS FOR $25

The workshops are suitable for all dance levels and are suitable for ages 13 – 25

Places for this truly unique opportunity are limited, so reserve your place today!

Call Kelly @ SEA on 98416002

ABOUT CHRISSIE PARROTT
Chrissie is one of the most outstanding artistic directors and visionary choreographers Australia has produced. Her distinctive, widely recognised and applauded choreographic sensibility draws equally upon her foundations in classical dance and the richness of the 20th Century contemporary dance vocabulary.

Chrissie has created a repertoire of over 60 works - most particularly within the context of the Chrissie Parrott Dance Company which include Terra, Life Love & Beauty, Tower, Terminal Velocity and Deco Dance. Choreographic commissions include works for WA Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre, Queensland Ballet, Sydney Theatre Company, Tasdance, Sinfionetta de Lorraine France and Theater Vorpommern in the Baltic city of Stralsund.

Chrissie has worked as a dancer with the Western Australian Ballet, One Extra Company, Festival Ballet Nicic de Monte Carlo - Basel, Switzerland, Crameer Balletten - Stockholm and Tanz Forum – Cologne, where she created two works for the company and its touring offshoot which toured to the Avignon Festival France.
Chrissie's outstanding and sustained contribution to contemporary dance associated arts, has been significantly acknowledged by the presentation of the Sydney Myer Performing Arts Awards, National recognition of an outstanding choreographic contribution, the Swan Gold Award for outstanding theatre development, and the Sounds Australia Award for a continuous commitment to commissioning of Australian composers and live music in performance, and the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award 2000.

CIRCASEA @ Circus Joseph Ashton

Southern Edge Art’s youth circus performance group CircaSea, ran away to join the circus for a week for an experience of a life time!

CircaSea is Southern Edge Arts (SEA) own circus performance group, made up of young people aged 12 to 18 who regularly perform throughout the Great Southern. Through this trip, 10 of its members expanded their circus skills and developed more exciting and awe-inspiring acts. CircaSea were invited by the renowned Circus Joseph Ashton to spend a week training and experiencing the day-to-day life of a professional traveling circus whilst they are were set up and performing in Rockingham over the September/October school holidays.

They also be undertook extra intensive training with circus professionals: Renee Pilkington and Scott Craig (from Fliptease), and Nel Simpson (from WA circus school).

CircaSEA member’s Cassandra Turner (15 years old) and Isabel Bush (14 years old) successfully applied for a YCulture Regional Grant, through Country Arts WA and Healthway to assist in the costs of the training. “The experiences we have already had, and will have during the week in Rockingham, have and will be fantastic. Writing the grant, and working in the planning process, has given us vast knowledge, and will help us in the future” says Cassandra. YCulture is a Healthway youth arts fund designed to promote the Drug Aware message and is available to support young people make their own youth arts and culture projects happen, with a focus on youth skills development.

“We would like to thank YCulture and SEA, as this could not happen without their support. The trip is proudly sponsored by Country Arts WA and by Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message” said Isabel.

Artistic Director Simon Clarke says “ it really is an outstanding reward for the youth showing such enthusiasm and dedication to an artform, and the skills that they will learn during this intensive training will be capitalised on within SEA’s 25th Anniversary program next year, with a circus and physical theatre extravaganza planned for mid 2010.”

DIAFRIX

Southern Edge Arts, in association with KULCHA Multicultural Arts of WA presents DIAFRIX, a Kultour touring event…

DIAFRIX

100%ORGINAL FUNK, SOUL & RAGGA-INFUSED HIP HOP DIRECT FROM MELBOURNE

Live Performance – With special guests Down South Crew (DSC)
SUNDAY 22ND FEBRUARY @ 5PM
All Ages | Gold coin donation entry
Southern Edge Arts | 77 on Sanford

Positive Hip Hop Workshop
MONDAY 23RD FEBRUARY @ 5PM (ages 9+)
Cost | $10 or FREE for 2009 Southern Edge Arts Members
To Register | info@southernedge.org.au or 98416002

Diafrix’s urban music mixes traditional African rhythms with funk, ragga, soul and hip hop. With no swearing policy they will not offend but educate people through their flow. This is positive Hip Hop with a cultural bent.

Diafrix have established themselves over the last five years as one of Australia’s most exciting and original live acts. There’s no recycled funk here - it’s 100% original soul, dancehall and reggae-infused hip hop. Fronted by African-born MCs Azmarino and Momo and backed up by Haitian goddess Nadee. With lavish organic productions from Ptero_Stylus and cuts from Wax Vandal, Diafrix know how to get the party started…!

Born in Footscray, Melbourne, at the cafe that bears their name, Diafrix represent the motherland of Africa and refugees from all corners of the globe. They present a fresh honest look at the world and life in Australia.

Establishing themselves on the Australian music scene since they took out Triple J’s Next Crop Award in 2005, Diafrix have performed at The Big Day Out, West Coast Blues & Roots Festival, Falls Festival and Meredith.

Their last release "In Tha Place" was picked up by Triple J and Channel V and the group have been working on their debut full length album due for release later in 2008. The group connect with their audience in the most fundamental ways with soulful music and tight rhymes. Diafrix are one mighty fresh hip-hop crew with global appeal.

Diafrix are touring Australia from February 2009, with Southern Edge Arts kicking off the WA leg with an all ages gig on Sunday 22nd February with special guests – local act Down South Crew (DSC). A workshop for ages 9+ will follow on Monday 23rd Feb at Southern Edge Arts.

The Presentation of DIAFRIX is proudly supported by Kultour: touring multicultural arts, changing Australian culture - an initiative of the Australia Council for the Arts. The Contemporary Music Touring Program aims to give all Australians, wherever they live, better access to some of the country’s best live contemporary music. The Australian Government is proud to be associated with the Kultour tour of DIAFRIX.

NIDA on Tour

July 17-19
Southern Edge Arts

The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) are offering a short course for young people (12-15 years) and adults (16 years+) from Friday 17 July to Sunday 19 July in Albany. The course, Acting Intensive, will develop acting skills including improvisation, voice and movement and help participants become confident rehearsing and performing short scenes. There will be two classes, one for those 12 – 15 years and another for those 16 years and over.

The course is offered as a part of NIDA on Tour which provides access to expertise in theatre, film and television by bringing short courses to capital cities and regional centres across Australia. These exciting courses are lead by industry professionals and NIDA graduates. Past NIDA on Tour tutors have included the likes of Sam Worthington, a NIDA graduate who originates from Western Australia and is now making huge waves in Hollywood.

The three day course is running from Friday 17 July to Sunday 19 July, 10.00am – 5.00pm and costs $325. For more information or to book go online to http://www.nida.edu.au , call 02 9697 7626 or email open@nida.edu.au

COMPETITION: Southern Edge Arts is excited to announce it has 2 free places available for SEA Members wishing to participate in the workshops. To be eligible you must write a letter addressed to the Chairperson of Southern Edge Arts outlining why you want to participate and what it will mean to you. Letters must be received by Wednesday 8th July! Please contact Kelly or Simon at SEA for further information!

THE FESTY SHORTS ARE OFF!

SPRINGBOARD | SHORT PLAY WRITING WEEKEND INTENSIVE

SATURDAY 25TH + SUNDAY 26TH JULY 2009

Visit the project website: www.southernedge.org.au/blog

The SpringBoard Weekend marks the commencement of Southern Edge Arts latest project 'FESTY SHORTS', an exciting and innovative national and international collaboration of youth performance companies. In partnership with Sprung Writers Festival in Albany, Southern Edge Arts will host Sydney based playwright Mary Rachel Brown to facilitate and assist the development of short scripts by emerging young writers from the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. The resulting scripts will feed into a Youth Theatre Script Exchange initiative between Canberra Youth Theatre (ACT), Backbone Youth Theatre (QLD), Southern Edge Arts (WA), Urban Myth Theatre (SA) and others nationally and internationally. This initiative will see scripts written by emerging young writers be exchanged and produced by the companies involved.

The SpringBoard weekend will be hosted by Mary Rachel Brown and is designed to ignite imaginations, germinate ideas for short plays with emerging young writers from the Great Southern Region...

So - if you are between 14 & 25 years of age and want to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard!) give Southern Edge Arts a call today to register for this exciting new project!

Ages:14-25 years
Venue: SEA @ 77 Sanford Road
Times & Dates: 11am-4pm Sat 25th + Sun 26th July
Costs: SpringBoard Weekend is free. Fees may be applicable for further project stages.
Registration:98416002 or info@southernedge.org.au

SEA's SPRUNG!

THE PLAY'S THE THING...

9.30 to 11.30am
Friday 18th September
Venue: Wisdom @ The Vancouver Arts Centre
Cost: $30
Bookings: Albany Town Hall

Mary Rachel Brown brings her special playwright skills to Sprung this year. "Plays are controlled experiments in human behaviour," Mary says. "A playwright mixes characters and situations, just like a physicist mixes chemicals and elements. Explosions cannot be ruled out!" Mary's workshop on Friday from 9.30-11.30am will provide a tool box for building detailed characters. The seeds of narrative can be found in a character's deepest desires, needs and contradictions. Bring a pen, paper and curiosity about the human psyche. Book through the Town Hall Box Office.

Mary will be staying on at SEA, with thanks to a grant from Express Media's Write in Your Face program, for a 2 week residency, working with our youth members to develop a series of short plays. You can check out some of the works in progress on our project blog: http://www.southernedge.org.au/blog

MEET PROPEL YOUTH ARTS

11am-12noon
Saturday 19th September
Venue: Garrett @ the Vancouver Arts Centre
Cost: FREE!

Love art? Want to get more involved? Come to Sprung – The Word Released festival and hear how Propel Youth Arts WA can connect YOU with the arts in Western Australia.
Come along to the FREE event and meet Sonja Basic, General Manager and Lisa Wallace, Communications and Marketing Officer to learn how:

You can get involved with the arts
What Propel can do for you - support, information, referral and advocacy for the youth arts sector
Propel programs and projects on offer including ArtsCAMP (hear first hand from Albany local, Tiara, about her experience at this years ArtsCAMP)
How to become a member of Propel for FREE

In the meantime check out Propel's website: http://www.propel.org.au

Hope to see you there!

Aerial Circus Workshop with Nel Simpson

Join high flyer Nel Simpson for a 2 day introduction to Aerial Circus Arts.

January 12 & 13
10am-12pm each day
Cost: $40
Ages: 12 and up

Places are extremely limited. Please email kelly@southernedge.org.au to reserve your place.