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Safety Release Technique Workshop with Alice Lee Holland
September 26, 2017 @ 9:30 am - September 29, 2017 @ 11:30 am
$75
Safety Release Technique Workshop with Alice Lee Holland: Contemporary dance technique for intermediate-advanced dancers.
Alice Lee Holland presents a four-day workshop series in the physically unapologetic Safety Release Technique (SRT) created by B.J. Sullivan (USA). SRT develops dancers to be as grounded as they are buoyant, as fearless as they are precise and equally as strong in their movement as they are released.
Daily sessions begin with floor work developed from the Bartenieff Fundamentals. The repetition of simple actions allows the dancer to enter the class with focus, awareness and connection. From here, the class moves to less familiar floor-based and vertical movement sequences that are increasingly complicated musically, temporally and sequentially. Here, there is a focus on the core as the “command centre” for physical challenge.
This workshop is ideal for dancers at an intermediate level and beyond, with a good level of fitness. To attend, go to aliceleeholland.com.au and complete the registration form.
26-29 September 2017
K2Dance studios, North Fremantle
9:30 am – 11:30 am daily
Limited places available.
Alice Lee Holland
Unafraid to think from zero, Alice is an ambitious artist committed to carving new paths. She has worked nationally and internationally across contemporary dance and circus, with diverse communities of people, trained and untrained, young and old.
Alice’s choreographic style is relentlessly physical: “…athletic and physically dramatic, it’s dance that makes the muscle fibres twitch… eminently watchable dance.” The West Australian. Credits include Tasdance, Buzz Dance Theatre, QL2 and WAAPA, and two self-produced works Preparing to be Beautiful (2008) and tiny little tragedies (2012).
In 2015 Alice was appointed Resident Director for the world-renowned Circa Contemporary Circus (Brisbane), during which time she toured ten different productions across nine countries and was involved with five new creations. Alice was part of the Circa team at the helm of Depart – a production commissioned by the London International Festival of Theatre for the Tower Hamlet Cemetery Park, which involved 150 performers across circus, dance and music.
As Artistic Director she led Western Australia’s STEPS Youth Dance Company (now Co3:Youth) through its incredibly successful final chapter. Highlights include; seven nominations for the Australian Dance Awards including the 2015 winner Fights & Flights – the Company’s 25th anniversary production, Trois Generations (Jean-Claude Gallotta) and A Midsummer Nights Dream (As You Like It) (Dmitry Krymov) for the 2013 and 2014 Perth Festivals, and presentations at the Dance and the Child International Congress (Taiwan 2012, Copenhagen 2015).
Alice is a graduate of the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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