Photo: Jean-Pierre Mattos.
Masterclass
When: Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 10am-12pm (arrive at 9:45am to sign in)
Where: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, Cnr Morphett St & North Tce, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)
The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Festival are excited to present a masterclass with Feras Shaheen.
Feras will be performing in Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] as part of Adelaide Festival 2023.
About the masterclass:
This contemporary / street dance masterclass is about finding your choreographic language through your freestyle. It focusses on practicing and discussing methods to help develop your freestyle skills.
Understanding the importance of a challenge in a process and finding the playfulness in your process. We will explore how to create for your next door neighbour, as well as your colleagues.
Experience level:
Intermediate to professional dancers.
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Feras Shaheen is an artist curious in letting his conceptual interests lead him across a variety of mediums. Using choreography, installations, design, film, performance, digital media, and street dance to communicate his ideas, the core of Feras’ practice is to connect and engage with audiences. Holding a Bachelor of Design from Western Sydney University (2014), Feras often subverts traditional relationships between mediums to challenge audiences' perspectives.
Born in Dubai to Palestinian parents, and moving to Western Sydney at age 11, Feras’ perception of the world is constantly shifting and changing. Winner of The Australian Ballet’s Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) in 2021, Feras has performed and exhibited at Carriageworks, Venice Biennale, Pari, Kampnagel, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Théâtre de la Ville.
Recent works include Cross Cultures, Plastic Bag, ongoing collaboration Klapping, and Forum Q. Cross Cultures, a body of work shown at Pari Gallery Parramatta (2020) and Carriageworks (2021) explored the fluid contemporary identities of ‘Generation Y’ and how street culture is heavily impacted by media culture, specifically where commercial and urban industries intersect and reconcile. Where Plastic Bag a full-length show including performative video installation, directed by Feras, drew from the postmodern concept of hyperreality and premiered at East Sydney Community Arts Centre in 2022. Feras is currently working with Marrugeku, presenting Jurrungu Ngan-ga, a collaborative production that addresses both local and global issues regarding the fear of cultural differences.