Workshop: City Mobilities

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When: Tuesday, September 14 to Thursday, September 16, 2021, from 10am–4pm

Where: The Mill Breakout Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide) (enter via Gunson Street) 

Cost: $60

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

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City Mobilities is a three-day intensive exploring ideas about the way we access, move, and engage in public spaces. City Mobilities is an ongoing initiative between The Mill and OSCA, supported by the City of Adelaide Strategic Partnership program.

The workshop is open to artists and non-artists interested in gaining new skills and knowledge in creating site-based art projects. Participants will work with the lead artists Tom Borgas (The Mill resident artist) and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director) to explore how we can rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities. 

What Participants Can Expect:

This 3 day workshop will explore a variety of visual, design and performance making methods to highlight, question and renegotiate the importance of individual participation in public space. Participants will be invited to research various city sites and public spaces and develop a series of conceptual and physical responses in a collaborative studio-based set up. 

The masterclass will:

• Offer participants a fertile space to share, learn, create, and exchange ideas, skills, and processes

• Open-up new ways of thinking, doing, and making in a collaborative and collegial gathering

• Stimulate and support the skills development of SA artists seeking new approaches to working within the public domain

Details

What to wear: Participants are requested to dress adequately and bring a hat for the sun as we will be working outside at times.

What materials to bring: 

• Participants need to bring a sketch pad and pencil/pen

• All other materials will be supplied

Masterclass: Talking about Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

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Image: Jordan in the studio

When: Sunday, August 29, 2021

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Time: 10am-1pm

Cost: $150 + booking fee

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

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About the Workshop:

Jordan Reynolds welcomes guitar enthusiasts to join him for an intimate afternoon exploring the theory and craft of guitars. Talking through his artisan practice, Jordan will give participants insight into how guitars are constructed. He will also talk about care and maintenance, and the important things to consider when customising your own guitar.

What Participants Can Expect:

Jordan will talk participants through the anatomy of guitars, with hands on examples of guitars built here at The Mill. In the second half he will lead the group through some basic guitar maintenance and speak about customising your set up. There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions, and partake in open discussion with the group.

This masterclass is hands on, and participants will get the opportunity to touch guitar parts, see inside and gain knowledge of tools. However, this is a talk-based masterclass. If you’re interested in a deeper level of practical and process based learning, please see our other masterclass with Jordan!

No skills required, all welcome.

Tea and light refreshments provided.

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About the artist:

Jordan is the premier maker of musical instruments in Adelaide, specialising in extended range guitars and basses, handmade to order. He not only makes instruments, but has also serviced the Adelaide guitar scene for over a decade in repair, servicing and customising. Jordan has crafted a unique style bringing modern design and traditional techniques together to make one off instruments designed to last the test of time.

Having studied as a furniture maker whilst completing the first ever Guitar Making Apprenticeship in Australia, Jordan brings a different approach to Instrument construction to other Luthiers.
Focusing on instruments that not only look the part, but also sound and feel premium, and most importantly designed to withstand the harsh Australian climate and conditions of working musicians 

Valuing the local artisan scene, Jordan also works with other makers and artists every year to create one off instruments combining his own style and construction with other’s aesthetics and medium.

Jordan’s guitars have toured every continent of the world, and won features in multiple makers exhibitions and festivals. He has been a guest speaker at the International Guitar Festival and runs personalised classes on guitar making, with a big belief that education and transparency can only bring more creativity and push makers of all kinds to strive for perfection and innovation.

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About the Program:

Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

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Other Masterclasses this SALA:

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The Mill is supported by the South Australian government through Arts South Australia

The Mill's 2021 artistic program is proudly supported by BankSA Foundation.

Masterclass: Build your own ceramic oil burner with Ari Menendez this SALA

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Image: Ari in the studio, photo: Chloe Metcalfe

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Two session times: 10am-12:30pm and 1:30-4pm

Cost: $150 + booking fee

($125 +bf until Aug 19, use the promo code GLAZED)

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

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About the Workshop:

Join artist Ari Menendez for a ceramic workshop where you will build your own oil burner.

Work with stoneware clay and learn hand building techniques to construct a fully functional oil burner.

Ari will guide participants through the processes which will include a combination of slab building and pinching techniques to construct the oil burner.

Once constructed, Ari will share some of her favourite decorating techniques, such as carving and mark making - so that participants can make their oil burner truely unique to them.

Ari will bisque, glaze and fire all pieces to a final temperature of 1280 degrees. All burners will be ready to be collected within 3 weeks of the workshop.

No experience required - all welcome!

What Participants Can Expect:

Participants will take home their very own hand built, glazed and fired oil burner!

Materials used:

• Stoneware clay

• Sculpting tools

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About the artist:

Ari Menendez began creating with clay in 2016 after a friend gifted her a workshop experience with a well established Adelaide Artist. This day proved to be a transformative experience and clay became the deep connection to the Australian continent that German native Ari, until then, did not realise she was missing. What followed was an ongoing journey of learning and growth through ceramics, always anchored in the profound appreciation of nature and the ancient wisdom of creating with earth.

Ari’s design philosophy is anchored in functional ceramics with a minimalist restrained aesthetic. Her ceramic practice, encompasses both, hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques, often exposing parts of raw clay in her finished wares. Ari has established a small studio space in her home in the Adelaide Hills and continues to dream of it becoming a place for others to experience the healing nature of creating with clay.

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About the Program:

Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

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Other Masterclasses this SALA:

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The Mill is supported by the South Australian government through Arts South Australia

The Mill's 2021 artistic program is proudly supported by BankSA Foundation

Masterclass: Crafting Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

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Image: Jordan in the studio, photo:

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Time: 10:30am-3:30pm

Cost: $375 + booking fee

Places limited to four participants, don’t miss out!

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

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About the Workshop:

Have you dabbled in guitar making, but want to know a bit more? If you know the basics and you’re looking for some in depth knowledge Jordan Reynolds welcomes you to join him for an intimate day long masterclass exploring the craft of guitars.

What Participants Can Expect:

Taking place in his studio at The Mill, Jordan will take participants through the 8 steps of guitar making with hand-on and skills based tutorials throughout the day. Participants will learn about the materials and tools used in the guitar making process, and will have the opportunity to shape the neck of a guitar.

Participants will take home a goody bag including a specialised guitar shaping tool.

This masterclass is hands on, and involves practical and skills based making. However, it is not a masterclass in building a finished guitar. Stay tuned for guitar building courses from Jordan in 2022.

Some basic knowledge required.

Tea and light refreshments provided.

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About the artist:

Jordan is the premier maker of musical instruments in Adelaide, specialising in extended range guitars and basses, handmade to order. He not only makes instruments, but has also serviced the Adelaide guitar scene for over a decade in repair, servicing and customising. Jordan has crafted a unique style bringing modern design and traditional techniques together to make one off instruments designed to last the test of time.

Having studied as a furniture maker whilst completing the first ever Guitar Making Apprenticeship in Australia, Jordan brings a different approach to Instrument construction to other Luthiers.
Focusing on instruments that not only look the part, but also sound and feel premium, and most importantly designed to withstand the harsh Australian climate and conditions of working musicians 

Valuing the local artisan scene, Jordan also works with other makers and artists every year to create one off instruments combining his own style and construction with other’s aesthetics and medium.

Jordan’s guitars have toured every continent of the world, and won features in multiple makers exhibitions and festivals. He has been a guest speaker at the International Guitar Festival and runs personalised classes on guitar making, with a big belief that education and transparency can only bring more creativity and push makers of all kinds to strive for perfection and innovation.

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About the Program:

Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

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Other Masterclasses this SALA:

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The Mill is supported by the South Australian government through Arts South Australia

The Mill's 2021 artistic program is proudly supported by BankSA Foundation.

OzAsia Masterclass: Choreography, Composition & Collaboration with Yui Kawaguchi and Alison Currie

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Photographer: Rudolf Sagmeister & Sam Roberts

When: Friday, October 15, 2021, 4pm-5:30pm
(please arrive 15 minutes early to sign in and warm up)

Where: AC Arts, Rehearsal Studio, Level  3, 23 Light Square, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide) 

Cost: $25 + booking fees

Any cancellations due to Covid-19, tickets will be refunded

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Choreography, Composition and Collaboration

About the Masterclass:

Participants will learn methods for generating choreography, piecing together a composition, and hear about the collaboration that led to Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, as well as Alison and Yui's experiences of previous collaborations with other makers on different projects.

Experience level:

Dancers – moderate level of experience in any dance styles.

About the Show:

Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere, OzAsia Festival 2021.

Humans (for now) live on one planet: a globalised world where the digital is used to link us with more opinions and information than ever before. Yet, simultaneously, that world seems to deepen the separation between people by time, space, cultural histories and languages.

Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere bridges the similarities and differences that connect us all. Australian and Japanese choreographers and dancers Alison Currie (whose recent work was commissioned by Australian Dance Theatre) and award-winning soloist Yui Kawaguchi join forces to compose a collision between the everyday and imagined possibilities.

Using sound, light and form to accentuate the comparing techniques between each dancer, Alison and Yui’s stunning choreography drifts in and out of sync to expose the significant, simple and absurd. An ephemeral performance about parallels and connection, Somewhere, Everywhere, Nowhere unveils how humans are defined not by what we know, but rather by what we are yet to discover.

Masterclasses this SALA at The Mill

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Image: Ari Menendez, by Chloe Metcalfe

Masterclass One

When: Sunday, August 1, 2021

Masterclass Two

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Masterclass Three

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

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Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

Masterclass: Talking about Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

When: Sunday, August 1, 2021

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Time: 10am-1pm

Cost: $150+BF

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Masterclass: Build your own oil burner with Ari Menendez

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Two session times: 10am-12:30pm and 1:30-4pm

Cost: $150+bf

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Masterclass: Crafting Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide

Time: 10:30am-3:30pm

Cost: $375 +bf

Places limited to four participants, don’t miss out!

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Call Out: Critical Path and NORPA, Development Project for South Australian Dance Artist

The Mill in partnership with Critical Path (Sydney) is offering a position for one South Australian dance artist, to attend a series of two consecutive development projects in Lismore, NSW.

The successful recipient will be supported with $3,000 from The Mill to cover artist bursary, travel to and accomodation in Lismore, NSW. We encourage regional practitioners and those connected to the Northern Rivers area to apply.

Practice Articulation Workshop
July 17 to 19

Artists will explore and share where they find themselves in their practice now, their connections and responsibilities to community, and work to explore how they represent their work (in text, image and when speaking about it) along with what they communicate with others. Finally, they will look at how they can support each other to take their respective practices forward.Claire Hicks, the director of Critical Path will be facilitating the agreed framework for the program, with other guest artists, working together to roll out the activities together across the three days. 

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Practitioner Gathering - Northern Rivers
July 23 to 25

Day one: Practitioner Exchanges and Mentoring

The idea is not to network, not to sell or to buy, not to SPEED anything. A conversation amongst peers at various stages of their careers should ideally be of interest to both parties and whilst one may be seeking advice from the other, all participants should be open to share and learn. 

Day Two: Sector Gathering – FOCUS ON COLLABORATION

Using Open Space Technology (OST). Participants will self-organise to create their own agenda on the day, allowing a dynamic and immediate response to the issues at hand. The process allows free-flowing conversations about the things that really matter to the people in the room. Open Space Technology shifts culture towards a more responsible and pragmatic outlook. 

Day Three: Talking and Dancing

With the aim of sharing knowledge and encouraging dialogue, the final day or our series will focus on talks, both in conversations and panel discussions. With contributions from different parts of our broad dance, physical & visual theatre, circus and performance art sector our time together will end with a jam!

Call out deadline: Monday, May 17, 2021 by COB

Dance artists to submit their EOI via email, please include:

• Your CV

• A 200 word blurb about how this opportunity will benefit you at this stage in your career

• Whether you are a regional artist or connected to the Northern Rivers area

For any questions and inquiries contact The Mill Director Katrina Lazaroff

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About NORPA and Critical Path

Critical Path and NORPA have been working in partnership since 2018 to deliver practice development opportunities in the Northern Rivers for artists with an interest in choreography.

INFORM, a two-year program (2018-2020), created a space for opening up ideas and broadening skills at the intersection of dance and theatre making. The workshop-labs considered how dance and choreography can underpin an embodied approach to theatre and provided different methodologies for performance making.

Find out more about the partnership here

The partnership continues with the Choreographic Regional Hub – Northern Rivers in 2021.

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Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Branch Nebula, ‘High Performance Packing Tape’

Photographer: Heidren Lohr

The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Festival and venue partner Dance Hub SA, present a masterclass with Branch Nebula (NSW).

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Masterclass Information

When: Friday, March 12, 2021, 3pm-5pm, arrive 15 minutes early to sign in and warm up

Venue: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, level 1, corner Morphett St and North Terrace, Adelaide

Cost: $30 + booking fee

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About the Masterclass:

The creative team working on High Performance Packing Tape have been exploring how objects and the body collide in risky situations. Doing the wrong thing. What happens when you change the priorities in terms of risk. The workshop participants are invited to prepare by bringing materials and objects that they would like to work with. Thinking about everyday items that can be sourced from shops, or off the street. Materials that when multiplied may have increased integrity. Or perhaps no integrity. Things you may wish to climb, or be used to change your shape. Its ok to bring more than what you think you will need for your exploration. As a workshop leader, Lee will share some techniques for controlled falling, stages of preparation for a risky manoeuvre, and escape routes. We will work with the props to create short pieces.

Participant level: Emerging and professional artists: performers, dancers, physical people.

About Masterclass Leader:

Lee Wilson is one of the co-Artistic Directors of Branch Nebula. He is based in Sydney, and has toured extensively throughout his 30 year career as a performer and director. Lee trained at UWS Theatre Nepean and with the company Acrobat. Since co-founding Branch Nebula with Mirabelle Wouters 20 years ago, they have created many new works including the Helpmann Award winners Snake Sessions and Whelping Box. Branch Nebula’s aesthetic draws its dynamism from a passionate engagement with street culture. Refined art-making is everywhere, if you know how to look. We champion the exquisite skills of the skater as we do the fluid movement of the contemporary dancer, and we build our work with both.Branch Nebula is one of Australia’s most adventurous performance companies working at the nexus between theatre, dance, sport & street-styles. They work with non-conventional performers to collaboratively devise work that defies categorization. Lee’s credits with other artists include dramaturgy on Nick Power’s dance pieces Cypher, Between Tiny Cities and Two Crews. He has also worked with Roslyn Oades, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Shaun Parker, Shaun Gladwell, Urban Theatre Projects, Kate Champion, Acrobat and Post Arrivalists. Lee has led many workshops including Body of Ideas at Critical Path. 

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Gravity & Other Myths

The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Festival and venue partner Dance Hub SA, present a masterclass with Gravity & Other Myths.

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Masterclass Information

When: March 5, 2021, 10am to 12pm, arrive 15 minutes early to sign in and warm up

Where: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, level 1, corner Morphett St and North Terrace, Adelaide

Cost: $30 + booking fees (Dance Hub SA Member Discount $25 plus fees)

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About the Masterclass:

This masterclass will be divided into two sections: 

Acrobatic Skill Training 

As an acrobatic based company, skill training is integral to our process. With guidance from some of Australia's leading acrobats, you will have the opportunity to trial GOM's favourite physical languages from creative floor based tumbling to towers and acrobatic swinging, this will be a little taste of the fundamental components of Australian contemporary circus. 

An Introduction into GOM's Creative Process

Drawing from many varied influences, GOM has built a strong toolkit for creating physical work from a conceptual or thematic launching point. From acrobatics through to dance and even theatre, our experienced artists will run you through a collection of creation exercises that we use to create our own work.

Participant level: Emerging and professional artists: performers, dancers, actors, physical people.

About the company:

Gravity and Other Myths (GOM) is an acrobatics and physical theatre company pushing the boundaries of new circus. Formed in Adelaide, Australia in 2009, GOM has rocketed to stellar acclaim with a series of disarmingly accomplished ensemble works. GOM utilises an honest approach to performance, to create work with a focus on human connection and acrobatic virtuosity.

Our first work, A Simple Space, has achieved momentous international success, having performed more than 850 times across 34 countries and receiving multiple awards, most notably the IPAY Victor Award for People's Choice. Backbone, GOM’s subsequent work, premiered as part of the 2017 Adelaide Festival to critical acclaim and 3 Helpmann Award nominations, cementing the company’s position as a leader in contemporary circus. GOM’s latest work, Out Of Chaos…, premiered at the 2019 Adelaide Festival and went on to receive the 2019 Helpmann Award for Best Physical Theatre.

Alongside our onstage work, GOM deeply values engaging with both our immediate and wider community through workshops and education. Our artists are all experienced coaches in both physical skill training and conceptual creation and are eager to share their skills and knowledge. 

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Sydney Dance Company

The Mill in Partnership with Adelaide Festival and venue partner Dance Hub SA, present a masterclass with Sydney Dance Company.

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Masterclass information:

When: March 12,  2021, 9.30am - 11.30am, arrive 15 minutes early to sign in and warm up

Where: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, level 1, corner Morphett St and North Terrace, Kaurna Yerta

Level: Tertiary-professional level contemporary dance experience 

Cost: $30 + booking fees (Dance Hub SA Member Discount $25 plus fees)

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About the masterclass:

A visceral and thrilling exploration of the juxtaposition of beauty and devastation, Sydney Dance Company’s full-length work, Impermanence is Rafael Bonachela’s newest creation. This two-hour masterclass led by Company Dancer Jesse Scales will incorporate contemporary technique, an opportunity to learn repertoire from Impermanence, and exploration of the creative tasks that informed the choreographic process behind the work. Aimed at tertiary and professional-level dancers, this workshop provides insight into the contemporary dance processes used in the development of a work at Sydney Dance Company. 

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About the company:

Dance changes you. More than simply witnessing something beautiful, or engaging with culture, to experience dance is to be positively altered. From performances at the Joyce Theatre in New York, to the Grand in Shanghai, the Stanislavsky in Moscow and the Sydney Opera House at home, Sydney Dance Company has proved that there are no passive observers in a contemporary dance audience.

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About the masterclass leader:

Born in Hobart, Jesse is from Adelaide where they trained with Terry Simpson and was awarded their RAD Solo Seal. They received full scholarships to study with Complexions Contemporary Ballet in New York and Nederlands Dans Theatre in The Hague and went on to major in classical ballet at the New Zealand School of Dance.

Since joining Sydney Dance Company in 2012, Jesse performed a feature role in the Australian premiere of William Forsythe’s Quintett for which they were awarded the 2015 Green Room Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’ and a nomination for the 2015 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’. Jesse made their choreographic debut in Sydney Dance Company’s 2016 New Breed season. In 2017 Jesse was named ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’ in the Dance Australia Critics’ Choice Survey.

Jesse choreographed a new work for New Breed 2020.

Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Karul Projects, Contemporary Indigenous Dance

The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Fringe and venue partner Dance Hub SA, present a contemporary dance masterclass with Thomas E.S. Kelly, a proud Bundjalung-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri, Ni-Vanuatu man, who co-created Karul Projects in 2017.

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Masterclass information

When: Friday, February 26, 2021, 12pm - 1:30pm

Venue: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, level 1, corner Morphett St and North Terrace, Adelaide

Cost: $23

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About the masterclass:

The masterclass, suitable for contemporary trained dancers, explores Contemporary Indigenous Dance Technique, a grounded physical form that will leave you sweaty, energised and connected.

About the company:

Karul Projects is a company led by new First Nation voices telling new stories. Karul is situated in South East Qld and Northern NSW. Thomas creates work that explores high intensity physical works stemming from a cultural practice fused with contemporary, which incorporates voice and physical percussion. Creating work that ebbs and flows whilst mimicking nature. Remembering the past to better understand the present so we can move forward into the future.

Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: The Latebloomers, ‘Discover Your Inner Idiot’

The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Fringe present a masterclass with performers The Latebloomers.

The Latebloomers are an international company of performers who met at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris.

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Masterclass Information

When: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 11am - 1pm

Venue: The Mill Breakout, The Mill 154 Angas Street, Adelaide

Cost: $23

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About the Masterclass:

This masterclass caters for either professional performers wanting to learn new skills for their repertoire or brush up on the art of 'play' or beginners/amateurs wanting to have some fun, build confidence and discover new skills. A brief introduction to clown including a Lecoq style physical warm-up with improv games, characterisation, improvisation and slapstick.

About the Masterclass Leaders:

The Latebloomers are an international company of performers who met at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris. Their work draws on training in physical theatre, clown and mime. Their first show 'Scotland!' has toured to multiple countries in Europe and Australia, winning awards at the Adelaide, Prague and Paris Fringe festivals.

The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas St, and a disability toilet is also available. If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

Masterclass: 'City Mobilities' public masterclass

City Mobilities is a two-day intensive exploring ideas about the way we access and move in public spaces, supported by City of Adelaide. The workshop is open to artists and non- artists interested in gaining new skills and knowledge in site-based art projects. Over the two days, participants will work with the lead artists Tom Borgas (The Mill resident artist) and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director) to explore how we can rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities.

What Participants Can Expect:

The workshop will explore a variety of visual, design and performance making methods to highlight, question and renegotiate the importance of individual participation in public space. Participants will be invited to research various city sites and public spaces and develop a series of conceptual and physical responses in a collaborative studio-based set up.

The masterclass will:


• Offer participants a fertile space to share, learn, create and exchange ideas, skills and processes


• Open up new ways of thinking, doing and making in a collaborative and collegial gathering


• Stimulate and support the skills development of local SA artists seeking new approaches to working within the public domain

The City Mobilities masterclass is a precursor to the development of a longer collaborative public art project planned for 2021/22 and is the second outcome of an ongoing partnership between The Mill and OSCA.

Details

When: Wednesday, October 14, and Thursday, October 15 10am–4pm

Venue: The Mill Breakout Space, 154 Angas Street, Adelaide (enter via Gunson Street)

Cost: $60 + booking fee

What to wear: Participants are requested to dress adequately and bring a hat for the sun as we will be working outside at times


What materials to bring:

• Participants need to bring a sketch pad and pencil/pen

• All other materials will be supplied

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Artist Biographies:

Tom Borgas is an Adelaide-based visual artist working from a sculptural foundation across multiple platforms including gallery and project work, public sculpture, festival interventions, performance and education. His research finds its inspiration in the blurry spaces between image and object, virtual and physical, maker and viewer. Borgas’ work has been shown at galleries and venues across Australia. His practice continues to expand through commissioning agents including UAP, Stockroom and MARS gallery Melbourne, the City of Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival Centre. His practice has also been supported through organisations that include the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts South Australia, NAVA, Guildhouse and The Helpmann Academy. madebytomborgas.com

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Paul Gazzola is an artist and curator working in the expanded field of participatory art practice, contemporary performance, sculpture, scenography and video. Over the last 25 years he has generated an innovative array of projects that explore the relationship between the body, site and the built environment. These works for stages, galleries, museums, site-specific settings and print have been commissioned and presented in Australia and internationally. He is also the Artistic Director of OSCA – Open Space Contemporary Arts. www.paulgazzola.org

SALA Masterclass: Tit Pottery

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Image: Jessica Mason, supplied.

Tit Pottery Masterclass

When: Sunday, August 9, 2020

Where: The Mill’s Breakout Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via Gunson St)

Session times: 11am -1pm, 1.30pm - 3.30pm or 4pm - 6pm

Cost: $95 ($10 per ticket donated to Catherine House – Supporting Women Experiencing Homelessness)

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Presented by The Mill, in partnership with SALA Festival 2020.

About The Workshop:

A truly unique experience, learn to mould and create your own unique Dots Pot booby pot! These fun, easy to follow pottery workshops are perfect for anyone out there who feels they aren’t very 'creative'! It’s also just a good bloody excuse to sit around a table with a bunch of like minded legends and remind each other just how great your bodies are - in every single way!

There are far too many influences that turn our bodies into something to critique or be ashamed of. Dots Pots just want you to love and accept every bit of yourself and remind you to help other women do the same. This workshop will light-heartedly focus on these so called ‘imperfections’ where participants will learn to build and mould with pottery and make their own booby pot with the use of air dry clay.

Go home with your very own booby pot, your own mini flower arrangement to display in your new piece of art, some cute self-love reminders and a fun new skill!

No experience required - all welcome!

What Participants Can Expect:

Participants will take home their very own self-made booby pot, set of affirmation cards & small flower bunch.

Materials used:

• Nontoxic Ceramic/Air Dry clay

• Pottery wheel

• Support Pins

• Sculpting tools

• Various fresh and dried flowers to arrange and display

• Free tit-pot photoshoot (to be sent electronically)

• Set of affirmation and self-love cards

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About the artist:

Jessica Mason is a local woman who works within the legal sector of public service. As a result of severe personal trauma, as well as frequent exposure to the impacts of violence and domestic abuse, she wanted to find a way to reach out with messages of support for the local groups within Adelaide that support those experiencing displacement due to these all too common issues within society.

With the assistant of a psychologist and medical help, Jessica found a way to connect with her body again through self-taught art therapy, in particular, clay. Working with clay and pottery play can be instantly calming and reflective. As a feminist-in-training and a huge proponent of body positivity and expression, Jessica decided to create the project Dots Pots @doesmynippleoffendyou as a platform to discuss these issues, whilst also connecting locals to donate to services like Catherine House, Women’s Safety Services, Bfriend and many other local groups that work for those in need of support.

Dots Pots has run DIY pottery workshops across many public events like Gilles At the Grounds, Spin Off Festival, Laneway Festival and Porchland Festival. These workshops blossomed into a travelling party class, hosting hens shows, baby showers and birthday parties all across SA.

As a strong advocate for personal and self-care, Jessica works to try and spread the message of self-worth and expression through these Tit Pottery gatherings. Much more than a sit down how-to and a giggle with a group of friends, Jessica uses humour and vulnerability to distract the everyday person from the ‘I could never make something like that!’ and the ‘I’m not good enough’.

Where conversation can often be an incredibly important starting point for anyone who has or is currently suffering from abuse, Jessica often shares her story of sexual assault and recovery to connect women with the idea that there are always ways out of struggle and it is almost never alone. The pledge to donate $10 from every pot to these local groups is how as a group we can collectively say ‘we see the work you do and we deem it essential’, as those without networks of support truly deserve to have somewhere to turn in those dark times.

As a self-proclaimed ‘bumbling mess’, she understands the trepidation in trying something new but after assisting 100’s of people through her pottery classes, reassures you that anyone can find their inner craft Queen when it comes to working with pottery!  

Dot, Jessica’s 77-year-old Nana, the project’s namesake has come along to most public events held by the project since its conception in 2018. Dot’s flirty, excitable personality brings an inspirational amount of self-confidence to Dots Pots events.

The project has recently been put on hold due to a recent and impactful loss within the family. The landscape in which the project will continue is still uncertain. Events like this may be sporadic but will assist in continuing to raise these important topics within the Adelaide community.

SALA Workshop: Evie Hassiotis, ‘Explore Your Creative Spirit’

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Painting: Venus Liberated by Evie Hassiotis

Workshop

When: Saturday, August 15 and Sunday, August 16, 2020, 1-4pm

Where: Exhibition Space, The Mill

Cost: $150, materials provided

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Presented by The Mill, in partnership with SALA Festival 2020.

About The Workshop:

Participants will be guided through a process of letting go of certain ideas about what art practice is and through a series of increments will explore their own creativity. No experience required, all welcome!

The workshop will give participants the opportunity to use various mediums and become comfortable with them and to explore techniques to create texture on their art work using various materials such as silicone, sand, tissue paper, card board etc.

Evie will give people the choice to paint what they see in the physical world or to express their inner landscape. Individual processes and ideas will be encouraged through the workshop.

What Participants Can Expect:

On the first day they will explore working with:

• Colour mixing (water colour paint)

• Working with pastels and ink

• Still life exercise using pastels and water colour

• Experimenting with texture

On the second day they will have the opportunity to become familiar with acrylic on paper and canvas, and to explore its versatility and further explore techniques working with texture. Participants will take home at least one piece of art created that they will feel proud of.

Materials provided:

• A3 paper

• A1 cartridge paper 

• Watercolour paper

• Oil pastels   

• Chalky pastels

• Watercolour

• Inks 

• Acrylics 

• Small canvas

• Silicone, tissue paper, sand, cardboard etc - textures

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Artist Biography:

Evie Hassiotis is an Adelaide based artist who works intuitively with textures and mixed media, photography and improvised dance. Evie believes in the potential of art to emotionally heal the human soul and to promote spiritual growth in the art practitioner and in the viewer. Improvised movement together with her art practice have been an avenue to express spirituality, creativity and art as a healing practice.

Evie began her art studies while living in Sydney in 1995 at the Bondi Road Art School. These classes ignited her enthusiasm for the visual arts and she is indebted to her inspiring tutors at Bondi for guiding her into the world of art. In 2019 she undertook Life Drawing classes at Central School of Art. She joined The Mill as a studio artist in February 2019 and has continued her develop her art practice there, including hosting regular open studio events as well as conducting art workshops for beginners and those people who want to tap into their latent creativity.

Evie has worked as a facilitator of art workshops for adults, including those living with dementia and has experience working with people in residential and community care. In her workshops she creates a space for participants to express themselves without fear of judgment and encourages participants to reveal their inner landscape using a variety of media. She currently works in a primary school with 5-9 year old students with learning challenges

Evie is currently working on an exhibition Xenitia, to be shown at The Mill during SALA 2020. Xenitia, meaning exile, explores the theme of migration of children and their families and centres around Evie’s experience of migrating to Australia from Greece in 1964 when she was 6 years old. The exhibition will include installation of handmade dolls, film and mixed media artworks.

Evie has exhibited as part of the Mitcham Art Prize, Victor Harbor Art Show, Walkerville Art Exhibition, SALA 2019 at Gallery One and at The Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre as well as hosting exhibitions from her home studio and her studio at The Mill.

Call Out: Dancehouse: Keir Choreographic Award Public Program, Hotbed and Asia Topa programs (VIC)

The Mill Adelaide in partnership with Dancehouse Melbourne is offering up to three South Australian Dance Artists positions in three workshops in Melbourne as part of Keir Choreographic Award Public Program, Hotbed and Asia Topa programs.

SA dance artists can apply for one, two or all three opportunities and will receive:

• $500 artist honorarium per/workshop, toward travel and accomodation provided by The Mill (total $1500) 

• Free position/s in workshop/s provided by Dancehouse

• Free Dancehouse membership provided by Dancehouse (if not already a member)

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Please click on the following links to find out information on workshops:

THE TOUCH OF THE OTHER | TAKAO KAWAGUCHI (JAPAN)
29 February 2020 - 01 March 2020

Touch of the Other is a workshop with public outcome led by Takao Kawaguchi exploring the aesthetics, erotics, and politics of male-male sex in public restrooms, known to their users as “tearooms." Click here for more information.

CHOREOGRAPHY AS WRITING: HOTBED WORKSHOP WITH METTE EDVARDSEN (BELGIUM/NORWAY)
07 March 2020 - 08 March 2020

For professional choreographers. Exploring Mette Edvardsen's recent works and methodologies, developed using language as material and looking into the relationship between writing and speaking, between language and voice. Click here for more information. 

1 NOTE 2 MOVEMENTS 3 WORDS: COMPOSITION WORKSHOP WITH MATTEO FARGION (UK/ITALY)
14 March 2020 - 15 March 2020

A two day composition workshop focussing on what happens when ideas and techniques which come from music are translated into movement, and vice versa. Click here for more information.

EOI: Please send your expression of interest, including why you will benefit from this experience and your CV to director@themilladelaide.com 

EOI Due Date: Friday, February 7, 2020

Notification: Monday, February 10, 2020

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Tushrik Fredericks, ‘Black Velvet’ Contemporary Dance

Photographer: Radina Gancheva

The Mill in Partnership with The Adelaide Festival, present a contemporary dance masterclass with Tushrik Fredericks.

Tushrik Fredericks and company are here in Adelaide performing ‘Black Velvet’ in The Adelaide Festival. Its a MUST SEE! To book your tickets to the show please click here

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Masterclass information

When: Thursday February 27, 2020, 1:30pm - 3pm

Where: Adelaide College of The Arts, Rehearsal Studio Level 3, 39 Light Square, Adelaide

Cost: $22

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About the masterclass

Drawing information from many different movement techniques/languages, this class consists of physical research which informs the physical/mental being in things that we are familiar and unfamiliar with. The contemporary dance masterclass will research listening to what is between us, inside of us, and around us.  In an effort to allow similarities and differences to exist. It jumps into high levels of connection, activation, stretch, endurance, and groove.  Also leaving space for the finding of small gestures that connect to a bigger picture of the moment.

About the masterclass leader

Tushrik Fredericks is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. He graduated from the Peridance Capezio Center Certificate Program in New York City in 2015 where he received most of his formal training. He has had the opportunity to dance with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY (Danielle Agami, Artistic Director). He was also an artist with Sidra Bell Dance New York from July 2015 - June 2018 with performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, ODC Theatre in San Francisco, Vara Konserthus in Sweden, The CAC in New Orlean, Derida Dance Centre in Sofia Bulgaria and New York Live Arts. He is now currently part of a performance art work by Shamel Pitts titled ‘BLACK HOLE: Trilogy And Triathlon’, which since March 2018 has performed at various international locations. Tushrik was an assistant lecturer to Sidra Bell at The University of the Arts Philadelphia for Sophomore students(2016-2018). Teaching credits include: Gibney Dance Center NY, Broadway Dance Center NY, Peridance Capezio Center New York, Conservatory of Dance SUNY Purchase and Alonzo King Lines Ballet School BFA program San Francisco all through Sidra Bell Dance New York. 

About the company

TRIBE is a Brooklyn/NYC based arts collective dedicated to creating, developing and sharing original multidisciplinary art projects. With artistic direction by choreographer and artist Shamel Pitts, TRIBE holds the afro-futuristic movement as its biggest inspiration. Understanding that performance art and live art are practices of human connection, TRIBE acts nationally and internationally by developing art exchanges and performances in collaboration with institutions and artists, with a focus on the African diaspora.  TRIBE was created with the dream to soon become a synonym of artistic experiences that connects gifted individuals in our present era to re-imagine and cultivate an alternative new future. 

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Nick Power, 'Breakdance and Choreographic Process'

Photographer: Victor Frankowski

The Mill in Partnership with The Adelaide Festival, present a masterclass with Nick Power.

Nick Power and company are here in Adelaide performing ‘Between Tiny Cities’ and ‘Two Crews’ in The Adelaide Festival. It’s a MUST SEE! To book your tickets to ‘Between Tiny Cities’ please click here, to book your tickets to ‘Two Crews’ please click here

Masterclass Information

When: Friday, March 13, 2020, 3-5pm

Where: Adelaide College of The Arts, Studio 1, Level 3

Participant info/level: For professional & tertiary level contemporary, breakdance and hiphop dancers and actors/physical theatre performers/movers.

Participants should wear: Loose, athletic clothing / dance wear or whatever they feel comfortable in.  We will dance in shoes, sneakers are best.

Cost: $27

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About the masterclass:

This masterclass will include foundation elements of Breaking, history of the form and will explore the choreographic tools and techniques that Nick uses to create contemporary hip hop performances.  All styles are welcome, expect a fun and engaging workshop around technique and creative process fuelled by funky beats.

About the masterclass leader:

Nick Power is a Sydney based B*boy and Choreographer whose work draws on the rituals and culture of hip hop to create contemporary performances. His practice spans from remote Aboriginal communities in the desert to the stages of the most prestigious contemporary dance festivals in Europe. Crossing complex divides of place, culture, language and form is Nick’s forté. He grew his skills in the Australian hip hop scene through dance battles and shows before going on to create performances for some of Australia’s most celebrated companies including Tracks Dance and Stalker Theatre. In 2012 Nick was the recipient of the Australia Council dance residency at the Cite International Des Arts in Paris. This residency, alongside his time in the remote Aboriginal community of Lajamanu, inspired his first full length independent work - Cypher. Based on a hip hop dance ritual, the work premiered at Darwin Festival in 2014 and has since toured to major European dance festivals and throughout Australia including Sydney Festival, Sydney Opera House, Tanz Im August (Berlin) and URB Festival (Helsinki). Following this came Between Tiny Cities - a duet between a dancer from Darwin and a dancer from Phnom Penh, developed over three years through a cross cultural hip hop exchange between Australia and Cambodia. It Premiered at Dance Massive 2017 with seasons in Phnom Penh, Darwin Festival, APAM and Hong Kong Arts Festival. The work toured through Asia and Europe in 2018 and was nominated for a Green Room Award and an Australian Dance Award. Nick’s latest work Two Crews - a collaboration with Lady Rocks Crew (Paris) and Riddim Nation (Sydney) was commisioned through the Majoir Festival Initiative and premiered at Sydney Festival in 2020 followed by Adelaide Festival. Nick was the founder and Artistic Director of Platform Hip Hop Festival, produced by Carriageworks and was the Curator of Contemporary Dance at Campbelltown Arts Centre from 2016 - 2018. NIck is a 2018 Sidney Myer Fellow.

OzAsia Festival Masterclass: Valentine Nagata-Ramos, 'Hip Hop from streets of Paris'

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The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival and Adelaide College of The Arts present Masterclass with Valentine Nagata-Ramos performing in KATA as part of the 2019 OzAsia Festival.

Details

When: Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 2-3.30pm

Where: Level 3, Rehearsal Studio, Adelaide College of The Arts, 39 Light Square, Adelaide SA 5000

Participant Level: Professional Level/Tertiary/Full time Dance Student

Cost: $20

About the artist and masterclass:

Photo: Valentine Nagata-Ramos by Tetsuo Nagata

B-girl Valentine has danced for leading hip-hop troupes around the world, and started her own dance company, Uzumaki, in 2011. She performed with the MTV dance crew and has won numerous breakdance battles. She will run this special masterclass, sharing many of her unique break styles as seen in the performance of Kata by choreographer Anne Nguyen as part of Oz Asia Festival 2019.

An internationally renowned B-girl, Valentine has danced for companies Black Blanc Beur, Montalvo/Hervieu, 6° Dimension, and with the crew Fantastik Armada (world champion at BOTY 2004). She performed with the MTV dance crew 2005-2006 and has won many breakdance battles (BOTY 2007, IBE 2008…) which she also judged (BOTY 2004). For her Dance Company Uzumaki, she choreographed her first soloSadako in 2011, the duet JE suis TOI in 2014, and My Mother is better than yours in 2018. Valentine has also worked with Anne Nguyen before, replacing her in the solo Square Root (2007), and is dancing with her in the duet Yonder Woman (2010). She is also dancing in the female quartet Autarcie and in the 2017 par Terre Dance Company’s production Kata.

OzAsia Festival Masterclass: Damien Jalet & Aimilios Arapoglou, 'Contemporary Dance in Visual Art & Film'

The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival and supported by Dance Hub SA, present Masterclass with Damien Jalet, choreographer of ‘Vessel’ presented as part of the 2019 OzAsia Festival.

Masterclass details

When: Sunday 27th October, 2019, 10am - 11.30am

Where: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, Cnr Morphett St & North Tce, Adelaide

Participant Level: Professional Level/Tertiary/Full time School Dance Student

Cost: $20

About the artists and masterclass:

Damien Jalet

Choreographer of ‘Vessel’, Damien Jalet is at the forefront of contemporary dance. Damien Jalet is an independent Belgian and French choreographer and dancer whose work has been presented all over the world . Interested in the capacity of dance constantly reinventing itself by conversing with other media such as visual art, music, cinema, theatre and fashion; his works are often collaborative. He worked as a choreographer and dancer for companies such as Ballet C. de la B., Sasha Waltz and Guests, Chunky Move, Eastman, NYDC, Hessiches Staatballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Icelandic Dance Company , Gothenburg Dance company and many more.

Damien will share his experience as a choreographer in areas of visual art and film with his collaborator Aimilios Arapoglou.

As a teacher Jalet has also taught his specific technique using centrifugal force in many companies and institutions including Pina Bausch Company, ImPulsTanz Vienna, Atelier de Paris, Architanz Tokyo.

Damien Jalet has been entitled knight of the arts and letters by the French government in 2013. www.damienjalet.com

Aimilios Arapoglou

Aimilios Arapoglou graduated from the Greek National Dance School in 2011. A few notable performances include, Bolero, YAMA, Gravity Fatigue and BABEL 7.16. He recently contributed to the creation of Skid, a piece by Damien Jalet and visual artist Jim Hodges. In addition to freelance touring throughout Europe, the United States and Japan, Aimilios was invited by Ceprodac Dance Company for an artistic residency in Mexico in August 2018. There, as a guest artist and choreographic assistant to Damien Jalet, he collaborated on Omphalos, which premiered in Mexico City that year.

Images: Damien Jalet and Aimilios Arapoglou - image by Koen Broos