centre stage residency

Centre Stage Residency: Announcing the successful 2021 recipient

chloe metcalfe ·

The Centre Stage Residency at The Mill will progress a new work presented by Paper Mouth Theatre to its next stage of development, including a work-in-progress public showing and culminating in a season at The Mill as part of Adelaide Fringe 2022.

Caitlin Ellen Moore (she/they) will be creatively producing YOU’RE ALL INVITED TO MY SON SAMUEL’S FOURTH BIRTHDAY PARTY alongside writer and lead performer Mary Angley (she/they), and performer, composer and projection designer Dan Thorpe (he/him).

This is a cosmic, multimedia performance about climate change, rugged individualism, and decadence.

  • Anchored within the suburban sphere of an outer-space-themed-fourth-birthday-party, this work transcends a cycle of time, spanning the Big Bang to the end of an entropying universe.

    Narrated by Samuel’s Mother and Father, this work positions the audience as the unseen (but ever-present) birthday boy, SAMUEL.

    Amidst melting ice cream cakes, decimated piñatas, a dying planet, and a rocket ship to Mars, SAMUEL is forced to reckon with the ever-present question: “who do I hold accountable?”

This residency is presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund.

 
 

masterclass series, public program

Workshop: City Mobilities

chloe metcalfe ·

Photo: Morgan Sette

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

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

Cost: $60

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

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 workshop 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

This program has support from

 
 

Employment Opportunity: Emerging Producer Xchange

chloe metcalfe ·

The Mill will select one Emerging Producer to work alongside The Mill team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment supporting artists in creation, presentation and touring of new work. You will be supported in your development as a producer through:

  • Mentorship from experienced producers and curators

  • Learning and doing on the job (yes producing work with artists!)

  • Tailored workshops including a 3-day producing boot-camp intensive in Queensland at Metro Arts

  • Mentored networking opportunities at key industry events

  • Cross-organisational opportunities with Metro Arts (Queensland)

  • Peer-to-peer learning with your fellow emerging producers

  • In-depth assessment with Fieldworx

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The Emerging Producer positions are part-time at 22.5 hours per week, for a 10-month period: January, 18, 2021 – November, 12, 2021.  Out of hours work is expected due to the nature of the position.

Salary (Full Time Equivalent) is $44,850 per year + statutory superannuation.

Applicants must be available to work with The Mill for the full period and interstate travel is expected (COVID restrictions allowing).  A standard employment contract will be offered.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

The Emerging Producer Xchange is designed for new and emerging producers who:

  • Are within their first three to five years of professional producing practice. This includes those pivoting their careers towards producing after a previous profession or practice

  • Are seeking a long-term career as a producer in the performing arts and in their home state

  • Are passionate about independent contemporary arts

  • Are ready to make a difference in our sector and our society

  • Are flexible, creative thinkers and are ready to learn

  • Have a good understanding of contemporary and multidisciplinary arts in the performance landscape and a desire to grow your knowledge and skills around funding, touring and presenter frameworks.

The Mill is committed to equality and diversity, through our program of activities and as an employer. Our practices and procedures aim to reflect the varied needs, expectations and culture of all members of our community. We make every effort to ensure that no member of the community receives less favourable treatment in our recruitment or when accessing our services on the grounds of gender, gender identity, disability, race, religion or belief, age or sexual orientation.  All are encouraged to apply.

Applications will not be considered from:

  • Applicants who will be studying full-time in 2021.

  • Applicants under 18 years.

  • Producers with a career trajectory outside of the performing arts (e.g. film/television)

  • Applicants not based in South Australia

  • Non-Australian residents/citizens including those seeking international exchange

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for the available Emerging Producer Xchange internship, you will need to provide:

  • Your CV

    • Including contact details and up to 3 professional referees

    • Maximum two pages, PDF format

  • A cover letter

    • Indicating the available position you are applying for, and

    • Responding to the following questions

    • Maximum two pages, PDF format


APPLICATION CRITERIA

  1. Working in a small to medium arts organisation requires the ability to multi-task daily, communicate regularly and sensitively, and balance several projects simultaneously. Discuss how your past experience demonstrates your ability to work well at The Mill.

  2. Explain your understanding of contemporary performing arts and why you believe it is crucial to the Australian arts landscape.

  3. Please give two examples of projects where you have worked closely with artists to contribute to the creation of new work. Discuss the steps undertaken, the challenges and successes.

  4. In your opinion what are the core qualities required by a Producer in today’s arts landscape in Australia.

Please email your responses as PDF attachments to director@themilladelaide.com with the subject ‘Emerging Producer Xchange’ before 9.00am Tuesday, November 24. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. 

Interviews with shortlisted applicants will take place in Adelaide during the week commencing November 30, 2020.

ENQUIRIES

For further information about the positions available as part of the Emerging Producer Xchange, please contact: Director Katrina Lazaroff, 0406991330 or director@themilladelaide.com 

EMERGING PRODUCER XCHANGE IS DELIVERED BY METRO ARTS

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Metro Arts is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Metro Arts is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Environment and Science. 

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

 
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The Ian Potter Foundation is one of Australia’s major philanthropic foundations. The Foundation makes grants nationally to support charitable organisations working to benefit the community across a wide range of sectors including the arts, medical research, public health research, early childhood development, community wellbeing and environmental science. The Ian Potter Foundation aims to support and promote a healthy, vibrant, fair and sustainable Australia.

PROJECT PARTNER

 
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Our vision is for thriving and prosperous arts, cultural and creative sectors in South Australia. 

The Mill is South Australia’s leading multidisciplinary organisation. It achieves its vision by fostering the interconnection between creatives and audiences through programming and presentation. It enables creative and artistic works of social, cultural, and economic value for the benefit of the wider community.

Our rich, year-round program provides artists with the necessary physical space to work on their practice, alongside diverse public events, performances and exhibitions, and development opportunities.

The Mill’s masterclasses, workshops and residencies place local artists, both emerging and established, with leading practitioners from across the country, and around the world.

workshop, masterclass series, public program

Masterclass: Talking about Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Daniel Marks

When: Sunday, August 29, 2021, 10am-1pm

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

Cost: $150 + booking fee

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

About the masterclass:

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

This program has support from

 
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workshop, masterclass series, public program

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

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Chloe Metcalfe

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021, 10am-12:30pm and 1:30-4pm

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

Cost: $150 + booking fee

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

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

About the masterclass:

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

This program has support from

 
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public program, workshop, masterclass series

Masterclass: Crafting Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Daniel Marks

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021, 10:30am-3:30pm

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

Cost: $375 + booking fee

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

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

About the masterclass:

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

This program has support from

 
BankSA-Foundation-Logo.jpg
 

virtual gallery

Virtual Gallery: ‘Stitch and Resist’ with Centre of Democracy

chloe metcalfe ·

In July-August 2021 The Mill welcomed The Centre of Democracy to present Stitch and Resist, an exhibition of contemporary craftivism. Bringing together 140 works by activists from all around the world, this project is an example of the agency of communities working with a shared goal.

Below Images: Morgan Sette

Image: Deco Photography.

Image: Deco Photography.

Artist statement

This exhibition is the culmination of a year long project of the same name, in which the Centre of Democracy engaged with community organisations and groups, as well as with the general public, to discuss, and create works addressing a range of contemporary issues.

Stitch & Resist showcases craftivist pieces that vary in terms of skill level and artistic merit. Their significance lies less in these values than in the political work they do, the contribution they make to social change. Pieces that appear in the exhibition have been created in English, Arabic, and indigenous languages, and many address diversity, inclusion and equality. As well as functioning as vehicles for addressing contemporary social issues, the works demonstrate the fact that everyone can be involved in craftivism. Over 140 works have been produced by a large number of individuals, community groups, and partner organisations from across South Australia, Australia, and internationally.

The Centre of Democracy is a collaboration between the History Trust of South Australia and the State Library of South Australia. It showcases the people, ideas and movements that have shaped, and continue to shape, democracy in South Australia. Featuring treasures from the state’s collections, the gallery contents challenge visitors to think again about people and power.

masterclass series, public program

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

chloe metcalfe ·

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

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.

 
 

spotlight residency, public program, theatre residency

Breakout Residencies: Bureau d’Exchange public showing

chloe metcalfe ·

Showing and Q&A

When: August 4 & August 5: 12-2pm, August 6: 4-7pm, August 7: 12-2pm, 2021

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta enter via Gunson St

Cost: Free

Bureau d’Exchange presents a participatory performance work that reflects upon the meaning and value of objects and the unique stories embedded within them.

Please bring a personal item you feel ready to let go of, to exchange for an item of equal emotional value from the Bureau’s ever-evolving stock of ‘merchandise’.

Bureau ‘staff’ (award-winning artist Cynthia Schwertsik and performer Emma Beech) will guide you through the discreet process of valuing your item and adding its story to the Bureau’s poignant emporium of memories and desires.

Bookings are available for individuals or small groups (<5 people), there are two bookings available per 15 minute session.

PLEASE NOTE: Mask wearing is required throughout your attendance at The Mill unless you are an exempt person under the current SA Health guidelines.

We encourage attendees to also book for our Bureau d'Exchange Artist Talk on Friday, August 13 at 5pm.

  • Cynthia Schwertsik’s art practice is diverse, including visual art and contemporary performance, with a focus on activating public space. She works preferably in collaborations to investigate the oxymorons found in the wake of contemporary life. Absurdity and humour are central to Cynthia’s cross-disciplinary art-solutions.

  • Emma Beech graduated from Flinders Drama Centre in 2000, and works across theatre and screen. She has established a practice developing theatre shows from meaningful conversations with strangers. Emma has worked with The Last Tuesday Society, Real TV, Bron Batten, Patch, Monkey Baa, Playwriting Australia, Arts House, Open Space Contemporary Arts, STC, SA Museum, The Rabble and Vitalstatistix.

  • Elyas Alavi’s practice is interdisciplinary bridging elements from poetry to visual arts, from archive to everyday events with the intention to address issues around displacement, trauma, memory, body and sexual identity.

  • Valerie Berry is an actor, performance maker and emerging director. Throughout her practice, she has focused on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes.

This project has support from

 
 

public program, gallery I

Exhibition: Centre of Democracy, 'Stitch and Resist'

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Karen Blackwood, I'm Really Quite Cross

July 2 - August 6, 2021

Opening event: July 2, 5:30-7:30pm

‘Crafting change’ studio: Saturday, July 24, 1-5pm

The Mill welcomes The Centre of Democracy to present Stitch and Resist, an exhibition of contemporary craftivism. Bringing together 140 works by activists from all around the world, this project is an example of the agency of communities working with a shared goal. Each individual stitch comes together to create collective meaning that is multi layered, complex and gestalt. The artists exhibited as part of Stitch and Resist do not necessarily see themselves as artists, and perhaps didn’t think of themselves as activists either. The works are both political in their messaging, and in their creation, allowing individuals to create statements that are personally meaningful from within their own homes or as part of community group.

We hope that visitors will be inspired by what you see in the gallery, and encourage you to consider your own politics and values in relation to the works on display. We also invite you to join local craftivists for a special public program Crafting Change on Saturday July 24 where you can hear from Stitch and Resist artists, purchase a cross stitch kit, create a Stitch and Resist themed badge and listen to protest music with Dan Monceaux AKA DJ Sepia.

  • This exhibition is the culmination of a year long project of the same name, in which the Centre of Democracy engaged with community organisations and groups, as well as with the general public, to discuss, and create works addressing a range of contemporary issues.

    Stitch & Resist showcases craftivist pieces that vary in terms of skill level and artistic merit. Their significance lies less in these values than in the political work they do, the contribution they make to social change. Pieces that appear in the exhibition have been created in English, Arabic, and indigenous languages, and many address diversity, inclusion and equality. As well as functioning as vehicles for addressing contemporary social issues, the works demonstrate the fact that everyone can be involved in craftivism. Over 140 works have been produced by a large number of individuals, community groups, and partner organisations from across South Australia, Australia, and internationally.

  • The Centre of Democracy is a collaboration between the History Trust of South Australia and the State Library of South Australia. It showcases the people, ideas and movements that have shaped, and continue to shape, democracy in South Australia. Featuring treasures from the state’s collections, the gallery contents challenge visitors to think again about people and power.

    Nikki Sullivan is Manager of the Centre of Democracy, a collaboration between the History Trust of South Australia and the State Library of South Australia. 

    Britt Burton is the Public Programs Coordinator for the History Trust of South Australia and the Centre of Democracy.

 
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This exhibition has support from

 
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virtual gallery

Virtual Gallery: Quartz Pistol, Umbrella Festival 2021

chloe metcalfe ·

Quartz Pistol and The Mill present NATURE VS NURTURE, a three-part live video inspired by the deep sea, hydrothermal vent ecosystems where life on Earth is said to have originated.

Quartz Pistol AKA Abbey Howlett shares with you three tunes, representative of three different stages in her songwriting career featuring Myka Wallace on drums and Moses Carr on keys. Special thanks to Umbrella Festival and ArtsSA.

DOP/producer: Joli Vision

Second Camera: Will Hamilton-Coates

Set design: Abbey Howlett

Costume: Abbey Howlett

BTS shots: Back2back Media

This project has support from

 
 

spotlight residency, breakout showing, dance residency

Breakout Residencies: Thomas Fonua, MAMA

chloe metcalfe ·

Private showing

When: Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 5.45pm sharp for a 6pm start.

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas St, Adelaide (enter via the Gallery on Angas St)

Duration: 1 hour

MAMA is a new physical-theatre work which examines gender, identity and Patriarchy from a South Pacific lens. Drawing from the origin stories of the Samoan Fafafine and Tongan Fakaleiti, MAMA is commentary from this generational perspective of the labour division which validated the act of pre-colonial gender fluidity in accordance to a patriarchal society. It also examines the differences in the rite of passage of a boy becoming a man from the past traditional landscape to a present western/urban environment.

About the artists:

  • Thomas Fonua is an artist of Pacific decent with an established career as a dancer, choreographer and emerging leader. Thomas has worked for companies such as Black Grace (NZ) , Australian Dance Theatre, Red Sky Performance(Canada) and has been touring internationally from the age of 16.

    Thomas’ alterego Kween Kong, is the Reigning Dragnation Australia Winner. With a strong focus to inspire, challenge and nurture our community with his loved based leadership style.

    Thomas is the recipient of The (NZ) Prime Minster’s Award for Arts and Creativity(2015), Out For Australia’s Emerging Leader(2019) and has recently been nominated for the Dora Award For Outstanding Choreography in Canada.

  • Fez Faanana is well known for creating accessible, ground-breaking, physically dynamic, risqué and contemporary performance that infuses his Pacific bloodline, political bite, gender juggling, visual spectacle and tongue-in-cheek.

    Fez is also Shivannah. He-she is the host and MC, choreographer, creative director, performer, collaborator and co- creator along with an all-male circus burlesque gender bending cast. As an independent artist, collaborator and arts worker/educator, Fez has toured extensively throughout Australia and internationally through Canada, the Pacific, the UK and the USA. He has featured in various cabarets, co-productions and commissioned works including Melbourne Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Festival, Sydney Biennale, Sydney Festival, Harbor Front Centre Toronto, Big Sky Works & Galapagos Art Space New York, Performance Space Sydney, Duckie Royal Vauxhall London and the Sydney Opera House Studio. He has also independently produced and programmed work for Brisbane Festival & Adelaide Fringe Festival.

This project has support from

 
 

public program, free-range residency, theatre residency

Breakout Residencies: Jess Clough-MacRae showing, 'Trimates'

chloe metcalfe ·

Photo: Jess Clough-MacRae & Jonathan Tilley 'Attenborough & His Animals'. Credit: Toby Jeffries.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, July 9, 2021, 6:00pm (arrive 5:45pm)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas Street

Duration: 1 hour including post-show discussion

Cost: Free

Trimates (working title) is inspired by the work of the pioneers of primatology, Drs Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas.

Through a highly physical representation of the great apes, Trimates will explore the different ways that chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans communicate, whilst also telling the stories of the three women who studied them. Using text, movement and mime, this show will explore the parallel lives of the great apes and the pioneering scientists, in a bid to understand our complex relationship with the natural world.

Due to venue capacity restrictions, we ask you only book a ticket if you are able to attend. All attendees must be aware of our hygiene policy before attending our venue.

  • Jess Clough-MacRae is a British/New Zealand Lecoq-trained performer, director, and movement director currently based in Adelaide. She founded award-winning Clownfish Theatre and has toured their award-winning show Attenborough and his Animals to sell out crowds in Adelaide, Perth and Edinburgh Fringe.

This project has support from

 
 


dance launchpad

Dance Launchpad: Announcing the 2022 choreographers

chloe metcalfe ·

Dance Launchpad is a professional development program designed to support emerging dancers to build experience in the professional industry, by working with local South Australian choreographers.

The Mill is excited to announce Amanda Phillips and Tobiah Booth-Remmers as the commissioned choreographers for this year’s program.

The inaugural program, was presented by The Mill with Helpmann Academy and supported by Dance Hub SA, Hopgood Theatre and Cirkidz, and in 2022 the program is supported by venue partners ADT and Dance Hub SA.

  • Amanda Phillips is the Artistic Director of Dance Hub SA and the Creative producer of the production house, Felicity Arts. 

    She holds a Masters of Dance majoring in Choreography from the Laban Centre and is both a Churchill Fellow and Centennial Medallist, and has received numerous accolades for her work including a Ruby Award for Innovation. 

    Amanda has an international career as an independent Director, Choreographer, Digital Media Artist, Film-maker, Mentor, Educator and Producer across stage, screen and events. Hailed as a “Mastermind”, her ground-breaking work is described as “the new deal arts-wise at its mesmerising best”. Her repertoire has been presented worldwide including the works Chinese Whispers; subliminal translation; Agent of Language; Look Left: Not Right; Solo Reflections and Dance Between Worlds 432: dance, music and real-time visuals at world heritage site Naracoorte Caves National Park - a collaboration between Sacred Resonance and Felicity Arts. 

    Amanda has created a significant body of visual sonic and art-technology projects with collaborator Alexander Waite Mitchell that are attributed to pioneering Australian creative firsts across the performing and visual arts arenas, including: Otanical - the mixed reality fairytale; Like yesterday – mixed reality omnipresent monologue and physical soliloquy; The 9-channel interactive installation Mid-life love letters; The iconic Bank Street (DPTI Commission) interactive public art work MASS - Moving Audience Street Sculpture; Future Memory - Australia's first fulldome dance production; and the revolutionary 3xperimentia: Live Cut in 3D.

  • Tobiah Booth-Remmers is a freelance dance creator, performer, teacher and facilitator from Adelaide, Australia. He has worked with Garry Stewart, Graeme Murphy, Branch Nebula, Brink Productions, Larissa McGowan, Lina Limosani, Gabrielle Nankivell and Paulo Castro among many others. Tobiah has performed in major arts festivals including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Brisbane Festival, WOMAD, Dance Massive, Dublin Dance Festival and has performed at the Barbican Centre in London.

    As a dance maker Tobiah has choreographed numerous commissioned and self-produced works, including large immersive, site specific and more traditional format performances. Tobiah has lectured and taught dance to students at Adelaide College of the Arts, LINK, WAAPA, QUT, Transit Dance and at SDC Pre-Professional Year.

    Tobiah also regularly works overseas and has received residencies and made work in Bulgaria, Brussels, Sweden and Greece. He has taught workshops on his own creative and movement practice in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, France, Israel and Mexico.

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Exhibition : Holly Childs, 'Reality Winner'

chloe metcalfe ·

July 2 - August 6, 2021

Opening: Friday, July 2, 5:30pm

Where: The Exhibition Space, The Mill, 154 Angas Street

Cost: Free

Join us for the launch of Holly’s exhibition Reality Winner, the outcome of work produced during her sponsored studio residency at The Mill. Reality Winner opens alongside Stitch and Resist on Friday July 2, followed by an artist talk with Holly in conversation with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas date now TBC in July.

  • Language falls asleep in dreams. Reality Winner is the name of an NSA contractor convicted under the Espionage Act for leaking a report about Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Salvador Dali was kicked out of the surrealist movement for being too surreal. Post-rational author and consultant Venkatesh Rao defines “surreal” as “underflowing with life”, as in, there isn’t enough life force to go around, but “underflowing” also has a specific meaning in computation when a value is smaller than a computer can compute. Venkatesh: "Dreams *are* an underflowing-with-life state since they occur in sleeping bodies capable of much higher flows when awake". This exhibition contains materials derived and reworked from exhibitions, performances and collaborations that I contributed to but that I could not attend "in real life" due to the pandemic and associated travel bans.

  • Holly Childs is a writer and artist. Her research involves filtering stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry, and light. In 2020, she was an associate artist at Jacuzzi dance space, Amsterdam; and alongside Gediminas Žygus she released Hydrangea (Subtext), an album exploring narrative fracture and reality bubbles. She is the author of two books: No Limit (Hologram) and Danklands (Arcadia Missa), and is a former Gertrude Contemporary studio holder (Melbourne), an alumna of The New Normal (Media, Architecture and Design) programme at Strelka Institute, Moscow, and she holds a Masters in Film, Design and Politics from Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. She has been in residence at Arcadia Missa (London), RM (Auckland), Firstdraft (Sydney), Rupert (Vilnius), and DAR (Druskininkai). She is currently writing her third book, What Causes Flowers Not to Bloom?; teaching in the Graphic Design department at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; and developing Cliffhanger, a text, installation, and choreographic collaboration with Angela Goh.

Image courtesy of the artist

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Virtual Gallery: Thomas Readett, ‘Complexities’

chloe metcalfe ·

The Mill is excited to present Complexities, a solo exhibition by artist Thomas Readett. This new body of work uses self-portraiture as a medium for exploring the complexities of contemporary life. Thomas’ self-exploration and personal narratives become opportunities to reflect the wider world, through themes of love, loss, and grief.

Image: Thomas Readett in front of works from his Complexities exhibition (photo: Morgan Sette)

My love of video games and thinking games has driven the development of these works, using these games as a conduit to describe the complexities of connection and reflection. Using a small and technical object known as the Rubik's cube as the starting point, the original thinking game. My Rubik’s cube speaks to the pixel like painted snapshots on the walls and creates an environment to explore and contemplate life, connection, and love.

⏤ Thomas Readett

Artist statement

Perception is a fundamental trait of the creative mind. It allows us to interpret ideas differently to others, bring fresh ideas but also brings a different set of mental and social processes. These processes mean that we have deep and empathetic connections to people and the world around us.

Complexities explores how convoluted the creative mind can be. In this abstracted self-portrait body of work I reflect on the importance of self-expression and how overwhelming the world, life and relationships can be without it. In the world’s current climate all aspects of life have been more challenging than usual, using a form of self-expression has never been more important and, for me, it has become compulsory.

Image: Thomas Readett in conversation with Adele Sliuzas (Photo: Morgan Sette)

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Gabrielle Nankivell - Premiere ‘Future History’

chloe metcalfe ·

Performance

When: Friday, July 2, and Saturday, July 3, 2021, 7:30pm

Where: Australian Dance Theatre, The Odeon, 57a Queen St, Norwood

Cost: $30 + booking fees

Future History began as a research project to investigate the influence of personal history and artistic lineage on the way we work and the art we make. From this a strategy for collaborative devising was developed and the raw material for this new solo was born. An award-winning team including, Australian artists Luke Smiles, Martin del Amo, Kristina Chan and Joshua Thomson along with international artists Rasmus Ölme and Vania Vaneau have contributed to this collaboratively devised work.

Weaving notions personal and universal, Future History reflects the precarious nature of the human body and the natural world. The work manifests the cyclic quality of global uncertainty throughout time in response to threat – conflict, epidemic, escalating climate events – and illuminates the vulnerability and resilience implicit in life on earth.

Although conceived and developed long before the spectre of COVID-19 entered the scene, this project and the conversations it provokes feels decidedly urgent when facing our current predicament as artists and a society. 

A new ritual. 

Melancholic resolution. Unresolved continuance. Grieving something we haven't yet lost. Losing something we only just have a sense of. An endless oscillation between hope and despair, fear and courage, past and future, life and death.

Credits

Made by Gabrielle Nankivell in collaboration with Luke Smiles, Martin del Amo, Kristina Chan, Joshua Thomson, Rasmus Ölme and Vania Vaneau, with contributions by Harriet Oxley and Meg Wilson.

Supporters

The creative development of this work has been generously supported by:

The Government of South Australia Arts South Australia, Australian Dance Theatre’s International Centre for Choreography, The Mill’s Emerging Producer Xchange, Stockholm University of the Arts, Lieues Lyon and Legs on the Wall.

This project has support from

 
 

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Engage: Announcing the 2021 NSW Development Project recipient

chloe metcalfe ·

The Mill in Partnership with Critical Path (Sydney) has selected South Australian Dance Artist Andrew Barnes to attend a series of two consecutive development projects in Lismore, NSW. Andrew was our 2020 Engage recipient to Dancehouse Melbourne and this second opportunity is an extension of The Mill’s support towards his career as an emerging choreographer.

Andrew will be supported with $3000 from The Mill to cover the following: Artist Bursary, Travel to and Accomodation in Lismore NSW.

  • Andrew Barnes hailing from Adelaide suburbia, completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2017 majoring in Ballet, and went on to participate in LINK Dance Company under the directorship of Michael Whaites in 2018, during that year he decided to make the switch to the dark side (contemporary dance).  After the year with LINK Andrew worked with Lewis Major Productions in a development and research period.

    Andrew is a founding member of Syndicate Performance, an independent movement collective in Perth and in 2017 he choreographed and performed in a work developed for the Perth Fringe Festival curated with Syndicate. Andrew has also danced with Motus Collective, an independent collective based in Adelaide, and performed at the Australian Dance Theatres ‘Rough Draft’ season in 2019 and performed through Vital Statistix in their program ‘Adhocracy’.

    Andrew is currently working on and off with the likes of Lina Limosani and Lewis Major. In the coming year, Andrew is looking forward to reigning in his artistic values and interests, whether it’s creating dance works for stage and galleries or developing and sharing workshops for different festivals and people throughout Australia.

Photo 1 and 3: Alexander Waite Mitchell

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Dance Launchpad: Audition EOI 2021

chloe metcalfe ·

Presented by The Mill supported by venue partners ADT, and Dance Hub SA.

Dance Launchpad is a professional development program designed to support emerging contemporary dancers to build experience in the professional industry, by working with local South Australian choreographers. The program nurtures the ecology of dance in SA is supported by venue partners ADT and Dance Hub SA.

The program will commission two established choreographers, to share their wealth of industry knowledge with four emerging dance artists. Choreographers will be announced mid-end June 2021.

The outcome will be the creation of two choreographic works each performed by four selected dancers, presented in a double bill performance platform at ADT’s Odeon Theatre. 

The choreography will be filmed by a professional videographer to create a ‘showreel’ for each dancer to showcase their skills nationally and internationally, promoting future employment.

The successful dancers will be selected through EOI process & Audition at Dance Hub SA in July 2021.

Dance Launchpad has been postponed until May 2022.

Dance Launchpad has been generously supported by Australian Dance Theatre.

Photo Credit: Chris Herzfeld Imagery

Audition details

When: Sunday July 18, 1pm - 4pm 

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

Dance Launchpad Rehearsal Dates: 

Stage 1: 1 week rehearsals at ADT Odeon Theatre

Stage 2: 2 weeks rehearsals at ADT Odeon Theatre

Additional after hours rehearsals at Dance Hub SA outside rehearsal blocks (TBC)

Performance details

Dance Launchpad Performance Dates: May 20 and 21, 2022

Performance Venue: ADT Odeon Theatre.

Audition criteria

  • You must be an emerging South Australian contemporary dancer, trained in tertiary dance institution. (not limited to SA tertiary dance institutions)

  • You must be available for the rehearsal and performance periods outlined.

  • You must be aware this program is a professional development opportunity where dancers receive industry experience, profiling and a professional show reel. It is not a paid opportunity.

Please email your EOI including the following information to director@themilladelaide.com : 

  • Your CV

  • Up to 200 words about why this professional development experience will be valuable for you at this time of your professional career.

EOI Due Date: Monday, July 12.

Notification: EOIs will be notified on receipt of their application.

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase at Fleurieu Arthouse

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Morgan Sette

June 5 – 27, 2021

Opening: Sunday, June 20, 2pm

When: Fleurieu Arthouse, Hardys Tintara, Kaurna Yarta, 202 Main Road, McLaren Vale

Cost: Free

The Mill Showcase is an exhibition series dedicated to artists who work in The Mill’s studio spaces on Angas Street, Adelaide. The exhibition includes artworks and products that have been produced under our roof by incredible artisans. This touring edition of The Mill Showcase brings a selection of our artists to McLaren Vale, so that we can share their practice with you!

This edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Blake Canham-Bennett, Steel Chronis, Amber Cronin, Andrew Eden, Matea Gluscevic, Evie Hassiotis, Yana Lehey, Kirsty Martinsen and Kate O’Callaghan, curated by Adele Sliuzas

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