The Choreographic Marathon - Across Oceans Arts

Overview of 2018's work sees...

... discovering internal impulses to express loss and recovery,

... releasing privacy to gain public context,

... recognizing the power in detail

Challe...

Mentors

Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Jessica Runge, Michael Caldwell, Takako Segawa

Creation Assistants

Kiera Shaw, Alison Keerey, Dahlia Steinberg, Lo Bil

Specialists

Peter Jenkins...

Choreographer / Performer 

Question:

“Who am I as an indigenous artist right now- what does the notion of “rematriation” (return to source) mean to me, and how do I express that thou...

Choreographer

With interpreters Victoria Gubiani, Paige Sayles

Goals:

• Create a duet based on coupling and uncoupling with a narrative that has a beginning, middle and end.

Begin...

Choreographer / Performer

Seconded by: Jaya Srivastava-Chawla

Goals:

• Explore concept of Stillness as an expressive force for movement.

• Create self-solo

• Examine the ways...

Choreographer

With interpreters Josephine Jakubowski, Lindsay Harpham, Mikaela Orford, Sarah Mclennan, Dominique Tersigni

Goals:

• connect “constructing” approach with more “real-li...

Choreographer / Performer

Seconds: Samantha Lucchetta, Jane Alison McKinney, Jacob Edwards-Schell

Goals:

• Use the audience in the performative space as collaborators

• To struct...

Overview of 2017's work sees...

... explorations in contemporary expression of personal roots in Afro-Caribbean, Body-Mind Centring, Ballet, Performance Art, and Modern Dance across...

Mentors:

Maxine Heppner (lead) Susan Lee, Jessica Runge, Michael Caldwell

Creation Assistants:

Kiera Shaw, Alison Keerey, Nina Milanovski

Specialists:

Peter Jenkins (somatics), Junia Ma...

Choreographer / Performer

Goal:

• To distinguish a way of working that will enable re–entry into the world of an “Action” even within improvsational performance.

• To develop Ac...

Choreographer / Performer

Goals:

• To decipher her creative process for creation of a self-solo: i.e. how to cultivate and refine improvisational sensibility in her process.

• C...

Choreographer

With interpreters: Jen Yi Hum, Francesca Cudnoff, Keira Shaw, Nina Milanovski

Goal:

• Create several duets.

• Develop more extensive movement vocabulary for this wo...

Choreographer

With interpreters Carly Psutka, Shaelynn Loobbezoo, Maggie Lucas, Lindsay McBride

Goal:

• to create a 3-5 minute set dance

Began with:

• 10 seconds of material for...

Keira Sweeney  - Choreographer/Performer

Goals:

• To explore choreographing a self-solo.

• To explore her fascination of impossible classical concepts of perfection.

• To bet...

Every Choreographic Marathon its own character springing from the interests of the participants and the nature of their work. These are accounts of the work and the artists who par...