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Next Wave 2010 festival

next wave have just announced their theme for 2010 festival [see below] and it’s an absolute corker! so wanted to let you all to know about it and please do spread the word to all and sundry in wa. there are now grants avail from next wave for artists from out of the state to fund their travel so that will be a big help.

also jeff khan, next wave director will be presenting at “this is the time..” symposium on fri & sat and is also staying around for a few days afterwards so that he can tee up meetings with interested perth based artists, so for those who may be interested in talking more about their work, he’d love to hear from you!

jeff’s email is: jeff@nextwave.org.au and mobi will be: 0422 974 838

laters taters and look fwd to seeing you all around at the weekend!

hip hip hooray!

x

k

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THE NEXT WAVE PEGBOARD

www.nextwave.org.au

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Announcing the 2010 Next Wave Festival Theme!

As our Pegboard subscribers, you are the first to learn the 2010 Next Wave Festival theme. Here it is, proudly presented by Artistic Director, Jeff Khan:

NO RISK TOO GREAT   

The 2010 Next Wave Festival will explore the role of risk in a risk-averse culture. Under pressure to conform, we have all become experts in micro-managing our own behaviour. But is this self-surveillance distracting us from the bigger risks, the more un-manageable ones which are increasingly - and radically - changing our world? Just what does "risk" actually mean in these volatile times?

In a wider culture of risk management, how prepared are we to make decisions that are brave, courageous or transgressive? Where is the line between our own personal, moral and ethical worlds, and the codes and principles which circulate in the broader context of contemporary culture? What is our capacity to draw, hold or cross this line? What are the real risks of our time, what are the risks worth taking, and what is our role as individuals, and as artists, in relation to them? How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in art and in life?   

Kickstart Applications Now Open

That also means that the call for Kickstart applications is now open. Kickstart is our non-Festival year development program, providing amazing opportunities for artists to realise their most ambitious ideas, all in anticipation of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. We provide cash, a workshop program and comprehensive mentoring and support. If this sounds like it could be for you, download the application pack HERE or from our website.

Kickstart Briefing

For all your questions (and testimonials from previous artists) there is a briefing Tuesday 11 November, 6-8pm, at NW HQ (Office 4, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne), or give us a call to make another time.

kelli mccluskey --- artist & co-founder --- pvi collective

studio: cia studios, westone, prospect place, 480 newcastle st, perth, wa 6005

postal: pvi collective, po box 836, mt lawley, perth wa 6929

t: [61 8] 9228 4440 w: www.pvicollective.com 
e: kelli@pvicollective.com

HOME ALONE (the suburbs dream tonight)

Between cans of tinned corn, HOME ALONE (the suburbs dream tonight) considers our lives. Through hard-hitting contemporary dance theatre, Company Upstairs invites you to choose your own vantage point and lose yourself in a vision of a home. It’s a tale of gratification via material goods, a housing squeeze and life in the lucky country.

Choreographer: Bianca Martin
Design: Jamie Macchiusi
Performers: Keira Mason-Hill, Kathryn Puie, Joe Jurd
Live drums: Tim Bates
Lighting: Deidre Math

30 October – 8 November 2008, Rechabites Hall, 224 William St Northbridge.
30th Oct, 1st Nov, 4th, 5th, 6th Nov @ 8pm, 7th Nov @ 9pm, 8th Nov @ 6.30pm and 9pm

Tickets: BOCS - 9484 1133
http://www.bocsticketing.com.au/events/home_alone.shtml
www.companyupstairs.com.au

Flying Heart Productions presents Summer Mime Intensive

Lisa Shelton

December 1st-5th 2008

Leisa Shelton trained in Paris at the Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique, where she was teaching assistant and company member.

This workshop is an introduction to the Physical Language of theatre developed by Leisa Shelton.  The practice integrates the spirit of the training developed by French master Etienne Decroux (Mime Corporel).

(my work)..”is no mere imitation of the seen world, it is a revelation of an unseen one”.  Decroux.

The one week intensive will focus on technical training, encompassing body articulation, the study of counterweights – to push, pull, lift, carry the weight of objects, ideas, memories.. and an investigation of displacements/walks through both character and situation, alongside improvisation.

The workshop is open to actors, dancers, writers…all who are interested in developing a rigorous, investigative practice.

Time: 10-4pm

Venue: The Chapel Space, 114 Angove St, North Perth

Cost: $385.00 GST included
Contact: 0438161072 or groundcontrol@flyingheart <mailto:groundcontrol@flyingheart> 

For more details go to: www.flyingheart.com.au