2012 Residencies

SEED Residencies

Thanks to the WA Department of Culture and the Arts Future Moves initiative, STRUT is able to offer support to independent choreographers in WA through a series of SEED residencies.

These residencies provide specific support for choreographers in the initial 'seed' stage of their projects, allowing them to explore their ideas in the studio towards the creation of new work.

STRUT regards SEED residencies as critical to its role as a choreographic development centre, building a dynamic contemporary dance culture and community in Western Australia.

STRUT has 4 SEED Residents in 2012 for first stage development.

January to March - Jacob Lehrer; Beat That (working title)
Beat That refers to our relationship with Other and Difference, that which is not us, that which is unfamiliar. Intensified through our History, both personal and cultural, our Relationships, physical, spatial and timing and through our Intimacy, proximity and vulnerability. The cast chosen for this project is a diverse group - with contact improvisation artists, contemporary theatre artists and contemporary dancers of disparate heritage involved, who will help the work to be discovered rather than made.

March - Rachel Arianne Ogle; precipice
To be on the precipice is to be many things. It is a place of possibility, of precariousness, of caution, of hope. It can be at once a place of fear and hesitation, or aspiration and abandon. To be on the edge, there is a tension and a balance between the known and the unknown. A place where anything is possible, implying the element of risk, of all or nothing, of investing yourself completely or losing it altogether. One could fall or one could fly. This notion forms the basis for this first stage creative development of a new work for four dancers entitled precipice.

September - Brooke Leeder; Unravel
The creative development for Unravel will explore the experiences of two WA contemporary dancers Sofie Burgoyne and James O'Hara in the way their careers push and pull them between different cities and countries, and the effect this has on how they define themselves. With the music of Hugh Jennings the work will present this journey through movement, emotion and humour. The work questions where we feel safe, what drive us and how we untangle the complexity of who we are?

November - Isabella Stone; mouseprint
A first stage choreographic development, mouseprint explores the day-to-day implications of fine print. Fine print outlines all the boundaries: the do's and don'ts, the terms and conditions, the contract and this fine print is present in every relationship, often unsaid. Involving task work fed by the concept of fine print. The artists will read contracts found in everyday life (itunes, facebook, Australia Post etc) and use the rhythms of words and paragraphs as a mold for choreographic structures. We will also explore improvisations using sounds such as typewriters, printers and photocopiers as another stimulus for generating movement