Alice Lee Holland
Alice Lee Holland is a WA choreographer and director who has worked with local, national and international companies, and on her own independent projects for the past 10 years.
Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA, BA Dance, 1999) and the University of North Carolina (Master of Fine Arts - Performance and Choreography, 2004), Alice has created original dance works for Tasdance (Launceston), Quantum Leap (Canberra), Labor Forces Dances (New York), The Yard (Massachusetts), Buzz Dance Theatre (Perth) and WAAPA (Perth).
In 2009 Alice was appointed as the Artistic Director of STEPS Youth Dance Company (Perth, WA) and has since made three full-length works for the company, all of which have been short listed for Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance at the Australian Dance Awards. She has also worked as Movement Consultant for ThinIce and The Duck House (Perth, WA).
Currently Alice is developing her second full length dance work as an independent artist. Entitled tiny little tragedies the work involves 5 performers and explores the idea of 'body-truths' - the truths that lie deep in our bodies which are ever present reminders of our fragility, our failings and our shared humanity. This work will premiere at the State Theatre Centre of WA in August 2012, presented by STRUT dance.
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Premiere season - Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth, Wednesday 29 August - Saturday 1 September 2012, presented by STRUT dance
tiny little tragedies reveals the powerful truths that lie deep in the body, far away from reason and logic.
The work explores how seemingly 'tiny' events and experiences in our day-to-day lives can shape these 'body truths', and serve as ever-present reminders that we are human; at once fragile and flawed.
Directed by Alice Lee Holland tiny little tragedies includes some of Australia's most outstanding contemporary dancers including Paul White, Robbie Curtis & Sofie Burgoyne.
Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA, BA Dance, 1999) and the University of North Carolina (Master of Fine Arts - Performance and Choreography, 2004), Alice has created original dance works for Tasdance (Launceston), Quantum Leap (Canberra), Labor Forces Dances (New York), The Yard (Massachusetts), Buzz Dance Theatre (Perth) and WAAPA (Perth).
In 2009 Alice was appointed as the Artistic Director of STEPS Youth Dance Company (Perth, WA) and has since made three full-length works for the company, all of which have been short listed for Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance at the Australian Dance Awards. She has also worked as Movement Consultant for ThinIce and The Duck House (Perth, WA).
Currently Alice is developing her second full length dance work as an independent artist. Entitled tiny little tragedies the work involves 5 performers and explores the idea of 'body-truths' - the truths that lie deep in our bodies which are ever present reminders of our fragility, our failings and our shared humanity. This work will premiere at the State Theatre Centre of WA in August 2012, presented by STRUT dance.
tiny little tragedies
(full length work in development)Premiere season - Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth, Wednesday 29 August - Saturday 1 September 2012, presented by STRUT dance
tiny little tragedies reveals the powerful truths that lie deep in the body, far away from reason and logic.
The work explores how seemingly 'tiny' events and experiences in our day-to-day lives can shape these 'body truths', and serve as ever-present reminders that we are human; at once fragile and flawed.
Directed by Alice Lee Holland tiny little tragedies includes some of Australia's most outstanding contemporary dancers including Paul White, Robbie Curtis & Sofie Burgoyne.
