PROPEL CHOREOGRAPHIC MAJOR EVENT: 2019
Newcastle Art Gallery
September 27th @ 8pm
Tickets $30
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This exclusive professional contemporary dance and multidisciplinary event sees audiences traverse through the gallery viewing exceptional collaborative works by some of Australia’s finest professional dance and art practitioners. Artists include:
Tara Samaya, Pippa Samaya & High Tea with Mrs Woo
Kristina Chan & Lottie Consalvo
Gabrielle Nankivell & Pedro Greig
Catapult Company members: Skip Willcox, Alexandra Ford & Zackari Watt
Nicholas Jachno, Daniel Mateo & Katrina Leftner
photo credit: Pippa Samaya
Crawling through Mud – Kristina Chan
Commissioned by Newcastle Art Gallery through Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub
Newcastle Art Gallery
Award-winning Australian choreographer and performer Kristina Chan presents a commissioned work inspired by the seminal 1955 performance Challenging Mud by Kazuo Shiraga.
Writhing in a pile of mud, Shiraga performed Challenging Mud at the Ohara Kaikan Hall in Tokyo, creating a work that was both performance and painting. In this contemporary response piece, Chan continues a dialogue which started over sixty years ago; exploring the relationship between elemental materials and the human body.
This event is supported by the Dobell Exhibition Grant, funded by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and managed by Museums & Galleries of NSW.
International/Regional Propel Choreographic Residency with Rachel Erdos (Britain/Israel)
Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub: International/Regional Propel Choreographic Residency December 2019 with Rachel Erdos (Britain/Israel)
The Loneliness Project
Dancers/Collaborators: Alexandra Ford, Allie Graham, Mikayla Nangle (Newcastle, Australia), Tomer Giat (Israel)
February 2019
Thanks to Create NSW, City of Newcastle, The Embassy of Israel, Sidney Myer Foundation through it Cultural Capacity Fund & Ashley de Prazer for supporting this project.
PROPEL CATAPULT CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY PROGRAM: 2018
International/Regional Propel Choreographic Residency December 2018 with ilDance (Sweden)
A first seed commissioned residency choreographed by Lee Brummer (Sweden)
Something to Do, Someone to Love, Something to Look Forward To
Dancers/Collaborators: Skip Willcox, Allie Graham (Newcastle, Australia), Alma Michold, Hampus Bergenheim (Sweden) & Lucasz Przytarski (Poland)
Thanks to Create NSW, City of Newcastle, The Lock-Up, & Ashley de Prazer for supporting this project.
Hunter Seed Residency Program
The Speed of Forgetting –
Artists: Skip Wilcox, Alma Michold (Sweden) and Belinda Howden (visual designer)
Mid – Career Choreographic & Multi-Disciplinary Residency
Shapes of Restraint – a collaboration with Catapult dance Choreographic Hub & The Lock-Up
Artists: Craig Bary & Dale Collier with collaborators: Kassidy Waters, Angie Diaz, Natasha Rogers & Nicholas Jachno
Newcastle Art Gallery – Hunter Red Launch 2018
Not Out of the Woods Yet!
Choreographer: Omer Backley-Astrachan
Performers: Omer Backley-Astrachan & Skip Willcox
Composer: Zackari Watt
Mid – Career Choreographic & Multi-Disciplinary Residency
TWELVE TALL TREES
OMER BACKLEY-ASTRACHAN & ZACKARI WATT
May 7th – 25th 2018
Hunter Seed Residency Program
HYSTERIA
ANGELYN DIAZ, ALYSHA FEWSTER & NATASHA ROGERS
16th April – 5th May 2018
Mid – Career Choreographic & Multi-Disciplinary Residency
A PACT BETWEEN STRANGERS
CRAIG BARY & DALE COLLIER
January 15th – February 3rd 2018
Mid – Career Choreographic & Multi-Disciplinary Residency
SCI-FI JUNGLE
TIMOTHY OHL & JEPTHAH FRANCIS
RESIDENCY DATES: November 20th – December 9th 2017
Mid – Career Choreographic & Multi-Disciplinary Residency
T(w)o
RHIANNON NEWTON: choreographer in collaboration with performer ADELINA LARSSON & composer: JAMES HAZEL
https://vimeo.com/221363727
OMER & SHARON BACKLEY-ASTRACHAN present
TOHU
CRAIG BARY: choreographer in collaboration with experimental multi-media artists: DALE COLLIER
RESIDENCY DATES: January 9th – January 28th
SHOWING DATES: January 27th & 28th
OMER ASTRACHAN: choreographer in collaboration with composer: ZACKARI WATT
RESIDENCY DATES: May 1st 9th – May 13th
SHOWING DATES: May 12th & 13th
Propelled. A curated weekend of dance at The Lock Up.
Newcastle gallery space The Lock-Up invited projects from Catapult Choreographic Hub’s PROPEL Professional Artist Residency Program to work for a week and perform created pieces in the Contemporary arts space formerly a police station with gaol cells.
The Artists worked on the premise of taking work previously created to be shown informally at Catapult’s Dance Studios as the culmination of a three week residency, to a further realised version of the former work. Participating artists include Joshua Thomson (choreographer) with Composer Zackari Watt and dancers Angie Diaz and Omer Backley-Astrachan under the directive instruction of Craig Bary. Also re mounting work to be performed in the Prison Exercise yard and create visual and sound installation within the cells, Kristina Chan (choreographer, dancer) in collaboration with Newcastle based film maker Neil Mansfield.
Head here for Realtime interview with Craig Bary on the upcoming residency.
Catapult Choreographic Hub Propel professional Artist residency 2015 reel from Jessica Coughlan on Vimeo.
CATAPULT CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY PROGRAM: 2015/2016
ADAM BLANCH in collaboration with Film – Maker: NEIL MANSFIELD & dancer: RAEGAN ASHLEY WILLIAMS
RESIDENCY DATES: AUGUST 3RD – 22ND
KRISTINA CHAN in collaboration with Film – Maker: NEIL MANSFIELD
RESIDENCY DATES: AUGUST 3RD – SEPTEMBER 5TH
MARNIE PALOMARES in collaboration with Textile Designers: HIGH TEA WITH MRS WOO
RESIDENCY DATES: OCTOBER 5TH – OCTOBER 24TH
MIRANDA WHEEN in collaboration with Visual Designer: JESSICA COUGHLAN
RESIDENCY DATES: NOVEMBER 23RD – DECEMBER 12TH
JOSHUA THOMSON in collaboration with Composer: Zackari Watt
FEATURING: CRAIG BARY with Angie Diaz, Raegan Ashley Williams and Emily-Kate Watts
RESIDENCY DATES: JANUARY 4th 2016 – JANUARY 30th 2016
Catapult Choreographic Hub would like to extend sincere thanks to our sponsors for the Propel Artist in Residence program