Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub

Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub, based in Newcastle is a professional arts organisation for mid-career choreographers, emerging choreographers, multi-disciplinary artist, young people and the community

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Half Empty, Half Full
Choreographers:
Skip Willcox &
Alexandra Ford
Propelled:
Newcastle Art Gallery photo credit: Paul Dear OTEN
Tara Samaya, Pippa Samaya
High Tea with Mrs Woo
Propelled: Newcastle Art Gallery
 photo credit: Pippa Samaya Sum of Parts
Joshua Thomson
Zackari Watt
Propelled: The Lock-Up photo credit: Jessica Coughlan Something to Do,
Someone to Love
Something to Look Forward Too.
Choreographer: Lee Brummer
Collaboration:
ilDance (Sweden) & Catapult Photo Credit: Ashley de Prazer SCI FI JUNGLE
TIMOTHY OHL
JEPHTHAH FRANCIS T(w)O
Rhiannon Newton,
Adelina Larson
James Hazel
Propelled: The Lock-Up Photo Credit:
Ashley de Prazer Shapes of restraint
CRAIG BARY & DALE COLLIER
Propelled: The Lock-Up Photo Credit:
Ashley de Prazer SODEISHA - crawling through mud
creator/performer: kristina chan
commissioned by the
newcastle art gallery photo credit:
Ashley de Prazer

PROPEL CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY
PROGRAM

Propel fosters experimentation, and artistic interchange, creating a platform for research, practice, and performance; linking artists in capital cities with Hunter artists.

    MID-CAREER CHOREOGRAPHIC & MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESIDENCIES

    These Propel residencies bring together Australia’s renowned mid-career choreographers to collaborate with Hunter Based Multi-Disciplinary Artists.

    HUNTER SEEDS

    Our residency program for emerging choreographers.

    INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES & EXCHANGES

    Bringing international choreographers & artists to Newcastle to seed new work and collaborate with Australian professionaldancers.

    TIME,
    EXPERIMENTATION & CREATIVE RISK-TAKING

    PROPEL provides crucial infrastructure including: studio-time, wages, mentoring,
    administration, marketing, and production support. At the conclusion
    of each residency, showings and performances, incorporating artist talks, helps build audience capacity for innovative, multi-disciplinary dance practice.

    "Through collaboration with renowned choreographer Craig Bary, I expanded my skillset, professional network & integrated knowledge of cross-disciplinary practice. The broadening of these have already led to new engagements that would not have previously been possible without the platform provided by Propel."

    DALE COLLIER MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST

    “As an experimental artist based in Newcastle, I recognise that the chance to work with established choreographers is paramount to the on-going professional development of my arts practice, especially as a regional artist. Catapult Dance Choreographic residency program ‘Propel’ provides an extensive opportunity for artists like myself to collaborate with industry leading professionals on a peer to peer basis.”

    DALE COLLIER MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST

    PROPEL fosters experimentation, and artistic interchange, creating a platform for research, practice, and performance; linking artists.

    Propel curates established national & international choreographers to collaborate with Newcastle’s professional dance and multidisciplinary artists, providing time and space, to experiment across art-forms.

    PROPEL produces contemporary dance works which arepresented locally, nationally and internationally.

    PROPEL has generated support from partners, locally, nationally and internationally including: Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle Civic Theatre, The Lock-Up, Museum & Art: Lake Macquarie, Force Majeure, Critical Path, Ausdance NSW, Form Dance Projects, ilDance (Sweden), Dance-Base (Scotland), Hong Kong International Choreography Festival and Independent Choreographers Association of Israel.