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AUDITION WORKSHOP – 2019 QUANTUM LEAP – FILLING THE SPACE – YOU CAN DO THIS!
FREE AUDITION WORKSHOP – 24 FEBRUARY 1PM-5PM
FILLING THE SPACE is QL2 Dance’s major project for 2019 for our Quantum Leap ensemble (ages 14+) — which could mean you!
If selected during the free workshop, you will create and perform new work with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne and choreographers James Batchelor and Eliza Sanders.
Physical, thoughtful, and professionally presented: FILLING THE SPACE is an opportunity for you to collaborate and create with other young dancers.
WORKSHOP AUDITION: Sunday 24 February 1pm-5pm at the QL2 Studio, Gorman Arts Centre. Pre-registration is essential. Please arrive 15 minutes early.
WHO CAN DO THE AUDITION WORKSHOP?
Ages 14-23, with a creative mind and dance, theatre or gymnastics experience.
REHEARSALS: Sundays from 17 March to July (except Easter), ten days over two weeks in April and two week full time in July – in school holidays for most students.
PRODUCTION: Canberra Playhouse, 5-10 August 2019. (you will need to take time off school that week).
On Course 2018
On Course project helps to cross-fertilise dancers from different university dance courses around Australia: they work together, discuss, challenge, create, perform. Canberra dancers returning from full time study interstate get to reconnect with audiences here. And for audiences, it is a great opportunity to see where young dance artists are going — and in the forum, to hear from them about their work, and perhaps to influence that direction!”
Works by Gabriel Sinclair, Alexandra Dobson Wetherall, Alison Tong, Ryan Stone, Mia Tuco, Xavier Breed, Amelia Vanzwol & Casper Ilshner, Marcel Cole, Otto Kosok
After each performance there will be an optional forum and Q&A with the choreographers and dancers.
6 pm 15 &16 December 2018
QL2 Theatre,
Gorman Arts Centre
55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon
Duration: ~90 Minutes + optional Q&A
Tickets: $16, $12.
Online: Eventbrite
Or at the door, 30 minutes before each show until sold out
Here’s a sample of photos from On Course 2017, by Lorna Sim. We’re pretty sure this years’ will be completely different!
Hot to Trot 2018
QL2 Dance presents Canberra’s 2018 Quantum Leap dancers in their own short dance works;
Patricia Hayes Cavanagh, Rifka Ruwette,
Jessica Nicholls, Ruby Ballantyne, Silas Manapsal,
Sarah Long, Ursula Taylor & Eve Buckmaster, Lillian Cook and Courtney Tha.
Provocateur, Mentor & Producer: Ruth Osborne
7pm – 24 & 25 November 2018
QL2 Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon
Tickets: $15, $10. Online: Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/edit?eid=51791363362
Or at the door, 30 minutes before each show till sold out.
Belong – Tickets on sale now!!
Tickets on Sale from: https://canberrarep.org.au/content/book-online-choose-performance?ID=QL2B
Audition! Ages 8+ “Belong” performance project
An awesome opportunity for young dancers (8–17) to work with great choreographers, contribute ideas and perform in a new show!
Two Zero By Quantum Leap Ensemble
‘Two Zero’ is a celebration of 20 years of QL2 Dance’s Quantum Leap ensemble.
Photo by Lorna Sim
QL2 Dance’s Quantum Leap is an award-winning contemporary youth dance ensemble, based in Canberra. Quantum Leap presents original, thoughtful and challenging productions that excite their audiences.
The 2018 production TWO ZERO will continue QL2 Dance’s track record of creating new, powerful dance theatre performed by young people, for all audiences. Celebrating two decades of youth dance from Canberra’s Quantum Leap contemporary youth dance ensemble, and looking at the next 20. A long time − where will we be? Does looking back help us imagine the future? Does looking forward 20 years help us be in the present? 20 years ago the first Quantum Leap ensemble was brought together: to learn, to create, to perform. They are now all over the world, many doing great things in dance, and many others taking that unique experience into other things. Now we are bringing back alumni as choreographers to consider both the past and the future − to create a brand new work with a brand new Quantum Leap ensemble, as well as revisiting highlights from Quantum Leap over the years. What will Quantum Leap dancers be doing in 2038?
Canberra Theatre Playhouse. August 9 – 11
Book your tickets from https://canberratheatrecentre.com.au/show/two-zero-by-quantum-leap/