Summary: An absurdist dance fantasy shot on Super 8. This film follows a flock of nuns ‘landed in the landscape’ in and around the historic village of Hill End. At the end of the day they make their way to the Royal Hall for a curious vaudeville show. Through the surreal vignettes the veil of propriety is slowly removed to reveal dark currents of sensuality, ribaldry and untameable desire. Filmed on location during “The Nun\'s Picnic” performance project, Dec 2004.
Awards: Best Dance Film, Australian Dance Awards, 2006
Credits: filmmaker Samuel James ; director Julie Anne Long
Date of Production: 2004
Summary: Theatre of Speed is represented by Back to Back Theatre - an experimental centre for young people with intellectual disabilities in Geelong, an intensive work and training environment where no other exists.
Credits: directed and edited by Rhian Hinkley ; choreographed by Fiona Cameron ; Luke George ; Becky Hilton ; Jerril Rechter ; Bec Reid ; Gerard Van Dyke ; Ingrid Voorendt
Date of Production: 2004
Summary: Necessary Games - Sixteen is a collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and Closer Productions, Necessary Games is a dance triptych about our human need to connect and the urgent games we play. A coming of age game about the joy, nervousness, desire and intimacy of the different kinds of connections a young woman will, did or might have in her life. *ReelDance 2010 Award Winning Film
Credits: Kat Worth
Date of Production: 2009
Summary: Tap Hop: Lesson 1 (2009) is a split-screen video remix work that examines the formal and cultural connections between tap and breakdance. Mixing footage from the 1942 musical comedy Pardon My Sarong and the 1986 TV show Graffiti Rock, a dance battle is staged between seminal 1940s tap group Tip Tap and Toe and the 1980s hip-hop crew The New York City Breakers. The cultural matrix between these dance forms emerge through juxtaposition, including the remixed audio track that has the breakers moving to the beats of tap, and the tappers dancing to the scratch rhythms of hip-hop turntablisim.
Credits: Soda_Jerk
Date of Production: 2009
Summary: On a giant salt lake, concrete and dreamlike, two women negotiate place and one another.
Credits: Michaela Pegum ; Siobhan Murphy & Dominic Redfern
Date of Production: 2008
Summary: Tank Man Tango is a dance based on the steps of the man who defied the tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square after the massacre of protesters in June 1989. The choreography was amdew into instructional videos and posted on Youtube in four languages, with an open invitation to participate in this ephemeral moment on 4 June 2009, the 20th anniversary of the massacre.
Credits: Deborah Kelly ; Jane McKernan
Date of Production: 2009
Summary: Shadow Play is an intelligent and passionately wrought exploration of family, love and conflict. Through it we see the evolution of a difficult family relationship in which the emotional subtext is revealed through dance.
Credits: produced by Linda Micsko ; directed by Madeleine Hetherto ; choreographed by Rowan Marchingo
Date of Production: 2007
Summary: The traveller seeks time-out in Tokyo - will time tell her what she needs to know?
Credits: Produced and directed by Sue Healey ; Choreographed by Sue Healey in collaboration with Shona Erskine
Date of Production: 2006
