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Established by the One Extra Company in 1999, ReelDance began as a response to the growth in dance screen work being made in dance arenas overseas, and the need to foster a burgeoning field of practice in Australia. Under the guidance of founding director Erin Brannigan we held the first ever ReelDance Festival in 2000, a one-off screening in Sydney's Chinatown. Over the years we expanded our activities to include workshops, forums, distribution, exhibitions, commissioning, more screenings, and the ReelDance Festival became biennial with an every-growing tour schedule. The interest and support we have received from programmers both here and overseas highlights the profile we have developed as a point of contact for the form in Australia.
In 2008, after 8 years of being a project of One Extra and then the Performance Space, ReelDance began operating on its own and in 2009 became one of the Australia Council for the Arts' emerging key organisations. |
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