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    Artists—the new elite

    by Sue Street originally published on

    Professor Sue Street presented the eighth Dame Peggy Van Praagh Memorial Address alongside David McAllister Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet. She explores some of the major challenges faced by the dance sector and reflects on some of the achievements.

    Sustainability

    by Cheryl Stock originally published on

    Strategies for sustaining dance in the following papers occur from two perspectives: culturally in terms of preserving and contemporising traditions in India, Cambodia and Thailand; and pedagogically through strategies for life-long learning in the tertiary sector and improved teacher training for children.

    Sustainability in dance practice—the case of the ‘mature artist’

    by Liz Schwaiger originally published on

    Liz Schwaiger (PhD Candidate, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne) looks at an underfunded and underresourced Australian dance industry. She talks to dancers about how they perceive the term 'mature dancer' and about how we might creatively develop hybrid microcosms of opportunity in a culture which does not highly value dance.

    Artists in the academy: reflections on artistic practice as research

    by Sarah Rubidge originally published on

    Sarah Rubidge PhD,(Senior Research Fellow, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University College Chichester) reflects on the practice-led research she did for her PhD in this keynote address, and how it led to a radical shift in her artistic practice—from live dance works to interactive installation works.

    Scenes from another life

    by Dianne Reid originally published on

    Dianne Reid (Dancehouse, Melbourne) writes poetically and fluently about her working processes and what dance means for her. As a dancer she reflects on the world through the instrument of her body. Her choreography is a montage of her other lives "public and private, past & present, actual & virtual, real & imagined, stage & screen, as live body and televisual body."

    Cecil street studio: improvised community and sustainable practices

    by Shaun McLeod originally published on

    Shaun McLeod (Deakin University Melbourne) pays tribute to some of the people who have been vital to establishing and sustaining regular meetings for dance artists to practice improvisation as performance. He talks about the groups' activities and some of the values and artistic concerns that meld the disparate individuals and practices into a flexible but functioning community.

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    Goals

    Sustainable careers for dance artists

    The dancer’s performing life is highly focused, demanding dedicated vocational training from an early age, and it depends on time-consuming creative and physical regimes. Dance artists, in contrast with other artists, are particularly challenged when it comes to professional career development.

    Projects

    Shaping the Landscape—Celebrating Dance in Australia

    This, the fourth book in the series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific, explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and the landscape.

    2011 National Dance Forum

    Some of Australia’s most exciting dancers, choreographers, curators, critics and collaborators met to discuss and reflect on the state of dance practice in Australia now, and to chart a course for the future.

    Securing career opportunities and professional employment for artists

    SCOPE’s aim was to ensure that dance artists proactively participated in and effectively managed their own careers, education and personal development. Each of the artists worked with a professional career counsellor to develop their own career action plans. The program aimed to capture, transfer and adapt the creative capital of the individual artist to other areas of work and productivity.

    Supporting the Live Performance Training Package

    After nation-wide research, Innovation and Business Skills Australia concluded that 'there is strong industry and community demand for national qualifications to help lift standards across the profession and set clear national benchmarks which promote consistency while maintaining flexibility'.

    Publications

    The Dame Peggy van Praagh memorial address

    Dame Peggy van Praagh, founding Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, had a vision of developing a unique dance culture for Australian dance. The Ausdance memorial addresses pay tribute to, and acknowledge, her legacy in this country.

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    ArsPeak comments on Australia Council review

    by Julie Dyson published on

    As one of the ArtsPeak co-convenors, we have commented briefly on the Reviw of the Australia Council, published yesterday.

    We're now working on an analysis of the Review, and will be inviting the Ausdance network to comment and provide feedback before the closing date on 8 June.

    Leave us a comment here if you'd like to participate.

    Australia Council review released

    by Ausdance published on

    Arts Minister Simon Crean has released the review into the Australia Council which will help inform the National Cultural Policy.

    The Minister notes that 'the review makes 18 recommendations for reform of the Council and provides an opportunity to reflect on its success and to consider the major challenges ahead'.

    We'll be commenting with our ArtsPeak colleagues, but we'd also like to hear from you. Please leave a comment when you've read the report.

    BalletLab choreographic masterclasses

    by Ausdance published on

    BalletLab is offering its third annual BalletLab Masterclass, this year on dance and choreographic practices.

    Running from 2–6 July 2012, the one-week intensive will be conducted by BalletLab artistic director Phillip Adams and choreographer Rebecca Hilton. The masterclass will provide valuable professional experience for emerging dancers and choreographers interested in extending their personal creative practice across dance technique and choreography.

    Closing date for applications is 8 June 2012.

    National Health & Arts policy forum

    by Ausdance published on

    It's exciting to have been invited to a national Arts & Health Policy Forum at Parliament House in Canberra on 27 June. The forum has been supported by the Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean and the Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek, following a decision last November to develop a national arts and health policy framework.

    This will be a great opportunity to help policy makers understand the breadth and impact of arts and health practice and to shape their ideas about future policy.

    Broader participation will be invited via online broadcast featuring a live audio stream, twitter feed and digital showcase of arts and health stories across the country.

    The organising partners are the Arts and Health Foundation, the National Rural Health Alliance and Regional Arts Australia.

    National Cultural Policy only weeks away

    by Julie Dyson published on

    We understand that the National Cultural Policy is now only weeks away, so we've written to Arts Minister Simon Crean again, this time in response to the media release from the Arts & Cultural Ministers' meeting on 30 March.

    This was our last opportunity to comment prior to the NCP's release, so we've reproduced the text here, following correspondence with the Office for the Arts after my colleague, Tamara Winikoff, and I visited the department on behalf of ArtsPeak.

    ArtsPeak has also written to the Minister, particularly emphasising the importance of the small to medium arts sector in Federal Budget considerations. The letter reads as follows:

    Arts service organisations—telling the story

    by Julie Dyson published on

    Today I went with my ArtsPeak colleague, Tamara Winikoff, to visit the Office for the Arts in Canberra, where we continued the conversation about our work.

    It was useful to share the ArtsPeak map that outlines the broad reach of arts service organisations, especially as we’d like to see it acknowleged as part of the bigger arts support picture in the National Cultural Policy .

    Review of Private Sector Support for the Arts 2011

    by Ausdance published on

    The Harold Mitchell Review of Private Sector Support for the Arts has just been released by the Minister for the Arts as part of the wider consultation about the new National Cultural Policy.

    The Mitchell review recommends several ideas that might help attract new donors to the arts, noting that “The limited funds available to many arts organisations creates a situation where they cannot afford dedicated staff to drive a strategic approach to fund-raising”.

    Mitchell also recommends the merging of the Australian Business Arts Foundation with Artsupport Australia “under the auspices of a new body with responsibility for all private sector support for the arts in Australia”.

    Today is also your last opportunity to respond to the Australia Council review, another important part of the Cultural Policy consultation process.

    Building the Indigenous contemporary dance collection

    by Ausdance & National Library of Australia published on

    Ever since we convened the 2005 Creating Pathways national Indigenous dance forum in Canberra, Lee Christofis—one of the keynote speakers, and now curator of dance at the National Library of Australia—has been keen to develop the NLA's Indigenous dance collection.

    In the March 2012 edition of National Library News, Lee discusses some of the material now held in the collection and outlines the importance of its provenance.

    Building the Indigenous contemporary dance collection makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the development of Australian contemporary Indigenous dance.

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