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Star dancer back for workshops

CANBERRA Dance Development Centre is welcoming back alumnus Sara Black to host workshops this weekend on contemporary technique and choreography as part of the centre’s annual master class program. 

Sara Black
Raised in Canberra, Black was a student at CDDC and a member of the Australian Choreographic Centre’s Quantum Leap Youth Dance Company.

In 2005 she completed a  Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts, since which he has worked as an independent artist with creators like   Narelle Benjamin, Wendy Houstoun, Erna Omarsdottir and  former Canberran Cadi McCarthy, as well as with Lucy Guerin Inc, NYID and Chunky Move.

Black  was nominated for a Green Room award and awarded a Helpmann Award for Chunky Move’s solo work “Glow” and performed in the Australian Ballet’s season of “Infinity.”

She worked as a choreographic assistant on Melbourne director Michael Kantor’s “Woyzeck” and is a founding member of ROGUE, a dance collective of 2005 graduates of the VCA.

Sara Black workshops, at CDDC studios Mount Rogers Community Centre, Crofts Cres, Spence, Saturday, September 1,  Elementary/Junior 2:30-3:45pm then  Advanced 4pm-6pm. Bookings essential to  6259 1550 or http://www.dancedevelopment.com.au/workshops-2012.php

 

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