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QL2 showcases new choreography this weekend

YOU know Christmas is near when news of QL2 Dance’s annual “Hot to Trot” project surfaces.

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Gravity, the fear of maturity, losing patience and infinite surfaces are just four of the themes chosen by young choreographers in developming the nine new contemporary works with Canberra’s Quantum Leap dancers.

The up and coming creators are Milly Vanzwol, Nasim Patel, Ruby Ballantyne, Ursula Taylor, Walter Wolffs, Ayla Scholtz, Caroline De Wan, Caspar Illschner, Elyse Lenehan, Jack Clements, and Jason Pearce, all mentored by artistic director of QL2 Ruth Osborne with Ashlee Bye.

Osborne, says “as young artists, they have worked over the last year in collaboration with amazing choreographers, including James Bachelor, Jodie Farrugia, Fiona Malone, Rowan Marchingo, Natalie Cursio, Joshua Lowe, Alison Plevey and Jamie Winbank.”

Now we think that’s an impressive line-up.

Many of the young artists, she says, did a special choreographic workshop presented by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, with Amelia McQueen and Kristina Chan, but “Their ideas are their own, and they have been primed by an amazing range of choreographic processes and practices over the year.”

Looking backing, Osborne and of QL2 can proudly boast that “Hot to Trot” has been a stepping stone to professional practice for dancers, both in companies and independently, with successful examples Paul Zivkovich, Sara Black, Daniel Riley, Chloe Chignell, Dean Cross and Laura Boynes coming to mind.

This is for people who love dance there are only two shows, and after each one there will be a forum, where you can ask questions about the works and hear from the choreographers and dancers.

“Hot to Trot,” at QL2 Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon, 7pm, November 21 & 22 — two shows only — bookings to QL2.org.au or tickets at the door unless sold out.

 

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