CANBERRA dancer and choreographer, Liz Lea, yesterday unveiled an important initiative that puts dancers of un certain age centre stage.
At a National Dance Week event supported by the ACT Office of Ageing, Lea and her company Canberra Dance Theatre unveiled a campaign to raise funds for the forthcoming ‘GOLD’ tour to Europe in September this year.
CDT’s GOLD Company is a group of over 55’s who love to move, laugh, create and perform. Established 4 years ago with an ACT Health Grant they now have over 30 regular class members, three classes a week and have commissioned 8 nationally and internationally recognised choreographers and performed in the National Gallery of Australia, Portrait Gallery, CSIRO Discovery, Floriade and the National Multicultural Festival.
“CityNews” recently spotted them performing in the Courtyard of Gorman House for the farewell of Ausdance ACT chief Neil Roach.
During the evening, hosted by Palace Cinemas, guests viewed a screening ‘The Golds’, a dance documentary about the GOLDs created by award filmmaker and former director of Vis a Vis Dance Canberra, Sue Healey.
To contribute or to join ‘GOLD’, visit canberradancetheatre.org, phone or sms 0435 025 365 or email canberradancetheatre@gmail.com
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The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
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