The FLING Company in Shifting, presented at the Australian Youth Dance Festival, Melbourne, 2019, Image Shuttermain
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NEW SHORT COURSES AT FLING!
We are kicking off some NEW 4 week Short Courses for both Adults and Youth, starting from March 2!
FLOW HOOP with Matilda McCarthy
This 4 week course will have you learning beginner technical hula hooping skills, as well as pulling out some daggy dance moves, to create a movement class based around fun, learning and playfulness.
FLOW HOOP Tuesdays at the Bega Indoor Stadium
Two levels- Junior (7-14) 4pm-5pm, and Senior (14-Adult) 5:30pm-6:30pm.
Starts Tues March 2
ADULT BALLET with Gabrielle Rose
Come and get your body moving in our Adult Ballet short course. Open to all levels of experience and ability. If you've always wanted to get back into dancing or want give Ballet a go this class is for you!
ADULT BALLET Wednesdays at the Bega Indoor Stadium
10:30am-11:30am Starts Wed March 3
ARTIST UPDATE
FLING Dance Development Officer Anton has headed off to Sydney to prepare for the presentation of his upcoming independent work NARCIFIXION, being presented by FORM Dance Projects in May. We are super excited for him and look forward to having him back around soon!
While Anton is away, we are super excited to have Guest Artist and FLING Alumni Jazmyn Carter back in the valley with us. Jazmyn spent around three months with us last year creating a short dance film project with the FLING Company, "Whose Thoughts Are They", which we will be releasing soon. Watch this space!
While Anton is away, we are super excited to have Guest Artist and FLING Alumni Jazmyn Carter back in the valley with us. Jazmyn spent around three months with us last year creating a short dance film project with the FLING Company, "Whose Thoughts Are They", which we will be releasing soon. Watch this space!
2021 DANCE CLASSES
FLING Community Dance Classes have started for 2021, including classes for young people- Young Dance Creatives (7-10yrs), Tumbling Tots (3-5yrs), Dance Gym (6yrs+), Parkour (10yrs+), Ballet (3yrs+), Pointe (12yrs+), and Adult Classes including Dance Fit and Dance Industry Contemporary.
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FLING WINS
AUSTRALIAN DANCE AWARD
We are thrilled to announce that FLING’s 2018 major work, Body and Environment, has received an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Dance.
We are incredibly proud of this project, and the wonderful team of Artists and young people who created it. Being a regionally based arts organisation, having our work recognised on a national platform is wonderful and demonstrates that nationally relevant work can, and is, being made in regional areas across Australia.
FLING's 2019 major projects My Black Dog and collaboration Encounter South were both also shortlisted for 2019.
Congratulations to All our
performers, ARTISTS and Project partners
BEATS - POWER WITHIN
In 2019 FLING’s BEATS program offered a series of workshops for Aboriginal young people living on Thaua Country in the Yuin Nation, offering the opportunity to collaborate with a team of professional artists to write and record an original song and create an accompanying dance/music video.
The workshops were held in Eden in partnership with Campbell Page over a six month period. Participants developed new skills in songwriting, recording, sound mixing, dance, film making and editing, with the support of mentoring and Cultural teaching from local Aboriginal Artists including Meaghan Holt, Warren Foster Jnr, Chelsy Atkins and Shaquille Aldridge.
The resulting video POWER WITHIN also includes interviews with participants and the local community in Eden, asking "What does Culture mean to you?" The Video was recently featured on NITV's Facebook page.
Huge congratulations to the whole team and all the young artists involved!
BEATS was produced by FLING Physical Theatre, led by Project Coordinator/ FLING Dance Development Officer Gabriela Green Olea, with support from Create NSW through the Aboriginal Regional Arts Fund, with key project partners Campbell Page Eden, Bega Valley Shire Council, Bega Valley Shire Library, Allawah Ngindigaan - Indigenous Education Programs, and Merimbula School of Music.
Project Coordinator - Gabriela Green Olea
Cultural Advisor and Youth Mentoring - Meghan Holt
Music Director - Chelsy Atkins
Hip Hop Director - Warren Foster Jnr
Choreography and Youth Worker - Shaquille Aldridge
Didgeridoo - Nathan Lygon
Recording and Music Producer - Ricky Bloomfield
plus Guest workshops by Scott Baker & Gabrielle Jones
Watch POWER WITHIN - BEATS Project - right here right now!
The workshops were held in Eden in partnership with Campbell Page over a six month period. Participants developed new skills in songwriting, recording, sound mixing, dance, film making and editing, with the support of mentoring and Cultural teaching from local Aboriginal Artists including Meaghan Holt, Warren Foster Jnr, Chelsy Atkins and Shaquille Aldridge.
The resulting video POWER WITHIN also includes interviews with participants and the local community in Eden, asking "What does Culture mean to you?" The Video was recently featured on NITV's Facebook page.
Huge congratulations to the whole team and all the young artists involved!
BEATS was produced by FLING Physical Theatre, led by Project Coordinator/ FLING Dance Development Officer Gabriela Green Olea, with support from Create NSW through the Aboriginal Regional Arts Fund, with key project partners Campbell Page Eden, Bega Valley Shire Council, Bega Valley Shire Library, Allawah Ngindigaan - Indigenous Education Programs, and Merimbula School of Music.
Project Coordinator - Gabriela Green Olea
Cultural Advisor and Youth Mentoring - Meghan Holt
Music Director - Chelsy Atkins
Hip Hop Director - Warren Foster Jnr
Choreography and Youth Worker - Shaquille Aldridge
Didgeridoo - Nathan Lygon
Recording and Music Producer - Ricky Bloomfield
plus Guest workshops by Scott Baker & Gabrielle Jones
Watch POWER WITHIN - BEATS Project - right here right now!
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