The FLING Company in Shifting, presented at the Australian Youth Dance Festival, Melbourne, 2019, Image Shuttermain
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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 centres 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!
ANTON JOINS FLING
HIGH PROFILE ARTIST JOINS FLING As NEW DANCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
We are super excited to announce the arrival of our new Dance Development Officer, Anton!
A high profile artist within the Australian Dance Community, Anton brings to the role a wealth of experience and knowledge as a performer, choreographer, project director, rehearsal director and dance teacher. We are thrilled to have him on board!
Most recently Anton worked as Rehearsal Director with Bangarra Dance Theatre. As a performer he has worked with Dance North, Australian Dance Theatre, Legs On The Wall, TASDANCE, Shaun Parker Company, Sydney Theatre Company, and Opera Australia, and he has made commissioned dance works for arts festivals, dance companies, art centres, live commercial TV events, university institutions and youth companies.
As Dance Development Officer, Anton will become one of the key trainers for our Youth Companies and will teach a range of new and existing Community Classes, whilst also seeking new opportunities for the community to get dancing across the Bega Valley region.
Anton said “I feel very lucky to be in the glorious Bega Valley with FLING Physical Theatre and I look forward to empowering young emerging dance artists whilst enjoying the exceptional nature of the Sapphire Coast.”
You can see Anton’s work online https://antonprojects.com
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