Re-Activating Australian Dance Theatre’s Archive for the Future. This project aims to investigate how the rich, vulnerable heritage of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), Australia’s oldest contemporary dance company, can be re-activated for the future. In partnership with Indigenous leadership from ADT, it will collaboratively research Western and Indigenous choreographies to generate an innovative work. Case studies of ADT's female Artistic Directors will produce new knowledge of gender in Austral ....Re-Activating Australian Dance Theatre’s Archive for the Future. This project aims to investigate how the rich, vulnerable heritage of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), Australia’s oldest contemporary dance company, can be re-activated for the future. In partnership with Indigenous leadership from ADT, it will collaboratively research Western and Indigenous choreographies to generate an innovative work. Case studies of ADT's female Artistic Directors will produce new knowledge of gender in Australian dance, and it will experiment with 3D imaging of the costume collection. Outcomes include an exhibition, dance work, film, and a networked digital dance archive. It will benefit the performing arts by producing archival resources that can be adapted across the sector to preserve Australia’s cultural heritage.Read moreRead less
Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum. This project aims to interrogate the relationship between dance and visual art practices and institutions since the turn of the 21st century, developing solutions for emerging and associated challenges for artists and art workers. As a contemporary art form, dance innovates our museums and galleries by foregrounding challenging issues such as the dematerialization of art, the nature of creative labor, digital archives, experience as economy, and ....Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum. This project aims to interrogate the relationship between dance and visual art practices and institutions since the turn of the 21st century, developing solutions for emerging and associated challenges for artists and art workers. As a contemporary art form, dance innovates our museums and galleries by foregrounding challenging issues such as the dematerialization of art, the nature of creative labor, digital archives, experience as economy, and participatory aesthetics. Bringing academics, curators, conservators and artists from diverse institutions together, Precarious Movements stages a dialogue between dance artists and art institutions to support exemplary creative arts practices and the production of end user processes and protocols.Read moreRead less
Enhancing impact in regional theatre for young people. Enhancing impact in regional theatre for young people. This project aims to understand and enhance the personal, affective and social impact of contemporary theatre for youth audiences in regional Victoria. Youth are often marginalised or lack creative opportunities in regional arts. This project will build a complex, longitudinal study informed by international best practice in the area of theatre for young people. It will develop research ....Enhancing impact in regional theatre for young people. Enhancing impact in regional theatre for young people. This project aims to understand and enhance the personal, affective and social impact of contemporary theatre for youth audiences in regional Victoria. Youth are often marginalised or lack creative opportunities in regional arts. This project will build a complex, longitudinal study informed by international best practice in the area of theatre for young people. It will develop research methodologies that harness the agency of young people, the live theatre experience, and their creative convergence with social media. This project is expected to deliver new methods of evaluating theatre for young people, and a creative and digital media strategy for enhanced audience engagement in dispersed locations over time.Read moreRead less