Backbone tosses around the perception of what strength is and its limits. Backbone continues the stellar trajectory of Adelaide’s no-frills acrobatic sensations who are taking the world by storm.
Fresh from teaching an early morning yoga class, Jo Lloyd, our current fellow in Dance, spoke to us about collaborating in the creative sphere.
Attractor brings together acclaimed Indonesian music duo, Senyawa, and two of Australia’s leading small to medium dance companies, Townsville’s Dancenorth and Melbourne’s Lucy Guerin Inc, to create a unique music and dance ritual.
'We know that art can reshape our perspective and transform lives in unexpected ways. The arts build social cohesion. They give us narratives to navigate our world.'
Tony Grybowski, Former Chief Executive Officer, Australia Council for the Arts
A host of outstanding dancers and choreographers has earned Australia a global reputation for taking the art form to new heights.
The Australia Council fosters the development and growth of Australian dance. It supports excellence, encourages participation, increases distribution and builds artistic sustainability. Its vision is to see dance thrive.
Phillip Adams is an interdisciplinary choreographer and artist who established BalletLab in 1998, following a decade in New York.
His professional practice draws on collaboration through hybrid mediums of music, design, fashion, architecture, cinema, visual arts and photography engaging with the unorthodox, queer and popular culture.
He has been commissioned to make works for companies including the Australian Ballet, Chunky Move, MONA, Dance Works Rotterdam and Guangdong Modern Dance Company (China) among others.
The Australia Council Award for Dance was introduced in 2015 to recognise the outstanding achievements and considerable contribution of an artist in dance.
Past award recipients include Stephen Page (2017), Lucy Guerin (2016) and Garry Stewart (2015).
‘It’s a group that I’ve worked with for a while now, and so there’s something really special about the shared knowledge already in the group and the history of working together. There’s an ability to access things quite quickly.’
This unique work received critical and peer acclaim including two Helpmann Awards. Reviewing the premiere season, The Age called Attractor ‘primal, electrifying contemporary dance at its best’.
In a frenetic celebration of human connectedness, Backbone (literally) tosses around the perception of what strength is and its limits: physical, emotional, individual and collective.
The 2016-17 Australia Council for the Arts Annual Report was tabled on 23 October 2017. The report outlines key achievements and outcomes during the second full year of activity under its Strategic Plan.
The Australia Council for the Arts has released new research which examines the economic conditions faced by practising professional artists in Australia and their increasing value to society and the future of work.
This survey is the third in a landmark series by the Australia Council for the Arts, following editions in 2009 and 2013. It measures Australians’ engagement with the arts in 2016.
