Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) dance students will be presenting Balanchine's Serenade in November. Presented as part of "Summerdance", the students' final season for 2011, this will be the first time that Serenade has been performed in WA. The work has been restaged by Eve Lawson, invited repetiteur for the Balanchine Trust. You can read more about WAAPA's Balanchine coup on page 10 of the current issue of Dance Australia (Oct/Nov).
"Summerdance" also includes new works by Gabrielle Nankivell and visiting Chinese chorographer Xiao-Xiong Zhang, as well as a remounting of Natalie Weir's Jabula by Senior Lecturer Justin Rutzou.
Nankivell's offering, entitled The Unicorn Unhinged, has been created in collaboration with second and third year dance students. “This work creates a space for the performers to dance a dashing, daring contextual curiosity. Drawing from memory and imagination they have created a tangled trail of all things unexpected,” says Nankivell.
Zhang's work, Meteor Shower, is set to a suite of Bach's music and reflects the clarity, speed and intensity of a midsummer night’s meteor shower witnessed by Zhang when camping in the central Australian desert in the mid-80’s.
"Summerdance"
19-26 November
Geoff Gibbs Theatre, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University - Mt Lawley
Ticket info and bookings: 9370 6895 or www.waapa.ecu.edu.au
