The Movement: Dance theatre workshop for young people (Melbourne)
Do you know an imaginative young person with energy to burn?
Director, choreographer and dance animateur Alice Lee Holland leads a unique workshop experience for a collective of curious young movers in Melbourne these school holidays.
Across four spirited days, participants will come together to explore the universe of movement, bravely and freely. Sessions will develop contemporary dance skills, excite and inspire improvisations and nurture original ideas. Participants will work independently and collaboratively throughout the workshop, challenged and mentored by some of Australia's leading industry professionals.
Tuesday 3 - Friday 6 October 2017
School years 3-6 | 10:30 – 13:30
School years 7-9 | 14:00 – 17:00
$120 per series
Malthouse Theatre
Bagging Room
113 Sturt Street Southbank
No experience required.
To register, or request further information: mail@aliceleeholland.com.au
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ALICE LEE HOLLAND is an Australian director, choreographer and dance animateur.
Unafraid to think from zero, Alice is an ambitious artist committed to carving new paths. She has worked nationally and internationally across contemporary dance and circus, with diverse communities of people, trained and untrained, young and old.
Alice’s choreographic style is relentlessly physical: “…athletic and physically dramatic, it’s dance that makes the muscle fibres twitch… eminently watchable dance.” The West Australian. Credits include Tasdance, Buzz Dance Theatre, QL2 and WAAPA, and two self-produced works Preparing to be Beautiful (2008) and tiny little tragedies (2012).
In 2015 Alice was appointed Resident Director for world-renowned Circa Contemporary Circus (Brisbane), during which time she toured ten different productions across nine countries and was involved with four new creations. Alice was part of the Circa team at the helm of Depart – a production commissioned by the London International Festival of Theatre for the Tower Hamlet Cemetery Park, which involved 150 performers across circus, dance and music.
As Artistic Director she led Western Australia’s STEPS Youth Dance Company (now Co3:Youth) through its pivotal final chapter. Highlights include; seven nominations for the Australian Dance Awards including the 2015 winner Fights & Flights, Trois Generations (Jean-Claude Gallotta) and A Midsummer Nights Dream (As You Like It) (Dmitry Krymov) for the 2013 and 2014 Perth Festivals, and presentations at the Dance and the Child International Congress (Taiwan 2012, Copenhagen 2015).
Alice is a graduate of the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently a sessional lecturer at the VCA and a regular teacher for Chunky Move's public, professional, school and community programs.