In Night. Time. choreographers Anton, Jodie Farrugia, Adam Wheeler and Marnie Palomares worked with young dancers from QL2's Quantum Leap ensemble over 5 months, to create four views of night.
"As dusk falls, everyone chooses their moment. Snuggled in bed or out on the town, the night world is different through every window."
The Quantum Leapers from Canberra were joined for the last weeks by visitors from around the world: four dancers from Bangkok Dance Academy, and one returning from the US, join two from Steps Youth Dance Company in Perth, and students from the Victorian College for the Arts, WAAPA, and QUT.
Adam Wheeler is the Artistic Associate of Stompin in Tasmania and Artistic Director of Melbourne's 2ndToe Dance Collective. He has danced for Chunky Move, Circa Nica and Jo Lloyd; and choreographed That Beep for Architecture in Helsinki in 2008.
Marnie Palomares is a dancer in Chunky Move, an independent choreographer, and is touring with Shaun Parker's Happy as Larry throughout 2010 at the Sydney, Perth, New Zealand and Brisbane Festivals.
Anton has worked with Australian Dance Theatre, Dance North, Sydney Theatre Company, The Australian Opera, Legs on the Wall, DarcSwan and independents Troy Mundy, Shaun Parker, Meryl Tankard and Tanja Liedtke.
Jodie Farrugia is Associate Director/Choreographer for The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, creating four full length new works including "The Promise" at The Sydney Festival 2009. Her work has toured throughout Australia, Singapore, Korea, Malta, Italy, Turkey, Spain and Bulgaria.
Ruth Osborne (Artistic Director) has choreographed nationally and internationally for stage, film, television and major events, and been artistic director of many collaborative choreographic projects for young people.
Quantum Leap choreographers
Since 1999, Quantum Leap has worked with a wide range of emerging and experienced choreographers -- including: Paulina Quinteros, Vivienne Rogis, David Prudham, Darren Green, Doug Collins, Solon Ulbrich, Gerard Veltre, Sandi Woo, Paul Zivkovich, Cadi McCarthy, Anton, Skye Sewell, Sela Kiek, Gareth Hart, Robyn Sedgwick, Trudy Radburn, Richard Seidel, Garry Lester, Natalie Cursio, Beren Maloney, Zoe Ventoura, Rowan Marchingo, Jodie Farrugia, Kath Duhigg, Daniel Riley McKinley, Wendy Regan, Cheryl Ansell, Bernie Bernard, Albert David, Gala Moody, Lee Pemberton, Fiona Malone, Alice Holland, Patrice Smith, Carol Wellman, Paul White, Liz Lea, Brian Lucas, Marko Panzic, Reed Luplau.
What is Quantum Leap youth dance ensemble?
Quantum Leap is QL2's auditioned youth dance ensemble. It provides a vibrant, demanding, supportive and structured environment for young people to gain an understanding of choreographic processes, develop choreographic literacy and work together to create sophisticated productions that wrestle with big ideas of interest to young people. These high quality works emerge from collaborative processes: the dancers form part of the creative team with professional choreographers, composers and filmmakers.
The development workshops, rehearsals and performances require commitment and focus. They give a sound orientation for university tertiary dance courses, developing a mature and experienced approach to dance performance and creation while giving an insight into professional dance practice. We audition enthusiastic, determined young people with training or experience in movement, for example: contemporary dance, street funk, breakdance, classical ballet, jazz dance, tap, gymnastics, martial arts and circus skills. We conduct audition workshops for each major project -- that's how you become a member of Quantum Leap, and then you may be selected for other projects throughout the year. Auditions are usually held in February. We welcome young people from the region around Canberra, though travel and accommodation are the responsibility of the dancer. In past projects, dancers have travelled from the NSW south coast, Cowra, Young, Canowindra, Newcastle and Sydney to participate.
We also have a visiting dancer program for secondments from tertiary dance courses across Australia and for selected overseas groups including New Zealand and Thailand, who join the ensemble for short periods.
This project was assisted by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Australian Government, through the Australia Thailand Institute.
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