10 June 2013
MakeShift is an independent, Brisbane-based collective of dancers and dance makers. MakeShift are committed to contributing to and fostering a vibrant and diverse independent dance community within Brisbane and plan to continue creating art that moves, grounds, arrests, reflects and questions.
Formed in 2011, MakeShift consists of five dance artists, all graduates of Queensland University of Technology and/or LINK Dance Company.
Recently MakeShift have appeared in the Brisbane Festival, Dance Week 2012, the Brisbane Emerging Art Festival, CrossStitch for MetroArts, Short Sweet + Dance Festival (Sydney and Canberra), Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts’ Fresh Ground Residency, and Ausdance Queensland’s Bell Tower and Brisbane Front residencies.
Makeshift Dance Collective presented a newly developed work as part of Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013.
9 June 2013
Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts training institution, attracting students from urban, regional and remote communities across the country. ACPA’s performers support the cultural traditions of storytelling through words, music and dance.
1 June 2013
Christy moved to Australia in September 2012 from New York State. Prior to her move overseas, Christy had been performing and producing work based in New York City, Philadelphia and throughout the Northeastern United States.
She has been a member of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Inclined Dance Project and the founding director of the xt Danscollective.
She has also performed freelance work with Séan Curran Company, Opera Boston, BalletRox among others including a work in the Brisbane Festival 2012 (Capitol, physical theatre work by Tina Dobaj Eder and Gregor Kamnikar).
Title : A Way Out
Choreographer: Christy Williams
Dance Artists: Gabriel Comerford, Caitlin MacKenzie, Mariana Paraizo, Courtney Scheu and Michael Smith
Music: “Release” by Belltalk, “Opaque” by Hildur Gudnadottir, and “How They Suffer” by Swans
Video Director and Cinematographer: Daniel Jacob Rayner
Christy will present a newly worked dance quartet at Brisbane Emerging Art Festival with members of Makeshift Dance Collective.
