When: Saturday 25^th September, 7pm

Where: The Alley, 79 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane

Ticket Price: $16 pre-sale or $20 at the door

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Backbone Youth Arts and Queensland Theatre Company are partnering to present a four day residency for emerging performance makers in September. The event will be held at Queensland Theatre Company’s Billie Brown Studio in South Brisbane. The primary focus of the project will be the exploration of contemporary performance techniques and a reimagining of what theatre is in the 21^st century, particularly for young people. Three senior artists will work with the participants to explore and devise a series of short works.  The participants will have technical support from QTC technical and production staff.

The senior artists are Andrew Cory from Backbone Youth Arts, Damien Cassidy from Queensland Theatre Company and independent performance maker and choreographer Clare Dyson.

The residency will culminate with two performances to students of the 2010 QTC Theatre Residency Week and then to industry personnel the following night.

Backbone Youth Arts will host a blog page on our website to document the process. Please drop in and feel free to add to the discussion.

When: 15^th – 21^st September

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“The survival of the art of theatre depends on its capacity to reinvent itself by embracing new tools and new languages.”
Robert Lepage, World Theatre Day Address 2008

Backbone Youth Arts and Queensland Theatre Company are partnering to present a four day residency for emerging performance makers in September. The event will be held at Queensland Theatre Company’s Billie Brown Studio in South Brisbane. The primary focus of the project will be the exploration of contemporary performance techniques and a reimagining of what theatre is in the 21st century, particularly for young people. Three senior artists will work with the participants to explore and devise a series of short works.  The participants will have technical support from QTC technical and production staff.

The senior artists are Andrew Cory from Backbone Youth Arts, Damien Cassidy from Queensland Theatre Company and independent performance maker and choreographer Clare Dyson.

When: Sunday 28^th November, 11am

Where: Visy Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse

Book: Tickets will be on sale shortly

Emma is an actor and contemporary performance practitioner with a background in physical theatre and performance installations. She has trained in the Suzuki and Viewpoints Method with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company (2009) and Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre (2005 – 2007), and in Butoh Dance with Zen Zen Zo, SU-EN, Jorge Lopes Ramos and Yumiko Yoshioka. Emma is a graduate of QUT Bachelor Creative Industries (Performance Studies).

Emma’s performance credits include 7.44 (New York, 2009), Hangen Til, (Danielson + Laitinen, Norway 2007 – 2008), Little Wooden House (Norway, 2007), Performance Workshop: Bodies in Time and Space (Norway and Edinburgh, 2007) and Paria (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2007), Six Women Standing in Front of a White Wall (Canberra Multicultural Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2007, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2009 & 2high festival 2009) CIRC (C Venues Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2007) and in Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Danger Ensemble, 2007), SUB-CON Warrior 1 (Zen Zen Zo, 2006), The Pariah(Capillaries Festival, BIG picture, 2006), they were eating cake (QUT productions, 2006), Please Stand Clear (Capillaries Festival, BIG picture, 2005), Attempts on her Life (dir Marcel Dorney, 2005), Snagged (dir Bridget Boyle, 2005), Marat/Sade (dir Nic Dorward, Restaged Histories/Vena Cava, 2005) and Toxic (QUT productions, 2004).  Emma had her small screen debut with the lead role ‘Jules’ in the French Connection Films T.V Pilot  (Paris, France 2008).

In 2010 Emma will be based in Brisbane working with Backbone Youth Arts Ensemble; training & creating contemporary performance arts practices.  Emma will be working as a freelance actor, facilitator and creative consultant for various companies and ensembles in both Australia and Europe

Lisa Worthington is a teaching artist, with experience in teaching, directing and performing.  Her directing credits include Hating Alison Ashley (1999), So Much to Tell You (2005), Grease (2006), Aladdin (2007) and NQADA’s production of Macbeth (2007).  While living in Cairns, she worked as an associate director and performer with NQ Academy of Dramatic Art (NQADA) including 15 Minute Hamlet (2004), Secret Bridesmaid Business (2005) and Minefields and Miniskirts (2006). Lisa has also directed a variety of one-act plays but most notably received the Best Director award for Seven Days in the Far North Queensland One Act Play Festival in 2008. While she completed her Bachelor of Education at Central Queensland University, she was a performer and co-writer of The Storybook Theatre Project  (2001), The Lighthouse Café (2002), Short Snips (2003)  and a regional Queensland touring project Metro City (2002).   In 2009, she completed  Zen Zen Zo Phyiscal Theatre company internship has training in Viewpoints, Butoh dance theatre and the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.

Alanna Hankey is the Festival Director for the 2high Festival 2010. Alanna was appointed Festival Director, a result of her successes as Festival Manager in 2009 performing a noteworthy balancing act between this and her role as Programme Resources Coordinator for Brisbane Festival 2009.

Festival Director Alanna, has completed a Bachelor in Applied Theatre at Griffith University in June 2007. She has since actuated her skills in practice at both ends of the spectrum. In the past few years Alanna has worked as a Performer, Drama Facilitator, Producer, MC, Stage Manager, Band Manager, Arts Coordinator, Assistant Director, Festival Manager, Music Programmer and now Festival Director, & somewhere amidst all of this managed six months of travel abroad.

Alanna fulfils her role as Festival Director with a deep passion for the arts with a fresh-faced yet multi-faceted perspective, thrilled to be managing such a revered and unique youth arts festival.

Alanna plans to travel abroad in the coming years combining work & exploration.

Daniel Santangeli is a director whose most recent work was DJing While You Sleep (UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL, 2009) featuring sound artists Lawrence English, Joel Stern and Thom Browning.

In 2008 Daniel directed Several Words Associated with Revenge (Metro Arts’ Independents Program): an adaptation of Titus Andronicus made in collaboration with visual artists, physical theatre performers and a live sound designer. Daniel has worked as director-in-development with Circa, the internationally renowned circus company based in Brisbane and was mentored by artistic director Yaron Liftschitz. For this company he directed Crashed (Visible Ink, 2008), New Circus Now (Judith Wright Centre, 2008) and The Science of Falling (Judith Wright Centre, 2007).  His other credits include directing The Story of Lost Children or the Last Chapter of Peter Pan (Queensland University of Technology, 2008) and The Logan Project (Queensland University of Technology, 2007).

Daniel received first class honours at Queensland University of Technology in 2007 in Performance Studies, researching processes of creating contemporary performance. In 2009, Daniel worked as a co-ordinator on Backbone Youth Art’s 2high Festival and is currently the 2010 Festival Manager.

His upcoming production, Room 328 will premier in July 2010 presented by Metro Arts and Genevieve Trace.

Venture to www.2highfestival.com for more details.

Niki J Witt trained in Acting & Musical Theatre at Mountview Theatre School, London. She has taught at many London Drama schools including East 15 School of Acting, Guildford School of Acting, Drama Centre, Italia Conti, London Studio and Mountview Theatre School.  Her experience in working with children and young people includes Youth Theatre Projects in the United Kingdom ( Quay Youth, Barrow Youth Theatre, Sherman Youth Theatre and Montgomeryshire Youth Theatre) and in Australia Niki-J Witt has taught master classes at Backbone Youth Theatre  and at Theatre Residency Week at Queensland Theatre Company. She has also taught at Queensland University of Technology. Niki-J Witt is currently an actor with Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe, touring schools in Queensland throughout 2007.