Backbone Youth Arts

Backbone’s 2012 workshop program launched

Bec — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:32:12 +0000

Backbone’s 2012 term-based and school workshop program has been launched and is available for download. Enrol now to ensure that you do not miss out!

Profile: Clint Bolster

admin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:23:03 +0000

Term-based and In-schools Facilitator
Clint has worked professionally in Australia and overseas as an actor, stilt performer and clown for 8 years. He has extensive performance experience in Australia and internationally in Japan and Singapore. Clint is also a Commedia, Clown and Mask workshop facilitator and Artist In Residence for Schools, for many arts organisations.

Clint has performed for Queensland Theatre Company in Hurry Up And Wait (Debase and QTC Co-Production). Other theatre credits include: Cafe Floriani, The Spirit Of the Mask,Thoughts Have Feelings Too, Where is Santa? (Lightwire Theatrical Productions and Nexus Arts Victoria 8 years). Clint has recently performed in Hurry Up And Wait at The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, The Little Green Road To Fairy Land (QLD Music Festival), Drama On the High Seas (Princess Cruises/4MBS Classic FM), Much Ado About Nothing andThe Wind In The Willows (4MBS Classic FM), Manoeuvre Stilts (Jupiters Casino and Aerial Angels, 9 months), The Search For The 5th Element and Booff In Concert (Universal Studios Japan, 1 year), Sounds & Clowns, A Treasure Hunt Clown Show and Evocations for Collusion, Freak Street (Show Theatre and Woodford Folk Festival), The Carnival Of Misrul(Transient Theatre and Woodford Folk Festival), Glue (MAP Theatre), The Comedy Of Errors and Pyramus & Thisby (QLD Shakespeare Ensemble), House Broken Hearts (Theatre Active 8), The Merchant Of Vengeance (Diane Gough Productions), The Third Rock Rangers (Janelle Productions), Twisted View (Scatterbox Theatre Company), The Tempest (The Groundlings), Outside Edge (Brisbane Arts Theatre), The Witches (Nash Theatre) and The Two Lovers of Verona (Capillaries and Smashed Eggs and Olive Oil for QUT).

Clint owns and manages Manoeuvre, Queensland’s premier Roving Stilt Company catering for corporate events, night clubs and festivals, both accross Australia, Asia and Europe.

Profile: David Burton

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:17:55 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
David Burton is a Queensland playwright currently based in Toowoomba. He has been the recipient of both national and state awards, winning acceptance into the Queensland Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights Program two years running as well as the Australian Theatre For Young People Fresh Ink Award in 2008.

David Burton is the author of The Bachelor Prophecies (2007), Smashed (produced with Sunshine Beach State High School in 2008), Spirits in Bare Feet (headlining the University of Southern Queensland’s Children’s Theatre Festival in 2009) and Lazarus Won’t Get Out of Bed (produced with AS Theatre and Metro Arts in October 2009).

His work has touched on youth issues, indigenous land rights, alcohol abuse, depression and sexuality. He is also the artistic director of Zeitgeist Theatre and directed their debut production of Bloom by Claire Christian. He currently teaches at the University of Southern Queensland in theatre and is involved in many projects across the state.

Profile: Lisa Worthington

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:16:38 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
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.

2high Festival Coordinator and Backbone Ensemble applications OPEN!

steph — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:54:23 +0000

Backbone is currently looking for the next generation of arts coordinators to join 2high Festival 2012. For more information please visit our 2high Festival page.

The Backbone Ensemble is launched for 2012 and we want emerging performance makers and interdisciplinary artsists to apply for the three-month training intensive directed and facilitated by Emma Che Martin. Go to our Backbone Ensemble page to find out more!

Profile: Anja Homburg

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:06:29 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
Anja Homburg is a performer and emerging director of contemporary performance. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drama) at Queensland University of Technology.

Her previous productions include The Vagina Monologues (2009), Richard Jordan’s Family Portrait (2008) and Oh the Humanity (2011). She has worked both as a research and writing dramaturge, and was the 2010 General Manager of Vena Cava Productions. Anja is an active contributor to Brisbane’s emerging arts scene, and was a fundraising project co-ordinator for the Handful of Fragments Collective in 2010. This same year she was a recipient of the QUT Alumni Leadership Excellence Award. She worked with Backbone Youth Arts as a mentored tutor with Matthew Ryan in 2009.

Profile: Lauren Sherritt

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:27:44 +0000

Term-based Facilitator
Lauren Sherritt is an emerging theatre artist building her career in writing and directing contemporary performance.

Since graduating from the University of Southern Queensland’s Theatre Arts program in 2009, Lauren has explored themes of modern youth psychology and technology developing the play The Girl Who Went Missing From Nowhere, and has had fun gallivanting around town writing music reviews for Life Music Media. Lauren completed a semester long facilitation secondment with Backbone Youth Arts in 2010.

2011 Coordinators

steph — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:54:50 +0000

Creative Producer:
Rebecca Smith

Producer (Programming):
Nicholas Paine

Performance Coordinators:
Kaitlyn Rogers
Belinda Davis

Exhibitions Coordinators:
Alexandra Winters
Hilary Perrett

Music Coordinators:
Sam Oliver
Nuala Furtado

Marketing Coordinators:
Athalia Foo
Jana Penshorn

Production Coordinators:
Samantha Tilly
Lizzy King

Program Resources and Digital Coordinator:
Carlin Beattie

Profile: Niki-J Witt

Bec — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:15:26 +0000

Workshop Facilitator

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.

Profile: Daniel Flood

steph — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:36:04 +0000

Workshop Facilitator

Daniel Flood began his arts career in the theatre and ended up in new media arts and youth work. Over the past nine years he has developed and delivered a diverse number of arts and CCD programs with various South Eastern communities that have involved theatre, publishing, visual arts and new media practices. Highlights have included an outdoor season (9 nights) of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with 30+ unemployed youth and more recently Digital Graffiti: Plugged In, a project working with young people in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula region to develop a body of new media work for exhibition using free and open source systems. In 2008 Daniel was recipient of grants from both the Ian Potter Cultural Fund and the Australian Network for Arts & Technology, funding an arts residency with the Container Project, a community cultural development & technology project based in Clarendon, Jamaica.