When it comes to choreographing a catwalk, Mehali Tsangaris, from Gary Lang NT Dance Company is your man.

Darwin Fashion Week

Dance and fashion play a large part in Mehali’s life and he has just been announced ‘Darwin’s Fashion Guru’ by Darwin Life Magazine.

The upcoming Fashion Week is offering models and dancers an opportunity to strut their stuff and pull out the big guns of stylish, smooth and gorgeously choreographed lines and walks.

Make sure to pop down during the week to Il Lido’s Restaurant at the Waterfront and check out Mehali’s work and the talent of the young and emerging dancers and models in this premier first time event for Darwin.

When:

7th – 10th June

Tickets available at:

Darwin Entertainment Centre

Phone: 8980 3333

Thank you for your patience.  We look forward to being back on line with you all ASAP.

Heidi & Nathan McGrath from Bayside Dance Centre at Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival Dance Stage, Photo by Mark Norman, ImagesNT

3 QUESTIONS… WHADDAYA REACKON?

Would you or anyone you know fit into any of these 3 categories:

• Are you interested in supporting the Northern Territory’s peak body for servicing the dance sector?
• Do you know anyone with skills in I.T., Business/Accounting/Finance, or Law who would have an interest in throwing some of their skills our way by holding a place on our Board of Directors?
• Do you have an interest in or enjoy fundraising with a common & positive goal in mind?

Ausdance NT is holding its AGM at the end of May.

We are seeking interested people who would like to contribute to the development of the dance sector in the Northern Territory.  This is an exciting time for NT dance and a strong and strategically focussed Board will enable Ausdance NT to ensure the best outcomes for the dance sector and the organisation well into the future.

We also plan on forming a ‘fundraising sub-committee’ at the AGM.  It will be lead by a Board Member and is a great fun opportunity to strengthen the capacity of this Non-Profit Organisation that works so enthusiastically with and for their dance sector!

Please feel free to email your interest to directornt@ausdance.org.au or simply turn up to the Annual General Meeting:

WHEN: Tuesday 29th May

TIME: 6.15pm

WHERE: Meeting Room, Frog Hollow Centre for the Arts

ADDRESS: 56 Mc Minn Street, Darwin

'So Much Beauty in the World' Choreographed by Anokai Lancaster, Photo by Mark Norman, ImagesNT

In March 2012 Arts NT, which provides Ausdance NT’s operational funding, announced to the organisation its intention to “employ an outside consultant to examine the dance sector’s needs and determine the best model for dance support relevant to the NT.”  This review is expected to take place between July and September 2012 and will be a joint initiative of Arts NT and Ausdance NT, with Arts NT as the lead agency.  This is the first time such a review has taken place in the Territory.

We welcome the opportunities for the dance sector and the organisation that will be opened up by this proposed review.  The limited funding and operational resources that have been historically available to Ausdance NT have meant that the organisation has struggled for many years to meet the needs of this huge, diverse and vibrant sector that stretches across the whole of the Territory.  It is essential that the review recognises the need for stronger and better targeted support for NT dance through an adequately resourced service organisation.

The review will be the major activity that underlies our program for 2012. Ensuring that an understanding of the dance sector, its activities, goals and needs inform the review; assisting the appointed consultant to make contact with the sector; and communicating about the review to the sector will be key responsibilities.

In preparation and in support of the upcoming review, Ausdance NT have begun collecting information on the sector already.  Gathering information via our networks, communications and through surveys at the recent MoveMeNT Dance Expo in March and at the Ausdance NT Dance Stage for Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival in May.

At the same time, and in conjunction with the work we do around the review, Ausdance NT will be committed to providing ongoing support and service for the sector in a number of key areas.  So stay tuned to keep informed regarding some up coming and important ‘information sharing forums’ being planned specifically in preparation for the review and looking towards Professional Development opportunities for the NT dance sector.

Dance 12 – Friday May 25th @ 6:30pm

Darwin High School Tank.

Darwin High School dance students are showcasing their talents in the Dance 12 event to raise funds for a ten day intensive dance exchange in WA and the premiere of the new SLIDE team and DHS Creative Arts dance theatre work, Brave created by Joanna Noonan.

Dance 12 features local groups including the dancing grannies of Darwin – The Grey Panthers, Gary Lang NT Dance Company, Sunameke Pacific Island Dance Company, Darwin School of Ballet, Darwin Performance Academy and Dance Speaks Volumes .

Put on your dancing shoes and celebrate Dance 12 – there are amazing prizes to be won via The Dance 12 Major Raffle plus a lot of dancing.

Cost $10 per ticket; $30 for a Family Ticket

Bookings: Call 89991254

julia.quinn@ntschools.net

Special thanks to our Dance 12  Major Raffle Sponsors: Youth Worx NT, E Print, Fernwood Gym, Anita’s Health and Beauty Salon, Parap Fine Foods, Parap Day Spa, Dance World, Tracks, Rix Kik Arts and Scalpt Voucher.

The Dance Sector is celebrating the end of AUSTRALIAN DANCE WEEK and will be showcasing the talent and diversity that abounds in Darwin.

A huge 34 dance groups will be filling out a 6 hour event down on the beautiful Nightcliff Foreshore at the old Seabreeze Hotel historical site.  This event has occurred annually for 6 years and this year has needed to double in length due to the huge participation and enthusiasm our Darwin community has for DANCE.

This year also marks special significance as the Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival have invited Darwin’s own emerging professional company Gary Lang NT Dance Company to perform adapted excerpts of his latest choreography in a 20 minute Guest Artist spot.

Alfresco dining will be available at the Dance Stage for the first time with Gourmet Sushi and Delicious Lebanese treats from Su Su to abound, alongside the wine bar and of course with the ever favourite Jays Coffee and Ice Cream trailer nearby at the Jetty, we will be settling in for a night delights not only for the eyes, but for the taste buds too.

So bring a blanket or chair and come along to enjoy the entertainment and atmosphere at this years Dance Stage.

SEE YOU THERE!!

If you head on down to this years 2012 Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival, below is a list of who you will be most likely to see on the gorgeous foreshore APA Group/Ausdance NT Dance Stage, where the historical concrete slab dance floor is still situated, under the casuarina trees, a very short stroll from the jetty:

3pm – 4pm

Darwin Gymnastics & Cheerleading Club

Rix Kix Arts – Stormtroopers

Parap Pumper Jumpers

Darwin School of Ballet

Vietnamese Dance Group

Thingyan Dance – Girls from Burma

4pm – 5pm

Sunameke

Dance Speaks Volumes

Physical Theatre

Tunas Mekar Balinese Cultural Collective

Tracks – Grey Panthers & Youth Dancers

Keltikka Irish Dance

5pm – 6pm

The Essington School Dancers

CSC Dance Students

Jamealah Bellydance Gypsy Troupe

Rince na H Eireann Irish Dance

6pm – 7pm

Top End Mustangs

4 The Love Of Dance – Salsa

Zumba Fitness With Kylie & Virginia

Zouk Lambada Dancers

Punjabi Traditional Dance

Winesia

CSC Cabaret

7pm – 8pm

Gary Lang NT Dance Company – ‘Romanza’

Sudanese Madi Dancers

Bayside Dance Centre

Jamealah Advanced Performance Troupe

One Mob Different Country

8pm – 9pm

Darwin Line Dancers

Darwin Performance Academy

Bhutanese/Nepalese Traditional Dance

Contemporary Dance Trio & Solo - So Much Beauty in the World

Improv Solo Series – Empty Series 8 – Alama Dance

Swing Dance NT

This year the Dance Stage will run from 3pm – 9pm!  There is a gorgeous little Alfresco Dining area being set up here too… So come along, bring a blanket or chair, get yourself all comfy and be prepared for a BEAUTIFUL OUTDOOR ARVO & EVENING OF MUSIC AND DANCE UNDER A CHANGING SKY…  Check out this years Seabreeze Festival MAP

PERFORMING AT NIGHTCLIFF SEABREEZE FESTIVAL’S – NT GAS & AUSDANCE NT DANCE STAGE

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 WHEN: SATURDAY 5^th MAY

 TIME: 3.00pm – 8.00pm (yes, lighting will be provided)

 WHERE: Nightcliff Foreshore, near the Jetty, on the Dance Stage

 LENGTH OF PIECES: Up to 10 minutes

This is an exciting extension to our usual program which used to run from 3pm – 6pm.

 A gestural performance fee will apply.  Subject to approval of funding. 

The Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival is a wonderful ‘Community Festival’, unique in the world as it is a ‘linear’ arrangement of stages, spread along the Nightcliff foreshore, specifically designed to incorporate our beautiful and unique environment by the sea and to highlight local acts and performers!

 Ausdance NT is thrilled to be able to partner with the Festival again this year to program and manage their Dance Stage and to provide a performance platform to showcase our brilliant and diverse Dance Sector to the wider public, both locals and visitors.

 We look forward to receiving your Expressions of Interest.

 Please give us an idea of: 

1. 1.    Your groups performance length
2. 2.    Your preferred performance timeslot
3. 3.    Your preferred music & sound options, eg. CD, ipod, live music

 We will work towards scheduling everyone in to provide an exciting expose of the diversity and energy offered to our community through our Artform, ‘DANCE’.

 Email your expressions of interest to: directornt@ausdance.org.au

Please be advised that Ausdance NT will be closed between 2 – 6 April and will re-open on Monday 9 April.