Welcome to last month
of autumn.
The year is marching on. It seems we've
barely rested since the Adelaide Fringe Festival and already we are remounting
Black Coffee for the Mt Barker Jazz Festival. Yes, word
has spread and we now receiving invitations, which is incredibly exciting.
So if you missed it the first time, or just want to see it again, you
are in luck ..... Black Coffee lives again on Saturday 16 May
in Mt Barker. Details of the gig are below.
While it's great to restage Black Coffee,
we're also looking forward. We have a fantastic line up of
guest facilitators for our regular company class on Thursday evenings,
featuring a number of wonderful Adelaide-based independent dance artists
as well as former members of Adelaide's three contemporary companies Leigh
Warren & Dancers, Australian Dance Theatre and Restless Dance.
Want to know more? Read on ....
Black Coffee
Mt Barker performance
The Mt Barker Community Library has invited
us to re-create our seedy 1950s jazz club in their library on 16 May as
part of the Mt Barker Jazz Festival. So we are pulling out the costumes,
warming up the hot rollers and checking the fishnets for ladders in preparation
for the event.
It's a slightly different beast this time,
as we're in quite a different venue, and we have also had to do some re-casting
as some of the incredible dancers from the March season are no longer
available. We are happy to welcome new cast members Matt Dowse,
Danny Hales and Cathy Chittleborough (the latter two are former MTL dancers).
So here's the deets:
When and where
7.30pm Saturday 16 May 2009
Mt Barker Community Library
5 Dumas Street, Mt Barker
Bookings
Mt Barker Library
ph: 8391 7312
(or drop into the library if you live up that
way)
Ticket prices
$35
Thank you to Black
Coffee Supporters
Thank you to the City of Marion for providing
grant funding through their Comunity Grants Program to help develop Black
Coffee .
We'd like to thank all those provided inkind
support to help make Black Coffee a success, including:
Vittoria Coffee, for
supplying the espresso machine, coffee beans and soft drinks
Woodford Furniture + Kitchens
for building, providing materials, transporting and storing the beautiful
Black Coffee bar and band screen
Dance
Informa for free advertising
Directions Dance
Academy for lending us some costume pieces (co-princial Effie Saloniklis
also choreographed the exhilarating Come Fly With Me opening
showpiece, and sultry pas de deux to Bock to Bock)
Plush Hair and Makeup Studio
for providing advice and workshopping fifties hair and makeup
Winner of the Care to
Dance competition
Thank you to everyone who submitted a Care
to Dance survey
As promised, we put all the names in a hat
and drew out Caryn Brett, who has one two bottles of Annie's Lane Wine.
Black Coffee
DVD
A DVD of Black Coffee will soon be
available for purchase. If you are interested in owning a copy,
please complete an order form, available on the MTL website.
DVD's will be $45, with discounts for MTL members.
The DVD has been created by Juha Vanhakartano from Icebreaker Arts Projects
Youtube and Facebook
There are a couple of clips of Black Coffee
available on Youtube, taken by photographer Robert Mikulandura.
Type in "Move Through Life Black Coffee" to find the clips.
A selection of Robert's photos from Black
Coffee are also available on the Move Through Life facebook group.
If you want to join our Facebook group, simply click on the groups icon
and search for "Move Through Life". Anyone can join.
Company class
While we are rehearsing for Black Coffee
Mark 2, the regular Thursday night company class is a little earlier
and shorter - 6.45-7.45pm at the Glengowrie Uniting Church. From
Thursday 21 May, classes will be from 7.30-9.00pm.
There is a fantastic lineup of guest facilitators
teaching the class. We were lucky to have one week with ex-LWD dancer
Gala Moody last week before she jetted off to Brussels to join a new company.
For the next four weeks class will be taught
by Billie Cook, formerly artistic director of Restless Dance, among
her other achievements.
Keep an eye on the MTL website for the entire
class program, but the details confirmed at the moment are as follows:
7, 14, 21 and 28 May Billie
Cook
11, 18, 26 June and 2 July
Katrina Lazaroff
3, 10, 17, 24 September
Sharon Angove
I'm in the process of confirming others for
July, August, October, November and December - details will be available
soon.
Extraordinary general meeting
6.45pm, Thursday 28 May
Move Through Life Inc is holding an extraordinary
general meeting to vote on amendments to its rules of association.
This follows a vote by members at the AGM to amend the rules. Following
legal advice, we are now ready to vote on the exact wording.
Only MTL members will be able to vote,
so if your membership has lapsed, please update it before the 28th.
MTL members will receive a separate email regarding the EGM, along with
the proposed amendments.
Policies
The board of MTL has been working over the
last few months to develop new policies to ensure we function at our best
and provide a safe environment. I am pleased to say the first policy
has been ratified - the Health and Safety Policy is now available on the
MTL website. Policies under consideration at the moment include
safe dance, media, crisis management and food handling. We are also
in the process of conducting a venue safety audit.
Well, that's all folks. I'll let
you know if anything else comes up in the near future. I hope
to see you sometime soon at either an event or a performance.
Jo
Jo McDonald
Director
Move Through Life Dance Company
PO Box 875, Brighton SA 5048
ph: 0402 070 021
email: jo.mcdonald@movethroughlife.org.au
www.movethroughlife.org.au
Director
Move Through Life Dance Company
PO Box 875, Brighton SA 5048
ph: 0402 070 021
email: jo.mcdonald@movethroughlife.org.au
www.movethroughlife.org.au
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