Echoes is a triple bill of dance that speaks to liveliness, action and interaction.

Future Makers, Dance Makers Collective’s Emerging Artist Ensemble, collaborate with and perform the works of independent choreographer Rhiannon Newton and Dance Makers Collective members Eliza Cooper and Ella-Watson Heath. Each new work is distinct from the other, unique in style and content, yet connected by the shared sensations of the dancers, resonating between each creative process.

These three works are made by some of Australia’s most exciting choreographers, and performed by Sydney’s most promising emerging dance artists.

The Program

Truth and Consequence

Choreographer: Eliza Cooper in collaboration with the performers
Performers: Jaslyn Boughton, Jacinta Mullen and Ashleigh Veitch

In Truth and Consequence, three dancers explore corporeal truths. Seeking genuinity in performance, they recreate small honest moments; no theatrics, no spectacle. Direct and pragmatic, the choreography is simple, yet lively.

About Eliza: Eliza graduated from Newtown High School PA (2015), Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year (2016) and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s MASA Program (2018). She performs seasonally with Opera Australia and Pepa Molina’s ‘Las Flamenkas’, and is a member of Dance Makers Collective, touring nationally. In 2023, Eliza’s ‘Revenge Tales and Romance’ was presented by Sydney Dance Company in ‘New Breed’ (Carriageworks) and scenes from ‘Snake Battle’ premiered in Dance Makers Collective’s ‘Big Dance 2.0’ (Riverside Theatres, FORM Dance Projects). She attended ImPulsTanz (Vienna) in the ATLAS choreographic program and performed ‘Alegrías’ in Tablao Alboreá (Granada) in Carmen de las Cuevas’ Professional Tablao program. Her major work ‘Bat Lake’ premiered at Riverside Theatres (FORM Dance Projects, 2022), ‘Play’ was presented at the Neilson Studio (SDC Youth Ensemble 2022) and ‘Old Life/ Dead Life’ performed at The Old 505 (Freshworks Program 2019).

cat-and-mouse: The Mouse Strikes Back

Choreographer: Ella Watson-Heath
Sound: Mark Ashforth & Will Britto
Performers: Phaedra Brown, Matina McAneney, Rachelle Silsby and Daniel Ross

The first cat-and-mouse, performed in 2023’s Big Dance 2.0, saw two aliens and some doomsday preppers walk into a dystopian hellscape. Dani, Tia, Rachelle, Phaedra and I now offer you a sequel, a prequel, an Episode V released second. Aliens and doomsday preppers exit the bar arm in arm…

About Ella: Ella Watson-Heath is a dance artist born and raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar currently living on Gadigal land, working across performance, choreography and improvisation. Ella is a graduate of WAAPA, BA Dance Course. In 2017 Ella took part in a one semester student exchange to Purchase College at the State University of New York. As a member of Dance Makers Collective’s Future Makers company, Ella collaborated with Lee Serle and performed in In Situ (SydFest ’21), and performed with Future Makers alongside DMC members in The Rivoli (SydFest ’20). Ella went on to tour The Rivoli nationally in 2022 and is now a member and co-leader of DMC. Ella is a proud member of MEAA and the Dancers Australia National Committee

Caresss

Choreographer: Rhiannon Newton in collaboration with the performers
Performers: Phaedra Brown, Jaslyn Boughton, Matina McAneney, Jacinta Mullen, Rachelle Silsby, Daniel Ross and Ashleigh Veitch
Sound: Megan Alice Clune

Accumulating moments of contact, connection and exchange, we inhabit a web that tethers us to the spaces we move through and each other. Some connections spiral off in tangents of conversation, some linger in sensation, as others glitch. Somewhere in the moment of contact between skin and floor, fingerprint and device, inbreath and outbreath, we have begun to relish the feeling of these instances of contact, the caress of these moments of exchange.

About Rhiannon: Rhiannon is an Australian dancer and choreographer who grew up on Dunghutti Land on the Mid-North Coast of NSW. Her creative work draws attention to the interconnection of the body and the more-than-human world. Working from Gadigal Land (Sydney), Rhiannon makes contributions to community and culture through choreography, performance, teaching, research and curation. Rhiannon’s recent projects include Earthbound (Volume, AGNSW); Explicit Contents (Sydney Festival; Dancehouse; INDance; QL2 Dance); A Strange Place (Dance Nucleus); The Gift of a Warning (New Breed); and We Make Each Other Up (Dancehouse). Rhiannon works as a performer and collaborator with artists such as Mette Edvardsen (Belgium/Norway), Martin del Amo, Lee Serle, Ivey Wawn, Amrita Hepi, Rosalind Crisp, Paea Leach, Angela Goh and Brooke Stamp. From 2019-21 Rhiannon co-directed ReadyMade Works, she continues to co-curate the performance-lecture series Talking Bodies with Katy Green Loughrey, is a member of the Dance Research Australasia (DRA) working group, and is a part-time dance lecturer at the Australian College of Physical Education and tutor at NAISDA Dance College.

Cast & Credits

Choreographers Eliza Cooper, Rhiannon Newton & Ella Watson-Heath

Future Makers/Performers Phaedra Brown, Jaslyn Boughton, Matina McAneney, Jacinta Mullen, Rachelle Silsby, Daniel Ross & Ashleigh Veitch

About Future Makers

Launched in 2019, Future Makers is Dance Makers Collective’s Emerging Dance Company.

Future Makers company members participate in rehearsals, professional and skills development, and in creative developments for professional productions. Since launching, Future Makers have co-devised and performed in Resurgence, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre 2022 (choreographies by Kristina Chan, Jasmin Sheppard and Future Makers); BOLD Festival, The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2022; In Situ at Parramatta Park, Sydney Festival 2021; Dance Makers Collective’s The Rivoli at Granville Town Hall, Sydney Festival 2020; and in multidisciplinary artist Nadia Odlum’s site specific performance Correspondence at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2020.

About Dance Makers Collective

“DMC is a generous and essential dance company with new energy and great momentum.” – Wesley Enoch AM

Dance Makers Collective (DMC), based on Dharug country (Western Sydney), is the only collective-led dance company in Australia. With a mission to build dance communities, DMC brings people together by working with, and between, dance theatre, contemporary dance and social dance. DMC connects and moves people.

Established in 2012, DMC has presented 17 dance productions, in theatres, town halls, galleries, parks, street corners, balconies, on YouTube and Instagram, in cities and regional towns in almost every Australian state and territory. DMC’s most recent large-scale work The Rivoli has recently undertaken a national regional tour to WA, QLD, VIC and NSW.

DMC is a democratic organisation of independent artists who live the mantra the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In DMC are skilled performers, choreographers, producers, designers, educators and composers. DMC artists have worked/work with Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, Marrugeku, Bangarra, Force Majeure, Tasdance, Chunky Move, Legs On The Wall, Dancenorth, Branch Nebula, Mirramu Dance Company, Restless Dance Theatre, Stalker Theatre Company and hundreds of independent artists.

EDUCATION BOOKINGS & RESOURCES

EDUCATION PERFORMANCE DATES

Friday 22 March 2024 at 12pm

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