BOLD
The BOLD Festival
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| SCHEDULE OF EVENTS |
A BOLD Indulgence
9-10.30am AEST, 2nd March
ONLINE
We invite you indulge and take this unique opportunity to take yoga class with the legendary Narelle Benjamin. This program runs over 3 workshops during BOLD22
Fine Lines
11am-12.30pm, 2nd March
QL2 Dance Studio
This 90-minute Fine Lines Dance class reveals current approaches by Fine Lines founder, Katrina Rank. It includes simple phrase material, floorwork and improvisation scores.
BOLD22 Launch
5.30pm, 2nd March
National Film and Sound Archive
To launch BOLD22, we are screening a series of award-winning short dance films from Australia and around the world. They explore questions of place, people and bodies within the legacy of our current times. Filmmakers include Sue Healey, Eileen Kramer, Jen Brown, Eric Avery, Gail Hewton and Tmesis Theatre and the Australian premiere of Dancer with a Bullet
BOLD22 Conference
Online until 8th April 2022
Filmed at the National Library of Australia
A range of talks from some of Australia and the world’s leading dance experts in a program of talks covering a myriad of subjects. Keynote speakers include Dr Michelle Potter, Gary Lang and Eileen Kramer. The 2022 BOLD Lecture in the memory of Janis Claxton will be delivered by Marc Brew (AUS/UK)
Tango in the Tropics
6-7pm AEST, 3rd March
ONLINE
A workshop for followers of all levels of Tango offering insights into the steps, technique, embellishments and musicality of Argentine tango. Our focus will be on caminata, pivots, ochos and adornos.
Shifting Lines
7.15-8.15pm AEST, 3rd March
ONLINE
Using visual, aural, kinaesthetic guides, we’ll transform our human form into beautiful abstractions. Shift simultaneously/sequentially between images you create/observe/feel; inhabit spaces of fragment/whole, singular/multiple, solid/transparent; and find where they meet.
BOLD22 Conference
Online until 8th April 2022
A range of talks from some of Australia and the world’s leading dance experts in a program of talks covering a myriad of subjects. Keynote speakers include Dr Michelle Potter, Gary Lang and Eileen Kramer. The 2022 BOLD Lecture in the memory of Janis Claxton will be delivered by Marc Brew (AUS/UK)
Goddess
3-5.30pm, 4th March
National Portrait Gallery
Join us for a series of short performances by some of Australia's leading performing artists including Tammi Gissell, Agal Dance Company, Jolanda Lowatta, Charlie Wan, Somebody's Aunt, Anca Frankenhauser and Debora di Centa and the premiere performance of the Chameleon Collective. We also are delighted to be featuring artists from Dance Makers Collective.
Somebody's Aunts
6-7pm, 4th March
Garema Place - free event
She did it HER WAY is a series of performance interventions for public spaces, bringing the incongruity of private women’s work into the public domain, provoking and challenging ideas on the visibility and invisibility of women’s work. Somebody's Aunt will traverse the Garema Place precinct, expanding their private personas in various public guises.
LESS
7-8pm, 4th March
Dairy Road
As part of the 2022 Enlighten and BOLD Festivals, join Australian Dance Party for an illuminated outdoor dance and music performance on the evocative architectural sculpture, LESS Pavilion.
Taste Hilal
9.30-10.20am, 5th March
QL2 Studio
In this Hilal Dance taster Rachael will guide you through focused breath work and yoga stretches before moving into meditative movement and the dance.
A BOLD Mix
7pm, 5th March
Gorman Arts Centre and QL2 Theatre
A magnificent mix of performers take to the legendary QL2 Theatre stage to create more legends. This is an eclectic smorgasbord of performances and film from Ryuichi Fujimura, Lucky Lartey, Patrick Harding Irmer, Chris Wade, Harry Morrisey, Maya Dance Theatre and Danny Riley
Kab Lag
with Yolanda Lowatta
11am-12.20-pm, 5th March
QL2 Studio
This dance workshop will give you a taste of the Torres Strait style mixed in with contemporary dance.
Unlimited!
12.30-1.50pm, 5th March
QL2 Studio
An inclusive workshop. Absolutely everyone in! Bring your physical, intellectual, psychological abilities. Who are you being as a dancer? Where are the constraints? Discover that right there, is the possibility of performance, of anyone dancing with anyone.
Bellydance Lab
2-3.30-pm AEST, 5th March
ONLINE
Bellydance Lab - join an intensive workshop that focuses on musicality, expression and creation in relation to the music of Bellydance and the world of Raqs Sharqi (dance of the East) “Bellydance"
LESS
7-8pm, 5th March
Dairy Road
As part of the 2022 Enlighten and BOLD Festivals, join Australian Dance Party for an illuminated outdoor dance and music performance on the evocative architectural sculpture, LESS Pavilion.
A BOLD Indulgence
9-10.30am AEST, 6th March
ONLINE
We invite you indulge and take this unique opportunity to take yoga class with the legendary Narelle Benjamin. This program runs over 3 workshops during BOLD22
Contemporary Indian Dance
10.30am-12.50pm AEST, 6th March
ONLINE
This workshop marries Bharata Natyam with contemporary dance and martial arts. Technique classes are followed by an exploration of both Sinha Danse repertory and Roger Sinha’s creative process.
Move in your own way
12-1pm AEST, 6th March
ONLINE
A Soft Sunday invitation to move in connection with ourselves. Bring a song that makes you move. Play around! Feel into your own ways of moving with live improvised music.
Body in Motion Workshop for Seniors by Seniors
1pm AEST, 6th March
ONLINE
Maya Dance Theatre created “Movements For Seniors by Seniors”, a fun-filled digital content to increase functionality of seniors and to increase accessibility beyond the limitations caused by the current Pandemic.
Shakedown Cabaret and Triva, The BOLD Edition
6pm, 6th March
Canberra Theatre Centre
Fasten your seat belts and prepare for turbulence, Shakedown Cabaret (& trivia!) is heading to the Canberra Theatre Centre! Featuring award-winning burlesque, drag and comedy, this is an interactive cabaret trivia night with a tangy twist
