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Feb 15

Contemporary Dance Masterclasses

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This Contemporary Dance Masterclass will celebrate each young Dancer’s talents whilst developing their dance athleticism and artistry.

Together we will work on:

  • Developing a flexible and healthy body
  • Exploring a wide range of shapes and dynamics, including a smooth relationship with the floor
  • Increasing self-awareness of position and movement in time and space (kinaesthesia)
  • Expanding movement quality as a result of energy economy
  • Enjoying our dance training as a facet of our artistry
  • Practising non-hierarchical ways of social relationship
  • Making creative decisions according to judgement and determination
  • Maintaining an anatomical and physiological perspective, according to medical statements
  • Trying new exciting things and taking home exercises that will support ongoing Dance advancement

Working as a group Jade will coach individual dancers. Focusing on their particular creative stories and ways of expressing while advising how to refine personal technique, improvisation, composition and performance skills.

Dates:

First Wednesday of NSW School Holidays
Autumn : Wed 13 April 2022
Winter : Wed 6 July 2022
Spring : Wed 28 September 2022

Location:

NORPA @ Lismore City Hall

For ages:

8–12 years : 9am–12noon
13–17 years : 1–4pm

Cost:

$45
$100 Creative Kids Vouchers from NSW Government can be used for this program

BOOK NOW 8–12 YEARS
BOOK NOW 13–17 YEARS

Facilitator : Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal

Australian born dance-artist, choreographer, director and educator, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, with First Fleet convict Scottish heritage she is also directly descended from Yogyakarta’s first Sultan 1755 (Kangjeng Hamengku Buwana) and Borobudur, Java Buddhist Community 800AD.Newtown High of Performing Arts Dux, Bachelor Dance Honours (University of Florida USA) and Master Choreography High Distinction (University of Melbourne) all support 25 years of award-winning touring and international dance-culture-embodiment studies.

Jade’s performance history embraces live-art disciplines, including working with Movement Research NYC, Miami Dance Futures, Australian Choreographic Centre, Mirramu Dance Company, Victorian Opera, Chunky Move, Indonesia Contemporary Art Network, Outback Theatre for Young People, Beyond Empathy and The Bodycartography Project. Her ongoing work with NORPA includes Education services and Making new theatre works including Choreographing ‘Djurra’ and Directing ‘Flow’.

Transformational stories inform Jade’s original multimedia works in theatres, galleries, museums, video, public and wild spaces. Touring works, including ‘Opal Vapour, ‘Enfold’, and ‘6/7 Empty’ spark audiences’ imaginations with articulate and powerful inter-arts performances. Her current theatre work in development is ‘Smoke’, a trans-indigenous collaboration with Kirk Page that reweaves culture and nature in a quest for healing.

Feb 15

Street Shakespeare

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REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY 20TH JUNE

A NORPA Youth film project from the heart of Lismore

Be a part of NORPA Youth’s next Street Shakespeare film project!

This project is an intensive workshop in acting for camera. Participants explore and rehearse selected works of William Shakespeare, developing professional techniques in the analysis and performance of classical text for the camera. The scenes and monologues are shot in urban locations across the region — we want to demystify and have fun with Shakespeare, and transpose it to our culture.

This project will be directed by Scott Johnson.

How to get involved

Register in the 2022 Street Shakepeare project HERE

Registration deadline closes on Monday 20th June 2022.

For more information please contact Frauke Huhn our Youth Engagement Coordinator via email at [email protected] or call 6622 0300.

Dates:

Rehearsals:
10am – 12pm, Saturday 25 June
10am – 3pm, Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 July
10am – 4pm, Wednesday 13 July

Filming:
9.30am – 4pm, Thursday 14 & Friday 15 July
(participants will be given a 1½ hour time slot on either Thursday or Friday and wont need to be available outside the allocated time)

Location:

Rehearsals:
Southern Cross University

Final Weekend (Rehearsal & Filming):
Various locations around Lismore City centre

For ages:

12–18 years

Cost:

$240 per person, to be paid during registration.

$100 Creative Kids Vouchers from NSW Government can be used for this program

Facilitator : Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson is a NIDA graduate and has worked extensively in theatre and television around Australia for the past twenty years.

Scott is known for his acclaimed performance as Tommy Devito in the original Australian cast of Jersey Boys, for which he was nominated for a Helpmann, Green Room and Sydney Theatre Award. In 2016 Scott won a Sydney Theatre Award for his performance of Orin, The Dentist, in Little Shop of Horrors. Scott’s other theatre credits include: Third World Blues, Cyrano de Bergerac and John Proctor in The Crucible for Sydney Theatre Company. Queensland Theatre Company’s Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf and August Moon, Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome (QTC & Bell Shakespeare Co.), The Siege of Frank Sinatra (Ensemble Theatre), Amco Riders (Tamarama Rock Surfers), How like an Angel (Railway Street), Alone it Stands (Ross Mollison Productions), Hansel and Gretel and Go Pinocchio (STC & Theatre of Image), Crimes of the Heart (Marion Street Theatre Co.) and Wonderlands (Griffin Theatre Co.) for which he won a Glug award. Scott’s film and television credits include: Preacher, Four Quarters, Offspring, Neighbours, Home and Away, McLeod’s Daughters, Jessica, Monster (US), Breathe, Oops, Heaven on the Fourth Floor, Road Rage, Blue Heelers, Big Sky and Rescue Special Ops. Scott was the Director of Acting at Showfit from 2014-2020.

His vast industry experience has seen him teach and direct at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), and Monash University.

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Head to our NORPA Youtube page to see the 2021 Street Shakespeare films: NORPA Youtube: Street Shakespeare Short Films (2021)

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Feb 14

NORPA Youth Program 2022

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NORPA Youth offers young people opportunities to experience and build skills in theatre-making and live performance.

Young people will join experienced theatre practitioners, including Julian Louis, Kate McDowell and Noa Rotem to develop performance skills using the full force of the creative mind.

NORPA Youth Ensemble (Ages 14-21)

This year-long program will explore and learn devised theatre-making, improvisation, acting techniques, physical and vocal character development, vocal training and will culminate in an end of year production.

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Street Shakespeare (Ages 12-18)

Participants will explore selected works of William Shakespeare, developing professional techniques in the performance of classical text for the camera – with the selection of scenes and monologues being filmed on location around Lismore. 

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FLOW Workshop Series (Ages 9-12)

8-week workshop series led by Mitch King. Sharing his creative process and explore together with the young people the use of various art forms to tell traditional and contemporary stories on Country. 

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Contemporary Dance Masterclasses (Ages 8-17)

School holiday workshops led by Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal, this Contemporary Dance Masterclass will celebrate each young Dancer’s talents whilst developing their dance athleticism and artistry.

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Feb 11

Flow workshop series

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In this 8-week workshop series, facilitator Mitch King will share his creative process and explore together with the young people the use of various art forms to tell traditional and contemporary stories on Country.

The Flow workshop series aims to create an understanding that the stories we share can connect us to each other through a variety of mediums such as dance, music, rap and theatre. These mediums are experienced in a playful and creative way to foster an understanding that individual stories can connect back to the stories of our culture, family and the environment around us.

For more information please contact Frauke Huhn our Youth Engagement Coordinator via email at [email protected] or call 1300 066 772.

Dates:

Wednesday’s 4:30-6:30pm
May 4th until June 22

Location:

The Studio, NORPA @ Lismore City Hall

For ages:

9–12 years

Cost:

$180
$100 Creative Kids Vouchers from NSW Government can be used for this program

BOOK NOW

Facilitator : Mitch King

Mitch King is a Yaegl Bundjalung man from the Far North Coast region of NSW. He is a creative producer specialising in hip hop music and dance and has been working at NORPA as an Associate Producer and Associate Artist since 2014.

He is one part of local hip hop group Teddy Lewis King and teaches dance with young people around the region. He has a background in youth work, collaborating with young people on community events and programs.

Mitch combines his passion for hip-hop dance and music with theatre, movement and creative writing to connect with people who want to engage with the performing arts. As a workshop leader he develops people’s unique movement and voice within the rhythm and aesthetic of hip hop.