The Restless Youth Ensemble has returned early this year for a week-long intensive rehearsal period. The dancers are working with guest director Zoë Barry (Alarm Birds – Melbourne) for the first stage development of the company’s major production for 2012, Howling Like A Wolf.

Zoë has worked with the company on a number of productions (Beauty, Safe from Harm, The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest, In The Blood and Perfect Match) as a composer, musician and performer.

Howling Like a Wolf is about the chaos of human interaction and how we prepare for it. Through researching the history of scientific exploration into non-verbal communication, from the classical philosophers, French neurologists of the mid 19th Centrury and Darwinism through to the pop psychologists of the 1960′s, the dancers are exploring how this information is used to assist us in connecting with or manipulating others.

Joining the Youth Ensemble for this major production are established independent guest artists and emerging artists from Adelaide’s disability arts scene including invited guest performers from No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability, Tutti Inc and Company@.

This new work will premiere at The Queens Theatre 17th August 2012.

Learn more about the process by following the blog for Howling Like a Wolf.

Restless presents a Ranters Theatre Masterclass series 28 Nov – 9 Dec 2011. The Lure and Blur of the Real residency will be “non-fiction”. This means using aspects of ‘real-life’ to create ideas for performance.

The workshops will focus on 2 distinct areas:

Creating material from the real lives and experiences of the creative participants involved (performers, directors etc). This could be autobiographical or biographical.

Creating material from meetings with the public. This will mean a controlled excursion to a public space to observe and talk/question with selected public persons. We will look at how to develop ideas for creating work from the material we discover.

Our aim will be to develop raw material that is unprocessed, unfiltered, uncensored and infused with a deliberate ‘un artiness’.

Check out the link to the blog

For more information about this Ranters residency and to obtain a booking form, call Restless on (08)8212 8495 or email philip@restlessdance.org

Debut 3 is an exciting new program of short works directed by selected members of Restless Dance Theatre’s Youth Ensemble. Now in its third incarnation, this artistic initiative sees three outstanding members of the Company work as Directors to develop their own individual choreographic styles. The Directors have worked alongside experienced guest artists as mentors to guide them in the creative process. This season of work is united by the theme: ‘The Butterfly Effect’. Debut 3 demonstrates how small changes in one part of a complex system can have a dramatic effect elsewhere.

When: 7:30pm Friday 11 November, 3pm & 7:30pm Saturday 12 November 2011. The performance on Friday 11 November will be Auslan interpreted and audio described. (please telephone Restless if you require this service).
Where: The Restless Studio, 234a Sturt Street, Adelaide SA 5000 (enter off Arthur Street)
Tickets: $10, $5 concession – Bookings are essential
For further info and bookings contact Restless Dance Theatre
at: bookings@restlessdance.org or telephone 8212 8495

The Restless Assembly… dance til ya drop.

Ever wanted to know why so many people enjoy coming to Restless?
Want to meet new people in a safe and supportive environment?
Do you love dancing, playing games and having fun?

The ASSEMBLY is a BRAND NEW terms-worth (8 weeks) of inclusive dance, open for people of all ages from different cultural backgrounds with and without a disability.

The Assembly brings dancers together in a fun environment, where no one is judged and where there is no wrong or right way to express your individual creativity.

For more information and to book your place, call Restless on (08)82128495 or email lyn@restlessdance.org

When: Tuesday nights 5.30-7pm
18 Oct – 6 Dec 2011
Cost: $10 per class or buy a block of 8 classes for $70

Restless will present a Masterclass at the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle Saturday 1 October 2011. Crack is a national festival and forum for alternative theatre-makers and performing artists devoted to experimental, fringe, cross-artform theatre and performance. It is part of the This Is Not Art media arts festival.

Artistic Director Philip Channells, will be accompanied by emerging disabled artists Lorcan Hopper and Kyra Kimpton who will lead the Beyond Technique masterclass and be part of an Accessible Arts panel discussion.

For more information about the event click on the link to the Festival.

JUNCTION – where artists develop a deeper understanding of integration and inclusive practice, share new skills and information, and hatch a new generation of arts practice in South Australia.

JUNCTION is an artist exchange program initiated by Restless Dance Theatre to support and promote the development of new independent work. With a focus on disability arts practice, JUNCTION is designed to encourage an exchange of ideas, space and expertise that shifts the boundaries between disability arts and mainstream dance and theatre practices. It supports emerging and established artists with a movement background while generating pathways for potential new collaborations between disabled and non-disabled artists.

Piloting this program is independent artist Tobiah Booth-Remmers who is being mentored by Carol Wellman Kelly through the national JUMP mentoring program. Tobiah is in the Restless Studio for the next two weeks working on the second stage redevelopment of In Absence Of. This work focuses on the removal of something significant from a group of people, and explores how they then react and interact once this removal has happened. Joining the project on secondment is Restless dancer Jianna Georgiou who has spent the past 2 weeks with Tobiah at the Australian Dance Theatre studios. Jianna has been keeping busy taking technique class, learning repertoire from the work, devising new material from improvisation scores and teaching Tobiah some of her moves.

As part of the JUNCTION program Tobiah will have a studio showing for invited guests at the Restless Studio . For more info about JUMP (click).

Administration Assistant
Restless has appointed Lyn Wagstaff to the Administration Assistant position. Lyn worked for many years as Project Officer for the Adelaide Festival of Arts on the events: Adelaide Writers’ Week and Adelaide Festival of Ideas. We are delighted to welcome her to Restless.

Symposium considers new directions for dance

The masterclass will offer a professional and integrated creative process experience for up to 20 NSW-based artists with and without a disability. For more information about this event, visit Accessible Arts NSW or contact Sarah-Vyne Vassallo, Arts Development Officer (part-time Thursday & Friday) tel: 02 9251 6499 ext 110 or artsdevelopment@aarts.net.au

Ever wanted to know what life was like for the dancers as artists in residence at Bundanon?

Restless’ Touring Company compiled a blog of a typical and sometimes not so typical day in the life in the countryside working hard to create a new show. Complete with entries including things that make you go eeeeew, wombat whisperings, poetry and dancer’s journal’s it is certain to entertain and give the reader a sense of being a part of the experience.

Click on the blog to visit the site – feel free to add your comments and follow us.

To learn more about the property, click here http://www.bundanon.com.au/content/bundanon-0

Restless’ new Touring Company production In-habit gets underway at a 3-week residency at Arthur Boyd’s property on the South Coast of NSW. Beginning the residency, Artistic Director Philip Channells will lead a series of dance workshops in the Dorothy Porter Studio for local participants from the Shoalhaven River community.

The company (Jianna Georgiou, Dana Nance, Andrew Pandos, Elizabeth Ryan, Matthew Shilcock, and Miranda Wheen) are artists in residence from 23rd May – 10th June. In-habit - nature versus nurture (working title) investigates the notion of the evolution of human and animal species. This is the first stage research and development period of a brand new work directed by Sydney-based choreographer, Dean Walsh. In-habit will be developed over several stages during a two year period before realising the completed work in 2013.

The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence program is open to professional artists and groups, from all disciplines. The program supports artists’ new work, research and collaborations. Australian and international artists are hosted in purpose-built studios located at the Bundanon properties on the Shoalhaven River. For more information about the residency program visit www.bundanon.com.au/content/residencies