Come join us for an afternoon with Dr. Elizabeth Cameron Dalman on June 7th, 2.30pm – 4.30pm, at Stanton Library, North Sydney. Listen to her story about “Dancing through Life – connecting with who we are through our bodies”.
Elizabeth is the Director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre and Artistic Director of Mirramu Dance Company. She is a pioneer of contemporary dance in Australia.
She founded Australian Dance Theatre in 1965 and was its Artistic Director for 10 years, then lived and worked in Europe for another ten years, she founded a youth dance theatre in Italy, worked as rehearsal director and performed with a Dutch dance company, Danskern, performing in classic modern dance works such at The Shakers and Rooms.
After returning to Australia in 1987, she became an independent dance artist and researcher. She established Mirramu Creative Arts Centre in 1990 and founded Mirramu Dance Company in 2000.
She is a recipient of many dance awards, such as:
> Australian Artists Creative Fellowship,
> Australian National Dance Award,
> Australian Capital Territory Creative Arts Fellowship and several Canberra Critics Circle Awards.
Her more recent performances have been with Mirramu Dance Company in productions she has directed. These include River, 2009, Sapling to Silver, 2011, Morning Star, 2013 and disAPPEARance and Mirror Image, 2014.
She teaches locally, nationally and internationally. She has a longstanding relationship with the dance community in Taiwan where she teaches choreography at the Taipei National University of the Arts. Elizabeth has appeared in and presented choreographic works for the Tsai Jui Yueh International Dance Festivals in Taipei, Taiwan, for the last five years. She has taught at two international dance courses at Germaine Acogny’s L’Ecole des Sables in Senegal, West Africa, and at the TanzAtelier Wien ChoreoLab in Austria in 2013.
She is an extraordinary woman with a passion for dance. She believes in the power of dance to communicate. She has developed an approach to modern dance that allows artists to become more spiritual and holistic in the way they express themselves.
You can register for this event, from this page. Price is $25 for non-members and $15 for current financial members (2013-2104).
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