APRIL 29TH TO JUNE 7TH, 2019.

Dance Nexus is an annual combined schools dance program by DRILL. Each year we work with selected primary and secondary schools in a 5-week in-school residency to create dance pieces around a common theme. For previous years, check out 2017 and 2018.

In 2019 DRILL connected each school with a professional scientist, who spent time sharing their work and research with the students, as well as giving them a glimpse into their life as a scientist and how they got there. Together with choreographer Felicity Bott, the108 participating students then learn about contemporary dance and created dance pieces about their scientist.

The students performed their pieces together over three performances at Montrose Bay High School for their fellow students, friends, family and community members.

PERFORMANCE DAY - JUNE 7TH, 2019

DATE: Friday June 7th
TIME: 12pm, 1:30pm & 6pm
VENUE: Montrose Bay High School (865 Brooker Hwy, Glenorchy)
TICKETS: $10

CREDITS

Choreographer
Felicity Bott

Scientists
Lila Landowski
Sarah Andrewartha
Angie Jackson
Emily Flies
Heidi Auman
Anthony Broese van Groenou

Participating Schools
Windermere Primary
Moonah Primary
Glenorchy Primary
Kempton Primary
Montrose Bay High

Photos by
Katie Palmer

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Felicity Bott
CHOREOGRAPHER (Education Programs 2019)

Felicity has worked in professional contemporary dance since 1989 as company dancer,
independent artist, commissioned choreographer, Artistic Director and CEO. She has 20 years’ experience at the helm of four different not-for profit arts organisations in Western Australia; Ausdance WA (2013-2015), Buzz Dance Theatre (2003-2009), STEPS Youth Dance Company (2000-2003), the Contemporary Dance Centre (1998-2002); and most recently in Tasmania at Tasdance (2015-18). In both Tasmania and Western Australia she has worked with teams to enliven cities, towns and communities through a wide range of cultural activities, performance, music, visual art, installation design and public art.

National nominations and awards include 6 Helpmann Award nominations and an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education. She is a 2007/8 Churchill Fellow and in 2009 was the recipient of the Department of Culture and the Arts’ prestigious Creative Development Fellowship in Western Australia. In January 2015, Felicity was selected for the Australia Council for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders Development Program in Sydney. She is profiled in both editions of Rachel Power’s Creativity & Motherhood; The Divided Heart, a series of interviews with successful female artist-mothers (2008 & 2015).

Most recently she has been working independently as a dance artist (choreography, performance, film); dance educator; and festival artist liaison for MONA FOMA. Since November 2018, her studio base Deep Room has been at 65 Murray Street, Hobart, a developing inner-city hub for designers, architects, music producers, performing artists and physical therapists.