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Prelude
SOLO DANCE PIECE
Kyra Kimpton, SA
A dance theatre solo that explores the intricacies of personal obsession and compulsion, the desires we feel and how we control and express them. Exploring new territory for the Australian performing arts; the work will create a coherent collage of audio description, Auslan, signed song, dance and physical theatre, culminating in a dynamic and consistent platform where the diverse mediums are experienced as equally valuable and necessary contributions to the overall whole; innovative, challenging and exciting.
Collaborators Kyra Kimpton (performer, SA) and choreographer Jemima Hoadley, Wreckless Arts Dance (UK) will be undertaking a one-month creative development during January 2010 in London. Kyra will then return to Australia where the work will be shown as part of Arts Activated National Conference. Prelude is an ongoing development, assisted by The Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust, the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and the Government of South Australian through Arts SA.
Jazz Peformance
SOLO JAZZ VOCALIST
Janelle Colquhoun, QLD
Janelle Colquhoun took music, dance and drama lessons before studying opera at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. In her Post-Graduate year she also performed full-time at World Expo '88 as a 'street entertainer'. She joined the Australian Opera for 2 years before moving to Europe where she accepted a full-time contract with the Opera Frankfurt. At age 29 she went blind and returned to Brisbane.
Janelle continued to perform in concerts and operas, recorded three solo albums and joined arts, disability and health boards and committees including Access Arts QLD; the Arts Queensland - Arts and Disability Working Party; the Brisbane City Council Local Arts, Cultural and Festivals Assessment Committee; and the Arts Queensland Peer Assessment Panel.
In 1999 Janelle established Salubrious Productions, an entertainment and production agency specialising in professional artists with a disability. To date she has produced over 900 mainstream and disability events. She has accepted speaking and workshop facilitation engagements throughout Australia and overseas and had over 100 of her disability, arts and health articles published.
NSW Showcase
I LOVE YOU: A MONOLOGUE PERFORMANCE
Janet Diane
Janet Diane is a performer, writer and a qualified bookkeeper. She was a member of Powerhouse Youth Theatre's Mixed Abilities Ensemble (2008) and performer in PYT’s major site-specific production, Hard Daze (2009). She also works for PYT office as their bookkeeper. In 2008 Janet began to write her first performance I Love You based on her own real life experiences as a young woman acquiring a disability at the age of 15. I Love You has been performed twice and is still a work in progress seeking further funding with the aim of working it into a major production.
SPOKEN WORD PIECE
Ana Nguyen
Ana Nguyen is a singer, songwriter, rapper, performer and political activist living in Sydney, Australia. She uses the force central to hip hop to discuss the issues that anger her, while rock provides an ideal outlet for her deeper thoughts and emotions. She has performed in stage productions for Powerhouse Youth Theatre; Divine Places (2005), City Quest (2007), Hard Daze (2009) and has been selected for Accessible Arts’ national art exhibition AART.BOXX (2008, 2009). She is releasing her single Economy Sick on iTunes and is currently working on her debut album.
HIP HIP PERFORMANCE
First Flight Crew & Morganics
The First Flight Crew stemmed from a series of four workshops in song creation with hip hop artist Morganics. The result of these workshops were two tracks, The Wild Ones and Music Makes Me Happy which also had an accompanying music video clip that the group created with video artist Finton Mahony. The group was then invited by Morganics to perform at The Beach Road Hotel, Bondi as part of a hip hop night with interstate and international artists including Elf Tranzporter and King Kapisi. In 2009 the group became the First Flight Crew, and continue to work with Morganics. They recently performed at Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival at CarriageWorks.