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Byron Shire
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Byron Shire
Byron Shire
Byron Shire
Byron Shire
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![Creative Feature // GOLDEN THURSDAYS (with Kate McDowell)
Q - How does the Northern Rivers region influence your practice, and what does it mean to create dance here?
A - Max often arrives at the studio on Thursdays charged up from his time walking and dancing in nature and pursuing his video and photography practice, Bryn creates dance on his local Pottsville beach, and Alice is awed by walking in nature and swimming in icy cold seas and waterholes especially up on Koonyum Range where her family are based, meanwhile being a regular celebrity in Lismore, having worked at both Flock and now Dark Horse cafe. All three artists are well known in the area from their community engagement and local jobs, and have danced with Sprung! Dance Theatre for many years – they have dug deep roots here.
Sinead and Freya live in Brisbane but when you hear Sinead speak about the Northern Rivers it’s her spiritual home – she is deeply moved by the green hills, and feels cocooned in love and community when she visits for dance work. Both Stuart and I have strong personal ties to Lismore, I was born and went through school here.
The region has become our artistic home and the base for our studio. Creating dance here allows us to work in close connection with community, landscape and our local families, cultivating a practice that is grounded, accessible and uniquely regional. This allows us to really go inside our work with sharp focus, and some quiet from the noise of what everyone else is doing, our dream bubble as Max calls it, and then drop into major cultural centres/cities with a practice that we have honed.
[Read the full interview through our link in bio]
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