CLIMBING THE CREATIVE LADDER

INCREASINGLY, Australian dance companies are providing opportunities for their dancers to exercise their creative muscles by staging seasons of work by emerging choreographers. Last issue we focused on classical choreographers. This time the spotlight is on two contemporary choreographers. The first, Richard Causer, is from Expressions Dance Company (EDC). He made a new work, “Imposters”, for the company’s 2018 “Converge” season, in which local and overseas choreographers collaborated with emerging composers and musicians from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Melanie Lane is the second choreographer, and another to have benefitted from such programs – in 2016 she was commissioned to create a new work, Re-make, for Chunky Move as part of its “Next Move” season. This year she was the winner of the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award, another initiative designed to support Australian choreographers and the development of new work.

Richard Causer

Richard Causer graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2004 and joined EDC in 2006. Between 2012 and 2015, for EDC’s “Converge” season.