QL2 teams up with Maya Dance Theatre from Singapore to make a new cross-cultural collaborative dance work, with performance season both in Canberra and Singapore. Emerging dancers from Singapore and Australia work with Liz Lea, Kavitha Krishnan and Ruth Osborne to investigate culturally-specific emotive movement vocabulary.
 

As dusk falls, dreams and fears choose their moment. Snuggled in bed or out on the town, each minute is a new world.

Quantum Leap’s major project for the year focuses on the activities and inner lives of young people between dusk and dawn. Ruth Osborne and guest choreographers Anton, Jodie Farugia, Adam Wheeler and Larissa McGowan work with dancers from Canberra and the region, as well as visiting dancers from Thailand. Your Time Starts Now also features an original score composed for the performance and an intricate layer of video designed by Bearcage Productions.

“Hard Yards” will be about work: slacking off and working hard. Why bother working hard? What happens if you don’t?

QL2’s project for younger or less experienced dancers culminates this year in a performance showing at the Yarralumla Woolshed. This unusual venue inspires choreographers Liz Lea and Dean Cross to work with Ruth Osborne and a large group of young dancers to make a work about the ethics of hard work, and what it means to put in the hard yards.

Senior dancers from Quantum Leap choreograph their own short dance works with their peers from the ensemble in this project under the mentorship of Ruth Osborne and Liz Lea, and present them at an often sold-out performance season. Recent seasons have included dance films as well, and we look forward to their inclusion this year.

Attracting dance students from around Australia, On Course offers the opportunity for tertiary students to choreograph their own works, and dance in other students’ works. Choreographers will be mentored by Alice Lee Holland and will present their work at a short and very popular performance season. Dancers often reconnect and make establish new relationships with their peers from different tertiary institutions, and can use this project to develop ideas seeded during their courses.