AIVDT are live and accepting bookings for Life in Miniature
FRINGE WORLD, Perth
Jan 28-Feb 10th; Feb 12th-17th
PICA Amphitheatre Caravan
6:00pm, 7:00pm and 8:00pm Every day except Mondays
1:30pm (Saturday and Sunday only)
Tickets $25 Group Booking $20/ticket
Don't miss out!
xAIVDT are back!
LIFE IN MINIATURE
Cramped, cosy, cool contemporary dance.
Want to test drive life in a caravan before you take that trip around Australia? Anything is Valid Dance Theatre, a Perth-based contemporary dance company serves up their unique perspective of a road trip in the confines of a caravan at the 2012 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Serena Chalker reflects on her own experience of Life in Miniature.
“We will be undergoing a gruelling caravan trip ourselves across the Nullabor Desert to get to the Adelaide Fringe after the Perth performances. It will add to our store of experiences of life on the road in a confined space. Our audience could come to every performance and experience something new and unusual about life in a small space”, reflects Serena Chalker.
Life in Miniature explores the great Australian caravan holiday, an experience to be endured or embraced. Reflecting on the inevitable experiences of spending long periods on the road, interactions become magnified and reality becomes distorted as two friends living out of a caravan try to survive the elements… and each other.
Funny and poignant, this is an engaging work created for an intimate audience that invites you to reflect on life on a small scale
Serena Chalker and Quindell Orton, Directors or Anything is Valid Dance Theatre are dancers, choreographers and improvisers with a zest for performing in unusual spaces. AIVDT's 2010 season of UNEXPECTED-microclimates, set in Wolf Lane, Perth, debuted to a sell-out crowd. They have also performed many works for Fairbridge Festival, Joondalup and Fremantle Festivals, flash-mobbed their way through the opening of the City of Perth and were the original “swordfish girls” for electro-pop band Empire of the Sun.
Both are graduates of the West Australian Performing Arts Academy. Quindell has recently returned to AIVDT from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Their company
‘s list of credits includes Fairbridge Music Festival (Pinjarra WA), full-length production “Unexpected Microclimates”, residencies, community projects and commissions. Sound design for Life in Miniature is by Tristan Parr, an award winning instrumentalist.
Performances:
Perth Fringe World
January 25th-February 17th (every day except Monday)
Fringe Hub Caravan(Outside the Art Gallery of WA)
Performance times in the caravan: 1:30pm (Saturday and Sunday only), 6:00, 7:30, 9:00pm
Duration 35 mins approx.
Bookings through www.fringeworld.com.au and the Fringe World Box Office
Adelaide Fringe
February 24th-March 18th (every day except Monday)
Gluttony Caravan Venue
Rymill Park (near cnr of Rundell Rd and East Tce)
Performance times in the caravan: 1:30pm (Saturday and Sunday only), 6:00, 7:30, 9:00 pm
Duration: 35 mins approx.
Bookings through www.fringetix.com.au
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AIVDT is working with the Brownlie Towers residents in Bentley for the opening of the Bentley Community Garden. At 2:00pm on November 19th, the garden will be officially opened by John McLaughlin from the City of Canning, with a community performance by AIVDT, the residents and poet Peter Bibby.
xAIVDT are back! As is their new friend, Stanley, who makes an appearance as an amazing Hat-stand in their new work Two, which will be premiered at the STRUT Dance Season of Short Cuts.
AIVDT, through improvisation, explore what it is to be a performer, present in the moment. What characters do we take on? How do we present ourselves, and what does it take to make a dance piece 'work'. No rules, no boundaries. Just, two.
Short cuts runs from Thursday 13th October-Sunday 16th October in STudio 3 at King ST Arts Centre.
Book through www.trybooking.com
More information at www.strutdance.org.au
Short Cuts- Where Creativity begins.
xAIVDT returns to Fairbridge Festival in 2011 for the third year. Come down on April 30th to the Fairbridge Village, 5km north of Pinjarra and join AIVDT director Serena Chalker in a special 1 hour workshop designed to get you moving creatively. The body is a wonderful thing, an instrument for expression and exploration. In this workshop you will be uncovering some of the many possibilities of movement, and how following your instincts can lead you to do things you never knew you body could do before!
Workshop Information:
Price: Included in the cost of entry to the festival
Date: April 30th
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Hoopla Stage (Formerly the dance stage), Fairbridge Village, Pinjarra.
Book now at www.fairbridgefestival.com.au
xUNEXPECTED-microclimates World Premiere
Book for at trybooking.com/JVY to reserve your place for the UNEXPECTED-microclimates world premiere season from December 10th-12th
The laneways of Perth come alive as the talented dancers of AIVDT weave their magic, through Wolf Lane. You are invited to discover for yourself what is hidden away, cocooned from the wide, busy streets.
Mentored by some of Perth's most talented artists, Serena Chalker, Quindell Orton, Jessica Lewis and Alison Plevey star in this site-specific dance work. 
Music by Tristen Parr.
Places are limited, so get in quick!
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
December 10th-12th
Promenade performance 7:30pm
Departs from King St Arts Centre Foyer
Munster Ln, Perth
Bookings at www.trybooking.com/JVY
Download the flyer here
xSeptember is going to be a massive month for AIVDT. Here's where you can catch us...
PERTH FASHION FESTIVAL
September 10-12 Catch AIVDT out the front of Fashion Central on Murray St Mall with a special Fashion edition of "Directed Score" for one40william at 1:40pm. Serena Chalker and Sharlene Campbell will be directing Jessica Lewis and Nantale Kivubiro. Come down for the chance to win a $50 gift voucher to one40william!
CITY IN BLOOM
AIVDT will be harvesting their green thumbs for City in Bloom 2010. Head on down to the Esplanade Busport to check out their floral sculpture "Gastropoda Horticulturalis", based around the Japanese sculpture "Mobius in Space". This sculpture will also be featured in the ABC 720 podcast audio tour of City in Bloom. City in Bloom runs from September 16-20
AMPLIFIER 2010
Serena Chalker and Quindell Orton will be guest speakers at the Amplifier 2010 forum "Creative Collaborations" on October 14 6:00pm. Serena Chalker will also be a guest speaker at the workshop "Growing Money on Trees" on September 18 at 6:30pm. Workshops are held at the Central Institute of Technology (formerly Central Tafe) Amplifier 2010 is an initiative from Propel Youth Arts WA and all workshops and forums are free for Propel members. Register at www.propel.org.au
EMIO GRECO CO/LAB
Serena Chalker, Quindell Orton and Brooke Leeder will be participating in the STRUT Dance Inc run Co/lab with Emio Greco. They will be working from September 28-October 2nd at King St Arts Centre. Come along to the showing at the conclusion of the workshop on October 2nd at King St Arts Centre from 6:00pm. Information can be found at www.strutdance.org.au
Huge thanks go to the following for donating to AIDVT's Pozible campaign
Top tier supporters
Kat Black
Vanessa Chalker
Celina Lo
And....
Kate Baylis
Laura Boynes
Jacqui Claus
Lisa Carrie Goldberg
Marina Harvey
Jess Lewis
Nina Levy
Dani McGrath
Alex McKee
Marnie Orr
Lucy Parakhina
Angela Perry
Jo Pollitt
Big Road
Lenore Robertson
Claire Stokes
Andrew Taylor
Nerida Theiring
Lyndsey Trench
Emiko Watanabe
Michael Whaites
Amy Wiseman
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