Dance Films

MEETING PLACE

Meeting Place features eight Australian youth dance companies and 48 young dancers sharing common practices in a celebration of the power of youth dance. The youth companies were paired with another and sent to different locations, all connected by water.

Yellow Wheel (Melbourne), AUSTI Dance & Physical Theatre (Wollongong), Wagana Aboriginal Dancers (Blue Mountains), NAISDA Dance College (Gosford), Australian Dance Theatre's TREAD (Adelaide), Stompin Dance (Launceston), Catapult The Flipside Project (Newcastle) and QL2 Dance's Quantum Leap Ensemble (Canberra) filmed in four locations: Newcastle, Adelaide, Blue Mountains and Melbourne.

ALUMNI

ALUMNI profiles sixteen renowned Australian dancers who began their creative journeys in youth dance companies. The film is a celebration of their diverse pathways, kickstarted in youth dance.

James Batchelor, Chloe Chignell, Isabella Stone, Kyall Shanks, Adam Wheeler, Luke George, James O’Hara, Sara Black, Caitlin Comerford, Bhenji Ra, Jack Ziesing, Laura Boynes, Angela Goh, Richard Cilli, Sam Young Wright, and Paul Zivkovich.

Credits

Produced by: QL2 Dance, Ruth Osborne and Amélie Langevin on behalf of Youth Dance Australia
Composers: Benjamin Walsh and Darrin Verhagen
Cinematographer: Richard Corfield
Drone Cinematography: Ken Butti
Editing: Sue Healey
Archival Footage Editing: Stephen Gow

Supporters

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia its arts funding and advisory body, and the National Film and Sound Archive. Special thanks to Caitlin Comerford and Cadi McCarthy.