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ERIN BRANNIGAN
Soak up a celebration of movement with a curated program of short films featuring the work of some of Australia’s most inspiring choreographers and dancers. Uncover a rich crossover of genres on screen, including physical theatre, Indigenous dance forms, Hip Hop and even yoga. Let go as your body subconsciously begins to sway to the beat on film.
Content Warning: Parental Guidance is recommended.
Patrons should be advised that some films contain partial nudity.
Sunrise at Midnight (2001)
Writer/Director: Sean O’Brien
Choreography and Dance: Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap
Producer: Sophie Jackson and Sean O’Brien
Camera: Simon Von Wolkenstein, Sean O’Brien
Editor: Nick Meyers
Set Design: Robert Herbert
Music: Satsuki Odamura and Anne Norman Electronic
Soundscape: Kazumichi Grime
Catching and Killing (2006)
Director: Squareyed Films (Sean Gilligan and Sarah-Jane Woulahan)
Music Artist: Youth Group
Choreographer: Jane McKernan
Performers: Lizzie Thomson, Brian Fuata, Hannah Gee-Claugh, Jacob Livermore and Chafia Brooks.
DOP: Tim McGahan ACS
Art Direction: Michelle Sotheren
Make-Up: Emma Louise
Hair: Chris Stewart
Label: EMI Music Australia
Nun’s Night Out (2004/5)
Director: Samuel James and Julie-Anne Long
Choreographer: Julie-Anne Long
Composer: Drew Crawford
Performers: Kathy Cogill, Martin del Amo, Julie-Anne Long, Rakini Devi, Michael Whaites, Bernadette Walong, Narelle Benjamin
Photographer: Heidrun Lohr
Keep Walking (2007)
Director: Justin Kurzel
Music: Mess Hall
Choreographer and performers: B*boy Red and B*boy Hideboo
Label: EMI Music Australia
River Woman (2005)
Director: Michelle Mahrer
Cinematographer: Cordelia Beresford and Michelle Mahrer
Performers: Bernadette Walong, Narelle Benjamin, Brett Daffy and Kristina Chan
Potsdamer (2000)
Video: Samuel James
Choreography and performance: Martin del Amo
The Fondue Set Presents the Lorraie Desmond Show (2006)
Director: Shane Carn
Choreographers and performers: Elizabeth Ryan, Jane McKernan, Emma Saunders
Cinematographer and editor: Shane Carn
Producers: Elizabeth Ryan, Jane McKernan, Emma Saunders
Composer: Al Franks and Nan Whitcomb
Shadow Play (2007)
Director: Madeleine Hetherton
Choreographer: Rowan Marchingo
Producer: Linda Micsko
Composer: Caitlin Yeo
Performers: Rinniya Johnson-Page, Kirk Page and Alexandra Harrison
Niche (2002)
Creator: Sue Healey
Composer: Darrin Verhagen
Performer: Shona Erskine
Director of Photography: Mark Pugh
Super 8 film projections: Louise Curham
Editor: Sam James
I Dream of Augustine (2005)
Devised and Directed by: Cordelia Beresford,
Choreographer and performer: Narelle Benjamin
Camera: Cordelia Beresford
Editor: Sally Fryer
Costume designer: Justine Seymour
Sound: Andrew Plain
Music: Hugh Benjamin
Producers: Cordelia Beresford, Joe Weatherstone
Girls Like That (1999)
Directors: Andrew Lancaster & David McCormack
Music: Custard
Choreographer: Lisa Ffrench
Dancers: Newtown Performing Arts High School students
Producer: Vincent Sheehan
Cinematographer: Max Davis
Editor: Roland Gallois
Erin Brannigan is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is of Irish and Danish political exile, convict, and settler descent. Her publications include Moving Across Disciplines: Dance in the Twenty-First Century (Sydney: Currency House, 2010), Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, co-edited with Virginia Baxter (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2014). She has published various chapters and articles in film, performance and dance journals and anthologies. Her current research project is Precarious Movements: Dance and the Museum with AGNSW, Tate UK, NGV, MUMA and artist Shelley Lasica and monographs associated with this project are Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s -1970s (London: Routledge, 2022) and The Persistence of Dance: Choreography and Contemporary Art 1990s-2020s (NYP).
| Initial Commission | Performance Space |
| PHOTO | Bernadette Walong in ‘River Woman’ by Michelle Mahrer |
| Friday 21 Jun | 6:30PM – 9:30PM |
| Saturday 22 Jun | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Sunday 23 Jun | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Friday 28 Jun | 6:30PM – 9:30PM |
| Saturday 29 Jun | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Sunday 30 Jun | 5PM – 8:30PM |
| Friday 05 Jul | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Saturday 06 Jul | 5PM – 9:30PM |
| Sunday 07 Jul | 5PM – 8:30PM |
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Yugambeh Language Region and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People of the Gold Coast.
We recognise their continuing connection and contributions to country and culture.
We pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
