Photo: Chen Yi-shu
Book launch of Nature Moves – A Dance Practice in and of Nature by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman
Tuesday 10 June at 12:00 noon at the Adelaide Arcade on Grenfell Street, South Australia
Her Excellency, the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, Governor of South Australia will launch the book in the historic Adelaide Arcade which is celebrating its 140 years anniversary. The arcade is where Elizabeth had her first dance studio and where Australian Dance Theatre was officially born on the 10th June 1965 (60th anniversary).
There will be a short dance performance by Vivienne Rogis with Andrew Mc Nicol, musician, accompanying her on the ngoni, and Anya Anastasia will sing for us.
Signed books will be for sale for the special price of $35 onsite after the event.
Dr. Elizabeth Cameron Dalman AM CdOAL founded Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in 1965 and was Artistic Director for the first 10 years. These early years cemented her reputation as a revolutionary choreographer, earning her the title ‘Rebel of the Dance’. Gaining much inspiration from Nature the seeds of a dance practice with close ties to the natural world started for Elizabeth in those years.
In the decades since, she has continued to create innovative site-specific works, notably in the past three decades at Mirramu, the arts centre she founded on the shores of Weereewa/Lake George near Bungendore NSW.
Nature Moves documents Elizabeth’s philosophy about creating dance works in and of nature and presents in text and images many of her significant choreographies. The book is a detailed but approachable account of some of Elizabeth’s life-long work in dance, which also contributes substantially to our national dance history.
Incuding chapters of many site-specific performances, the book kicks off with Scangiarusca (1988), a performance about the recovery of Nature and the human spirit from the impact of bushfire on the landscape. This was the first work presented in the Crafers quarry in the Adelaide Hills by the newly formed Dance Excentrix (co-founders Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and Andrew McNicol, ex-ADT dancer).
Nature Moves will be available to purchase online on this site soon (Australian shipping addresses only).
