Face to Face: Making Dance & Theatre in Community by Fisher Judi (English) Paper

Description: Face to Face by Fisher Judi, Shelton Beth Since 1992, the Preston Creative Living Centre has been opening its doors to provide a safe place for people to explore how they express their discoveries and life experiences through theatre and dance. A guide as well as story, this book takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the many artists and people involved in this project. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When a small community agency, the Preston Creative Living Centre embarked upon the risky and exciting venture of engaging local people in artistic programs, it became a thriving centre for performances of theatre, music, circus, dance, visual arts, weaving and the crossover between factory production and artwork. The authors aim to inspire the reader, and give practical support in the development and administration of exciting, viable and fruitful community art. Beginning with a philosophy that informs decision-making and confronting the nitty-gritty of daily practice. A powerful discussion of the value of community arts and guide to creating partnerships between organisations, artists and communities to create community-based art. Author Biography Judi was the PCLCs director from 1995 to 1999. During her five-year tenure, she initiated the centres Community Performance Making Program, which was originally known as the Artist-in-Residence Program. She obtained funding for three artist-in-residence projects, for which her responsibilities were supervision and accountability.In 2000, Judi secured funding for this performing-arts publication project, Face to Face, through the Community Cultural Development Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Since August 2000, shes been promotions and publications officer for the regional Victorian organisation Womens Health, Goulburn North-East.Judis interest in nurturing visual and performing artists emerged between 1985 and 1989, when she was chaplain at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). In 1993, she documented a unique arts project, in which the Uniting Church in Australia commissioned some local painters to create contemporary and inclusive images based on Leonardo da Vincis The Last Supper. With Janet Wood, she co-authored A Place at the Table: Women at the Last Supper, which was published by the Australian Christian Literature Society and was a finalist in the 1994 Book of the Year Awards. At present, the book is out of print, but it was well received in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.Judis first career was in teaching, in Papua New Guinea, the United States and Vanuatu. She continues to have wide-ranging career interests and to participate in community forums. Between 1981 and 1985, she was national officer of the Women and Development Network in Australia, and shes been an editorial-board member for the youth magazine A.D. In 1986–87, she was a founding officer and editor of the Tertiary Campus Ministry Association of Australia, and in 1998–99, she was a community-agency member of the City of Darebins Safer Communities Steering Committee.Beth is a well-known choreographer and community artist. In 1983, she co-founded the Danceworks Dance Company, and from 1989 to 1991, she was the companys co-artistic director. Beth was the key artist for the PCLCs 1996 project Once Upon Your Birthday.Audiences throughout Australia and New Zealand have viewed Beths choreography as staged by dance companies as well as in theatres and community-performance projects. Her works include One Meets Two Parts, Tide and Common Touch, for Danceworks, and Groundswell and Time Present, for Tasdance. Her large-scale community-performance projects include Going Dancing, in 1986; Dance on Darwin, in 1989; Wings of Summer, in 1990 and 91; and Once Upon Your Birthday, in 1996. Shes often worked in Darwin, with the Tracks dance troupe, most recently in 1998, on The Land, the Cross and the Lotus. From 1993 to 1996, she chaired the Dance Advisory Panel of the Victorian Ministry of the Arts.Beth has written about community dance, in the books If You Can Move You Can Dance, published in 1994, and Dancers and Communities, published in 1997. Shes been a committee member of three dance enterprises: Ausdance Victoria, Napier Street Theatre, and Community Music Victoria. With the director Tim Newth, she directed a 100-dancer performance on Queenslands Magnetic Island, for the Ausdance National Youth Dance Festival, and co-facilitated Moving On 2000, the first national gathering of community-dance workers.Beth continues to use her choreography, community-performance work and teaching to reflect her interest in artistic expression, and is studying Honours in Psychology, at Melbournes Swinburne University. Details ISBN1876756268 Short Title FACE TO FACE Publisher Spinifex Press Language English ISBN-10 1876756268 ISBN-13 9781876756260 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2002 Imprint Spinifex Press Place of Publication North Melbourne Country of Publication Australia DOI 10.1604/9781876756260 NZ Release Date 2002-08-01 Subtitle Making Dance & Theatre in Community UK Release Date 2002-09-23 Author Shelton Beth Pages 183 Publication Date 2002-09-23 DEWEY 792.22099451 Illustrations 46 Halftones, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2002-09-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168392665;

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