Falling For Frank

Dance

We all fall. We fall in love, we fall asleep, we fall from grace. Falling is a part of living.

Frank, knowing this, has set himself the challenge of dodging the falls. For him, avoiding highs is an exercise in risk management. Keeping low – a lifestyle choice.

Frank is a spectator and he witnesses the chaos in the lives around him with secure detachment.

Bryan and Michelle’s wedding lurks ever closer and Frank has noticed that Michelle’s looking pale. Meanwhile, the beautiful Beth entertains him with her dramatic fantasies of tragedy and doom. If he could just shake that lingering sense of foreboding that their lives are spinning out of control and looming perilously close to his view of the television. A mutual and shared destruction has overtaken the household, escalating at a scale such that participation may be unavoidable.

Will Frank relinquish his position in the comfy chair and stand up for those he loves?

A dance thriller of sorts, Falling For Frank unfolds through a combination of high impact physical theatre, lulling melody and wicked black humour. Falling For Frank is a left-of-centre breath of fresh air from South Australia’s hottest young dance artists.

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Artist/s:

Kelly Alexander, Carlie Angel, Dave Bailiht, Ninian Donald, Adam Page

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About the artist/s:

Kelly Alexander (Director/Performer) is a performer, choreographer and educator whose career has flung her across the globe to Finland, Hungary, Germany, Spain and China. Kelly has worked with many notable artists, including Naida Chinner, Sol Ulbrich, Tanja Liedtke, Tuula Roppolla, Juha Vanharkartano, Yvonne Hardt, Dat’e Danza and Amanda Phillips, and has undertaken professional development with Tanztheatre Pina Bausch.

Kelly aims to create innovative dance theatre that is accessible to a wide audience and employs a combination of dance, film, character and narrative to explore issues personal and universal. She has made numerous short works for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Australian Dance Theatre’s Ignition seasons, Quantum Leap, Ausdance SA Youth Dance Ensemble, Choreolab SA, Carclew Youth Arts and Windmill Performing Arts. Falling For Frank is Kelly’s first full length work.

Carlie Angel (Performer) undertook her Associate Dance Degree at QUT and a BA in Dance Performance at AC Arts Adelaide. After performing in Australian Dance Theatres Ignition season in 2004, Carlie undertook the Foot in the Door initiative with the company, performing in Nothing, and taking understudy roles in Age of Unbeauty, Birdbrain and Held. She directed the dance film Projections for SALA and was movement consultant for Punk Palace’s Greek at the Brisbane Power House. Joining Tasdance in 2007, Carlie also continues her involvement in numerous independent dance works with artists Kelly Alexander, Felecia Hick, Alison Currie, Mia Mason and Naida Chinner.

David Bailiht (Performer). Three years after graduating from Acting at AC Arts in Adelaide, in 2001, David toured children’s theatre and music around Australia and New Zealand. Highlights include: the Christchurch Kid’s Fest, the Adelaide International Arts Festival, the Cairns Festival, the Port Fairy Folk Festival, the Apollo Bay Music Festival and Federation Square. David’s TV appearances include McLeod’s Daughters and super hero Boing in ABC’s Being Me.

David has always been interested in dance and was encouraged after working with choreographer Sol Ulbich on State Theatre’s Equus. David has been singing since he could walk and has been falling for long before that.

Ninian Donald (Performer) graduated from the Centre for The Performing Arts, Adelaide, with an Associate Diploma in Dance Performance. He has toured Europe with Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre in Possessed and Furioso, played the leading role for Windmill Performing Arts’ Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge, and performed for numerous independent artists and companies throughout Australia and overseas.

Ninian is a founder of 4bux: Progressive Arts and has worked as movement director for the company on productions including Budgie Lung’s Swallow Me, Bakehouse Theatre’s The Tempest and Flinders Drama Centre’s Ecstasy. Ninian was the solo performer in Fiona Malone’s The Obcell and co-directed Stephen House’s A Thing Called Snake in collaboration with 4bux and the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Adam Page (Composer) was awarded Best Music by an Emerging Artist at the 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival Awards for his multi-instrumental solo show Adam Page Solo. He has performed with many highly regarded artists and groups such as Kubrick, Cameron Undy, James Morrison, Michael Feinstein in the USA, The Mike Stewart Big Band, Bob Mintzer, Johnny Thunder (and The Drifters), The Raucoustra and Pornland.

In 1998, Adam was a finalist in James Morrison jazz scholarship awards, and in 1999 he was voted Most Outstanding Saxophone Player at Adelaide University. In 2000, Adam was awarded Most Outstanding Post Graduate Jazz Student. Also in 2000 he studied and performed with world renowned Indian musician and sitarist Dr. Chandrakant Sardeshmukh.

Adam has produced over 15 albums as a band leader and side man including critically acclaimed Adam Page Solo – no relation to Han.