The work explores the conflicting notions of support and collapse, open speech versus censorship, and the ramifications of man-made environments on our natural world. Just Filling In showcases two Adelaide dancers, Sarah Cartwright and Gala Moody, alongside visual artist Laura Wills and sound designer Alisdair Macindoe.
Sarah Cartwright, Gala Moody, Laura Wills, Alisdair Macindoe.
About the artist/s:
Sarah Cartwright has a degree in Dance Performance from AC Arts and also an Arts Degree in Visual Art, Film Studies and Drama from Flinders University. Since graduating, Sarah has worked with Rebecca Hilton, Sue Healey, Ros Warby, Tanja Liedtke, Jo Lloyd, Tim Harvey and Ori Flomin. Sarah performed in Not as Others, choreographed by Jo Lloyd, in the 2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival and the 2006 Next Wave Festival. Also in 2006 Sarah was awarded the Arts SA Mayne Group Limited Travel Grant for a Professional Development period in the 2006 Impulstanz Dance Festival in Vienna.
Sarah has been mentored by Rebecca Hilton through a Helpmann Academy Optus Mentorship. She is a current recipient of the SCOPE program supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Institute of Sport and Ausdance. Sarah has choreographed and performed her first two solo works, Where I’ve Got So Far, (mentored by Rebecca Hilton) at the Ausdance SA Choreolab Season and Dancehouse Short Works Season in 2007, and Came in for Blood at the Australian Dance Theatre’s 2007 Ignition Series.
Gala Moody was born in Perth and is a graduate of the WA Academy of Performing Arts. Gala has worked with Zeroballet Company, Amanda Phillips and Leigh Warren and Dancers, with whom she has toured regionally and internationally, most recently to the USA. Gala’s choreography works include over the far side, The Taxi Symphony, and Bi Er, performed in China in 2005. Other works include Couch for the Quantum Leap Youth Choreographic ensemble’s season of Landscapes at the Canberra Playhouse 2006, The Jesuit Novice of Ossegg for the Australian Institute of Classical Dance’s 2006 Dance creation season at the National Theatre in Melbourne, and Shelf Life for the Barebones dance ensemble Adelaide Fringe 2007 season at the Space Theatre. Gala has performed in several dance works for film, including Extermination, Hell, and Temperance by Paul Williams; Starc by Paul Zivkovich and Glen McCurly; She speaks her own Language and Around my upper cerebrum somewhere by Michael Carter, and the 3D film Experimentia by Amanda Phillips. Gala was recently awarded a DanceWEB residency at the 2007 Impulstanz Festival in Vienna.
Laura Wills has a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design from Adelaide Center of the Arts (2003). At the 2004 Helpmann Graduate Exhibition she was awarded the Hillsmith Fine Art Malaysian Airline Travel Award; that same year she was also a Finalist for SOYA, National Youth art competition, Australia Council and won First prize in the 2004 South Australian Youth Environment Art Award of $4000.
Laura works with painting, drawing, installation, photography, textiles, community art and object making, her interest lies in re-using materials and basing projects on social/environmental themes. Recently Laura was awarded second in the 2007 Environment Youth Art Prize, was voted best emerging artist in The Advertiser Oscarts 07 and received a commendation in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.
Currently based in Adelaide, Laura has just returned from two residencies overseas. A South Australian Youth Arts Board funded visual art residency at tobecontinued artist run galley space in Vienna, and a six-week Sanskriti Kendra artist residency part funded by the Helpmann academy. Laura’s drawing works can be viewed at the SoMA Galleries web page under previous exhibitions. www.somagalleries.com.au
Alisdair Macindoe has composed and produced music for dance works by; Leigh Warren (AC arts), Tracey Mitchell (VCA), Lina Limosani (VCA), Cobie Orger (Conical Gallery and Dance Flicks) , Underpass (Arts House Meat Market), Differed Dance (North Melbourne Town Hall), Alexandra Macdonald (Rosland Crisp Studios, France), Alison Currie (Downtown Art Space and EAF, SA), Adam Wheeler (St Stephens Youth Dance Theater), Martin Hansen (Area Gallery Melbourne), Sarah Cartwright (Australian Dance Theatre, Ignition tour).
