A two day workshop retreat designed to awaken your creative practice through mindfulness and play.
Sunday/Monday 9/10th March
Sunday 9am – 6pm
Monday 9-3pm.
You will experience workshops from visual artist Gabby Willmott, writer/teacher John Irving and movement artists Viv Rogis & Elizabeth Cameron Dalman.
Continue readingThis is an invitation to party with us and learn about our plans for 2025 and beyond.
Join us at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre for an informal light supper to welcome the new year and hear about planned workshops, retreats and performances coming up in 2025. The focus will be on developing, sharing and igniting creative practice.
A particularly exciting development is that Vivienne Rogis, Mirramu Dance Company co-founder, who has been living in Melbourne for the last 12 years has come home to Canberra. Viv will be working with Elizabeth on new programs for Mirramu and is looking forward to sharing her passion for creative practice and movement as medicine for the body and mind.
Viv was an active member of her local arts and pilates communities in Melbourne During supper she will tell us about some of the work she has been doing in those fields. From 5pm
We will provide a light supper but If you wish to bring a plate to share this would be warmly received.
RSVP to Viv by Wed 29 January 2025 for catering purposes.: viviennerogis@gmail.com or phone 0417663778
Sunday 30 June 2024
Workshop 1pm to 4pm
Tea Party 4pm to 5pm
Kyoko Sato, visiting from Tokyo, will lead a Mobius Kiryuho session at Mirramu.
As well as practising the gentle, revitalising Mobius Kiryuho figure of eight movements, we will be learning some new movement meditations recently devised by Master Kajo Tsuboi.
After the movement session you are invited for a tea party around the fire in the main house at Mirramu.
Cost:
$45 full
$30 concession: GOLD Dance Company members, health card holders, full time students, under 18 years
Image credit: Kyoko Sato at Yirrkala 2012 – Barbie Robinson, Writing With Light
Saturday 6 April 2024, 2pm to 6pm
Friends of Mirramu are invited to a celebration of 35 years of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre.
Performances in the grounds and studio by:
Friends of Elizabeth gathered at Mirramu to celebrate her 90th birthday. Ngambri Elder Shane Mortimer, who traces his connection to country back through nine generations of Ngambri women, welcomed guests to country.
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Friends of Mirramu gathered on Thursday 21 December 2023 to celebrate the summer solstice. Peng Hsiao-yin (Grace) from Dancecology Taiwan is visiting Mirramu over Christmas and she was one of the performers to delight audience on the night. There were … Continue reading
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Photographs of the workshop and Elizabeth Cameron Dalman’s book preview at Gorman House on Friday 17 March 2023. Fundraising performance for BigHart at Terroux Peace Garden near Hall on 18 March 2023 Alison Plevey, Dance in Nature workshop 24 March … Continue reading
Join two internationally renowned contemporary dance companies from Taiwan, Dancecology – dance in nature – and Ku and Dancers – improvisation – as they take you meandering around some of Terroux’s ‘garden rooms’.
Continue readingMirramu is delighted to welcome Dancecology and Ku and Dancers for a two week professional dance in nature residency from 14 to 26 March 2023.
As well as working collaboratively on professional development, the dancers will present workshops in Canberra and at Mirramu for professional and community dancers, dance teachers and students
Continue readingThe Darling Portrait Prize is a new annual prize for painted portraits, joining the National Photographic Portrait Prize at Australia’s home of portraiture, the National Portrait Gallery.
The winner of the inaugural $75,000 prize for 2020 is Elizabeth by Anthea da Silva, for her painting of the ‘high priestess’ of Australian contemporary dance, Dr Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM.
While the Gallery is closed because of the COVID-19 emergency, details of the winning portrait can be viewed at https://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/darling-portrait-prize-2020
Elizabeth Cameron-Dalman OAM, PhD has been described as the high priestess of Australian Dance – she established the Mirramu Creative Arts Centre near Bungendore 30 years ago, and 50 years ago she founded and was the first Artistic Director of the Australian Dance Theatre, and has been celebrating contemporary dance ever since. Elizabeth tours as an actor/dancer, most recently with Michael Keegan Dolan’s award-winning Swan Lake/Loch na hEala production in Ireland, Denmark, the UK, Germany, Australia, Russia and New York.
I was very fortunate and honoured to catch up with Elizabeth at the 30th birthday of Mirramu and asked her to sit for this Portrait Prize. In her humble, youthful, curious way she agreed.
from Anthea da Silva’s website