Mirramu 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
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We are going ahead with the Summer Solstice celebration and performance today. However due to the heat, the smoke and unpredictability of the terrible weather and fire conditions, we are scaling down the event.
We have also made arrangements to hold it indoors if necessary. Please make your own decision about attending or not. Of course, we would love to see you but we also totally understand if you decide not to come, especially when you have to make such a long journey in the heat.
We are hoping to film the performance in situ on Sunday, weather permitting. Let me know if you would like to attend this. And/or we may try to schedule the performance again in 2020. We will let you know if we do this and post advice to this website and Facebook.
Christmas and New Year greetings from Mirramu to all.
Elizabeth invites friends, dance family and followers of Mirramu to celebrate with her at the traditional Summer Solstice party. Please email elizabeth.mirramu@gmail.com to indicate your attendance to this private function.
Mirramu Creative Arts Centre 849 Lake Road Bungendore
Saturday 21 December 2019 from 5pm
A performance of SO – in Search of Sophia (in Greek mythology the goddess of Wisdom and Intelligence) by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and Vivienne Rogis with associate Mirramu dancers and musicians will be held in the amphitheatre.
Please bring your own picnic dinner, a rug and/or chair and enjoy the beauty of Weereewa as the sun sets.There will of course be the usual circle dancing in which everyone is invited to participate.
Phone enquiries 0419 491 658 (Barbie)
Images Barbie Robinson, Writing with Light except 30th aerial shot by Sigo Tseng
With picture perfect weather Mirramu was able to celebrate its birthday party in style. From the planting of 30 trees to performances in the open air, the event was strongly focussed on the environment and our responsibility to care for it. Continue reading
You are invited to a showing of studies for CRONE a new dance-theatre solo being developed by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and directed by Kenneth Spiteri
The aged woman is rarely represented in our contemporary narratives, particularly on stage, and when she is, we often see her portrayed as fragile and disempowered. There is great value in challenging this perception
CRONE re-instates the significance of this archetype and the importance of what She represents.
Photograph Luke Danniells
This was a remarkable season in a very different cultural setting. It was nevertheless applauded with enormous enthusiasm in the huge theatre. 
The festival director, Amy Ho (pictured here to the right of Elizabeth and an audience member on her left) considered it to be one of the best events of this year’s festival.
The technical and administrative crews at the Kwai Tsing Theatre were outstanding resulting in a seamless season.
After Easter we were very happy to welcome back to Mirramu members of Dancecology from Taiwan to undertake ongoing work for the Contours dance film project begun in 2016.
Mirramu Dance Company’s part of this project was supported by ACT Government funding and Dancecology was supported by arts funding from Taipei.
After Wellington, the Teac Damsa company moved on with performances in Luxemburg, Seoul and soon in Cologne, Germany and Longford in Ireland. Elizabeth is taking a short break from touring to work on home based projects at Mirramu.
2017 was a busy year at Mirramu and elsewhere.
Perth WA -February, working on the second stage of Dust on the Shortbread.
Mirramu Creative Arts Centre Bungendore NSW– March, working with Sue Healey from Sydney and Dancecology from Taiwan on Lineage/Contours, a dance film project supported by artsACT. Also performing and presenting at Liz Lea’s BOLD festival, March, in a variety of Canberra venues including Belconnen Arts Centre, National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery of Australia as well as QL2 at Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres (Gorman House).
Contours filming session on Weereewa. Photograph: Barbie Robinson
Loch na hEala in 2017 continued its success and a demanding world touring schedule
Stuttgart performance. Photo courtesy Michael Keegan-Dolan
At Mirramu Creative Arts Centre – in association with Force Majeur and Griffith Regional Gallery/Theatre – a five-day dance workshop for young Aboriginal women from Griffith.
Adelaide, South Australia, September – the launch of the Australian Dance Theatre book, FIFTY and a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Dance Excentrix/Arts Excentrix. Book launch photographs: Barbie Robinson
Critical Path Residencies – supported by funding from Regional Arts NSW, in partnership with Critical Path Sydney, Mirramu welcomed choreographer/dancers Katina Olsen in September and I Chin Lin (Taiwan) and Lisa Maris McDonell (NSW) in November.
Taiwan – Elizabeth was joined by Mirramu Dance Company co-founder, Vivienne Rogis, for the Tsai Jui Yueh Festival in Taipei in November. They performed a duet entitled Spiral Passage.
Photo supplied by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman
2016 was a year of transition and progression for Elizabeth and Mirramu with many and varied opportunities to share with other artists.
In Perth WA – working with Serena Chalker and Quindell Orton from Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre in Perth on their new project – Dust on the Short Bread. Elizabeth worked with actor George Shevtsov on this production. This is a site-alternative performance set in a house in North Perth. exploring the lives of an older couple; the tension between maintaining independence and vitality and the effects of dementia in the ageing process. This work explores a generational connection to the comforts of home.
In Sydney – working with Sue Healey on her film En Route. This was a great experience traveling to Sydney for a shoot on the railway lines at Carriage Works and then up to Cooma for filming on some very old regional railway stations. The film is now complete and recently was showing on a new panorama screen at the Wynyard train Station in Sydney. Congratulations to Sue for her great work, her camera-man, Judd Overton, and the rest of the team. Photos supplied by Elizabeth Cameron-Dalman.
Auckland, New Zealand – attending the un-Disciplining Dance Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand. Elizabeth presented a paper entitled Embodiment of the Land.
In Ireland – and the beginning of an amazing new adventure. Elizabeth was accepted into Michael Keegan Dolan’s dance theatre company, Teac Damsa, to perform in his new version of Swan Lake – Loch na hEala. It was an exciting adventure to travel to Ireland and to work with Michael and his team of performers, musicians, designers, technicians and management. They are a wonderful group of people coming from many different parts of the globe – Ireland, England, France, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, New Zealand, Korea, Belgium and Australia. After 6 – 8 weeks of preparation the troupe moved to Tallaght near Dublin for two performances.
From there the tour went to:
The production received excellent reviews everywhere. It was listed by Judith Mackrell from the Guardian in London as one of the 10 best productions in Great Britain for 2016. Loch na hEala/Swan Lake was awarded best production and best costume design for 2016 in the Irish Times Theatre Awards.
Cadenet, France – attending a special Mobius Kiryuho workshop in Cadenet, France. This was a celebration of the work of Master Kajo Tsuboi in France during the past 30 years.