Mirramu Dance Company with guest artists from Taiwan
Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre
24 to 26 October 2025
Various times
Forum – Saturday 25 October 2025 at 3pm
Join Australian contemporary dance pioneer Elzabeth Cameron Dalman AM as she shares 60 years of her evolving dance practice.
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Grace Peng is the Artistic Director of the Dancecology Dance Company and Co-Founder of Dancescreen Collective Taiwan and William Lü, dance filmmaker and co-founder of Dancescreen Collective Taiwan.
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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.
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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
The oppressive heat of earlier in the day gave way to a cool and breezy afternoon and evening as friends of Mirramu gathered to celebrate the Solstice on 21 December.
The event began with botanical artist Sharon Field speaking about her artistic response to climate change: 3000 Days and Counting. She has been recording flora every day in the countdown to 2030 – the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) shows that we need to keep the global temperature below a 1.5 degree Celsius rise by 2030. She showed the audience her 2nd scroll. She is now working on scroll 4.
Find out more at https://sharonfieldartist.com.au/3000-days-and-counting/
Then Elizabeth previewed her book Nature Moves – A Dance Pratice in and of Nature, speaking about its origins and content and showing some of the many photographs which support the work. Pre-orders were taken. The book will be available mid-February.
This is the second Dalman Productions book, the first being out of silence – a collection of the late Jan Dalman’s photographs of Marcel Marceau with accompanying text in English and French.
Find out more at https://www.dalmanproductions.com.au/about/
After a delicious supper provided by Bernadette (to whom thanks as always), there were two performances from Lake Song: the first a solo entitled The Eagle, performed by Charmaine Hallam and the second a group piece by members of The GOLD Dance Company.
Find out more at: https://canberradancetheatre.org/golds/
The traditional circle dancing led by Elizabeth, and dedication to the earth and loved ones concluded the evening.
Saturday 21st December 2024
5pm – 9pm
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 at this private function.
Please bring your own drinks and a rug. Refreshments will be provided.
Enjoy the beauty of the now full Lake Weereewa/Lake George and watch the sun setting on the longest day of the year.
Elizabeth will introduce her upcoming book, Nature Moves, about her dance practice in and with nature. It will be available for pre-order at the special event price of $30 (RRP $39.95). Cash or card payment available.
There will of course be the usual circle dancing in which everyone is invited to participate. Let us dance for peace and calm in the coming years.
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
Using the basic principles of Chi in a phenomenological approach (a form of qualitative research that focuses on the study of an individual’s experiences), this class will start with simple standing and walking.
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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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