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ReadyMade Rehearsal Space, Ultimo

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Address: Level 1, 247257 Bulwara Rd 2007 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://readymadeworks.com.au

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25.01.2022 STAND ALONE An intense 3 day improvisation workshop with Tony Osborne A solo performance is a dance between imagination and articulation. It is a collaboration between senses and thinking, memory and presence a collaboration within which, one is never alone! This workshop will focus on strategies for listening, observing and sensing in the thinking body of the improviser. By deepening consciousness and awareness of the body-in-space, the improviser also expands the palle...t from which to draw inspiration and enhance performance presence. Developing fearless spontaneity and deploying the skills, intelligence and aspirations that you already possess, will be central to this workshop. You will explore how to articulate material that represents you or your fictions, find your unique movement & narrative characteristics and explore how to keep your ideas coming while being observed. Stand Alone will rigorously examine attention, intention and respect for the performance space and you will also have a lot of FUN!!! For further details go to the website: www.tonyosborne.net/workshops 10 places only bookings are essential Calls or emails to Tony seeking further information or to discuss any element of the workshop are welcome. the bio: Since 2013 Tony Osborne has performed (and trained others to perform) Roman Ondak’s Swap: Sydney (2013 & 2014) Basel (2014), Shanghai (2015) & New York (2017) ongoing. He has worked as theatre actor, dancer and singer in numerous productions since 1980. His practice of long form improvisation started in 2000 when he moved from Perth to Sydney which enabled a shared practice with Sydney and Melbourne improvisers that continues to this day. Tony stages the long-standing annual national improvisation event, Precipice in Canberra every September. After a long music hiatus, in 2009 he joined both the Sydney University Graduate Choir as a singer and as a vocal/electronicist in the experimental improvising group, Splinter Orchestra. COVID19 condtions: This workshop will comply with the current NSW Health guidelines. If you have flu-like symptoms in the days leading up to the workshop, do not attend and get in touch asap. Hand Sanitiser will be provided at the site. Spacing guides will allow appropriate distance to be maintained at all times. All attending will need to register each day on arrival by providing their name and phone number on the simple attendance records. If pandemic conditions change and ReadyMade studios are closed you will receive a full refund. I have just successfully completed a 6 week series of workshops which was run along these lines and for solo work the compromises are minimal.

22.01.2022 We're excited to offer thirteen Covid Response SHORT RESIDENCIES that support artists to continue developing their creative work during this time. Thirty applications were received from the community of artists who have enlivened ReadyMade Works as a home for independent dance practice over the past seven years. We thank the ReadyMade Works' artistic subcommittee, Julie-Anne Long, Adelina Larsson and Rhiannon Newton, for their care and consideration in reviewing the applicat...ions. The SHORT RESIDENCIES provide artists and their collaborators with up to three-days of studio space and artist fees. The artists will be working onsite at the ReadyMade Works studio and offsite from October 2020 to early January 2021. The Covid Response SHORT RESIDENCIES are supported by The City of Sydney Image: 'SMOKE' by Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal for Happy Hour #10, image by Matthew Syres

20.01.2022 READYMADE WORKS IS CURRENTLY CLOSED In line with current stay at home rules for City of Sydney relating to Covid-19, the ReadyMade Works studio is closed until at least Saturday 3 July. The closure includes our Open Class and Shared Practice classes, Happy Hour and studio bookings. In the meantime we encourage you stay safe, take care of one-another (at an appropriate social distance), and keep in touch with ReadyMade Works news here and on our social media and website platforms. We will keep you posted as the situation changes.

18.01.2022 ONLINE BOOKINGS ARE BACK FOR 2021 We are delighted with easing of restrictions to be moving to Step 3 of the ReadyMade Works Covid Safe Plan. This means we will be re-opening our online bookings system for 2021, allowing artists and hirers to access our heavily subsidised rehearsal studio once again at their convenience. To ensure a manageable level of hirers using the space the minimum length of hire will be a half-day (4 hours) hire. Hirers will be asked to continue to wipe... down all frequently used surfaces, maintain social distancing and provide contact tracing details. No more than twenty people are allowed on the dance floor for classes or workshops. Head to the website to book online for hires now in 2021 https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/about-studio-hire

17.01.2022 A WINTER HAPPY HOUR! We are delighted to announce the twelfth edition of our Happy Hour Series with works by Victoria Hunt, Tra Mi Dinh and Cleo Mees on Saturday 3 July and Sunday 4 July at 6pm. Tra Mi Dinh will perform Not The Piece - a nod to the dismissed, forgotten, silly, or potentially perfect alternate ideas that get thrown around the rehearsal room. These fleeting mo(ve)ments are offered another life in a fresh context for practically the same purpose. ... Cleo Mees will present Feeling Good - a work about the precarity, pleasure and meaning of work for the artist-academic under neoliberalism. Part story and part essay, its protagonist grapples with an overpowering loss of faith in her line of work. As she searches for a new way to ascribe value to the things in her life, she finds sustenance (and maybe answers) in everyday pleasures, feminist writing, and the muddy beauty of team sport. Victoria Hunt will share work from Weather Beings - her project with her ongoing collaborators Moe Clark and James Brown. Book your tickets here : https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/happy-hour

16.01.2022 Creative Producer Role ReadyMade Works (RMW) is seeking a new Creative Producer who is enthusiastic, self-motivated and experienced to manage the RMW Studio and produce our yearly program of events. The part-time role will lead the organisation with the support of the board and our part-time Studio Manager through its next stage of development. ReadyMade Works (RMW) is a not-for-profit organisation whose core business is to support a sustainable and vibrant ecology for the in...dependent dance sector in Sydney. Well-loved by our community, we are unashamedly lo-fi with a passion for the craft. The person who takes on this position will deliver the 2021 program of events and residencies; manage the studio hire business; seek out new funding opportunities and steer the organisation through the ongoing impacts the pandemic has on RMW and the dance community. Closing date for applications: Monday 7 December 2020 to [email protected] More information on our website: https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/positions

15.01.2022 Dancers across the world are invited to a two-day virtual event to learn Sydney Dance Company repertoire from Rehearsal Associate Charmene Yap and Company dancers on 26-27 September. Book your spot now! https://tinyurl.com/y3fevvdt #SDCKeepDancing

13.01.2022 THANK YOU AND FAREWELL At our recent Annual General Meeting we celebrated the massive contributions Julie-Anne Long and Adelina Larsson have made as leaders and board members of ReadyMade Works. Stepping down from her seven-year role as Chair of the board, Co-director and Secretary, Julie-Anne has been critical to the establishment and growth of ReadyMade Works. Reflecting on traipsing around Sydney with founding director, Sam Chester, to find a much-needed, affordable rehear...sal space for Sydney's independent dance artists, Julie-Anne left us with some wise words, "spaces that enable people to come together are now needed more than ever." With much gratitude we thank Julie-Anne for her role in making ReadyMade Works a possibility. As Adelina Zoomed-in with a studio full of students rehearsing in the background, we thanked her for the enormous contribution she has made as a Caretaker and Board Member of ReadyMade Works since 2018. Transforming the studio and our online presence, while making the space overflow with enthusiasm for practice, exchange, learning and opportunity, we will miss Adelina's passion and care for the community of artists engaged with ReadyMade Works. We wish Adelina all the best with her new position as Dance Lecturer at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and all her coming projects.

11.01.2022 2021 MOVING IDEAS RESIDENCIES APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! ReadyMade Works is pleased to offer four funded Moving Ideas residencies in 2021. Support is available for 40 hours of space at the ReadyMade Works studio along with lead-artist and collaborator fees. Travel and accommodation support is also provided to one regionally based NSW artist.... The aim of the Moving Ideas residency program is to support NSW-based dance artists to do their creative work in a funded capacity. Artists can apply to work on a creative project, explore a new idea, or develop their practice. The residency is open to professional, emerging and established NSW-based artists working with dance, choreography and movement based practices. Applications due: 18 December 2020 11:59pm Read further information on the ReadyMade Works website and apply here: https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/moving-ideas-2021 Image by Matthew Syres

09.01.2022 NEXT WEEK - LAST Open Class and Shared Practice Open Class 29 June - David Huggins Shared Practice 30 June - Lizzie Thomson ... For more information and to book open class head to our website: https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/open-class

09.01.2022 TOMORROW SHARED PRACTICE - VICTORIA HUNT Wednesday 16 June, 10am-12pm Practice: Transformative Bodies/Beings and the inherent relationship between space, time and place. This movement session will gather us together in a process of dialogue, exchange and physical practice. Our physical practice will be rooted in BodyWeather, working with the body as energetic potential within a sensory field. BodyWeather cultivates a conscious relation to states of change, porous and permeat...ing. BodyWeather considers the body as a constantly changing environment within a greater environment. We will sharpen our senses to these finely tuned processes and cycles, exploring the potential to be transformed and to transform. Bio: Born on Yugambeh Country, Surfers Paradise SE QLD, residing on the unceded stolen land of the Bidjigal people, Eora Nation, Sydney, Australia. Her ancestral affiliations are with Te Arawa, Rongowhakaata, Kahungunu Maori, Irish, English, Norwegian, Finnish. Victoria works across diverse forms as a dancer, choreographer, director, photo/film maker and educator. Her work is philosophically liminal, inter-cultural and reinstates the power of Indigenous creativity within the politics of Rematriation. Central to this is Whakapapa (kinship/lineages), Mana Wahine (indigenous-Maori feminism), Body Weather and Indigiqueer revitalization within creation practices. Her work is a gradual binding of intimate collaboration between artists, elders and communities. She is a founding member of De Quincey Co. Australia’s leading Body Weather dance company based in Sydney, and has performed in over fifty productions between 2000-2021; co-curator of The Weather Exchange 2007-2018. Victoria brings together a highly skilled collaborative team and their award winning works have toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. For more information on Shared Practice and Facilitators head to our website: https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/shared-practice

07.01.2022 OPEN CLASS - RHIANNON NEWTON 15 June, Tuesday 10am - 11.30am Class: Rhiannon's contemporary dance class focuses on efficient ways of moving, incorporating information from somatic and release based techniques. It begins from building a strong connection to gravity and the ground through floorwork, before developing pathways and sequences for moving with momentum through space.... Bio: Rhiannon is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her creative work draws attention to ways of understanding interdependence between bodies and the world. From Gadigal land (Sydney) she makes contributions to the community and culture through choreography, performance, teaching, research and curation. Her recent projects include Explicit Contents (Sydney Festival 2021); Long Sentences (Live Dreams, Sydney 2020, Baltic Circle, Helsinki 2019); Place Without Form (Trois C-L, Luxembourg 2019); and We Make Each Other Up (Dancehouse Melbourne 2018). Rhiannon led the artist-run venue, ReadyMade Works from 2019-21 and curates the lecture-performance series, Talking Bodies. For more information on Open Classes and to book, head to our website: https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/open-class #dance #independentdance #openclass #class #readymadeworks

01.01.2022 Masked EOI Open Now! FORM Dance Projects are calling on independent dance artist residing in NSW to put forward an expression of interest for a paid choreographic mentorship with renowned Australian artists, Meryl Tankard (Choreographer), Elena Kats-Chernin (Composer), and Régis Lansac (Visual Artist). Information via the link: https://www.form.org.au/masked-expressions-of-interest/