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Amelia Chong

After having completed her Bachelor of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland recently, Amelia is excited to be embarking on a journey of exploration and discovery into the active collaboration and learning among artists so as to create high intensity performances with the incorporation of technical mastery, as well as a unique concept. Amelia believes that there is a growing appreciation for dance as a whole, both the physicality of the art, and also the effect of dance in relation to the world. Thus, she looks forward to being part of the creative process of exploration and collaboration, to find out further potentials of dance as a whole.

Amelia Chong

Dionysus – Jocelyn Pook
Put it – Shlohmo

Shani Dickins

Shani Dickins graduated from Unitec in 2011 with a Bachelor of performing and screen arts majoring in contemporary dance.
Since then has performed in and choreographed her own full length works such as Demigod/half Human and Tassel me this in collaboration with Jessie McCall.
Both works participating in Fringe festivals around New Zealand, Tempo dance festival Auckland and Body festal Christchurch.

Both works were nominated and received various awards including best dance, best production design and best show of Dunedin Fringe 2015.

She now is chugging along.

Rosa Strati

Poi E – Patea Maori Club
Gutter Black – Hello Sailor

Xavier Breed

I’m a third year student studying for a Bachelor of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland. I had the pleasure of being involved in Short + Sweet in 2014 where I performed the piece ‘OPAQUE’ choreographed by Vivian Hosking-Aue. It is a great feeling to return to Short + Sweet in 2016, now as a choreographer with the aspiration of portraying my ideas and emotions through the bodies of others on stage. It’s great to be back and I’m excited to be showing my work: WOMB-MEN for the first time. Thank you to the dancers who have collaborated with me in this process; for their stories, their time and energy and to my support team such as my parents, friends and tuakana: Sophie Williams, Carol Brown, Teuila Rankin – it means the world to me!!

Amelia Chong
Anna Ennis
Bethany Laycock
Emma Broad
Emma Cosgrave
Evie Logan
Gemma Naidoo
Katie Lavan
Keighley Woodroffe
Olivia Martin
Phoebe Lee
Tayla Coulbeck
Zoë Nicholson

Soir De Fete – Yann Tiersen
Jump Up – Major Lazer
To Build a Home – Cinematic Orchestra

Leah Carrell

Leah Carrell is a dance theatre artist currently based in Auckland. Leah has choreographed full length show Ocean Between My Feet (Dunedin, 2013) and co-choreographed Mo(u)ld which premiered at the Dunedin Fringe Festival (2016). Before doing her contemporary dance training at Unitec Leah trained in theatre, dance, and Māori studies at the University of Otago. As an establishing dance theatre artist, Leah is interested in site-specific work, Practice-as-Research, improvisation, and interdisciplinary collaboration -this current project is a cross-over of all these approaches to making movement!

Bridget Carrell is a sewing and craft artist with a particular interest in a sustainable approach to making. She predominantly makes clothes and is learning to design patterns. Her growing interest in the wider possibilities of what and how we can use material makes this project an exciting collaboration between fabric and movement and Bridget looks forward to the future developments of Shroud.

Leah Carrell
Bridget Carrell

In the Fog – Tim Hecker

Stephen Hidalgo/IDCO Dancers

I have been choreographing in the Hip Hop genre for about 5 years and through my involvement in the University of Auckland, I’ve been exposed to contemporary dance. I am currently exploring a contemporary and alternative hip hop style of choreography. One of the pieces that i choreographed in this style last year in the Second year choreography paper got selected to be a part of the University of Auckland China Tour 2016.

Stephen Hidalgo
Taitanyk Toniu
Leighton Rangi
Kisha September

Gun Fingers – Trampa
Things I Do – Trampa
Made of Gold (feat skip&die and Fellow) – Branko
(One More) Silly Bitch – Branko vs Njena Reddd Fox
Step Two (Skism remix) – Laxx
Sell Your Soul (feat Jeff Sontag) – Barely Alive

Zoë Nicholson

Zoë Nicholson is in her final year of a bachelor of Dance Studies from Auckland University. She is passionate about developing her choreography and is excited to take part in Short and Sweet 2016. The dancers are also dance students at the University of Auckland.

With thanks to Amelia Chong.

Taitanyk Toniu
Kisha September
Leticia Fortes

BomBom – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Jasmine Donald

Videographer and Edited by Shelton Leong
Sound Assistance by John Rata

As a recent graduate from the Unitec contemporary dance program, Jasmine is finding her performance language as an independent artist. She is interested in the amalgamation of all artistic mediums, at this point focusing on film, voice and dance.

Jasmine Donald

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Charlotte Evans & Helene Burgstaller (Pardon Me Dance Theatre)

Charlotte Evans studied dance at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and London Contemporary Dance School. She currently lives in Raglan and teaches ballet.

Helene Burgstaller studied contemporary dance at Unitec. Since then she’s been freelancing for Waikato Contemporary Dance Trust and Touch Compass Dance Trust. She teaches dance classes in Paeroa.
Both Charlotte and Helene are dance school drop outs.

Charlotte Evans
Helene Burgstaller
Samir Harith

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? – Nina Simone

Eric Beltran

Eric is a dancer/choreographer. He trained in Berlin and Strasbourg in the fields of instant composition, contemporary movement research and body landscaping. Besides completed his Yoga Teacher Training in India, he also holds a degree in Architecture and Fine Arts.

The main focus of his practice is the application and spatialization of physiological information in the communicative – mostly choreographic – context.

Eric Beltran

Allow Create Release Destroy – Deirdre Tunney

Lydia Zanetti with Caitlin Davey

Caitlin graduated from Unitec’s Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts – Contemporary Dance in 2015, whilst there working with choreographers including Sarah Foster-Sproull, Michael Parmenter, Katie Burton, Paul Young, Val Smith, and Maria Dabrowska, as well as choreographing her own works. She performed in Lemi Ponifasio’s work I AM with Mau in the Auckland Arts Festival. Caitlin was part of the Auckland Dance Project ‘Takarangi’, choreographed by Moss Patterson in collaboration with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Before her training at Unitec she was in the NZDC youth company, performing in works by Sarah Foster-Sproull and Justin Haiu. Caitlin has been in works in both the Short+Sweet and Tempo dance festivals. Immediately after graduating she worked with Malia Johnston on The Art of Colour with Auckland Live, and co-choreographed and performed in Fabricate. Recently she performed at the Undisciplining Dance Symposium presenting Charles Koroneho’s research. She currently works as a contemporary dance and ballet teacher at The Dance Studio in Auckland.

Caitlin Davey

Lele Yane, Your Fair Yane – Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria