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April 1st, 2012 by Emma
Fleck&Flecker is a dance duet. It is a piece about… partnership. From the personal to the political. It touches and touches on, moves through, around and with, ideas about getting together, staying together, morphing, growing, adapting and compromising, sometimes… With Ludwig’s signature twist, Fleck&Flecker incorporates animated projection, absurdist and sketchy, like the minds of its creators.
Fleck&Flecker will be premiering in August 2012 at the Subiaco Arts Centre Upstairs Studio.
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March 25th, 2012 by Emma
For the past week Emma and Cass have been in Stuttgart participating in the 16th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival, a special year dedicated to the late Tanja Liedtke. The festival is held in the Robert Bosch studio theatre at Treffpunkt Rotebuhlplatz, a fascinating complex of studios, halls, spaces and staircases. 
18 solo works from around the world were presented over three nights and ours, BodySong, was presented as the final work on the second night of performances.
Cass danced Emma’s extremely demanding piece superbly, with heightened energy, charisma and interpretation. It was extremely well received. Following the performance, the dancers and choreographers sat informally on stage to receive audience questions.
The Stuttgart Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival doubles as a “competition” for which between six – eight works are chosen for the fourth night gala and subsequently six awards (three for choreography and three for dance) are given by a jury consisting of five distinguished, international figures from the dance world. Cass and BodySong were chosen to be presented in the gala along with seven other works from Israel, Chad, England, Portugal and Germany. And Cass was most deservedly awarded the third prize for best dancer. 
This festival is yet another brilliant platform for new work to be seen, tried, tasted and responded to. It is also a wonderful arena for creators and performers to push their boundaries and experiment a little further conceptually, theatrically and physically.
Such events as this are so important for meeting and networking with other people from your medium – opening doors for new opportunities and creating connections for the future.  
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February 18th, 2012 by Emma
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December 3rd, 2011 by Emma
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December 3rd, 2011 by Emma
From March 15-18 2012, Stuttgart is hosting its 16th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival at TREFFPUNKT Rotebühlplatz and Ludwig will be there. BodySong, a new work created by Emma and performed by Cass, has been chosen along with 17 other solo works from around the world. The Solo-Dance–Theatre Festival celebrates and showcases equally choreographers and solo artists, so we are extremely excited to be involved in this prestigious event.
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July 31st, 2011 by Emma
Hello everyone who follows our blog posts. Sorry it’s been a wee while. We’re in Vienna if you didn’t already know. Impulstanz has put us up in a lovely apartment in Burggasse for a month and we are profiting from seeing 22 performances which are here as part of the festival. So far we have seen nine. They have ranged from the extreme mad pointe-shoe choreography of LaLaLa Human Steps to the extreme mad in-your-face theatrics of Jan Fabre. There’s some in between stuff but for the most part here work tends to be in the realm of the extreme! What we will take from it we will all see…
We are creating. We have a studio that we use seven days a week and yep, we’re making a work for us, on us and not only about us. Fleck and Flecker make a little appearance as well. It’s going swimmingly. We like it! We’re writing text, making music, making animation and generally luxuriating in creativity for a month. It makes us happy and determined so watch this space.
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July 11th, 2011 by Emma
Here are a couple of images taken by photographer Marco Mancini of the finals of the Rome International Choreography Competition. It was interesting adapting our two solos for the enormity of the outdoor stage at Rome’s National Academy of Dance. The lighting rig was quite extraordinary and it was great working with lighting designer Franco Marri who proved incredibly helpful.


As you may already have heard Emma was awarded third place for “Crossing Satie” and performed it in the Gala for Italian national television on the 6th of July and Cass received the Fausto Maria Franchi prize for outstanding performance with his work “Solo 1.5″.
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June 17th, 2011 by Emma
Dear readers and most lovely supportive friends and fans,
‘Tis true, we are halfway to getting our “Pozible” goal of $3000 going towards our flights to Rome. We are both very much looking forward to this opportunity of performing our own work on an international stage and sharing with you the experience of it all.
Thanks ever so to the following people who have helped us so far:
Many thanks to absolute darlings:
Gwenda Jarred
Tessa Durack of Frond in Darwin www.facebook/frondstore
Nannette Norris
Rick Norris
Alison Kirkness
Agnes Michelet
John Morton
Leisha Aberle
Tim Auld
Bernard Mckenna
Kaitlyn & Cyndi Wood
Nina Harris
So so many heartfelt thanks to the wonderful:
Tanya Nossiter & Gilles Lazerges
Travel Design Professionals www.traveldesign.com.au
Paul Sultana
Gary Schliemann
Clair Medhurst
Diane Hunter
Andrew McGuiness of AMCG Legal
A million and one thanks to astonishingly generous and fabulous:
Leonie Walker
Catherine and David Saxelby
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June 11th, 2011 by Emma
We’ve always found this violin concerto andante of Prokofiev utterly enchanting and what better way to interpret its delicacy, subtlety and charm than with a stop motion ballet for babushka dolls. Having sat happily at home for a couple of years we felt it was high time they earned their lodging and so came about this pretty little number.
Well, not quite so quickly and easily. Stop motion is a time consuming and patience demanding pastime. Not to mention the great many hours Cass spent editing to get all the elements right and the musicality perfected.
Enjoy the offering.
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June 10th, 2011 by Emma
Yup, we’re going to Rome to present two new solo works at the Premio Roma Danza International Choreography Competition. A pricey but truly important and growing experience for me and Cass.
So what are these solo works? Well, some of you saw “Crossing Satie” at Strut’s Prime Cut season this June. The work has been on a long journey of evolution from its seedling stages during my Strut Seed Residency with Jo Pollitt last year. It flitted across a stage in Noumea in white before turning red for this incarnation and continues on a path of development. Rome, I’m sure, will see yet another stage of its development at the beautiful outdoor venue, il Teatro Grande.
Cass’s solo has been a mammoth undertaking in true Cass style, taking on all the elements of production from the music, the text, the movement and performance and importantly, the projected animation. An eight minute exploration of self, ego, stability and instability, this is a dark and light work which should have enormous effect on the stage in Rome and the audience will get an honest and entire Mortimer Eipper experience.
Of course we’ll be holding each other’s hand through the course of the competition with its ups and downs.

But, yes, dear readers we do need a little help from you to get there.
http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php/archive/index/1084/description/0/0
We have created a Pozible site which is a crowd fund-raising site and we need to raise around $6000 before the 30th of June to cover our flights and some accommodation. It would be absolutely wonderful of you if you could check out this site or even donate to us directly via the Ludwig site.
You will not be without reward. We will be filling you in on the duration of the adventure via blogs, photos and video footage.
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