Australian Ballet Commissions Three Citizen Bloggers To Document CONCORD

A first for The company, The Australian Ballet is looking to provide insights into the creation of new work from a punter's point of view by commissioning three citizen bloggers to document the creation of CONCORD.

After receiving an incredibly high standard of entries from writers, photographers, and video artists to create works for behindballet.com (The Australian Ballet's blog), David McAllister has just chosen one emerging artist in each genre. For Video Makers is The Apiary: Lily Coates and Gavin Youngs. Photographer will be Teagan Glenane, and writer is Anna Sutton.

McAllister said the CONCORD season is an ideal opportunity for The Australian Ballet to work with emerging artists.

"We want to ensure we capture this amazing process in a fresh and exciting way in a format we've never explored before," McAllister said.

The Apiary: Lily Coates and Gavin Youngs have been collaborating since studying in 2003 at the VCA School of Film and Television. Their work has a strong foundation in art and design, incorporating animation, super8, video and film. Gavin's short films have screened internationally, and his feature film Academy was released theatrically in Japan. Lily's The cat and Claudia was selected for the Accelerator Program as part of Melbourne International Film Festival, and travelled across Australia and abroad. In 2008 they formed The Apiary, a collective embracing multiple art disciplines. Current projects include music video clips, video installation and the development of unique web-based video works that fuse documentary and fiction.

Teagan Glenane: Teagan Glenane has been taking photos for as long as she can remember. Originally from Ballarat, she decided to take a year to travel the world after she finished school. She met cinematographer in England who took her under his wing and Teagan ended up staying in England for the whole year. Encouraged to follow her passion, she returned to Australia and commenced a course in photography. She has since photographed the Big Day Out, Falls Festival, World Youth Day, Grasshopper Festival, Special Olympics State Games, Melbourne Loreal
Fashion Week and Spring Fashion Week, along with many portraits, fashion shoots, behind-the-scenes at music events and ballet school performances. Documentary is her passion.

Anna Sutton: Anna Sutton is a Melbourne writer with some pretty sky-high ambitions. Since graduating from Journalism studies in 2008, she has been concentrating on the world wide web as her glittery arena. A feverish blog writer, Anna likes to focus on the arts, fashion, and everyday life in Melbourne. There are good reasons why she chose writing as a suitable path to follow. Her mother recently passed on a letter Anna wrote as a six year old: 'Dear grandma and granddad. I had my ballet exam today. And I didn't pass. I know it's sad, but that's what happened.'

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