Winifred Haun & Dancers Travels to Australia

Winifred Haun & Dancers will make their way to Melbourne, Australia to collaborate with renowned Australian circus artist, Emma Serjeant, formerly of Casus Circus. Winifred Haun and Ms. Serjeant will co-create a new work that combines contemporary dance and circus. Currently titled "Trashed", this innovative movement-based work will, according to Ms. Haun, "explore our increasingly messy world, which is filled with way, way too much stuff. Humans are natural hoarders and we all have too many things. The real tragedy is that these things are taking priority over the other humans in our lives."

The collaboration will be in residence at Circus Oz, one of Australia's leading circus organizations and Chunky Move, a Melbourne-based contemporary Dance Company. The trip will culminate with a presentation of an Open Rehearsal at Circus Oz on Friday, September 30 at 7:00pm. Part of the international rehearsal process and collaboration will also have a virtual component, including a live streaming event on Facebook (exact dates/times TBA).

The traveling company will be in Melbourne from September 17 to October 3, and includes choreographer Winifred Haun, with dancers Timothy Bowser, Zada Cheeks, Ariel Dorsey, and Rebekah Kuczma, and as a circus consultant, Shayna Swanson of *Aloft Circus Art*s.

EVENT:

Title: Open Rehearsal for "Trashed"
Date: Friday, September 30 AEST
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Circus Oz, 50 Perry St, Collingwood, Melbourne VIC 3066, Australia

EVENT:

Title: Winifred Haun & Dancers Departs for Australia, for Circus Collaboration
Dates: September 15 - October 3, 2016
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Winifred Haun & Dancers is a professional modern Dance Company and presenter led by
award winning choreographer and dancer, Winifred Haun. Founded in 1991 in Chicago, the
Company has created, presented and produced over 125 original dance works, including one
full length ballet, commissioned 32 original musical scores, and participated in over 270
public performances and events. Winifred Haun & Dancers has garnered many awards and
accolades, including Critic's Choice from the Chicago Reader and TimeOut Chicago, and
features in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Oak Leaves (Pioneer Press), WBEZ
Radio, and many others. In 2005, the Company was featured as part of the critically
acclaimed WTTW series, "The Chicago Dance Project," and in 2010 was featured on
WTTW's nightly news program, Chicago Tonight. The Company has also been featured on-
line at three national sites: Examiner.com, 4dancers.org and Flavorpill.com Major awards
include the 2000 Ruth Page Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Dance in Chicago" for
initiating and producing Chicago's NEXT Dance Festival, which grew to be the midwest's
largest dance festival for the new work of Chicago area artists, the Oak Park Area Arts
Council's 2009 "Best in Class" Award and a 2015 International Connections Fund grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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