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We are for Dance Professionals, Dance Students, Dance Academics, but mostly, we are for Lovers of Dance. We invite you to explore these pages, play with us over on our Instagram, and contribute your voice to the ever evolving cannon that is dance.
SUPERCELL DANCE
Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance was founded in 2015 by Kate Usher and Glyn Roberts, and has been celebrating people and place through vibrant and exquisite contemporary dance since.
With the tropical backdrop of Brisbane as the setting for the newly founded festival and a vibrant Queensland dance sector supporting the endeavour, Supercell was launched in the midst of a sweltering summer - a collision of beauty, ferocity, spectacle and rejuvenation.
After the first edition, Glyn took up the helm at Castlemaine State Festival and Kate has continued to be the driving force of Supercell, cultivating international relationships, travelling to world-class festivals for inspiration and consulting with communities and artists. Gold Coast became the home for the festival in 2021 just before the hard decision was made to wind-down and celebrate the end of Supercell as we all knew it to be.
You've joined us as we danced up a storm but the time has come to evolve with the current climate. Kate and the festival team encourage you to embrace the unexpected and the unknown as we move into an exciting future for Supercell.
SUPERCELL DANCE NOW
Following the wind-down of the festival, in 2022, Supercell turns focus to promoting the voices of artists hosting a platform for dance discourse.
Artist Forecast | The Radar | Spotify | IG Platform
ARTIST FORECASTS
The Artist Forecasts was initiated in 2021 with the aim to offer insight into particular artist’s relationship to relevant topics of our communities, to generate critical discourse in contemporary dance practice and create relevant resources and opportunities for practicing artists.
Each perspective differs, talking to a range of topics, from current global trends, inclusivity and diversity to our new relationship to the digital realm.
Forecasts from 2021 are up on the blog now.
More to come. Stay tuned.
Benjamin Hancock
Embodying, observing and questioning the placement of rules on how we understand social structure, the body, environment, sexuality and our selective understanding of history.
The Samaya Wives
Performing for film is an intimate, raw, subtle, exposing, close range exchange.
Andrea Lam
Dance gave me the power to own my space in an unexpected way.
