DEC Vision, Purpose & Values

SUPPORTING OUR ARTS COMMUNITY

DEC is proud to continue to help local artists and arts and community organisations reach their potential and connect to audiences through in-kind support each year. Our support assists organisations to continue to deliver opportunities and experiences to individuals, audiences, and the sector.

Support includes free or discounted use of rehearsal and performance space, subsidised marketing and promotional activities run through the Centre, and technical, event and administrative support during rehearsals and performance periods.

$234,758

in subsidies provided to 29 community groups In 2021-22, subsidies to the value of $234,758 was provided to the following 29 community groups to help them deliver performances to the Darwin community:

• Amy Hetherington • Arafura Calisthenics Club • BRG Productions • Cancer Council NT • Carols by Candlelight • COLLIDE – Tania Lieman, Brown's

Mart, SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre • Dami-tji-la (blood) Exhibition • Darwin Festival • Darwin Fringe Festival • Darwin Performance Academy • Darwin Symphony Orchestra • Duprada Dance Company • Dream Calisthenics Dance Club • ForrestPR – All Youth Conference • Haileybury Rendall School • Larrakeyah Primary School • Leisa's School of Dancing • Kuya James • Northern Territory Calisthenics

Association • NT Music School • Royal Existence Dance Academy • SAM's Dance Studio • Skipping NT • SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre • St Mary's Catholic Primary School • Sugarbag Festival • The Beat Foundation Incorporated • Top End Pride • We3 – NT Performing Arts Awards

In November 2021, DEC co-presented COLLIDE, the result of a collaboration between Tania Lieman with Brown’s Mart and SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre. This electrifying physical theatre performance was written and directed by local Tania Lieman, choreographed by Joanna Noonan and Immanuel Dado, and performed by Territory artists from Brown's Mart, SLIDE company dancers and WAAPA graduates.

NT DANCE COMPANY

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NT Dance Company offers contemporary dance workshops, choreography, school dance programs and performances celebrating both local and neighbouring Indigenous cultures.

In September 2021, NT Dance Company performed Forbidden, a cross-cultural, crossborder collaboration between NT Dance Company, National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) Dance College and East Arnhem Land’s Miku Performing Arts. Forbidden took audiences on a 50 minute journey exploring life’s complex and competing emotions, as the dancers interpret one man’s encounter with adversity, peer pressure and community expectation that forbids him from openly expressing his darkest emotions.

DEC ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE COMPANIES

In addition to our regular support to community groups, we are home and provide in-kind support though the use of rehearsal and performance spaces to NT Dance Company and SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre.

SLIDE YOUTH DANCE THEATRE

SLIDE Youth Dance Theatre offers contemporary youth dance theatre suitable for audiences of all ages. SLIDE shows are not only entertaining but often explore challenging social issues affecting young people. SLIDE had a hugely successful 2021 performance season ending the calendar year with a special double bill dance theatre event. Infinitesimal and The Day Before Yesterday offered audiences two experiences for the price of one. SLIDE also collaborated with the DSO on Pictures.

Falling, a humorous dance theatre piece telling the story of five students falling in different emotional ways, aimed to bring laughter and smiles to audiences. Inspired by Benjamin Hoff's allegorical tale The Tao of Pooh, all aspects of the performance were developed in collaboration with the youth company dancers with all benefiting from involvement in the entire production process – from script and character development, to props and costuming and experience in choreography development.