A BRIGHT SPARK IN DANCE By Melissa Walsh
W
hen Alexandra Dellaportas started Spark Youth Dance Company three years ago, she could not have dreamed it would take off as it has, with the director and choreographer in the process of producing her third annual production. For this young woman, who started dancing at two and a half, dance is her life but she also has a strong sense of purpose to
educate through the arts. “It is always important to educate people when we write our productions. The first year we premiered the contemporary dance production, The Nutcracker where I decided to combine my history knowledge with love of dance. The story is about propaganda, with the father a solider in the war who sends his daughter a doll, the nutcracker, for Christmas. Our second production in 2017 was Shatter, a work about the Suffragettes, which brought the issue of women’s rights to the stage," said Alex who is now presenting their third annual production, Ariadne, the tale of the famous Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, retold from a different perspective. “This production has been created and directed entirely by a creative team of under 25’s, and tells the tale of Ariadne, the keeper of the labyrinth on the island of Crete that houses an angry Minotaur by giving him a piece of thread to navigate the labyrinth. Seeing her chance to escape, Ariadne helps the Greek hero Theseus to succeed in his quest to kill the Minotaur by giving him a piece of thread to navigate the labyrinth. Ariadne learns that while she can escape an island, she cannot escape from herself. The work is a powerful and intense rollercoaster that delves into the ideas continued next page...
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