Skadada :: residencies and mentoring

Company in residence

Skadada was company in residence at the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Perth for an 18 month period in 1998-9. The residency involved teaching improvisation workshops, post-graduate mentorship in the development of student's own work, and the creation of a new work for the graduating 3^rdyear students. Electronic Big Top, a Major Festival commissioned work from Skadada for the 1999 Festival of Sydney and Perth, was developed on campus at WAAPA with student observation at all stages of the work.

Rural WA workshops

Skadada has run successful workshops with young people throughout WA including Mangkaja Youth Arts in Fitzroy Crossing, Esperance Youth Arts in Esperance and Southern Edge Arts in Albany.

Interstate

Skadada has run residencies for Alice Springs Youth Arts, and also for Corrugated Youth Arts in Darwin which included workshops for young Indigenous people from Groote Island. Skadada was company in residence at the Brisbane Powerhouse in 2003 working with young emerging artists and returned by special invitation in March 2005 to run a development period with the same group of artists.

Overseas

In Asia, Skadada has run several residencies and workshops including workshops for young dancers for the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai and for the Daksha Sheth Company in Trivandrum. All of these residencies have led to invitations to return.