Happy Mondays – Kyle Page
- 10 Aug 2015
In this week’s Happy Mondays, we talk to Kyle Page, Artistic Director and dancer at Dancenorth….
What are you creatively working on at the moment?
I am currently preparing for an Australian tour of In Two Minds a double bill featuring a new work by Alisdair Macindoe and a duet created by Amber Haines and I. We will be touring throughout August to Cairns, Mackay, Brisbane and Melbourne!
Where would we find you on a Monday?
In the studio, beginning the day with a mindfulness practice before teaching class to Dancenorth’s spectacular ensemble.
Favourites arts space
I love the Tanks up in Cairns, it is such an amazing location nestled in lush tropical rainforest!
Favourite arts and cultural events in Townsville
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is a spectacular event held up here every year. The AFCM coincides with another of my favourite Townsville events, the Strand Ephemera.
Residencies – The two I have done, one in Varanasi, India and the other sailing a Barquentine Tall Ship around the Svalbard Archipelago in the Arctic Circle, have drastically impacted my perspectives and creative processes. There is no greater space for increasing creative capacity and fuelling inspiration than being surrounded by nature and far away from phones and internet!
Kyle began his professional career at Dancenorth in 2004 and in 2014 was appointed Artistic Director of the company. Over the last 11 years he has performed in 17 countries around the world. Kyle has collaborated with internationally renowned choreographers including Meryl Tankard, Garry Stewart, Lucy Guerin, Gavin Webber, Ikuyo Kuroda, Antony Hamilton, Jo Stone and Paulo Castro, Larissa McGowan and Stephanie Lake. In 2013 Kyle was offered an Asialink residency and spent three months in Varanasi, India, in the same year he was selected as a finalist in the Australian Arts in Asia Award. He was recently invited to take part in the prestigious Arctic Circle Residency with his wife and long-time collaborator, Amber Haines. Research into cognitive processes and neuroscience regularly inform Kyle’s creative developments and he is currently working with mentor Scott de la Hunta, exploring the dance / science nexus. In 2015 Kyle was awarded a position in the coveted AIM30.
Images courtesy Kyle Page.