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21-615: St Martins Youth Arts Centre is a youth-focused performing arts centre in South Yarra in inner Melbourne . It is a non-profit organisation that makes contemporary theatre works for adult audiences and runs weekly drama workshops for young people. In 1934, Brett Randall and Hal Percy founded the Melbourne Little Theatre and, in 1956, opened a theatre on the present site of St Martins. Irene Mitchell , an established actress, joined "between engagements" during

42-897: A company and charitable institution . Finally, on 28 April 1982, The Hon. Race Mathews , MLA , Minister for the Arts opened the completed arts centre. St Martins alumni include: Julian Day Matt Day Amanda Douge Geire Kami Barrie Kosky Colin Lane Catherine McClements Ben Mendelsohn Jonathan Messer Gina Riley Noah Taylor Mark Trevorrow (Bob Downe) Tripod ( Scott Edgar , Simon Hall and Steven Gates ) Jane Turner Madeleine West Frank Woodley Julia Zemiro Matt Scholten St Martins administers three buildings in South Yarra:

63-474: A means of generating new investment and increased economic activity and thus, a means for revitalizing neighborhoods as patrons are drawn to local restaurants and other businesses. PACs became a draw for touring shows and eventually included visual art in their facilities. Today, these centers are valuable civic resources that provide education, access, exchange of creative discourse, opportunities for cultural expression and awareness. A multi-use performance space

84-511: A neurological minority, encountered on their own terms.". For The Ones Who Walk Away was called a "piece of collaborative brilliance". The work invites audiences to roam its many rooms in search of the traces of the ones who walked away. Performing arts center Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences ), often abbreviated as PAC , is usually a complex housing performance spaces for various performing arts, including dance, music, and theatre. In some cases it refers to

105-412: A real event in 2008, a group of teenagers at Gloucester High School , Massachusetts made a pact to become pregnant and raise the children collectively. I saw the second one hit is a theatre work developed in collaboration with twin girls born on September 11, 2011. It explores the world that these twins, now teenagers, inhabit through their beliefs, their fears, their politics. It was first presented at

126-539: A seating area. The complex also has a box office and dressing rooms. The Administration building's only rented space is the rehearsal room. The Church Hall is a rehearsal room particularly suited to dance. St Martins regularly uses a room in Northcote Town Hall for its Northcote workshops. St Martins holds drama workshops for young people at its South Yarra and Northcote locations. Workshop age groups are 5-8s, 9-12s, Teens and cross-age. St Martins has

147-595: A single multi-use space, or alternatively, to a performing arts college. The origin of the world's oldest performing art, Noh , dates back to the 6th and 7th centuries when performing arts came to Japan from mainland China. Starting in the 6th century BC, the Classical period of performing art began in Greece, ushered in by the tragic poets such as Sophocles . These poets wrote plays which, in some cases, incorporated dance (see Euripides ). The Hellenistic period began

168-402: A strong focus on access and inclusion. St Martins presents works created with children for adult audiences under a model of 'Large Interactions' and 'Small interruptions'. Large Interactions are mainstage works, presented at major festivals and venues and Small Interruptions are small-scale site specific works often involving one to one audience interaction with children. Paired one-on-one with

189-619: A theatre complex and an administration building (on St Martins Lane) and a converted church (on Millswyn St). St Martins theatre complex contains two theatres: the Randall Theatre and the Irene Mitchell Studio. The Randall Theatre is a traditional rectangular theatre, with rows of fixed ascending seats and a standard lighting fixture . The Studio, by contrast, is a " black box " space, with no permanent stage or seating, though materials are kept that can be assembled into

210-599: A ‘personal trainer’ between 6 and 10 years old, Fitter. Faster. Better. is a boot camp for adults run by children. It was initially presented as part of Dance Massive festival in 2015. It has been subsequently presented at Junction Arts Festival in Launceston and the Commonwealth Games on the 2018 Gold Coast. Soundtracks is audio commentary of artistic works by children. It can be presented with live or installed works. It has been shown as an accompaniment to

231-415: Is a single space intended for use by various types of performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. The intended multiple use of performing arts centers in this sense differentiates them from single-purpose concert halls , opera houses , or theatres , although the actual use of single-purpose spaces for other than their intended use is widespread. This sort of space has a long history, extending to

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252-992: Is the Celebrity Series of Boston renting venues in Boston's Boch Center . Examples of performance arts complexes include the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Sydney Opera House , and the Lincoln Center in New York City . For a selection of venues with these terms in their titles, see: Christophe Bertrand Bertrand, born in Wissembourg , was a French pianist and composer of mainly chamber works born in 1981. After earning gold medals for piano and chamber music at

273-745: The Conservatoire de Strasbourg , he performed and recorded with the Ensemble "Accroche-Note" and the Ensemble "In Extremis" of which he was a co-founder. He collaborated with composers such as Ivan Fedele and Pascal Dusapin . He studied composition since 1996, under the supervision of Ivan Fedele at the Strasbourg Conservatoire, obtaining with distinction his diploma in 2000. His compositions, conducted among others by Pierre Boulez , Jonathan Nott, Hannu Lintu, Marc Albrecht have been performed by several ensembles and soloists such as

294-651: The Ensemble Intercontemporain , Arditti Quartet and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg . His compositions have been played internationally, amongst others in: French radio channel France Musique provided his compositions airtime (broadcasting) . He died by suicide in September 2010 in Strasbourg , where he also lived. Christophe Bertrand was awarded several awards for He

315-599: The Great Depression , and there accumulated directorial skills till she became a major force in Melbourne theatre. Operation of the theatre continued until 1977, when the Victorian Government purchased the site with the intent to establish a youth arts centre. In 1978, an organisation, then known as St Martins, took up residence, and on 18 March 1980, St Martins Youth Arts Centre was established as

336-527: The Malthouse Theatre in 2015. The Bacchae is a theatre work directed by Adena Jacobs , made collaboratively with the female ensemble cast of teenagers. Gonzo is a theatre work directed by Clare Watson , about teenage boys and porn – specifically, how often they watch it, who they watch it with, and why. Gonzo was performed at Malthouse Theatre in 2016. Genius is a theatre work that creates "an intimate hour with six young performers from

357-563: The Australian Ballet's La Sylphide, as an audio tour alongside Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier for the 2014 Melbourne Festival ; and as live accompaniment to Christophe Bertrand 's Quator No. 1 for Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music. 16 Girls is a promenade work that presents the image of a large group of pregnant teenagers engaging in regular everyday activities. It was initially performed in 2015 at Castlemaine State Festival . The work takes inspiration from

378-659: The Roman Colosseum and Greek amphitheatres. A cluster of performance spaces, either separate buildings or under one roof, each space designed for a specific purpose such as symphonic music or chamber music or theatre, but multipurpose as a whole, are also described as performing arts centers. The modern version of this came into being only in the 1960s. In Australia, the Centre for the Performing in Adelaide

399-514: The widespread use of comedy. Much of which was performed live in a center-point of the community. In 1576, Britain's first playhouse, "The Theatre", was built in Finsbury Fields , London. It was constructed by Leicester's Men – an acting company formed in 1559 from members of the Earl of Leicester's household. New performing arts centers emerged in the latter part of the 20th century as

420-639: Was the predecessor college of the Adelaide College of the Arts . The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts is a college for Indigenous Australians in Brisbane . Some performing arts center organizations act as sole presenters for events using the venues within the center, but most also frequently rent their performance spaces to other performing arts presenters or self-presenting performing arts groups. An example of this practice

441-1235: Was selected by the Académie française in Rome to be in residence at the Villa Médicis in Rome for 18 months. Quatuor II (2010) String quartet (11') Okhtor (2010) Large orchestra (13') Ayas (2010) Brass and percussion (2') Scales (2008-2009) Large ensemble (20') Haïku (2008) Piano (5') Satka (2008) Ensemble (13') Dall'Inferno (2008) Flute, viola and harp (10') Hendeka (2007) Piano trio (13') u Arashi (2007) solo clarinet (6') To Thomas Monod World premiere : 29/02/2008 - Strasbourg, Mamcs - Thomas Monod Vertigo (2006–2007) 2 pianos and orchestra (20') Co-commissioned by French Ministry of Culture and Musica Festival World premiere: Musica Festival 2008 Sanh (2006) bass clarinet, cello and piano (11') Commissioned by French Ministry of Culture to Armand Angster World premiere : 11/10/2007 - Strasbourg, Musica Festival / Accroche-Note Quatuor I (2005–2006) string quartet (20') Co-commissioned by Beethovenfest of Bonn and Peter McBurney To

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