BLAKDANCE RESIDENCY PROGRAM - 2019

katina olsen

New work in development
Katina is a Wakka Wakka and Kombumerri contemporary dance artist and her collaborator Aleksandra Borys is a Polish born, UK-based artist. The duo is working on a cross-cultural project grounded in the relationship astronomy has with the human body. Their work will feature Kombumerri cosmology developed through protocol and cultural performance making methodology.

Katina Olsen’s residency took place at Backbone over February - March 2019, with a sharing under the stars on the Backbone green.

Katina Olsen collaborators: Aleks Borys (choreographer), Victoria Hunt (choreographer) and Graham Brady (elder).

Programmed through an EOI process, the BlakDance residency supports multidisciplinary performance, testing ideas and new talent. Our 2018 assessment panel included local dance sector practitioners, elders and peers of BlakDance: Waiata Telfer (independent choreographer), Roslyn Watson (elder), Bradley Chatfield (Head of Dance at ACPA) and Kath Quigley (Director of Backbone Youth Arts). Our inaugural artists in residence were: Karul Projects, Katina Olsen and eXcelsior.

BlakDance partnered with Backbone Youth Arts, for rehearsal and development space to create new work.

Through the Program, each resident was given the opportunity to enlist collaborators to assist with the development of their work during this residency.

The three showings were presented with Brisbane City Council’s Gathering, as offsite gatherings. 

Click here to see recipients of the 2021-2022 BlakDance Residency Program

BlakDance has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland Backing Indigenous Arts Initiative