DANCECRAFT: MADE Ensemble Skills Development Intensive 2025

In 2025, MADE is committed to offering a ‘deeper dive’ into rehearsal and performance skills that is specifically designed for the MADE Ensemble and for those who have formally expressed interest in being in the Ensemble.

For this opportunity, MADE has invited outstanding professional dancer and mature artist Daryl Brandwood to join us for 3-4 days in August. Daryl, based in Western Australia, is an experienced teacher of mature dancers and will offer classes in ballet and contemporary as well as workshops that encompass learning and creating choreography, and improvisation.

Daryl was born in Perth, Australia and began his dance training at West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He joined West Australian Ballet in 1990 and was a member of the Company intermittently until 2012. Daryl also danced with the Australian Dance Theatre and was a soloist with The Australian Ballet Company, performing in works by William Forsythe and Jiri Kylian. He performed with Balletmet in the USA, performing with them at the Joyce Theatre in New York. Daryl’s career highlights include performing the principal couple in George Balanchine’s (Diamonds) from “Jewels”, the role of Puck in Barry Moreland’s “A Midsummer Nights Dream” and Twyla Tharp’s “In The Upper Room”. Daryl is also an experienced choreographer.

For MADE performers, this is an exceptional chance for mature dance practice development.

Evening and Daytime activities will be on offer. 

The weekend will take place at SOHO Community Hall as follows:

Friday Aug 22              Evening session: 5pm-8pm

Saturday Aug 23         Due to degree of interest, either 9-1 of 2 four-hour sessions 2-6pm of class and workshop. MADE will advise which group you are in.

Sunday Aug 24           Half-day classes and workshop culminating in an informal in-house ‘sharing’ of content: 9-1pm 

Followed by lunch together (at the hall) 1-2pm

(MADE will email you individually to confirm which half-day on Saturday.)

MADE is a forerunner in mature arts in Australia, and the only company dedicated to the educative/health aspects of mature dance AND to an ongoing program of public performance of mature contemporary dance works. Established in 2005, MADE is a not-for-profit Tasmanian-based arts organisation that partners professional artists with non-professional dancers to create and present visually beautiful contemporary dance theatre. These works are performed by people aged 50 and over, in primarily non-traditional performance spaces.

We create opportunities to showcase the power of dance and to show the mature artist as a creative, energetic force in, and engaged with, the world.

PLEASE NOTE: Please do not attend if you are unwell.

Ticket prices include membership, insurance and GST.

Image description: Image of Daryl Brandwood smiling warmly.