Selwyn Times: November 27, 2019

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Dancer excited for Arts Centre
residency programme
A DANCER who grew up in
Rolleston, has been chosen to
create her own dance work at The
Arts Centre.
Olivia
O’Brien, 21,
who trained at
the Garmonsway
School
of Dance and
Hagley Dance
Company has
Olivia O’Brien ​
been the first
to be selected
for the 2019
DANZ Dance Residency.
The programme is being delivered
for the first time in city by
DANZ in partnership with The
Arts Centre and Movement Art
Practice.
O’Brien said the residency is
a chance for her as a choreographer
to grow and develop her
skills as a dance artist.
“The residency has given me
time and space to experiment
with ideas and processes to see
how I create as freelancer,” she
said.
DANZ executive director Sheryl
Lowe said The Arts Centre was
an exciting place to host its third
dance residency.
EXCITED: Olivia O’Brien (right) has been chosen to create her
own dance work at The Arts Centre.
“We hope this residency will
contribute to the reinvigoration
of the arts and dance community
in Christchurch and help to
build on the wonderful progress
already being made.”
In an exciting new collaboration
between DANZ, The Arts
Centre and Movement Art Practice,
the residency will be hosted
over two weeks in Christchurch.
The residency is set to take
place in alignment with the
Ōtautahi Tiny Performance
Festival on November 30 curated
by Movement Art Practice.
The DANZ Dance Residency is
aimed at an independent dance
artist seeking to develop their
practice and is part of DANZ’s
strategy to further expand its
support to new graduates in the
professional dance sector.
O’Brien will be based at The
Arts Centre until November 29
and will have the opportunity to
work with assigned dancers and
to have access to a dance mentor
throughout the two-week period
of the residency.
At the end of the residency,
she will present the work she
has created at a showing at the
festival. She will also facilitate a
workshop at The Arts Centre.
O’Brien is in her final year at
Unitec in the Bachelor of Performing
and Screen Arts (Contemporary
Dance) in Auckland.
“I am excited for the opportunity
to return to my hometown,
Christchurch, for this residency
to develop my practice. For me,
this residency will allow me to
come home and re-establish old
connections and relationships”,
she said.
O’Brien residency project,
From Residence, will be developed
as a duet on her residency
dancers, and will explore her
interest in making work that
pushes boundaries, provoking
and subverting expectations
through well crafted, dynamic
and virtuosic movement.
Dangerous
dogs double
in numbers
• By Devon Bolger
THE NUMBER of registered dogs
in the district has reached more
than 14,000.
The district council’s registration
database now includes 14,407
dogs for the period ending in
June. That is 883 more than last
year’s total of 13,524.
The number of dogs that have
been classified as dangerous has
increased by seven in the last year,
bringing the total register to 14.
All were classified as dangerous
because of the owner admitting so
in writing.
Two more dogs were classified
as menacing in the last year, taking
the total number to 78.
The number of them classified
menacing by deed was 53, 16 for
their breed and nine for breed
characteristics.
Meanwhile, the district council
received 1582 complaints relating
to dogs barking, wandering, fouling,
rushing, attacks on domestic
animals and unregistered dogs.
There were 100 complaints
about attacks on people.
Also in the last year, the district
council issued 535 infringement
notices for breaches against the
Dog Control Act.
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