Young Artist Exchange 2018

Young Artist Exchange expanded it’s Creative Experience Workshops to Adelaide and Sydney. Ensemble-in-residence Artists By Any Other Name taught a curriculum centred around a re-imagined Debussy's La Boîte a Joujoux (Toybox) with a new narrative and choreography. The student-faculty public performance was held at Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Grainger Studio and Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Verbrugghen Hall.

YAE students also had opportunity to perform their discipline of choice as a solo or duet at these venues. Artists By Any Other Name performed at the Starlight Express Room at the Children’s Hospital in Randwick and presented their interdisciplinary concert ‘The Travellers’ at Elder Hall (Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide) and Verbrugghen Hall (Sydney Conservatorium of Music).

In The Travellers, Artists By Any Other Name uses tango to explore the journey of departure and coming to terms with new realities. In the 19th century, lower-class immigrant communities in the Rioplatense region of Argentina and Uruguay found expressions like sorrow and longing for connection through tango music and dance. The production is inspired by the emotions and experiences that surround immigration, lost heritage and quests for love and belonging.