Leigh Warren & Dancers is a contemporary dance

Contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

 company based in the South Australia

South Australia

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n capital of Adelaide

Adelaide

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. Formed in 1993 by Leigh Warren

Leigh Warren

Leigh Warren is an Australian contemporary dance choreographer and Artistic Director of Leigh Warren & Dancers having previously been at the Australian Dance Theatre...

 (formerly of the Australian Dance Theatre

Australian Dance Theatre

The Australian Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman,...

), the company has toured internationally and won several awards.

A number of dancers from the company performed in "The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky" (2001).

Works

The works danced by Leigh Warren & Dancers include:

• Quiver
• Shimmer
• Quick Brown Fox: a collaboration with William Forsythe
  William Forsythe (dancer)
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• Petroglyths — Signs of Life: a collaboration with Gina Rings (2005 & 2008)
• The Philip Glass
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   Trilogy
  • Akhnaten
    Akhnaten (opera)
    Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten , written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983. Akhnaten had its world premiere on March 24, 1984 at the Stuttgart State Opera, under the German title Echnaton...
    
    
  • Einstein on the Beach
    Einstein on the Beach
    Einstein on the Beach is an opera that premiered on July 25, 1976 at the Avignon Festival in France, scored and written by Philip Glass and designed and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. It also contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs...
    
     Parts 3 & 4)
  • Satyagraha
    Satyagraha (opera)
    Satyagraha is a 1979 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong.Loosely based on the life of Mohandas K...
    
    
• Wanderlust: a collaboration with Uno Man (Japan)
• Seven (2008)
• medico manouevres (2007 & 2009)
• Frame and Circle , Choreographers: Prue Lang Rubicon and Leigh Warren Meridian
• Dream Time (initially choreographed by Jiri Kylian
  Jiří Kylián
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   in 1983) and Escape (choreographed by Leigh Warren and Kaiji Moriyama)

Awards

2010 - Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) inaugural Arts & Health Foundation Award

• Leigh Warren & Dancers with the Flinders Medical Centre
  Flinders Medical Centre
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   for medico manouevres

2005 - Adelaide Critics' Circle

• Innovation Award — Leigh Warren and Gina Rings for Petroglyphs — Signs of Life

2004 - Adelaide Critics' Circle

• Individual Award — Leigh Warren for Einstein on the Beach
  Einstein on the Beach
  Einstein on the Beach is an opera that premiered on July 25, 1976 at the Avignon Festival in France, scored and written by Philip Glass and designed and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. It also contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs...
  
   (Parts 3 & 4)

2003 - Green Room Award

• Best Dance Ensemble — for Akhnaten

2002 - Adelaide Critics' Circle

• Commendation for Akhnaten

2001 - Green Room Awards

• Best Female Performer — Rachel Jenson for Quick Brown Fox
• Best Male Performer — Peter Furness for Quick Brown Fox
• Best Ensemble — Quick Brown Fox

2000 - The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

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• Group Award Winner

1999 - Australian Dance Awards

• Outstanding Performance by a Dance Company — for Masterpieces of the 20thC
• Best Choreography — Leigh Warren for Shimmer
• Outstanding Performance by an Individual Dance Artist — Delia Silvan for Silent Cries

1997 - Inaugural Adelaide Critics' Circle Award

• Best Performance by a Group — LWD for Quiver

External links

• Leigh Warren & Dancers at Australia Dancing