The Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance
The Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance was established in 2003 and honours Caroline Plummer (1978-2003).
Caroline completed a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and a Diploma for Graduates in Dance, and was awarded the University of Otago Prestige Scholarship in Arts. What made her academic achievement most remarkable was she was diagnosed and treated for cancer during her study. Caroline completed her degrees in November 2002 and was given a personal graduation ceremony in March 2003. She died on 28 April 2003. The Fellowship acknowledges Caroline's outstanding scholarship at the University of Otago, her passion for dance, and her vision for community dance in New Zealand.
The annual fellowship is for six months (usually February until July), and is open to community dance practitioners, teachers and researches from New Zealand and overseas who have a proposed programme of activity, or project, that furthers Caroline's belief and aspirations for community dance in New Zealand. It provides the recipient with an office/dance space and not less than the minimum salary of a fulltime University Lecturer for a six-month period.
Last year's Fellowship recipient
- Suzanne Cowan, 2010
All previous Fellowship recipients
Lyne Pringle
Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance 2011
Lyne Pringle has over 30 years of experience working as a dance/theatre artist in New Zealand, Australia and New York and is deeply committed to the development of New Zealand performing arts.
She says "this fellowship and the provocation that it offers for dance to enhance a sense of community has been an invaluable addition to the dance industry in New Zealand. I am grateful for the fellowship's vision that dance might inspire education, healing, and peace in our community."
Lyne has produced over 30 dance works including She, Kilt, Fishnet and Lily which premiered in April 2009 and last year Living Arrangements for Footnote Dance Company. Her works have been performed all over New Zealand, receiving numerous awards including the Supreme award for excellence in Choreography, Performance & Production for Fishnet at the Tempo festival in 2006. In 2003 she formed Bipeds Productions, most recently forming partnerships with particular communities to create celebratory performances.
As the Caroline Plummer community dance fellow at Otago University in 2011 she will refine her community dance vision to createSt Kilda and St Clair. This dance will explore the relationship that local residents have with these two Dunedin beaches. She will form partnerships with Forbury School and the St Kilda Brass Band to present a performance in early September at the Kings and Queens Auditorium. It will incorporate performers from the St Kilda and St Clair community.
To follow the project: http://stkildastclair.blogspot.com/
For more information on Lyne: www.bipeds.co.nz
Photo 1: Lyne in 'Lament for Species Lost'
Photo 2: : Lyne in 'Lily'
Ocean Wave
Friday 2 September, 7.30pm, Kings & Queens Performing Arts Centre
