Lucy Marinkovich for Footnote Dance Company, photo by Dean Zillwood

REALLY GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT…

Creative Connections Residency 2020 postponed to 2021 due to impact of Covid on residency programme.

The Caselberg Trust announced today that it has reluctantly had to delay its Creative Connections Residency 2020 until 2021 due to the impact of Covid on its 2020 residency programme.

The Trust announced late last year that for the first time in its eight-year history its Creative Connections Resident 2020 would be a dance and performance practitioner - Lucy Marinkovich. Lucy is a Wellington based freelance dance artist and choreographer who has recently completed a residency in New York as the 2019 recipient of the Arts Foundation Harriet Friedlander New York Residency award winner.

Lucy was due to commence her three month residency at the Caselberg House in early May, with a project titled “Tomorrow Was Another Day”; a solo dance show in which the audience is invited to join a lone albatross as it adventures across an incomprehensibly vast oceanic realm. Part of the residency also involves working with the students of Broad Bay School by holding a series of dance classes and art workshops.

“Like many creative organisations across New Zealand, we have been waiting to see how long the Covid lockdown would go on for, and how it was going to affect our 2020 residency programme” said Caselberg Trust Chairperson Dr Janet Downs. “We have been keeping in close contact with Lucy and Creative NZ (who have funded this year’s residency) and both Lucy and the Trust have agreed that the best decision is to delay until 2021”

Ms Marinkovich said “While it would be possible to make a version of my creative vision for the residency at this time, I would prefer not to make compromises, and moving my residency to 2021 when there will be less unknowns about the wider social context in which the work will be made, presented, and received, is the best decision I believe”.

The Caselberg Trust greatly appreciates the support of Creative NZ over this difficult time, and for allowing the Caselberg Trust to utilise the funding for this residency in 2021.

Please note – postponing the 2020 residency means the Caselberg Trust will next call for Creative Connections Residency applications in 2021 (for the 2022 year).

Lucy is the Artistic Director of award-winning dance theatre company Borderline Arts Ensemble, has been the Dance Educator for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, danced for Footnote New Zealand Dance and The New Zealand Dance Company, worked as a freelance choreographer and rehearsal director on a wide variety of projects, as well as completing residencies in Singapore, Malaysia, Spain and Croatia in recent years.

Please contact Trustee Robert West for further information at
info@caselbergtrust.org
or mobile 027 608 0641
or www.caselbergtrust.org

Further information regarding Lucy Marinkovich – mobile 027 422 6364
email borderlineartsensemble@gmail.com,
and websites
https://www.lucymarinkovich.com
http://www.borderlinearts.com

Thanks to Creative New Zealand Aotearoa for their generous support of the Caselberg Creative Connections Residency

Caselberg's Creative Connections 2020 postponed...