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Beethoven Lecture for Dancers

Tue, January 25, 2011 Comments Off by jacinta
7th Symphony in A major OP 92

Sue Lyons gave a wonderful lecture about Beethoven and his 7th Symphony to the dancers who will be performing the ballet “Ascension” at the Merlyn Theatre this September.

The lecture was about Beethoven‘s compositional elements, how he bridged the gap between the classical and romantic periods and how his music was more dramatic and emotional in comparison to Mozart‘s. The lecture also covered his life and how his deafness affected every aspect of his life – he composed the 7th Symphony when he was almost deaf.

There was an in-depth discussion about the form, style and rhythms of the 2nd & 4th Movements of the 7th Symphony and how it could relate to the ballet “Ascension”. The students responded with much interest and enthusiastically danced the 4th Movement in their seats! Jacob Edmonds said that his mother was very happy to hear about the lecture and said, “Your grandmother would be proud of you to know that you attended a lecture on Beethoven and his 7th Symphony” (Jacob Edmonds’s mother).

It was an exciting and unique opportunity for the dancers and dance staff and to have had the possibility to engage with the VCASS music department.

Again many thanks to Sue Lyons!

(The Beethoven Lecture was held on Thursday the 5th of August 2010).

JACINTA WALSH,
DANCE TEACHER

VCASS – Hall of Fame

Fri, December 10, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

I am pleased to announce that the VCASS School Council unanimously supported my inclusion to the Hall of Fame. This was based on my achievements since graduating from the school.

“The whole VCASS community is very, very proud of the achievements of our fabulous Alumni. This featured wall in our new school is an inspiration to our students and community”.
(Principal; Colin Simpson, December 2010)

VCASS, School of The Arts Singapore (SOTA) at VCASS

Mon, November 29, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

It was wonderful to have students and staff from the School of The Arts Singapore (SOTA) at VCASS to share performances in the Year 11 Creative Season.

For me it was of much joy and happiness to have had the chance to meet Cheah Mei Sing, the Head Faculty of Dance, the dance staff and students.

It was of great pleasure for me to give the students ballet trainings and share with them my experience and knowledge in the arts.

I was touched by their performances and how focused and passionate they all are towards dance/the arts. I praise the dance faculty and SOTA for their hard work and achievements in creating a specialist school for the arts…. Excellent Work!

I look forward to seeing SOTA in Singapore.

VCASS – Creative Season Year 11

Thu, November 25, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

I co-produced the Year 11 Creative Season… I liaised with the year 11 dancers concerning their progress with their works; their program notes, publicity, costumes, credits and organised their special staging requirements and performance schedules.

Above all it was important for me to encourage the students’ efforts and support during their creative endeavour.

VCASS – Malthouse Season

Sat, September 25, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

I will be re-staging Ascension for the Junior Dance Students for the Malthouse Season. Music: Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, choreographer: Lambro Lambrou. I have arranged a senior music lecturer, Sue Lyons to give a lecture to the dance students regarding the history of the symphony, the composer and how it relates to dance. The lecture will be an open invitation to the school.

“Good work staging Ascension. The dancers looked terrific. Well done!” (Head of Dance)

“Jacinta! Congratulations on last night. I thought Ascension went really well in a great night over all. Hope you are proud. You should be. Nice Work!”  (Tim Harbour)

“Jacinta, well done staging Ascension”… (Lisa Bolte)

Music Students Seminare

Thu, September 2, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

Coping with Performance Anxiety & Learning Presentation Skills

Neil Adam and Jacinta Walsh are discussing with the junior music students their experiences of performance anxiety and how one could deal with it.

The Martial Arts program has been introduced to cover personal safety, self confidence, habits / behaviour, intuition, coping with fear and anxiety “Fight or Flight”….

Barry Green wrote, “Martial arts such as karate and aikido have demonstrated the tremendous physical reserves that are available to a disciplined and strong will focused on clear goals” (“Inner Game of Music”, Barry Green with Timothy Gallwey p.67)

The martial arts program was given by President of Idokan Australia, Renshi Kevin Walsh. Kevin has a 7th degree black belt in Jujutsu and black belts in other martial arts. He has taught seminars in Germany, France, Greece, Hungary, Portugal and Belgium.

Kevin was invited to Kyoto, Japan to demonstrate his skills before the Crown Prince of Japan.

Kevin‘s assistant Wendy is the highest graded female black belt in Australia and recognised by the “Dai Nippon Butoku Kai”, an organisation devoted to preserving and promoting the traditional Japanese fighting arts, based in Kyoto, Japan. Wendy has travelled the world with Kevin, teaching at seminars and has also demonstrated in front of the Crown Prince of Japan.

JACINTA WALSH, DANCE TEACHER
AND NEIL ADAM, STUDENT MANAGER

Posture & Movement for Junior Musicians

Thu, July 29, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta
The Junior Musicians attend a weekly class in alignment and body awareness. Since Term 1 the students have made remarkable improvement in posture and participating in a variety of activities.

In preparation the students have been very excited and challenged by this innovative subject. They have demonstrated great enthusiasm towards the Yoga based activities, flexibility exercises and anatomy.

This term we see John Walsh former 9th in the World Ballroom Champion (Championships held in Germany 1979), giving a lecture/demonstration and introductory ballroom lessons on the Viennese Waltz. John has been involved internationally in ballroom dancing for 45 years, competing as an amateur & professional, teaching, adjudicating competitions (including The Australian Championships), examining medals & professional exams.

Learning the Viennese Waltz capitalises on our students’ musicality through movement, at the same time demonstrating correct posture, coordination and performance skills. We are very excited to invite John to the school and look forward to him sharing his expertise with the students. Perhaps in years to come our students will be waltzing, singing or playing at the annual Vienna Opera Ball!

JACINTA WALSH, DANCE TEACHER

VCASS – FAME performances

Tue, May 25, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

I arranged for the students, parents and teachers to see the stage show “FAME”. This event was to excite the students into understanding how privileged they are to have been selected to attend the VCASS.

“Thanks you to Jacinta Walsh for organising FAME last night. It was lovely to see so many staff, parents and children together at a bit of a social event.

We appreciate Jacinta organising this good ticket price for us.” (Principal Colin Simpson, VCASS, May 2010)

VCASS Dance Report

Thu, February 11, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta
We welcome Jacinta Walsh, VCASS Dance Alumni, 1980 to year 12 Graduate in 1985, followed by three years at VCA Dance Undergraduate Program 1986 to 1988.

Jacinta is now home in Melbourne and is teaching our Year 12 ballet class students.
Biography

Jacinta Walsh was born in Melbourne Australia. Her first experience with dance was at the Bruce Saunders School of Dance, then Jacinta was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance and studied classical ballet, modern, character dance and mime under the direction of the distinguished ballet teacher Anne Woolliams among others. She participated in the RAD syllabus and achieved “Highly Commended” for her Intermediate RAD exam. Understanding the importance of being educated in music, Jacinta also completed grade six piano AMEB. During her years at VCA Jacinta was granted the Big Brother Scholarship, which enabled her to participate in the Hong Kong Dance Festival, the Aberdeen Youth Festival and UK tour with selected students of the VCA From there she went to the John Neumeier Ballet School in Hamburg Germany. After two years of tertiary studies at the VCA she received her Diploma of Dance under the direction of Jonathan Taylor, and won the Anthony Joseph Pratt Scholarship.

The illustrious companies Jacinta has danced with are as follows:
The German State Opera Berlin Unter den Linden, Germany; Tiroler Landes Theater (Innsbruck), Austria;
Basel Ballet, Basel, Switzerland;

“West Side Story”, Bregenzer Festspiele 2004, Austria; Erfurt Theater, Germany / Monte Carlo Forum; “Aida”: Guest Opera Director- Dieter Kaegi; “Tanz im August,” Hebbel Theater, Berlin Festival, Germany; White Oak Dance Project: Artistic Director – Mikhail Baryshnikov; Gregor Seyffert & Compagnie (Berlin) -Ballet Director – Gregor Seyffert.

TIM STOREY, HEAD OF DANCE

Learning a work by World Class Choreographer

Tue, January 26, 2010 Comments Off by jacinta

A Special Opportunity for our Dancers
Learning a work by World Class Choreographer

YOURI VÁMOS

After having spent many years as a professional dancer in Europe, I am happy to find myself back home in Melbourne teaching ballet at the school I once graduated from. I‘m extremely excited that Mr Vámos, (one of my ballet directors) has authorised me to teach the year 10 dance students the ball scene from his ballet “Romeo and Juliet” The Western Australian Ballet Company premiered this particular piece last year. It will be a highlight for the students to work on Mr. Vámos’s choreography, as his work is actively produced and performed throughout Europe. His works distinguish themselves by inventiveness, wit, as well as an outstanding sense of drama and highest musicality.

It has been written about Youri Vámos, that he is – “the supposedly best choreographic story-teller of the present” in the arte-edition book – “Tanzgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts in einem Band” (The Twentieth Century History of Dance in one Volume). Since 2001 Youri Vàmos is an Honorary Professor at the Dance-Academy Budapest. In 2007 he was awarded with the order of merit of the state of Northrhine-Westfalia. I believe it will be a valuable experience for the students to be exposed to current choreographer‘s works such as Youri Vámos’s ballet, as it adds to their experience of various styles of dance and also assists them to gain knowledge of such well known people in the dance industry that are held with such high regard. I wish the students a most enjoyable and productive experience.

JACINTA WALSH, DANCE TEACHER

Die Nibelungen –
Siegfrieds Frauen at the Nibelungen Festspiele

Fri, July 28, 2006 Comments Off by jacinta
Waltz, Rock ‘n’Roll or various other choreographies: All 80-cast members in the Nibelungen Festival really have to shake a leg. Whether in the marriage banquet or the ceremony of triumph – beat and rhythms are what it’s all about this year. Experts are teaching all these skills to the lay actors.

Jacinta Walsh, the Australian dance teacher who lives in Berlin, will rehearse the steps, moves, poses and postures required with all 80-cast members. The instructor can draw on a wealth of experience. Jacinta Walsh has already been engaged at The Australian Ballet, at the “Basel Ballet” she danced under the artistic direction of Heinz Spoerli, and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin she was a regular member of the permanent ballet ensemble.

Further solo engagements followed in the career of the attractive dancer, such as with Paul Taylor from New York, with Mats Ek, who has newly interpreted cornerstones of the ballet repertoire with his dynamic and expressive language of movements, as well as with ballet greats Maurice Béjart and John Neumeier.

Now she is active in Worms, the city of Nibelungen: Jacinta Walsh trains the supernumeraries twice a week in addition to all their other rehearsals.

(Nibelungen Diary)

Jacinta Walsh organised Dr. Lucette Aldous’s tour to Europe, Berlin 2005

Mon, June 20, 2005 Comments Off by jacinta

“… Aldous’s tour to Europe was organised by a former pupil of hers, Jacinta Walsh, who is now resident in Berlin. “Dr. Aldous was my teacher when I attended the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance, “she says. “Since then I have regarded her as being one of the most inspiring ballet teachers and continue to do so as I pursue my ballet career here in Europe.” For her tour, Aldous was originally engaged to teach at the Ballet de l’Opera National du Rhin in Strausbourg, France (directed by Bertrand D’Art), and the Basel Ballet (directed by Richard Wherlock). But once overseas, invitations for more teaching engagements came thick and fast: she was contracted by the Ballet of the Staatsoper Berlin (directed by Vladimir Malakhov) to be a guest teacher for the opera The Italian in Algiers, which received its premiere in May. And Professor Martin Puttke, former director of the State Ballet School of Berlin and now director of Aalto Ballett in Essen, snapped her up for more guest teaching.Wherlock described Aldous’s visit as a “great pleasure and honour”. “I am sure it will bring our company a new and valuable approach to our daily work,” he said.

At the Ballet du Rhin Aldous was greeted by Australian ex-pat Mark Pace, who is now assistant to the director, “Like myself, the dancers here were just enchanted by her,” he said.

(Karen Van Ulzen)

Rossini’s Italiana in Algeri at the Berlin Staatsoper

Mon, May 23, 2005 Comments Off by jacinta

“The best in this evening are the ballet sequences. … ballet sequences danced by eight excellent dancers”. (Julia Spinola).

Révérence at the Tiroler landestheater 2003

Mon, June 2, 2003 Comments Off by jacinta
Absolute highlight of the evening: The young dancer Jacinta Walsh.

Absolute highlight: Jacinta Walsh. The enchanting dancer is impressive through strong stage presence, with her radiant charisma” (Moni Brüggeller)

Révérence at the Tiroler landestheater 2003

Mon, June 2, 2003 Comments Off by jacinta

“…concentrate themselves in black dessous of the stomach, legs, bottom, full of charm and humor the Hermes from Jacinta Walsh”. (Ursula Strohal,).

Credo at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Mon, August 25, 1997 Comments Off by jacinta

“The dancers obviously enjoy performing the piece…and Jacinta Walsh notably ´go for it´…” (Claudi Assmann)