ABOUT KILDA MORI NORTHCOTT :: |
Demeter's Dark Ride
Fishnet
Take Me Down To the Dance Floor
1955
Born in Whakatane, raised in Kawerau, in The Bay of Plenty - Ruby Conway, Russell Kerr and Basil Pattison were three amazingly, influential teachers in my early, dance training.
Always an inspiration - the land I was born to - past and present family andcolleagues, my son, Iharaira - my time dancing, living, studying and working overseas and my work tutoring contemporary dance, movement and yoga and my performing career, here in NZ .
Trained in classical ballet, to Intermediate level, Royal Academy of Dancing.
Fulltime training in modern and jazz dance with Basil Pattison (residentchoreographer at The Mercury Theatre, Auckland in the 60's and early 70's) classical ballet, classical repertoire & performance with Russell Kerr, at The NZ Dance Centre, Auckland .
Performed in community theatre, directed by Warwick Broadhead in the 70's and 90's.
In the early 70's, I left NZ, to live and study dance, in Sydney , Australia at The Bodenweiser Dance Centre with Margaret Chapple, studying amongst other styles and techniques - Graham, Horton, improvisation and street theatre.
Lived, studied and taught dance in New York City , studying at, The Merce Cunningham Studio and The Limon Studio and performing with Kalina Cremona andReka and Company.
I returned to NZ, in the late 70's. 1976 - I worked as a resident dancer on the TV series "Once More with Feeling "a 6 week showcase, of past and current (1976) music hits, in NZ, over 25 years.
I was a founding dancer / tutor with, Movement Theatre in Education, Director, Sue Jordan.
I was a founding dancer / performer & tutor of contemporary dance with Limbs Dance Company.
In the early 80's, I returned to Sydney to work with Chris Jannides ( founder of Limbs ) and his new company Darc Swan and to study yoga at the Bondi Junction, Yoga Centre with Martin Jackson and Shandor Remete. I also freelanced throughout Australia with choreographers such as Jacqui Carroll, Helen Herbertson, John Salisbury, Carl Morrow and performed in a season of works with One Extra , director Kai Tai Chan, in Sydney , with rehearsal director, Cheryl Stock.
I was a founding member of Darc Swan's, "Dance in Education Company" in 1988.
My son, Iharaira, was born in Sydney , in 1985.....
Returning to NZ in 1989, I become a founding member of, "The Douglas Wright Dance Co"
From this point on I based myself in Wellington , as a tutor of contemporary dance, yoga and as a performer, working and devising locally and nationally with choreographers such as Sue Jordon, Lyne Pringle, Mary - Jane O'Reilly, Michael Parmenter, Heidi Simmonds and director Alana Spraggs, with Body Cartography, directors, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, with Red Mole directors, performers, Sally Rodwell and Alan Brunton and working with director and performer, Madeline McNamara.
In the early 90's I took up academic study at Victoria University , Wellington .
2004 - brought initially, projects in film with emerging choreographer / filmmaker, Alyx Duncan in her film project " Pandora" and the co- devised, performance work " Fishnet " with colleague and friend Lyne Pringle.
My son, Iharaira, left home......the cat, Panda, stayed!
I moved to Dunedin , for 3 months over winter, and spent time, as artist in residence, at Otago University , took up further academic study at Otago and co- devised a student, movement based work, performed in the Westpac Bank, shop front window, on George St , as part of the 2004 Dunedin Fringe Festival.
2005 - I toured with Michael Parmenter's " Retrospective " national tour, performing, the role of "mother of the groom" in the work "Svadebka"
Lyne and I performed our work " Fishnet " for the 2005 "Dance Your Socks Off Festival" to critical acclaim, at Bats Theatre, Wellington .
From 1989 I was a tutor and senior tutor of contemporary dance at, The Wellington Performing Arts Centre, both on their tertiary and community courses. Under the umbrella of, Wellington Performing Arts Centre and the mentoring of Jenny Stevenson, director of the centre, I was director and tutor of "The Kilda Northcott Youth Dance Company"
2006 - Panda and I relocated to Port Chalmers, Dunedin , on a quest to buy our first house, which I am pleased to say, we achieved with lots of support and help from family and friends and in early 2006, moving into a modest, 3 bedroomed, brick and tile, on the 1st May, 2006.
2006 - brought work with Daniel Belton's film / dance, project "Seismos" as a dancer/performer/ devisor.
I was involved as a co - performer/dancer/actor, with actor, Barbara Carey in Sarah Kane's, play, "4.48 Psychosis," directed by Otago University , Theatre Studies,student director, Damien Bertanees (Barbara and I have made Damien promise to give us cameo roles when he makes his first film - we'll make millions !!! - yeah right - )
Lyne and I toured nationally with "Fishnet" to critical acclaim and several awards !!!
I taught contemporary dance at " Dance Theatre Arts - School of Ballet , St. Claire and a movement / yoga based class to parents/mothers.
2007 - sees me, still working part-time in a shop, The Dolls House - Dance Wear, in Dunedin town and working as a home support person for, Dunedin Home Support Services.
I continue tutoring dance & yoga, here in Dunedin . I currently ( 2007 ) have an after school, dance class, for children, at Port Chalmers School and I hold, an open, contemporary dance class at, Otago University , Shona Bennet's, School of Dance and I am teaching, the, New Zealand Association Of Modern Dance Limited - Contemporary Syllabus Level 4 - to dance students at Dance Theatre Arts - School of Ballet , St. Claire, director Caroline Claver.