Caroline bowditch biography

Caroline Bowditch is the.
”Caroline is a true role model, she has raised the profile throughout Scotland and internationally of the highest quality dance performance by disabled people.”.
After 16 years living and working in the UK, Caroline returned to Australia in July 2018 to take up the role as Chief Executive Officer at Arts Access Victoria.

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Since arriving in the UK from Australia in 2002, Caroline Bowditch has been mentored by Adam Benjamin, CandoCo and Yael Flexer (Bedlam Dance), and has participated in several residencies with CandoCo. She participated in The Dancers Project (2005, The Place) and underwent training on the Cultural Shift project (2005, East London Dance). She has choreographed and performed work as girl jonah with Fiona Wright and is a founder member of Weave Movement Theatre (Melbourne) and The FATHoM Project (Newcastle). In 2007, she received a Wellcome Trust Arts Award to create Proband, which uses her genetic mutation as the basis for the choreography and music.

Caroline toured with Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) in Spring 2007, where she helped create and performed in Adam Benjamin’s Angels of Incidence.

She then developed and took on the role of Dance Agent for Change with SDT, a post initiated by former Artistic Director Janet Smith who was interested in breaking down barriers, extending borders in the dance world and exploring new possibilities, creatively, artistically and for the good of c

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This is the second production inspired by Frida Kahlo that I’ve seen this summer. The first, The Four Fridas, was an enormous spectacle put together by Greenwich & Docklands International Festival’s Bradley Hemmings. It included a mesmerising and moving flight of the Voladores. Caroline Bowditch’s piece is the opposite in scale – intimate and friendly – but equally resonant, exploring the marks we leave on the world we exist in.
Bowditch has fallen head over heels for Frida. Or is it that she’s fallen head over heels for the idea of Frida? Or that Frida’s life and work resonate with her so much that she has fallen in love with the story of Frida? Over sixty minutes she charmingly chats to us about her life and how her discovery of Kahlo’s work and biography has inspired this performance – and continues to inspire her life. Kahlo was severely injured in a bus accident as a young woman, including a broken spinal cord that rendered her immobile for three months. We meet Bowditch lying on a bright yellow table listening to the music Frida played at home. She is joined on stage