Green Mill Dance Project (1992 - 1998)

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The Green Mill Dance Project, also know as the Melbourne Festival of Choreography and Dance, was founded in 1992 as an annual national dance forum. The project was named after the Green Mill dance hall, later called the Trocadero. The original Green Mill opened in 1926 on the site currently occupied the Victorian Arts Centre and was the height of technological achievement with rubber sprung flooring, and elaborate and atmospheric lighting. It was host to ballroom extravaganzas, private parties, dance classes, intimate dinners and cabarets.

The Green Mill Dance Project's main activity was the co-ordination of an annnual conference. Five festivals were held between 1993 and 1997. The festivals focused on the art of dance through choreography, performances and seminars and attracted a broad spectrum of practitioners, writers, teachers, academics and students from Australia and overseas. The five themes addressed in Green Mill's seminar component were Across Cultures, Across the Arts (1993), Dance and Narrative (1994), Dance and Technology (1995), New Dance from Old Cultures (1996), Heritage and Heresy (1997).

The Green Mill Dance Project ceased operations early in 1998 after the Victorian Government withdrew funding for the project.

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