Phillip Adams
Phillip is the Artistic director of BalletLab and is regarded as one of the most inventive choreographic visionary artists working in Australia today. Phillip is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and lived and worked in New York for a decade. He has been commissioned by several leading Theatre and Dance Companies including The Australia Ballet, Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam, CCDC Hong Kong among others . His company BalletLab tours international and has performed in the USA, China, Scotland, Germany, England, Korea, Mongolia, Romania and Bulgaria.
Kristy Ayre
Since 2002 Kristy has performed regularly with Chunky Move in numerous work’s including the solo Glow (2006) in which she later took on the role of rehearsal director.
As well as working with Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move) Kristy has performed in works for Lucy Guerin Inc, Prue Lang, Kim Itoh, Shelley Lasica and Luke George’s LIFE-SIZE. She will continue to work with Luke in 2009 on a new project Now…Now..Now.
In 2008, Kristy choreographed and performed her first solo work Rabbeat as part of Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces for Small Spaces and was also choreographic assistant on Eddie Perfect’s Shane Warne the Musical.
She teaches workshops and masterclasses on a regular basis both within Melbourne and around the world.
Deanne Butterworth
Studied at Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts. Dancer, choreographer, teacher since 1994. Her performance work in Australia and abroad includes: - dancer in Shelley Lasica’s work since 1996; Danceworks Company & Sandra Parker Dance, (2001-2007); Balletlab (development 2006); Jo Lloyd (1999, 2001). Film projects- Fiona McDonald (2001); David Rosetzky (2008); Collaborative works: - with Jo Lloyd (2003, 2007); with Tim Harvey (2006-2007); Solo works supported by Australia Council, Arts Victoria, Dancehouse. Project Blah Blah development with Jo Lloyd January 2009 and a Residency at Bundanon Arts Centre planned for July 2009. Deanne has taught at Chunky Move, Dancehouse, Deakin University and Melbourne University Union Arts.
Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal
Independent dance artist, choreographer and teacher. In 1996 an Australian Students Prize for her studies at NHSPA preceded a BA Dance scholarship at NWSA Florida University Miami USA - with additional training at ADF, Bates, Jacob’s Pillow and in NYC. In 2004 she studied traditional Indonesian dance and music at Yogyakarta Arts University and in 2006 fulfilled a danceWEB Europe scholarship engagement at ImpulsTanz Vienna. Jade Dewi recently realised her MA Choreography research, ‘being alert in dance and life’, at VCA Melbourne University. The solo outcome, 6/7empty, utilises her training in classical ballet, modern dance, traditional Indonesian dance, somatic practice, contact improvisation and Japanese martial arts, and has been presented at the World Dance Global Alliance Summit(Ausdance)08 and Indonesia Calling(Asialink)o8.
In addition to performing with independent choreographers and directors – including Jason Pitt(AUS), Bernadette Warlong(AUS), Stephen Page(AUS), Ana Vitoria(BRA), Sophie Maslow(USA), Sandra Kaufman(USA), Doug Varone(USA), Ronald K Brown(USA), Bebe Miller(USA), Vivienne Rogis(AUS), Margie Mackay(AUS), Jon Rose(AUS) and Antony Hamilton(AUS) - Jade Dewi has worked with culturally diverse companies - such as Mirramu Dance Company, Houlihan & Dancers, The BodyCartography Project, Chunky Move, Gong Tronic and Victorian Opera - her choreography has been presented in Australia, USA, Taiwan, NZ and Indonesia. Most recently she has choreographed for Diaspora (Spark Mentorship)05, Gongtronic (Sydney Opera House) 06, Dis-ease (Australia/Indonesia GANG)06/08, Navigators (VCA & DASARTS, MIFA)06, Midnight Marauders(John Cage Musicircus)07 and Longing Belonging Land at Birrarung Marr (MIFA)08.
Luke George
Training: Victorian College of the Arts – Dance.
Performing: Luke has been in the creation and performance of many new dance works and has toured in Australia, Europe, Asia and USA. Companies and choreographers include: Chunky Move, Phillip Adams' BalletLab, Jo Lloyd, Stephanie Lake, Frances d'Ath, Shelley Lassica, ITOH Kim (Tokyo) and Miguel Gutierrez (New York).
Choreography: LIFESIZE, Special Mention, Here, not now (Tokyo) and Trike dance project. For Stompin: Underground; Joyride; SYNC; Age of Consent; Home; and We Don't Need Another Mural. Collaborating choreographer on works by Arena Theatre Company and Back to Back Theatre Company. Luke's work has been presented by Arts House, Dancehouse, PICA, Next Wave festival and 10 Days on the Island Festival. Luke has been commission by Sydney Opera House and the Australian Regional Arts festival and performed his work in New York City and Tokyo.
Significant Achievements: Artistic Director of Stompin 2002-2008.
Recognition: Asialink Performing Arts Residency to Tokyo (2005), Arts House CultureLab Residency (2006), Russell Page Fellowship for Contemporary Dance (2007) and Melbourne Festival Choice Award and Fringe Movement Award – Trike (1999).
Antony Hamilton
Antony trained in dance in Sydney, Perth and New York. Since 1999 he has worked with the Australian Dance Theatre (Garry Stewart), Kage Physical Theatre (Kate Denborough), Chunky Move (Gideon Obarzanek) and Lucy Guerin inc.(Lucy Guerin) performing extensively throughout Australia and overseas.
As Choreographer, he has been commissioned to make works for Chunky Move, Dancenorth, The Victorian College of the Arts, Stompin and Rogue. He has also made numerous short works for ADT’s Ignition seasons and Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces for Small Spaces seasons. In 2008 Antony directed and choreographed two full-length works; Blazeblue Oneline and I Like This co-directed by Byron Perry. In 2009 Blazeblue Oneline received two greenroom awards; set and/or costume design and concept/realisation in dance.
Antony was the inaugural recipient of both the Russell Page Fellowship in 2004 and the Tanja Liedtke Fellowship in 2009. He was also winner of the Greenroom Award for Best Male Dancer in 2005.
Other notable work includes collaborations with film director Kris Moyes for music video and television, and choreography for multiple ARIA award winning band The Presets.
Antony has performed in the following productions for Chunky Move: Two Faced Bastard, Mortal Engine, I Want to Dance Better at Parties and in 2008 he Directed/Choreographed and performed in I Like This as part of Chunky Move's Next Move series.
Martin Hansen
Martin Hansen has studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Martin has worked with Chunky Move, Not Yet Its Difficult, LaborGras, Matej Kejzar (Rosas) and developed his own work in a number of locations, with as many very special people in some lovely settings... notably the Sophiensaele (Berlin), Tanzhaus Dusseldorf and Palacy Kultury (Warsaw).
Rebecca Hilton
Rebecca Hilton is an Australian teacher, dancer choreographer and director.
She was a member of the Stephen Petronio Company (87-95) and has performed in the work of many artists including Michael Clark, Tere O'Connor, Jennifer Monson, John Jasperse, Lucy Guerin and Mathew Barney.
She teaches for companies, schools and in festivals all over the place including Lyons Opera Ballet, Vienna Impulse Tanz, PARTS, VCA etc.
Rebecca works in various community situations creating performance events. In 2006 as artist in residence at the Footscray Community Arts centre she created GO, a suburb sized performance involving over 150 participants in Melbourne’s inner West. GO was remounted for the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
She is curating the artistic program for Stomin, Tasmania’s youth dance and performance company.
Kyle Kremerskothen
Kyle began dancing in 1997 with Stompin’ Youth Dance Company. In 1998 Kyle relocated to Melbourne to undertake a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts at Deakin University. Kyle has also studied at the Victorian College of the Arts attaining a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Arts.
In 2001 Kyle worked with Phillip Adams' BalletLab in Upholster. He has continued his relationship with BalletLab in Adams’ Brindabella and in 2009 Fermata.
Kyle has also worked with Lucy Guerin Inc from 2002 in Melt, Love Me, Aether, Structure and Sadness and Corridor. Kyle is currently curating With the Lot for LGI, a chain-curated dance and art event.
In 2006 Kyle spent time working with TasDance on the season The Earth Beneath our Feet, working with Nanette Hassall, Tanya Liedtke and Byron Perry.
He has also worked independently as a dancer with Shelley Lasica on Play in a Room and David Rozetsky, Margaret Cameron and Lucy Guerin on Think of Yourself as Plural.
Jo Lloyd
Jo Lloyd has been performing and choreographing throughout Australia and overseas since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has performed in many works by Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker and Chunky Move. Jo’s own works have been presented in Tokyo, Yokohama, the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Adelaide Fringe. In 2001 Jo received an Emerging Choreographers Grant to create Hospitalsandairports. Since then she has also created, Public=Un+Public, with Japanese company Nibroll, Mute, for Lucy Guerin's Pieces for Small Spaces program, Yes for Nat Cursio's With a Bullet: The Album Project, and I Smiled for a Full Minute for Dance Works and John Cage’s Musicircus, Melbourne Festival 2007.
In 2008 Jo crated two new works Apparently That's What Happened performed at the Meat Market and Melbourne Spawned a Monster performed at Dancehouse.
Jo has performed in Chunky Move's I Want to Dance Better at Parties.
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Alisdair Macindoe - Contemporary
Alisdair Macindoe is a Melbourne based dancer who trained in dance at The Victorian Collage of the Arts University. His 2008 performance highlights include: his self devised dance solo Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain in Melbourne's Next Wave Festival, Katrina Lazarof's Pomona Road pt 3, Lina Limosani's The Tighter You Squeeze (development showing) and Seven with Leigh Warren and Dancers.
Alisdair has also performed in work by Nat Cursio Inc (short works by Nat Cursio, Jo Lloyd and Gerard Van Dyke), Underpass, Bare Bones Collective, Lucy Guerin Inc, Balletlab (development showing) and Coby Orger.
Gabrielle Nankivell
Gabrielle belongs to a generation of International artists that are creating work across multiple countries. Her goal is to ignite the imagination of audiences and create continuing avenues of dialogue on the topic of performance.
Gabrielle has directed numerous performances that have been presented in Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, UK, Croatia, Armenia and Portugal.
She has been performing worldwide since 2000 with companies and artists including Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium), OX/Gabrielle Nankivell & Jurij Konjar (Australia/Slovenia), Alexander Baervoets (Belgium), Aaben Dans/Thomas Eisenhardt (Denmark), Ballet Braunschweig (Germany), Australian Dance Theatre/Garry Stewart (Australia), Thomas Steyaert (Belgium), Luke Smiles (Australia) and Raul Maia (Portugal) amongst others.
Gabrielle is currently creating a solo work titled Witch/Red at Dancehouse assisted by their Housemate residency program. She is also undertaking post-graduate studies in Writing and touring of raving gods and the dogs who made them supported by Ulti’mates/Ultima Vez. Gabrielle is a SCOPE recipient, has twice held a scholarship to the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna and has been awarded a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship by Arts Management Australia.
She completed formal training with Jaqueline Tucker in Adelaide and the Victorian College of the Arts and is mentored daily by the world around her.
Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe Robinson studied dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Since graduating she has performed in Australia, New York, Berlin and Japan, in works by Sandra Parker, Lucy Guerin, Neil Adams, Francis D’ath and Kota Yamazaki. In 2008 she was Housemate Resident at Dancehouse for three months, during this time she choreographed and performed a new solo work, Only Leone, subsequently nominated for an Australian Dance Award. Her other works include The Futurist, Emperor’s New Guns, and in collaboration with Julia Robinson Quiet Listening Exercises and Half Finished World.
Lee Serle
Lee graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2003. Since then Lee has
performed nationally and internationally in works by Chunky Move (Gideon Obarzanek, Antony Hamilton and Byron Perry), Lucy Guerin Inc, Shelley Lasica, Kota Yamasaki, Neil Adams, Luke George and Dani-Ela Kayler. Lee has performed in three works for the Pieces for Small Spaces seasons curated by Lucy Guerin including his own work A Little Murky in 2007. He has also choreographed I'm In Love for the Next Wave Festival's Nightclub Project at the Mens Gallery.
Vishal - Yoga
Douglas Brook – Spiritual name Vishal – started practicing yoga in 1994 with Eugenie Knox at The Dance of Life Studio. He found that through yoga he felt awake, alive and connected to the truth of life. His daily practice led to an apprenticeship with Eugenie and to teaching at the studio. He has been to India 7 times and is a devotee of spiritual teacher and humanitarian Amma. He studied Ashtanga Yoga with Greg and Tracy Cooper, Graham Northfield, Mathew Sweeney and Deena Kingsberg. He currently teaches beginners to advanced students at The Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Melbourne and Fitness First Health Clubs. He has instructed on many Yoga retreats with the Dance of Life, at Yoga Fest, with Ashtanga Yoga in Queensland and has worked on Amma’s Australian and Indian Tours.
Jo White
Joanne trained at the Graduate College of Dance in Perth, the John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet School in Germany and later at the VCA. She was a member of the Hamburg Ballet for 3 years performing in all productions and touring the world. She has also worked with the West Australian ballet, Buzz Dance Theatre, Tasdance and been involved in many other independent projects. For the past 6 years Joanne has predominantly worked with Phillip Adams/Balletlab. Alongside dancing she also teaches pilates and yoga.
Adam Wheeler
Adam started dancing at the age of 18 when he joined Stompin Youth Dance Company under the direction of Jerril Rechter. Adam was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002 where he worked with choreographers Simon Ellis, Sandra Parker, Rebecca Hilton and Beth Shelton. In his final year at the VCA Adam joined Chunky Move and performed in the premiere of I Want to Dance Better a Parties in Melbourne and tours to Sydney and Brisbane.
Adam is interested in choreography and has created a few works including: I Don’t Do Mornings, 3 Day growth, Soz and Snuf and The Magic Memory Inhaler, for Lucy Guerin and Bone Dry and Green, for Stompin.
Tim Darbyshire
Tim studied Dance at Queensland University of Technology and had his first independent performance creation Room Service in Space 39 (Melbourne).
He has recently been working in France, Portugal and Norway within the collaborative framework of Sweet and Tender Collaborations. He has been developing a solo work Buckets and Other Things (due to be Maximised by Chunky Move in October) as well as working as a performer for David Wampach’s Battement and Meg Stuarts Re-Run. In 2008 he performed in two pieces created by Marianne Baillot and António Júlio for Portuguese dance company Companhia Instável (Unstable Company). In 2009 he performed for Eszter Salamon and Christine De Smedt’s Transformers project at Impulstanz. Since returning to Melbourne he has completed a Housemate Residency at Dancehouse and a Lucy Guerin Space Residency. He has also contributed to the development of Karen Berger and Kate Neal’s Semaphore project as a dancer and collaborator.
Victoria Chiu
Sydney born Victoria Chiu trained at VCA Melbourne. She has performed and toured internationally with European companies including Companie Nomades, Cie Gilles Jobin, Micha Purucker and Jane Turner. In Australia she has performed with Fiona Malone, Bernadette Walong and Australian Dance Theatre for the TV show Superstars of Dance. She has choreographed three works all presented in Switzerland and has just premiered a new work StarStruck in Sydney working in a Sydney/Geneva collaboration with Jozsef Trefeli. In Sydney Victoria has taught for many dancing institutions. Dance film Don’t Look Back evolved from work with students at EvandBow. StarStruck has completed a summer tour of Europe and will tour to Switzerland in November 2010.