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​Sue Healey is the recipient of the 2021 Australia Council Award for Dance.

Healey is a critically acclaimed artist working in the fields of performance, installation and film.

 Her work draws its inspiration from dance as a transformative and poetic language
yet transcends the boundaries of the form, revealing the universality of movement.

With extensive experience in choreographic practice and cross-artform investigation, Healey moves seamlessly between dance, film and installation. Her work investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between disciplines, and the revelations that are sparked at those intersections. Critically, movement is at the heart of each of the works. 
​Her recent practice explores portraiture of dance artists across Asia and Australia.
 
Her work is aesthetically unique and relevant to a wide demographic, across age and interest. It is witnessed in a diversity of contexts and spaces; galleries, public spaces, screens and theatres. 

​Contact Sue Healey via her email or Facebook. 


We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land we dance
and pay respect to Elders past and present.


Header Image: Raghav Handa
Contact Email - Sue Healey
NEWS

​2021



ON VIEW: PANORAMIC SUITE
will be presented as a digital broadcast for
Liveworks Festival, Performance Space Sydney - OCT 24 at 8pm
​Tix $15


performancespace.com.au/program/on-view-panoramic-suite/
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ON VIEW: PANORAMIC SUITE

will then tour to

Freespace, West Kowloon, Hong Kong
December 17-19, 2021







​2020

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​Circumstance 2020
(film)


A film by Sue Healey premiered DEC 2020.

In partnership with:
Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year 2020,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Composing Women Program 2020-21,
​Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship

Performers: Allie Graham and Billy Keohavong with SDC Pre-Professional dancers 2020
Music by Fiona Hill
Director of Photography - Ken Butti
​Stills by Wendell Teodoro

​SCREENED:
Roma Short Film Festival Italy, Seoul Short Film Festival, San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema USA

AWARDED:

BEST FILM SCORE  - SEOUL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2021
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - HONOURABLE MENTION - ROMA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, ITALY 2021


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Live Action Relay  
Liveworks Festival Sydney (October)

With performers - Allie Graham, Raghav Handa, Billy Keohavong and musician Ben Walsh.
Director of Photography - Ken Butti


Reviews:

​www.danceaustralia.com.au/news/review-live-action-relay
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dancemagazine.com.au/2020/11/performance-space-live-on-the-line-sue-healeys-live-action-relay/


​Photos by Wendell Teodoro​

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On View: Panorama
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Development and tour Japan (Kinosaki, Yokohama, Nagoya)
Jan/Feb 2020
more information: ​https://taci.dance/onview/liveperformance

With dancers: Benjamin Hancock, Nalina Wait (Australia), Ema Yuasa, Nobuyoshi Asai (Japan), Mui Cheuk-yin and Joseph Lee (HK)

Co-produced by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong and Aichi Prefectural Art Theatre, Japan
​and Performance Space Sydney.
 On View: Portraits of Dance Artists
Exhibition
Yokohama JAN 31-FEB 16 and Nagoya FEB 5-16 2020

Featuring Australian artists James Batchelor, Elma Kris and Eileen Kramer, 5 Japanese and 10 HK artists.

2019

To Purchase Sue Healey's Platform Paper Capturing the Vanishing: A Choreographer and Film, click here:
 https://currencyhouse.org.au/node/282

Review: ​https://www.realtime.org.au/sue-healey-adaptation-vs-ephemerality/
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BODY, a full-length work for 3rd year VCA Dance, Melbourne, May 8-11, 2019
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On View: Japan, 5 screen installation Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama Feb. 2019
Photos - Pippa Samaya







​Film commissioned by Sydney Dance Company for Pre Professional Year 2019​.




​2018

On View: Japan shoot - Nagoya.
​Photo Hatori Naoshi

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Contours exhibition in Taiwan,
showing 'En Route' and 'Weerewa' - with works by Peng Hsiao-Yin, Tseng Huan-Shin
at SLY Art Space Taipei, 8-28 October.

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Sydney Dance Company commission for Pre Professional Year Dancers 2018
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On View: Thinking Bodies, Dancing Minds exhibition April 12-28 2018, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne.

Portraits of Lucette Aldous AC, Nanette Hassall, AM, and Shirley Mckechnie AO, with artists Shona Erskine, Benjamin Hancock and James Batchelor.

cm.edm.unimelb.edu.au/t/ViewEmail/r/12D22CAE719F58772540EF23F30FEDED

Review
www.artandaustralia.com/online/discursions/view-thinking-bodies-dancing-minds-sue-healey

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​Video State of Grace announced as 65th Blake Prize Finalist 2018.

​www.casulapowerhouse.com/get-involved/prizes/prizes/blake-prize
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2017


Video portrait of Eileen Kramer, Eileen, Finalist in the Digital Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery 2017.
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On View: Hong Kong was performed at Artistree, Hong Hong in October with 5 HK artists, produced by WKCDA.
Winner Hong Kong Dance Award for Best Visual Design 2018.
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The Seasons Retouched rehearsal, New Zealand Dance Company - Kiss the Sky season June 2017,
with live music by Blackbird Ensemble.
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Sue created 'City as a Portrait Gallery' as part of B.E.Exhibition - commissioned by City of Sydney.
 Customshouse, Sydney MARCH -16 JULY 2017

Judd Overton - Director of Photography
Sue Healey and Raghav Handa - Performers
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Healey's new film 'En Route' screened DEC/JAN on the new 22m Wynscreen
Wynyard Station, Sydney
Judd Overton - Director of Photography


https://onreadingdance.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/sue-healeys-en-route/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog

http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/programs/wynscreen
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With Eileen Kramer (102 yrs), Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, Patrick Harding Irmer, Anca Frankenhaeuser, Nalina Wait, Raghav Handa and Kei Ikeda.

IN PRODUCTION FOR 2017
  ON VIEW: Hong Kong' commissioned by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong.
Sue is creating portraits of HK dance artists for exhibitions and performances 2017/18/19.
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 ON VIEW: Live Portraits wins
Australian Dance Award 2016

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for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance

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