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​SUE 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.
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Sue was the recipient of the 2021 Australia Council Award for Dance.
 
Her work is witnessed in a diversity of contexts and spaces; galleries, public spaces, screens and theatres. 
 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 ON VIEW:LIVE PORTRAITS 2015

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​2025
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AFTERWORLD
SYDNEY FESTIVAL JAN 7-11 2025​

vimeo.com/1037949831
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                                                          Review: "Translucent and mysterious...unforgettable."
                                       limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/afterworld-dino-dimitriadis-sydney-festival/            

Photos: Wendell Teodoro

ON VIEW: ICONS 
Installation - Northsite, Bulmba-ja Arts Centre Cairns APRIL-JUNE 14
northsite.org.au/exhibitions/on-view-icons/


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​2024



ON VIEW: ICONS

Installation - Dancehouse Melbourne NOV 27-30

​www.dancehouse.com.au/whats-on/on-view-icons-sue-healey-dance-lens/
REVIEWS:
"...remarkable magic to witness and feel".
​(Gracia Haby)

https://fjordreview.com/blogs/all/on-view-icons

"Healey has created one of the most elegant and beautiful anthologies of short dance films you could wish to see."
(Paul Ransom)
https://dancemagazine.com.au/2024/12/moving-portraits-the-choreography-of-dance-on-film/

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Video created by Sue Healey
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for Mike Nock's induction into the NZ Music Hall of Fame

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2024 EXHIBITIONS

synergy: identity, portraiture and the moving body
9 March 2024 - 19 May 2024
TWEED REGIONAL GALLERY
works by
ATONG ATEM | GERWYN DAVIES | TIM GEORGESON | SUE HEALEY​




DANCER - a touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery:
Court House Gallery, CAIRNS
11 Oct – 23 Nov 2024
Frankston Arts Centre, VICTORIA
7 Feb – 27 Apr 2025
David Roche Foundation Museum SOUTH AUSTRALIA
6 Jun – 17 Aug 2025





3 films by Sue Healey
​presented at National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra
​BOLD FESTIVAL
March 8


Lake Song, Meeting Place and And...Breathe.

​​​ON VIEW: ICONS
3 channel video installation
Sydney Festival 16-19 Jan 
Neilson Studio, Sydney Dance Company​

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​​2023


​Healey's short film 'Eileen' wins prestigious Opus Klassik award for Best Music Video, Germany 2023
and finalist in MOVIN' Cannes Festival, Cannes 2023.
​With musicians David Orlowsky and David Bergmuller.
Cinematography Judd Overton.
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 NOVEMBER
Created the film Lake Song - choreographed by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman and the GOLDS.
On location at Mirramu/Weereewa.

JUNE/JULY
In rehearsal for AFTERWORLD, a new full-length work with composer/musician Laurence Pike and dancers:
​Nadiyah Akbar, Josh Freedman, Benjamin Hancock, Billy Keohavong and Siobhan Lynch.
Producer: Dino Dimitriadis
Photo: Wendell Teodoro
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​​MAY/JUNE
Created full length work - BODY - for AC Arts, Adelaide (originally made for VCA 2019)
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22 APRIL
Arc Cinema, NFSA Canberra screening of And...Breathe





​19 APRIL

Chauvel Cinema Screening of ON VIEW: PANORAMIC SUITE
Plus cameo performance by percussionist Laurence Pike and dancers - Billy Keohavong, Josh Freedman and Siobhan Lynch
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​Dec 2022/Jan 2023

2 films 'Yindyang Bila' and 'Meeting Place' 
in the exhibition 'Water: Presence and Absence' at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre 




2022


'
The Long Walk' - commissioned by OZASIA Festival
Live performance broadcast from Robe South Australia
Oct 23rd


with musician Benjamin Walsh 
and dancers
Kimball Wong, Julian Renlong Wong, Ko Yamada, Tayla Hoadley and Queenie Wu
Cinematography Ken Butti and team

'Circumstance 2020'​
film + live string orchestra performed Sydney Conservatorium
August 12

Music - Fiona Hill
Conductor - Roger Benedict
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March-May​
​2 films ​commissioned by Youth Dance Australia

 Premiered at Australian Youth Dance Festival Melbourne 2022​

Alumni - 16 renowned Australian artists reflect on the impact of being in a youth company.​

Meeting Place - A collaboration with 50 dancers from 8 youth dance companies in 4 locations around Australia.

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In development 2022 - The Shock of Hope (working title)
A new work with Percussionist Laurence Pike
and dancers
Billy Keohavong, Taiga Kita-Leong
Renata Commisso, Nadiyah Akbah and Siobhan Lynch.​



2021


Lady of the Horizon wins Best Film (Music/Dance) in EATSA Film Festival Portugal 2021
&
Live Action Relay wins Best Live Capture Award at Inspired Film Festival Australia 2021
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ON VIEW: IN TRANSLATION 
5 channel HD installation exhibition
Portraits of Dance Artists from Hong Kong and Japan
OZASIA Festival 21 OCT - NOV 10, Adelaide
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​'A Delicate Haunting' Finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award 2021.
​Exhibition OCT 30-DEC 10 Campbelltown Arts Centre



ON VIEW: PANORAMIC SUITE
was presented as a digital broadcast for
Liveworks Festival, Performance Space Sydney - OCT 24 -31


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


 toured to

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


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https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/onviewpanoramicsuite#overview







​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, Korea
San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema USA
With live string orchestra, Sydney Conservatorium, Australia

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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