Collaborators
LISA GRIFFITHS is one of Australia's most sought after contemporary dancers and has been central to many award-winning productions. She has received two nominations for Australian Dance Award in the category of most outstanding performance by a female dancer. Lisa completed tertiary dance studies at QUT Brisbane and after graduating worked with Chris Jannides of Darc Swan Dance Company. She then joined Chunky Move Dance Company performing in seasons Flesh Meet, Live Acts, All The Better, Corrupted and Lucy Guerin's Zero. Together with Craig Bary and Adam Synnott Lisa is creating a new dance and multimedia work entitled A Side to One.
She has performed extensively with both Tasdance and Leigh Warren and Dancers touring nationally and internationally. Lisa has also choreographed and performed two commissioned works for Dance Tracks at The Studio Sydney Opera House with Kirstie McCracken. She has worked with Meryl Tankard on Pearl at the Sydney Opera House and was a dancer for SiWiC Dance Ensemble in 2003, with Carolyn Carlson, in Zurich. She has worked with Amanda Phillips on films When There's Only, 3xperimentia and Future Memory.
Recently Lisa toured the UK with Tanja Liedtke's Twelfth Floor and performed her role in Construct nationally. Lisa has worked with Sue Healey since 2002 on many productions including Fine Line Terrain, Inevitable Scenarios and As You Take Time and dance films, Niche, Three Times, Fine Line and Once in a Blue Moon. Lisa looks forward to touring As You Take Time to Japan as part of The International Festival of Media and Arts in Yokohama later this year.
She has performed extensively with both Tasdance and Leigh Warren and Dancers touring nationally and internationally. Lisa has also choreographed and performed two commissioned works for Dance Tracks at The Studio Sydney Opera House with Kirstie McCracken. She has worked with Meryl Tankard on Pearl at the Sydney Opera House and was a dancer for SiWiC Dance Ensemble in 2003, with Carolyn Carlson, in Zurich. She has worked with Amanda Phillips on films When There's Only, 3xperimentia and Future Memory.
Recently Lisa toured the UK with Tanja Liedtke's Twelfth Floor and performed her role in Construct nationally. Lisa has worked with Sue Healey since 2002 on many productions including Fine Line Terrain, Inevitable Scenarios and As You Take Time and dance films, Niche, Three Times, Fine Line and Once in a Blue Moon. Lisa looks forward to touring As You Take Time to Japan as part of The International Festival of Media and Arts in Yokohama later this year.
RACHELLE HICKSON originally trained at the McDonald College of Performing Arts, after which she went on to complete a National Certificate of Dance Performance (contemporary) at the New Zealand School of Dance. Upon returning to Sydney late 2005, Rachelle began working and experimenting ideas with Sue Healey and her dancers. Since then she has performed in Inevitable Scenarios (2006), As You Take Time (2007) and The Curiosities (2008). Rachelle also collaborated and danced in the dance film Reading The Body, choreographed and directed by Healey in 2008.
Rachelle also worked consistently with DirtyFeet Dance Collective through 2006, collaborating with choreographers such as Anton, Anna-Louise Paul and Daniela Di Fabio. She has also participated in two DanceTank seasons: Special Mention, directed by Bec Reid and Luke George and Freedom to Launch, directed by Anton. Rachelle performed in Opera Australia's seasons of Alcina and Tannhauser in 2007 and My Fair Lady in 2008. Most recently, Rachelle performed in Cecilie Farrar’s Murder My Sweet as part of Short + Sweet 2009.
Rachelle also worked consistently with DirtyFeet Dance Collective through 2006, collaborating with choreographers such as Anton, Anna-Louise Paul and Daniela Di Fabio. She has also participated in two DanceTank seasons: Special Mention, directed by Bec Reid and Luke George and Freedom to Launch, directed by Anton. Rachelle performed in Opera Australia's seasons of Alcina and Tannhauser in 2007 and My Fair Lady in 2008. Most recently, Rachelle performed in Cecilie Farrar’s Murder My Sweet as part of Short + Sweet 2009.
NALINA WAIT is a performer, choreographer, dance-film maker, teacher and improviser with a degree in Dance (WAAPA). She has performed in Australia and Internationally with Sue Healey, Rosalind Crisp, Nikki Heywood, Danceworks, Devastation Menu, Hans Van Den Broeck, in her own work and in many improvisational settings. Her work includes solo kyu (2002), solo dancefilm Sole (2003). After the birth of her daughter Leila in 2005, she began researching ideas for Dual in collaboration with Jane McKernan and Gail Priest. Dual has been supported by: Performance Space, the Creative Practice and Research Unit at UNSW, Critical Path, Ausdance and the Australia Council for the Arts.
In 2003 Nalina joined Sue Healey Company performing Fine Line Terrain at the Bangarra Theatre, Sydney, Choreographic Centre in Canberra, the Auckland Festival and in 2004 at the Sydney Opera House and in the Spotlight at the Adelaide Arts Market. Fine Line Terrain was nominated for two Ausdance awards in 2004, for Outstanding Performance by a Company and Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. Sue Healey Co. also created a short film Fine Line winning an Ausdance award for Best Film in 2003, first prize at Reeldance 2004 and first in the independent section of the Il Corgeografo Elettronico, Napolidanza Italy. Nalina is a part of the IN TIME series with Sue Healey Company in 2005, performing in the short films Three Times, Once in a Blue Moon and the full length live work Inevitable Scenarios presented at in 2006 at the Sydney Opera House and the North Melbourne Town Hall. Nalina has continued working with Sue Healey creating short film Heart Melodrama and full-length work Curiosities in 2008.
In 2009 Nalina and Healey created Curios, a commissioned installation from Critical Path and presented at SEAM, Sydney.
Nalina has taught contemporary technique, release, improvisation and choreography at UWS, UNSW, SDC, NAISDA, CPEA, Ausdance Classes and at the Omeo Dance Studio.
In 2003 Nalina joined Sue Healey Company performing Fine Line Terrain at the Bangarra Theatre, Sydney, Choreographic Centre in Canberra, the Auckland Festival and in 2004 at the Sydney Opera House and in the Spotlight at the Adelaide Arts Market. Fine Line Terrain was nominated for two Ausdance awards in 2004, for Outstanding Performance by a Company and Outstanding Achievement in Choreography. Sue Healey Co. also created a short film Fine Line winning an Ausdance award for Best Film in 2003, first prize at Reeldance 2004 and first in the independent section of the Il Corgeografo Elettronico, Napolidanza Italy. Nalina is a part of the IN TIME series with Sue Healey Company in 2005, performing in the short films Three Times, Once in a Blue Moon and the full length live work Inevitable Scenarios presented at in 2006 at the Sydney Opera House and the North Melbourne Town Hall. Nalina has continued working with Sue Healey creating short film Heart Melodrama and full-length work Curiosities in 2008.
In 2009 Nalina and Healey created Curios, a commissioned installation from Critical Path and presented at SEAM, Sydney.
Nalina has taught contemporary technique, release, improvisation and choreography at UWS, UNSW, SDC, NAISDA, CPEA, Ausdance Classes and at the Omeo Dance Studio.
ADAM SYNNOTT graduated with a Bachelor of Dance Performance from the Adelaide Centre for the Arts in 2004. Since then Adam has worked with Leigh Warren and Dancers' Mixed Doubles, Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, QuickBrown Fox and Seven, Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine, Australian Dance Theatre's Nothing, Troy Mundy's Green Dmen, Frances D'ath's Crush, Alison Currie's 42a, Barebones Collective Sarah's Party, Amanda Phillips' Crush and Michael Parmenter's Tent. He has performed and toured throughout Australia and to the USA and New Zealand.
As a New Media Artist he has worked on various projects around Australia such as Fiona Malone's LALA Land, Alison Currie's 42a,Healey's As You Take Time and The Curiosities and his own work with Jason Lam includes Extirpation a reactive procedural forest installation which premiered at the “This is not Art Festival” in 2007, Bone Sample a new media dance work and Light Interrupted a large scale multi-touch display screen. He is currently in development of a new dance media work with Alisdair Macindoe.
Adam has also composed sound scores for projects and companies, Leigh Warren and Dancers’ Seven, Troy Mundy’s Minister’s Children and Green Dmen, Fiona Malone’s LALA Land and Porcelain, Peter Sheedy’s Body Data 1. His compositions for Dance Films include Michael Carter’s Principal Role and Intimate/Dation and Paul Zivkovich’s Then Remember. He is currently in development with Lisa Griffiths and Craig Bary composing for their show A Side to One. www.kaboomstudios.com
As a New Media Artist he has worked on various projects around Australia such as Fiona Malone's LALA Land, Alison Currie's 42a,Healey's As You Take Time and The Curiosities and his own work with Jason Lam includes Extirpation a reactive procedural forest installation which premiered at the “This is not Art Festival” in 2007, Bone Sample a new media dance work and Light Interrupted a large scale multi-touch display screen. He is currently in development of a new dance media work with Alisdair Macindoe.
Adam has also composed sound scores for projects and companies, Leigh Warren and Dancers’ Seven, Troy Mundy’s Minister’s Children and Green Dmen, Fiona Malone’s LALA Land and Porcelain, Peter Sheedy’s Body Data 1. His compositions for Dance Films include Michael Carter’s Principal Role and Intimate/Dation and Paul Zivkovich’s Then Remember. He is currently in development with Lisa Griffiths and Craig Bary composing for their show A Side to One. www.kaboomstudios.com
ADNAN LALANI has for the past 5 years worked across digital design, interactive and animation spectrums. From ’04 to ‘06, Adnan worked at Mathematics (www.xy-1.com), in Sydney, as an online/interactive designer and animator for clients within the local and international music industries including Warners, EMI, Geffen, Capitol, Epitaph and Ivy League. Having worked on numerous music video and motion graphic projects since his time at Mathematics, Adnan has emerged as a passionate animator with a strong focus on the moving image. In late 2006, Adnan co-founded Forays For You with long time creative partner, Peter Cossey. Forays For You has provided an outlet by which to explore the relationships between animation and interactivity, particularly within emerging collaborative environments.their show A Side to One.
JOSEPH MERCURIO has collaborated with some of Australia’s leading choreographers including; Stephen Page (Praying Mantis Dreaming, Ochres, Fish and Corroboree), The Australian Ballet (Alchemy), Sue Healey (Fine Line Terrain and Inevitable Scenarios), Phillip Adams (Doubting Lakes Edge), Natalie Weir (Fair Game), Antonio Vargas, Fieldworks (Scenes in a Prison) Anna Smith (Mad Sky, Incandescence), Jason Pitt, Liz Lea (Livid Land), Albert David (Gizz).
Joseph was Lighting Designer for both the Olympic Arts Festivals (1996 and 2000) and Lighting Designer (Props) for Closing Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Drama credits include; Noel Tovey (The Aboriginal Protestors, State of Shock), Francesca Smith (Alive at Williamstown Pier), David Berthold (The Marlowe Project), The Seymour Group (Night Dreams, Flight of Les Darcy).
Since returning to Perth in 2004 Joseph has designed for Black Swan Theatre Company (Proof, This is Our Youth), DeckChair Theatre Company (Bratwurst and Damper, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night), both Opening and Closing public events of the 2005 Perth festival and for West Australian Ballet (Cinderella, Ballet at the Quarry 2006, Mid Summer Nights Dream and Don Quixote, The Red Shoes).
Joseph Mercurio is currently a freelance Lighting Designer based in Perth.
Joseph was Lighting Designer for both the Olympic Arts Festivals (1996 and 2000) and Lighting Designer (Props) for Closing Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Drama credits include; Noel Tovey (The Aboriginal Protestors, State of Shock), Francesca Smith (Alive at Williamstown Pier), David Berthold (The Marlowe Project), The Seymour Group (Night Dreams, Flight of Les Darcy).
Since returning to Perth in 2004 Joseph has designed for Black Swan Theatre Company (Proof, This is Our Youth), DeckChair Theatre Company (Bratwurst and Damper, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night), both Opening and Closing public events of the 2005 Perth festival and for West Australian Ballet (Cinderella, Ballet at the Quarry 2006, Mid Summer Nights Dream and Don Quixote, The Red Shoes).
Joseph Mercurio is currently a freelance Lighting Designer based in Perth.
DARRIN VERHAGEN is a composer for theatre, dance, computer games and screen. He has worked with Australian Dance Theatre (Devolution , Held, Nothing, Vocabulary), Chunky Move (Two-faced Bastard, Singularity, Hydra, Closer), Lucy Guerin (Zero, Lost Air, On/Love Me), and previously on Sue Healey’s Niche, Fine Line Terrain, 13+32, Kan-En, & Suite Slip’d shows and films. Darrin has scored productions for Playbox, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, the Keene Taylor Theatre Project, Patricia Piccinini, Jenny Kemp, Moira Finucane, and Daniel Schlusser. His Meat Party score was nominated for a Green Room Award in 2003, his opera Antidote in 2008, and he won the award in 2005 for his soundtrack to MTC’s Memory of Water. He has performed his compositions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002), The Transmediale Festival (Berlin 2003), the Liquid Architecture and Immersion Festivals in Melbourne, and recently mounted a Shinjuku Thief tour across Europe. Darrin lectures in Sound Design, and Technology Composition & Perception at RMIT Sound, School of Art.
Website: www.darrinverhagen.com
Website: www.darrinverhagen.com
JOSEPH SIMONS was born in Dubbo, NSW. He trained at the Dubbo Ballet Studio for 11 years, and with the interstate program at The Australian Ballet School. He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2008. Although only 22, Joseph has already worked as a dancer with Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre (AIVDT), co-founded Visible Dance, and throughout 2009 has danced full-time with West Australian Ballet.
Joseph has been choreographing since the age of nine. Three of his works have been performed at The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Bedroom Dancing, Please Hold and Mix and Match. He has choreographed A Few Moments of Your Time and Self-Destruct for West Australian Ballet, and has been commissioned to create Man Alive for the company later in the year.
Joseph is one quarter of the creative force behind Ludwig Productions. Most recently he has been nominated for the Emerging Artist award at the West Australian AusDance Awards