Collaborators
SHONA ERSKINE graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance in 1994. She has worked extensively with many Australian choreographers including Healey, Balletlab, Tracie Mitchell and Lucy Guerin. She was a founding member of Wu Lin Dance Theatre. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at Melbourne University .
She has been a major player in Healey's work since 2002. She has performed in all 6 works of the NICHE series, travelling to Japan and New Zealand , Canberra , Melbourne , Adelaide and Sydney . She has co-created and performed in all 4 works of the IN TIME series. She also assisted in the development of Quantum Leapers the documentary by Sue Healey on the Quantum Leap Youth Dance Company. Shona travelled to Japan to create Healey's latest film/installation project Will Time Tell? funded by Asialink.
She has been a major player in Healey's work since 2002. She has performed in all 6 works of the NICHE series, travelling to Japan and New Zealand , Canberra , Melbourne , Adelaide and Sydney . She has co-created and performed in all 4 works of the IN TIME series. She also assisted in the development of Quantum Leapers the documentary by Sue Healey on the Quantum Leap Youth Dance Company. Shona travelled to Japan to create Healey's latest film/installation project Will Time Tell? funded by Asialink.
LISA GRIFFITHS studied dance at Queensland University of Technology and The Centre of Performing Arts in Adelaide . She then worked with Chris Jannides of Darc Swan Company, Chunky Move, Meryl Tankard, Tasdance and Leigh Warren and dancers.
An integral member of Sue Healey Company since 2002, Lisa has performed in Fine Line Terrain in Sydney , Canberra , New Zealand , APAM Adelaide and the film Fine Line and all the recent film projects Three Times , Once in a Blue Moon and It was Time . She has recently returned from USA with Leigh Warren and dancers.
Lisa performed in the major work Inevitable Scenarios, Sydney Opera House season and Melbourne tour.
An integral member of Sue Healey Company since 2002, Lisa has performed in Fine Line Terrain in Sydney , Canberra , New Zealand , APAM Adelaide and the film Fine Line and all the recent film projects Three Times , Once in a Blue Moon and It was Time . She has recently returned from USA with Leigh Warren and dancers.
Lisa performed in the major work Inevitable Scenarios, Sydney Opera House season and Melbourne tour.
NALINA WAIT graduated from WAAPA in 1996. She was a founding member of Rosalind Crisp's company stella b performing in Europe and Australia . She has also worked with Sandra Parker's Danceworks. She was a recipient of an Australia Council choreographic grant creating a dance video Sole in 2003. A core member of the Sue Healey Company since Fine Line Terrain in 2002, Nalina has performed in Sydney , Canberra , New Zealand , APAM Adelaide and in the film Fine Line . Recently she has performed in 2 of Sue Healey's film projects Three Times and Once in a Blue Moon, after the birth of her child Leila in 2005. Nalina performed in the major work Inevitable Scenarios , Sydney Opera House season and Melbourne tour.
VICTOR BRAMICH born in Lae , Papua New Guinea , is a descendant of the Ramoinya people. Since graduating from The Queensland University of Technology in 1989 he has worked with many of Australia's leading choreographers and companies; Bangarra Dance Theatre, ADT, Chunky Move, Leigh Warren and dancers, Meryl Tankard's ADT, Chrissie Parrott Collective, and Queensland Ballet. Victor joined Sue Healey Company for Fine Line Terrain and Fine Line.
NELSON REGUERA PEREZ was born in Villa Clara, Cuba in 1979 and was a member of Rosario Cordella's renowned company Danza Combinatoria for 4 years, touring throughout Spain , Cuba and Jamaica . He immigrated to Australia in 2000 and has been teaching, choreographing and performing contemporary and Cuban dance since his arrival. He has with Bondi Ballet, Australian Ballet, Theatre of Image and with choreographer Jason Pitt's company and the Australian Ballet in Meryl Tankard's Wild Swans . Nelson joined Sue Healey Company in 2002 for Fine Line Terrain and the film Fine Line . He currently resides in Paris .
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.