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Ensemble Tikoro is a contemporary music group using throat singing, gangsa and extended vocals, and are dominated by vocal techniques from extreme metal music like death metal, black metal, thrash metal, hardcore, punk, etc.

The guys of Ensemble Tikoro are metalheads from the underground community in Bandung, Indonesia; metalheads who play contemporary music with classical notation or other music scores and have a big interest in traditional culture also.

Robi Rusdiana, is a founder of Ensemble Tikoro. In 2012, he made a studio project—an extreme metal vocals ensemble for the masters program in ISBI Bandung—which finished as a thesis. After Robi Rusdiana finished his masters program, Ensemble Tikoro continued, making some concerts and collaborations in every year since.

Ensemble Tikoro have more than 30 pieces for music, almost entirely composed by Robi Rusdiana, including some for dance, theatre, visual art, and experimental projects.

Ensemble Tikoro have a motto, “And contemporary music for all”. It’s interpreted from “And justice for all” from Metallica. Music and arts for all people, not only for arts student in the university.

Credits:
– Metal (2020) - Singers

Metal development, December 2019. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

Robin Fox is an internationally-recognised Melbourne-based audio-visual artist working across live performance, exhibitions, public art and composition for contemporary dance.

His laser works, which synchronize sound & visual electricity in hyper-amplified 3D space, have been performed in over 60 cities worldwide. His latest, Single Origin, premiered at Unsound Krakow and has since played at Caixa (Barcelona), Mona Foma, FACT (Liverpool), Sonica Fest London, Unsound Baku (Azerbaijan), Berlin Atonal, Mutek Montreal & Mexico, Vancouver New Music Festival, Semibreve Festival (Portugal) among others. His new work QUADRA commissioned by HOTA on the Gold Coast recently proved a popular hit at the GLOW festival 2018.

His ground-breaking work with Chunky Move contributed to the work Mortal Engine receiving a Helpmann award for best visual production and an honourable mention at the the illustrious Prix Ars Electronica 2009. Since 2008, he has composed music for over 25 contemporary dance works (many nominated for Greenroom and Helpmann Awards) working with Australian choreographic luminaries Gideon Obarzanek, Lucy Guerin, Stephanie Lake and Antony Hamilton.

His art/science sound work Interior Design: Music for the Bionic Ear was shortlisted for a Future Everything award in the UK 2011 and selected by the Paris Rostrum of Composers in 2012. He has released numerous sound works on labels across Europe, Australia and the US and released a limited digital edition of AV work Magnetic Trap through s[edition] in the UK.

Public art projects include creating a Giant Theremin for the City of Melbourne, a seven metre tall interactive musical sculpture; White Beam, commissioned by the first Dark Mofo which shot a high powered white laser through the trees on Salamanca lawns; Skylight, a major city wide installation premiering in 2016 commissioned by Melbourne Fringe.

In 2016, he became the founding director of MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to giving everyone access to the entire history of electronic musical instruments.

He holds a PhD in composition from Monash University and an MA in musicology. The latter documents the history of experimental music in Melbourne 1975-1979.

Robin also sits on the Board of Lucy Guerin Inc.

Credits:
– Split (2017) - Sound Designer
– The Dark Chorus (2016) - Composer
– Motion Picture (2015) - Sound Designer

Image: Ross O Gorman

Daniel Jenatsch is an Artist and Music Producer from Melbourne, Australia.

His work combines hyper-detailed soundscapes, music and video to create multi-media documentaries, installations, radio pieces and experimental opera. His works have been presented in Kunstenfestivaldesarts, ACCA, the Athens Biennale, Nextwave Festival, ACMI, Liquid Architecture Festival, the MCA Sydney, and the MousonTurm, Frankfurt.

Find out more at: Soundcloud

Credits:
– Make Your Own World (2019) - Composer

Paul is a Melbourne based Lighting Designer with a broad range of experience in theatrical and event production.

His multifaceted knowledge has been used to provide integrated solutions for theatre, festivals and events around the world. Lighting design credits include: Make Your Own World, The Dark Chorus & Split (Lucy Guerin Inc); The Magic Flute (New Zealand Opera); Changes 變 and Siva (Black Grace Dance Company); Fault Lines (Le Shan Modern Dance Company); Trapper and Robot Song (Arena Theatre Company); Hot Brown Honey, Briefs: Close Encounters, Briefs: The Second Coming and Yana Alana: Queen Kong (Briefs Factory).

Paul is a Director of Additive, providing lighting design and technical solutions to the entertainment industry.

Find out more at: Additive Lighting

Credits:
– Metal (2020) - Lighting Designer
– Make Your Own World (2019) - Lighting Designer
– Split (2017) - Lighting Designer
– The Dark Chorus (2016) - Lighting Designer and Production Manager

Image: Gregory Lorenzutti

Gideon is a director, choreographer and performing arts curator.

Gideon founded dance company Chunky Move in 1995 and was CEO and Artistic Director until 2012. His works for Chunky Move have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works, participatory events and film. These have bene performed in many festivals and theatres around the world including Edinburgh International, BAM Next Wave NYC, Venice Biennale, Southbank London and all major Australian performing arts festivals.

In 2013, Gideon was a resident artist at the Sydney Theatre Company where he wrote and directed ‘I Want to Dance Better at Parties’. He later co-wrote and directed a documentary version with Mathew Bate winning the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Dendy Award.

Gideon is a recipient of an Australian Creative Fellowships working with theatre, dance and documentary filmmakers to develop projects with simultaneous live and screen outcomes.

Credits:
– Attractor (2017) - Co-Choreographer

Harriet Oxley has collaborated with Lucy Guerin on Split (original production), Attractor (co-production with Dancenorth and co-choreographed by Gideon Obarzanek) and on the multiple Green Room award-nominated The Dark Chorus.

She has designed costumes for choreographers Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move and Sydney Dance Company), Stephanie Lake, Michelle Heaven, Ros Warby, Victoria Chiu and Sean Curham (NZ).

For Victorian Opera, Harriet has designed six productions including the 2016 coproduction with Circus Oz Laughter and Tears, and the co-production with Chunky Move, Assembly. Her design for Angelique won the Green Room award for Design for Opera in 2011.

Harriet has also designed for Tamara Saulwick, Dislocate Physical Theatre, NICA, VCA’s music theatre department, and the big-budget musical Moonshadow.

Harriet is a graduate of VCA theatre design and Fashion at RMIT.

Credits:
– Split (2017) - Costume Designer (original production)
– Attractor (2017) - Costume Designer
– The Dark Chorus (2016) - Costume Designer

Robi Rusdiana, was born and still lives in Bandung, West Java Indonesia.

He has been interested in music since childhood. After graduating from high school, Robi got into Studio 5 music school to study classical piano. In 2005, he began studies at the music departement Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, and graduated as a music bachelor in 2010. In 2011, Robi began the Masters program at ISBI Bandung, and graduated as a Master of Arts in 2013.

Robi Rusdiana plays piano as his major instrument, and learned music composition from Iwan Gunawan, Oya Yukarya, Doddy Satya Ekagustdiman, etc.

Robi Rusdiana is a founder of Ensemble Tikoro, an extreme metal vocals ensemble using metal vocal techniques, throat singing, gangsa, and exploring the other extended vocal techniques. Since 2015, Robi has been a lecturer at Telkom University, teaching sound design and culture studies as well as teaching piano and counterpoint at music department in Universitas Pasundan.

Credits:
– Metal (2020) - Composer

Nick Roux is an artist working in sound and video.

His work is primarily focused on live performance and has manifested itself in composition, instrument creation, computer programming and visual/spatial design. He has created work locally and internationally across a wide spectrum of artistic platforms from solo gallery performances to multi-million dollar main stage theatrical productions.

Credits:
– Metal (2020) - Sound Designer
– Attractor (2017) - Sound Designer

Since 1991 Scanner, British artist Robin Rimbaud, has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres.

He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007) and Narnia ballet (2015), Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and in 2016 installed Water Drops at Rijeka Airport in Croatia. His work Salles des Departs (2003) is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris.

Committed to working with cutting-edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan. Scanner worked with Lucy Guerin on the 2016 commission for Rambert, Tomorrow.

Credits:
– Split (2017) - Composer

Image: Mark Poucher

Jogjakarta’s Senyawa embodies the aural elements of traditional Indonesian music whilst exploring the framework of experimental music practice, pushing the boundaries of both traditions.

Their music strikes a perfect balance between their avant-garde influences and cultural heritage to create truly contemporary Indonesian new music.

Their sound is comprised of Rully Shabara’s deft extended vocal techniques punctuating the frenetic sounds of instrument builder, Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive instrumentation. Inventions like his handcrafted ‘Bamboo Spear’; a thick stem of bamboo strung up with percussive strips of the animal skin alongside steel strings. Amplified it fuses elements of traditional Indonesian instrumentation with garage distortion. Sonically dynamic, the instrument can be rhythmically percussive on one side whilst being melodically bowed and plucked on the other.

Senyawa have performed at many notable festivals and underground clubs such as MONA FOMA Festival in Tasmania, the Adelaide Festival with Korean singer Bae ll Dong, Malmo Sommarscen Festival in Sweden, Salihara Literature Festival in Jakarta, Art Basel Switzerland, Café Oto in London, Cyptic Festival Glasgow, Copenhagen Jazz House Denmark, Resonate Festival Belgrade Serbia, CTM Festival in Berlin, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, UNSOUND Festival Poland, Clandestino Festival in Norway, The Lab San Francisco, Eaux Claires Festival WA, Bridget Donoghue Gallery NYC, Pioneer Works NYC and Oct Loft Jazz Festival in China.
They have collaborated and performed with many notable musicians such as Yoshida Tatsuya, Otomo Yoshide, Lucas Abela, KK Null, Keiji Haino, Rabih Beiani, Greg Fox, Arrington De Dionyso, Melt Banana, Jon Sass, Damo Suzuki, Jerome Cooper, Justin Vernon, Oren Ambarchi, David Shea, Trevor Dunn, and Kazu Ushihashi.

In 2012 they completed a film in collaboration with French filmmaker Vincent Moon.

Credits:
– Attractor (2017)

Bosco Shaw works primarily as a Lighting and Set Designer.

His interest is in work that involves bodies and movement, how light feeds and influences the performing space and collaborations that propose alternate light sources and means. He works with Paul Lim and Tom Wright as ADDITIVE, a collaborative lighting design company.

Design projects include: Antony Hamilton - Meeting, Tim Darbyshire - Stampede the Stampede, LGI and Dancenorth - Attractor; Chunky Move - It Cannot Be Stopped, Matthew Sleeth - A Drone Opera, Stephanie Lake - Double Blind, Replica, Colossus; Luke George - Erotic Dance, Chamber Made Opera - Permission to Speak, Between 8 and 9, Asia TOPA - XO State; Nick Power - Between Tiny Cities, Mel Lane - Nightdance, Cambodian Living Arts - Bangsokol: Requiem for Cambodia; Mona Foma - Faux Mo 2018/2019, and Dark Mofo - Night Mass.

Credits:
– Attractor (2017) - Lighting Designer

Andrew Treloar has been pursuing his art practice since 2009, concurrent with a clothing design career.

His practice is grounded in drawing and extends to painting, installation, performance and transdisciplinary actions. His first solo exhibition, A Figurative Relationship, was at Red Gallery in 2010, followed in 2012 by An Other Thing at Kings ARI. He completed his Masters in Contemporary Art in 2012 and is currently undertaking a Masters in Fine Art by research, studying the interrelationships of human movement within art practice. He has won a number of awards and grants including the Mary and Lou Senini award at McClelland Gallery and the Fiona Myer Award.

Recent works include drawings, a short series of dance films and a series of dance-based events performed in pre-conditioned spaces. He enjoys collaborative relationships with a number of emerging artists and choreographers and companies including Dancenorth, Henry Jock Walker, Leah Landau, Jo Lloyd and Shian Law. He has exhibited and performed with them in various projects in Melbourne and further afield.

Credits:
– Metal (2020) - Costume Designer
– Make Your Own World (2019) - Costume Designer

Robin Fox is an internationally-recognised Melbourne-based audio-visual artist working across live performance, exhibitions, public art and composition for contemporary dance.

His laser works, which synchronize sound & visual electricity in hyper-amplified 3D space, have been performed in over 60 cities worldwide. His latest, Single Origin, premiered at Unsound Krakow and has since played at Caixa (Barcelona), Mona Foma, FACT (Liverpool), Sonica Fest London, Unsound Baku (Azerbaijan), Berlin Atonal, Mutek Montreal & Mexico, Vancouver New Music Festival, Semibreve Festival (Portugal) among others. His new work QUADRA commissioned by HOTA on the Gold Coast recently proved a popular hit at the GLOW festival 2018.

His ground-breaking work with Chunky Move contributed to the work Mortal Engine receiving a Helpmann award for best visual production and an honourable mention at the the illustrious Prix Ars Electronica 2009. Since 2008, he has composed music for over 25 contemporary dance works (many nominated for Greenroom and Helpmann Awards) working with Australian choreographic luminaries Gideon Obarzanek, Lucy Guerin, Stephanie Lake and Antony Hamilton.

His art/science sound work Interior Design: Music for the Bionic Ear was shortlisted for a Future Everything award in the UK 2011 and selected by the Paris Rostrum of Composers in 2012. He has released numerous sound works on labels across Europe, Australia and the US and released a limited digital edition of AV work Magnetic Trap through s[edition] in the UK.

Public art projects include creating a Giant Theremin for the City of Melbourne, a seven metre tall interactive musical sculpture; White Beam, commissioned by the first Dark Mofo which shot a high powered white laser through the trees on Salamanca lawns; Skylight, a major city wide installation premiering in 2016 commissioned by Melbourne Fringe.

In 2016, he became the founding director of MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to giving everyone access to the entire history of electronic musical instruments.

He holds a PhD in composition from Monash University and an MA in musicology. The latter documents the history of experimental music in Melbourne 1975-1979.

Image: Ross O Gorman

Artistic Director of Lucy Guerin Inc

For more information, please see Lucy Guerin in the Staff section.

Amy Henderson is a practising solicitor and a registered legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business (Finance) degree.

A specialist advisor to Board of Directors and General Counsel of listed public companies on a range of critical Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rule and corporate governance issues, Amy also advises on capital management initiatives.

Amy has a keen interest in the performing arts and a passion for contemporary dance nurtured whilst studying dance in Sydney. Dance has always been a hugely important force in Amy’s life.

Amrita Hepi is an award winning Choreographer and Dancer from Bundjulung (AUS) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories.

Her work is characterised by hybridity and engages in extending choreographic practices by combining dance and movement with other domains such as visual art, language and participatory research.

An artist with a broad scope she has toured work in the form of performance and video nationally and internationally through theatres and galleries in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A. Amrita trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey Dance theatre, New York. In 2019 she was a commissioned artist for The National: New Australian art 2019 and the recipient of the dance web scholarship to be mentored by Anne Juren, Mette Ingvarsten and Annie Dorsen. In 2018 she was the recipient of the people’s choice award for the Keir Choreographic award and was also named one of Forbes Asia 30 under 30.

An artist with a broad reach, Amrita combines her interest in materials/objects and choreography in the search for allegory & advocacy for first nations sovereignty with a compelling and diverse physical practice.

Ian McDougall is a Founding Director of ARM Architecture.

He was registered in Victoria as an architect in 1980 and was made a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 2004. His design work has had recognition in the professional arena for individual projects and as an urban designer. Ian was also awarded the Federation Medal in 2000.

Ian began his studies at the University of Adelaide, completing his architecture degree in 1979 at the RMIT University and completed his Master of Architecture at RMIT in 1993. In 1992 he was made an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at RMIT, and has taught in the undergraduate and masters course at RMIT, as well as visiting teaching positions of University of Western Australia and The University of Sydney.

He served as the President of the Victorian Chapter of the RAIA and was National Treasurer from 2000-2002. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to Australian Architecture. He was elected as a National Councillor of the RAIA in 2006 and as Treasurer in 2007.

Ian is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide and was recently appointed to the Melbourne Festival Board of Directors.

Chloe Munro has had an extensive leadership career in business and in the public sector in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.

She is currently a Professorial Fellow at Monash University, an independent director in the energy and banking sectors and an expert advisor on public policy.

Chloe holds an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Westminster University, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 2018 for her distinguished service to public administration through leadership roles in the area of renewable energy, water and climate change process and reform, and to the performing arts.

Lorrae is a Corporate Partnership and Fundraising Specialist working with Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation LTD.

Lorrae is a highly experienced and successful relationship manager in the non-profit and arts sectors. She has a Honours in Business Marketing and a Post Graduate Certificate in Sustainability.

Margaret is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Her involvement with the CAANZ has been considerable. She was a National Board Member from 2005 to 2008 and held the position of Victorian Chairman in 2003. In 2009 Margaret was awarded the Meritorious Services Award for outstanding services to the profession and in particular the CAANZ. Margaret was a member of the International Federation of Accountants Nominating Committee (2010 to 2013).

Margaret is a former Director, now Senior Associate of Hayes Knight Melbourne. Her directorships include Waverley Storage Pty Ltd, Storage and Warehousing Services Pty Ltd, Jean Hailes Foundation, Eirene Lucas Foundation and John and Elaine King Foundation. Margaret was a Director of Chunky Move Contemporary Dance company from 2003 to 2015.

Georgina is Director of Development at ACMI.

She is an executive manager who has happily combined her love of arts and culture with her day job over a career spanning 20 years in media, major events and the arts.

She has held senior leadership roles across Melbourne’s cultural and government sectors over the past decade, and led business development, brand, marketing, digital and communications strategy for prestigious Victorian attractions and events including Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne Writers Festival, NGV and ACMI.

Georgina is also the co-owner of Collingwood wine bar, Smithward.

Tra Mi Dinh is a freelance dance artist based in Melbourne.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) from Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Upon graduating in 2014, she was awarded the Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship for Most Outstanding Dancer.

Tra Mi has performed for Victoria Chiu in works presented at Melbourne’s Multicultural Arts Festival (2016) and the inaugural AsiaTopa Festival (2017). In 2016 she understudied for a remount of Ohad Naharin’s Deca Dance in Perth. In 2017 she performed in Michelle Heaven’s work In Plan at the prestigious Melbourne Festival. During the 2018 MEL&NYC festival, Tra Mi performed in the sellout season of The Gallery Workout, by the New York based Monica Bill Barnes & Company.

More recently, she has been working for Lucy Guerin Inc on Make Your Own World (2019), Tra Mi’s first work with Lucy Guerin Inc.

Image from Make Your Own World (2019) rehearsals in 2018. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

Benjamin Hancock is a Melbourne dancer and choreographer.

He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2008 with a Bachelor of Dance. Benjamin is a prolific solo performer, having presented work as a contemporary dancer and performance artist within Australia and the USA. He has presented solo work through programs at Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc, and Mona Gallery & New Orleans Biennial (USA) among others. He has performed and collaborated with leading choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Prue Lang, Antony Hamilton, Gideon Obarzanek and many others.

Benjamin recently received an Australian Dance Award, a Green Room Award and a Helpmann Award Nomination for Outstanding Male Dancer. Benjamin has also engaged with the performance/club scene for a number of years extending to reach audiences beyond dance.

Benjamin has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc in in The Dark Chorus (2017) and Make Your Own World (2019). He is also LGI’s Resident Director for 2020.

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Image from Make Your Own World (2019) rehearsals in 2018. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

REBECCA JENSEN  is a Melbourne based, New Zealand born, dancer, choreographer and teacher.

 Notable works include: Deep Sea Dances (Dance Massive 2017); Explorer (Kier Choreographic Award finalist 2016) and Blue Illusion (Victorian College of the Arts 2018).

Rebecca collaborates with Sarah Aiken, creating OVERWORLD (Next Wave Festival 2014/Dance Massive 2015) and Underworld (Supercell Festival Brisbane/Northcote Town Hall 2017). Together they founded ongoing participatory project Deep Soulful Sweats, presented nationally and internationally Dark MOFO, Brisbane Festival, Perth Fringe, Tempo Festival NZ, Castlemaine State Festival, Santarcangelo Festival in Italy.

Rebecca has also presented work with Liquid Architecture including, Sinkhole RMIT DesignHub/Free Fall MPavilion, in Venice Biennale 2018, MPavillion 2018, Spring 1883 2016, Lucy Guerin Inc 2011. She has worked with a range of artists including Jo Lloyd, Shelley Lasica, Lucy Guerin, Atlanta Eke, Sandra Parker, Natalie Abbott, Nathan Gray, Balletlab, Rennie McDougall, Public Movement (Israel), Mårten Spångberg (Sweden) and Lee Serle. Rebecca was a recipient of DanceWEB Europe scholarship in 2015.  

Rebecca has performed for Lucy Guerin Inc in Make Your Own World and will perform in https://lucyguerininc.com/works/metal-ensemble-tikoro text Metal (2020).

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Image from Make Your Own World (2019) rehearsals in 2018. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

Melanie Lane is a Javanese/Australian choreographer and performer.

Based in Europe from 2000–2014, Melanie worked with artists such as Arco Renz, Club Guy and Roni, and Tino Seghal performing internationally. In Australia, Melanie has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc, Antony Hamilton Projects, Chunky Move and has collaborated with artists Ash Keating, Bridie Lunney and Amos Gebhardt.

In 2015, Melanie was appointed Resident Director at Lucy Guerin Inc and has created new works for Chunky Move (2016) and Sydney Dance Company (2017). Melanie has established a repertory of works presenting in international festivals and venues such as Tanz im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House Melbourne, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival Antigel, Dance Massive and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Tanzwerkstatt Berlin and Schauspielhaus Leipzig.

As a teacher, she has taught for companies such as Carte Blanche Norway, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Chunky Move, Danish Dance Theatre and Skanes Dansteater among others.

Melanie was a 2017 Helpmann Award nominee for ‘Best Female Dancer’ in Lucy Guerin’s Split and received the Leipziger Bewegungskunstpreis 2018 for her choreographic work Wonderwomen. Melanie won the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award.

Split (2017) is Melanie’s first work with Lucy Guerin Inc. She will also perform in Metal (2020).

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Image from Split (2017). Credit: Greogry Lorenzutti

Amber is a Melbourne-based dancer who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2012.

She has worked for Chunky Move, Accumulation (Prue Lang) & It sounds Silly (Adam Wheeler), Antony Hamilton Projects, Number of the Machine, Dancenorth, OneInfinity (Gideon Obarzanek & Amber Haines), Prue Lang, Project F, Yoni & Stellar Project, Niharika Senapati, Imagination /Vacation and James Batchelor, Red Shift, and Island with international tours of Deepspace & Metasystems.

Last year she premiered her work II for Transit Dance, she has also created on Yellow Wheel and performed and choreographed The Air Reef for Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces For Small Spaces.

Metal (2020) is Amber’s first work with LGI.

Ashley McLellan graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2010 with an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts (Dance).

During and after her training, Ashley performed with the West Australian Ballet, under the directorship of Ivan Cavallari until 2011.

She has worked with artists such as Melanie Lane, Graham Murphy, Garry Stewart, Ivan Cavallari, Nana Bilus Abaffy, Tony Yap, Alisdair Macindoe, Melanie Lane, Kyle Page, Amber Haines, Geoffrey Watson, Stephanie Lake, Ross McCormack, Lee Serle, Lucy Guerin Inc. and Gideon Obarzanek.

Ashley joined Dancenorth Australia as a full-time dancer in 2015 and is currently still performing with them.

Ashley has choreographed and performed in a few short works; Other in 2013, Pearl for Lucy Guerin Inc’s season of Pieces for Small Spaces in 2014, and Free Dive with Dancenorth in 2017.

Ashley has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc in Attractor (2017) and will perform in Metal (2020).

Image: Amber Haines

Alisdair Macindoe is a dancer, choreographer and sound artist.

He has performed in numerous works by Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc, Antony Hamilton Projects, Stephanie Lake as well as Leigh Warren and dancers, Nat Cursio, Cobie Orger, Stone/Castro, and his own works (Bromance, 525600LOVE and Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain). He is LGI’s Resident Director for 2019.

He won the 2013 Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer and the 2016 Green Room Awards for Best Male Dancer.

Alisdair has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc in Conversation Piece (2012), Weather (2012) and Motion Picture (2015). He will also perform in Make Your Own World (2019) and was our 2019 Resident Director.

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Image from Make Your Own World (2019) rehearsals in 2018. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

Jessie graduated from Adelaide College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance Performance in 2010.

She has worked with Lucy Guerin and Carrie Cracknell (Macbeth, Young Vic UK), Lucy Guerin Inc (see below), Antony Hamilton (Black Project II), Shaun Parker (Am I) and in films with choreography by Stephanie Lake (Gaps, David Rosetzky) and Garry Stewart (The Boy Castaways, Michael Kantor). In 2012, Jessie worked at Dancenorth performing works by Raewyn Hill and Cameron McMillan.

Jessie has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc in Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2017), Split (2017) and Make Your Own World (2019).

Image from Make Your Own World (2019) rehearsals in 2018. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti

Lilian Steiner is a Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer working within dance, the visual arts and experimental sound performance.

Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2010, Lilian has worked with Lucy Guerin Inc across many projects, and also has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams (Balletlab), Shelley Lasica, Melanie Lane, Brooke Stamp, Leah Landau and Rennie McDougall, amongst others, as well as visual artists Sally Smart, Brooke Andrew, Ash Keating, Mikala Dwyer and Alicia Frankovic, architect Matthew Bird (Studio Bird) and sound artists JLIN, Anna Homler and Richie Cyngler.

Lilian received the Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer in both 2017 and 2018, as well as the Helpmann Award in 2017.

Lilian’s own choreographic projects have been presented as part of both national and international contexts and most notably include Memoir for Rivers and The Dictator (Dance Massive 2019, with an excerpt originally commissioned for the Kier Choreographic Award 2018 and presented at Constellations Festival (Toulon, France) and Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie (Paris, France)), Metal Under Venus - The Fall of the Sun (Hong Kong International Choreography Festival, 2017), Admission into the Everyday Sublime (Next Wave Festival, 2016), BUNKER (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2015), Noise Quartet Meditation (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2014, Dance Massive 2017, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris & Féte de la Musique, Geneva 2018), Meditation (Melbourne Now, NGV, 2014) and The Call to Connect – Voyager Recordings (Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Pieces for Small Spaces, 2012).

Noise Quartet Meditation received the 2015 Green Room Award for Concept and Realisation.

Lilian has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc in Motion Picture (2015), The Dark Chorus (2017), Split (2017), Make Your Own World (2019) and was also involved with Structure and Sadness (2006).

She will also perform in Metal (2020).

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Image from Make Your Own World (2019) rehearsals in 2018. Credit: Gregory Lorenzutti