Education
2022
Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University
2017
Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours), Deakin University – Recieved First Class Honours (H1), specialisation in Dance
2016
Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, Deakin University – majoring in Drama and Dance
Indonesia Dance Internship integrating contemporary dance and traditional Javanese dance, Deakin University, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta and International Internships – click here for video documentation
2013
Diploma of Music, MWT Institute – specialisation in Performance (Voice)
Certificate IV in Music, MWT Institute – specialisation in Performance (Voice)
Presentation of Artistic Work
2022
I’m high on it / bionic, live performance work presented as part of A Fragile Beauty, exhibition curated by Michaela Bear for Bundoora Homestead
2021
Encountering With, live durational dance and film installation presented in collaboration with Emily Bowman for Inertia at Dancehouse, Skylab
2020
CARE DANCE, solo dance film work presented at Dancehouse, Sylvia Staehli Theatre
2020
Love Me, Please Love Me or sad space, durational participatory work presented as Melbourne Fringe Festival, bASE! creative space, with support from Ralph Mclean microgrants
CARE DANCE, solo dance film work presented as part of hillsceneLIVE festival, livestreamed on the hillsceneLIVE website and media platforms
2019
Singing and Dancing is Heavily Encouraged, durational dance work presented as part of InterAct! Transdisciplinary Interrogations, academic conference, Deakin Downtown
2017
Soul Sounds, dance work presented as part of Deakin Launch Festival, Deakin University, Studio P
Publications
2024
(Upcoming) ‘Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Dance Culture by Naomi Jackson (Review)’, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices.
2022
‘On The Table: An Open Invitation’, co-authored with Caitlin Dear, Choreographic Practices, vol. 13, issue 2.
2021
‘Artist Pages: CARE DANCE (2017-2020)’, Care Ethics and Art, edited by Jacqueline Millner and Gretchen Coombs, Routledge.
2020
‘CARE DANCE (solo)’, Verandah Literary and Art Journal: Cabinet of Curisoties. View the work here.
Artistic Practices
2018 – 2021
Creator and facilitator of CARE DANCE – casual and weekly dance/movement improvisation research practice sessions for doctoral research
2017
Creator and facilitator of Soul Sounds – a weekly dance/movement improvisation research practice
Teaching
2021 – Present
Sessional Academic at Deakin University
Units worked in:
ACD103 – Dance and Screens
ACD104 – Exploring Dance Styles from Hip Hop to Bollywood
ACD208 – Dance Beyond the Studio
ACP326 – Ensemble Performance: Dramaturgy and Devising B
AGS300: Beyond Identity: Diversity in Action
AIS204 – Gender, Globalisation and Development
EAD110: Communication Skills for Study and Work
EAD113: Teamwork: Working Constructively with Others
EEI302: Introduction to Creative Arts Therapy Approaches and Practices
2023
Performing Arts and Sports Instructor at AcademeTime – Instructing dance, drama and sports incursions for early childhood and primary school-aged children
2018 – 2020
Dance and Musical Theatre Teacher at BAM ARTS Inc. – Creative arts classes for people with disabilities of all ages (children and adults) – Brighton, Seaford & Frankston
Research Roles
2024
Research Assistant for Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project, The Ideologies and Practices of Anti-Racism in Australia, led by researchers at The University of Sydney and Deakin University
Conference Papers & Workshops
2024
(Upcoming) ‘Practising Decolonial Feminist Care in the Western University’, research workshop convened by Jessamy Gleeson and Rosie Clare Shorter, facilitated alongside Jessamy Gleeson, Rosie Clare Shorter and Emma Whatman as part of Not Just Another (Feminist) Conference organised by the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA), Southern Cross University
2023
‘Laboratory of Slow Practising’ alongside Dr Hayley Elliott-Ryan, paper presentation as part of All Work, No Play academic symposium organised by The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Program, The University of Melbourne
2021
‘CARE DANCE on Film: Converging the Live and the Screen’, paper presentation as part of Performers, Makers, Methodologies – Crafting Conditions for Decentring Scholarship and Pedagogy in Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies and Dance, academic conference organised by the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, Deakin University
‘Practice as Caring and Caring as Practice: Dance as Epistemology’, paper presentation as part of Shaping Bodies, Shaping Minds, academic conference presented by the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School
2019
‘Listening to Self and ‘Other’ in Dance Improvisation Practice’, paper presentation as part of Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies, academic conference presented by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), University of Auckland
– Also presented as part of InterAct! Transdisciplinary Interrogations, academic conference organised by Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students, Deakin Downtown
‘Care and Caring Structures in Dance Practice’, research workshop as part of Lasting the Distance: A Lifetime in the Performing Arts, academic conference presented by The Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare (ASPAH), Arts Centre Melbourne
Arts and Conference Programming and Organisation
2023
Curator of Now Pieces #7, monthly improvisation event, Dancehouse
2020, 2023
Co-curator of On The Table, a practice-sharing program featuring a different artist or collective each week working within the realms of embodied artistic practice, Dancehouse, Melbourne
2019
Member of the organisation committee and submission review panel for Inter(Act)! Transdisciplinary Interrogations, academic conference presented by Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education
Conference support team member for Lasting the Distance: A Lifetime in the Performing Arts, academic conference presented by The Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare (ASPAH), Arts Centre Melbourne
Conference support team member for Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition academic conference, Deakin University
Presentations & Workshops (Other)
2023
Invited workshop on CARE DANCE for On The Table, Dancehouse
2021
Facilitated CARE DANCE workshop for Emerging Choreographers Program peers, Dancehouse
2020
Hosted and facilitated a session at PO$$€ – a dance and reading group for contemporary dance and other artistic practitioners, online
2019
Invited presentation to third year undergraduate dance students (unit ACD308), Deakin University (also in 2018)
Invited workshop and presentation to ‘mini-BEG’ – a group of PhD students in the Institute of Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University
2018
Paper presentation, Dance Movement Improvisation Practice: The Space Between the Artistic and the Therapeutic, School of Communications and Creative Arts (SCCA) Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Seminar, Deakin University
2017
Presentation, Exploring the Sounds and Rhythms of the Moving Body, Creative Arts Honours Symposium, Deakin University, Deakin Downtown
Facilitated a session at Test{ing} Club – a group for collective practising, Melbourne
2016
Facilitated a dance/movement improvisation session for local dance students, Pacitan, Indonesia
Research Engagement (Other)
2017 – Present
Ongoing contributor to the research of Dr Olivia Millard – practice-led research exploring the use of scores in a weekly dance/movement improvisation practice
2020
Contributor to the research of Zoë Bastin for her doctoral research project, That Which Was Once Familiar
2019
Contributor to the research of Dr Shaun McLeod for participatory performance ‘Facing (m)other’ presented at Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition academic conference, Deakin University
2017
Contributor to the research of Caitlin Dear for her work, ‘Perceptive Ontologies’ and ‘Moving Objectivity’ – see caitlindear.com/research for video documentation
Contributor to the research and performance practice of Gülsen Özer
Professional Development & Residencies
2022
Make a Start Residency – 2-week artist residency to support the development of my artistic work, I’m high on it / bionic, Lucy Guerin Inc.
Choreographer Secondment as part of their project, Flux Job, Lucy Guerin Inc.
2020 – 2021
Emerging Choreographers Program, Dancehouse – year-long professional development program for young choreographers
Academic Service
2021
Peer reviewer for journal, International Association for the Study of Popular Music
2018 – 2019
Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Student Representative on the Deakin University Arts and Education Faculty Board
Performance History
2023
Lesbian Dance Theory Party, dance and theory event, Dancehouse
Now Pieces #7, monthly improvised performance event, Dancehouse
Tits Out by Shelley O’Meara, dance work presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, Dancehouse
Tits Out (preview), dance work presented as part of Fringe Flavours for Melbourne Fringe Festival, Festival Hub: Trades Hall
Into the Dark by Madam Nightingale, music video
Ethereal Experience with Madam Nightingale by Madam Nightingale, live music performance, Speakeasy Theatre
2020
Dancing Affordances by Caitlin Dear, dance improvisation work presented as part of Submerge, Dancehouse
Love Me, Please Love Me or sad space, durational immersive work presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, Digital Fringe & bASE! creative space
CARE DANCE by Ebony Muller, durational dance improvisation work as part of hillsceneLIVE curated arts festival, Burrinja Cultural Centre & hillsceneLIVE
That Which Was Once Familiar by Zoë Bastin, dance film work, Bus Projects
2018
Gatecrasher by Logic Defies Logic, music video
2017
Soul Sounds by Ebony Muller, dance work as part of Deakin Launch Festival, Deakin University, Studio P
2016
Untitled Performance in collaboration with Walter Eggarth, site-specific contact improvisation duet in Vienna, Austria
Sun by MOVE Dance Productions, dance video – watch here
Untitled Performance by MOVE Dance Productions, dance performance as part of Music for Blankets charity event, 300 Blankets, RMIT Kaleide Theatre
Nest in collaboration with Yoni Prior and performers, theatre work, Phoenix Theatre, Deakin University
This is Where it Happened by Gülsen Özer, site-specific performance as part of Dance Here! festival, Healesville
Untitled Performance in collaboration with Louise Morris and performers, site-specific performance as part of Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Lorne Beach – read article on the event here
Untitled Performance, traditional Javanese dance performance, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2015
Captive by MOVE Dance Productions, dance work, The Space Dance and Arts Centre
Untitled Performance by MOVE Dance Productions, dance performance as part of Free to Be charity event, Ormond Hall
Liminal Voices by Jonathan Graffam, theatre work as part of III – An Anthology of Us, Phoenix Theatre, Deakin University
Never Arriving in collaboration with Olivia Millard and dancers as part of dance work double bill Move to Go, Deakin University, Studio B
Mystery Bouffe adapted in collaboration with Louise Morris and performers, theatre work, Phoenix Theatre, Deakin University
Diving Horses in collaboration with Louise Morris, Jof O’Farrell and performers, visual installation and performance, presented by Deakin University & Arts Centre Melbourne
2014
4.48 Psychosis adapted by Meagan Chappel, Elyssa Mahr and Ebony Muller, theatre performance, Phoenix Theatre, Deakin University
Untitled Performance by performers, improvised drama performance, Phoenix Theatre, Deakin University
2013
Feel Human Again with Lync, video advertisement for Generation-e
Tribute: A Rock Legends Revue by Altona City Theatre, music revue show, Altona City Theatre
Hairspray, ASPECT Inc., musical, Shirley Burke Theatre
2012
Aladdin: The Rock Panto, Altona City Theatre, pantomime musical, Altona City Theatre
2011
Untitled Performance by MLOC Prouctions Inc., choir performance as part of Beaumaris Community Carols, Beaumaris Reserve
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Kidz Act, theatre work, Doncaster Playhouse
The Saga of Sagebrush Sal, BATS Theatre Company, theatre pantomime, Cranbourne Community Theatre
Oliver!, Peoples Playhouse, musical, Cranbourne Community Theatre
2010
HMS Pinafore, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, musical, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College Assembly Hall
2007
Argybarge by St. Martin’s Youth Theatre in collaboration with performers, theatre work, St. Martin’s Youth Theatre
2004
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Peoples Playhouse, musical, Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre
Creative Work (Other)
2023
Singer for Rob Martin Productions, various locations and events
Dramaturg for Tits Out by Shelley O’Meara, Dancehouse
Artistic collaborator and technician for Dancing with my Multiple Bodies: Seven Fragments in Six Loops by Ashlee Barton, Deakin University, Phoenix Theatre
2019
Backstage crew for I Don’t Know About You, But I Need…, dance work double bill by Ghost and John as part of Impulstanz Festival, Burgtheater im Kasino (Vienna, Austria)
2018
Usher and front of house for various works, Dancehouse
Model for Alberto Semo, photographer
Life model for Walter Eggarth, dancer and visual artist (Vienna, Austria)
2016
Backstage crew for Dybbuk, curated by Samara Hersch, Malthouse Theatre, Beckett Theatre
2012
Backstage crew for The Wizard of Oz, Peoples Playhouse, Cranbourne Community Theatre
Training and Qualifications
2018
Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) – Employment
2015
Level One Auslan, Victorian Deaf Society
Grants Recieved
2020
Cash for Creatives grant, provided by Melbourne Fringe Festival & The Broadtree Foundation for the sum of $2500 for Love Me, Please Love Me or sad space
Ralph Mclean Microgrant, provided by Melbourne Fringe Festival for the sum of $387 for Love Me, Please Love Me or sad space
2016
New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant, provided by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) for the sum of $3000 for Deakin University Indonesia Dance Internship supported by the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta and International Internships
Professional Associations
2024 – Present
Member of Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA)
2019 – 2020
Member of Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare (ASPAH)
Member of Arts Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)
2016 – Present
Member of Golden Key International Honours Society – Invitation only membership for students in the top 15% of their university