Artists

Elizabeth Boyce (installation/environment)

Natalie Cursio (performance)

Suzannah Edwards (performance)

Simon Ellis (movement & concept)

Lydia Teychenne (sound)

Alycia Hevey (light)

Marion Jenkins (performance)

Kath Papas (production)

Tamara Saulwick (dramaturgy)



Elizabeth Boyce (design/installation)
Elizabeth makes site-specific installations for art spaces and unlikely spaces, including tram and bus shelters and an STA Travel Agency. Previously, she has created designs and installations for choreographers Simon Ellis and Anna Smith. In working on photographic animations and creating a site-specific environment for Indelible, Elizabeth Boyce has continued and furthered her working relationship with Simon Ellis and expanded this relationship to engage collaboratively with other participants in the work. The collaborative process has involved dialogue over an extended period of time, participation in rehearsal, and studio work in the rehearsal space.


Natalie Cursio (performance)
Natalie is a performer, choreographer and educator who graduated from Deakin University in 1994. She has performed with David Pledger's NYID, snafu, Tracie Mitchell's Twirling Sheilas, Louise Taube and Anna Smith's co.motion. Natalie has been a maker of her own work since establishing her company Dance Elixir, and worked independently through commissions for the Melbourne Festival, VCA, Rusden Dance Theatre and Quantum Leap Youth Ensemble.


Suzannah Edwards (performance)
Suzannah is a WAAPA dance graduate. While in Perth she performed and choreographed regularly in the ArtRage Festival and performed in Do You Love Me, an adaptation of Peter Carey's short story directed by Krista Bodonyi. Since arriving in Melbourne she has been involved in various groups teaching dance and theatre to people with disabilities. She choreographed for the short film Soft Ground Under Concrete Skies directed by Virginia Grando.


Simon Ellis (movement & concept)
Simon is an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher in Australia and New Zealand. His choreography reflects an abiding interest in the everyday, and in particular, the memories with which we make sense of the world. He is influenced by dancetheatre traditions, and also by visual design and installation-based art. Simon has trained as an injury prevention kinesiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and is also a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Dance, where he is currently a sessional teacher in Contemporary technique.

Over the last 6 years Simon's work has developed three primary concerns: 1) an exploration of various performance spaces, with an emphasis on how a performance setting influences and informs meaning in dance, 2) development of collaborative processes whilst emphasizing aspects of visual design, and 3) development of narrative structures utilising multi-modal arts practices.


Lydia Teychenne (sound)
Lydia is a sound designer who works very efficiently under trying conditions!


Alycia Hevey (light)
Alycia is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Production) where she specialised in Lighting Design and Stage Management, and discovered her interest for lighting movement. Her designs reflect an intuitive capacity to allow light to subtly affect the emotional tones of a work. Alycia has collaborated with Simon Ellis on two previous projects, undone years (2000) and Full (2001), and in Indelible Alycia will look to embrace the immersive nature of the performance and installation environment.


Marion Jenkins (performance)
Marion Jenkins received her BA in Dance from the VCA in 2001. Since then she has worked with Eleanor Jenkins and Paul Romano on their work Shuttlebox at Dancehouse. Marion is interested in improvisation and is currently exploring her own work. Marion has been involved in the development of Indelible since 2001.


Kath Papas (production)
Kath Papas is an arts administrator and performer. Through Kath's involvement as producer/publicist for the work Full, she and Simon Ellis forged a successful and ongoing working relationship. She has also worked, on a freelance basis, as publicist for other Melbourne independent dance and theatre practitioners, notably Chamber for Shaun McLeod (2002), and Christos Tsiolkas' Elektra ad (dir. David Branson, La Mama at Carlton Courthouse, 2000). Kath was Administrator at Ausdance Victoria from 1999 until May 2002, and is now the Executive Officer.


Tamara Saulwick (dramaturgy)
Tamara is an experienced actor, director and teacher having most recently performed in NYID's scenes of the beginning from the end. In Indelible Tamara's primary responsibility will be to oversee the dramaturgical concerns of the work, particularly the relationship between the words/voice and movement.

 

 

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