David Corbet
David is a multidisciplinary artist who has been working in the performing arts since 1990. He has developed and created work as a musician, composer, dancer, choreographer, director and editor. Primarily he has focussed on the intersection between sound and movement and has worked regularly with choreographers Rosalind Crisp, Paul Romano, Simon Ellis, Felicity MacDonald and Shaun McLeod, both as a dancer and a composer/musician. In the last few years he has had collaborative residencies in Antwerp and Berlin with Rosalind Crisp, lived as an angel for 10 days on the Victorian Arts Centre spire as part of Colony, opened the Dancers are Space Eaters festival at PICA with Two Suits, created the soundtrack to Caravan an adults only puppet show (earning him a Green Room Award Nomination), and convinced 10 men to dance an improvised work for the Melbourne International Arts Festival as The Boys. He is a member of State of Flux (performance improvisation dance company), Two Suits (dance theatre for the street) and The Boys (director and founder). He was a founding member of Bird on a Wire. He has performed for Legs on the Wall, Nicky Marr, Y Space, and Jen Crossman. David has an ongoing collabroative partnership with Jacob Lehrer - www.davidandjacob.com. Also check out www.slightly.net and slightlymoving.tumblr.com
Shannon Bott
Shannon's artistic practice involves dance, theatre, visual/media arts, and music, and she approaches her choreographies with a strong commitment to creating a language specific to each particular work. Shannon graduated from WAAPA in 1996 and has undertaken further development with Wendy Houston, Rosalind Crisp, Nikki Heywood, Kate Champion, Barry Laing, Alice Cummins and Al Wunder. She has worked with companies such as Loaded, Fieldworks Performance Group, Barking Gecko Theatre Company, and has worked and/or collaborated with independent artists such as Simon Ellis, Lucy Guerin, Sue Peacock, Claudia Alessi, Chrissie Parrott, Michael Angus, Sally Richardson and Iain Grandaige. Shannon participated in Time Place Space 2 in Wagga Wagga in September 2003. In 2004 Shannon undertook the development of Racket - an installed site specific performance work. She has worked with Kage Physical Theatre on their development of a Momentary Myth . In June/July 2004, she created and presented The Drift at Clubs Project Inc. in Fitzroy Melbourne, a commissioned solo work for performer Paea Leach. Shannon performed in Jude Walton's No Hope No Reason , for the Melbourne International Arts Festival and most recently collaborated with Simon Ellis on the development of Inert . Late in 2004 Shannon performed Lost Air at the Artrage Festival in Perth, Western Australia; a solo choreographic work created for her by Melbourne choreographer Lucy Guerin.
Natalie Cursio
Natalie Cursio has been an active member of the Australian arts community since graduating from Deakin University in 1994, working primarily as a choreographer, but also as a dancer, actor, educator and photographer. Currently Natalie is preparing to enter a period of research into international collaboration supported by an Australia Council Skills Development grant. She will travel to Korea to work as assistant director and choreographic adviser on not yet it's difficult's cross cultural, bilingual version of K, to be performed at the Seoul Performing Arts Festival. Natalie has recently returned from a separate trip to Korea where she was invited to present two of her works at the Busan International Beach Dance Festival. As Nat Cursio Company, she presented four in the clearing and small square, adaptations of older works, with dancers Shannon Bott, Shona Erskine and Joanna Lloyd. Earlier this year, with funding from Arts Victoria and The Australia Council, Natalie assembled a group of mid career choreographers to undergo creative development of With a Bullet : The Album Project. Eight choreographers have created a new work using 'the first song they ever made up a dance to' as impetus. The show will go into production in 2006. Natalie created Marnie for the season and will perform in works by Simon Ellis, Gerard Van Dyck, Joanna Lloyd and Luke Hockley. Also in 2005, Natalie created lest we forget [for the Reckless Valour season] with Canberra's Quantum Leap in collaboration with the Australian War Memorial. She worked as a movement facilitator for Arena Theatre's From the Ground Up project and choreographed Partietag for Union House Theatre's Insurgency project with Cazerine Barry and composer Brett Dean. Natalie collaborated with Tim Harvey to present the development of long distance relationship for the Danceworks Generation II initiative. She also presented a dance film symposium in order to open up a dialogue around some of the dance material from her work Cringe, and plans to shoot the film at the end of this year. www.natcursio.com
Cormac Lally
Cormac was born in London, grew up in Ireland, and now resides in Melbourne working as a freelance editor/DOP. He has worked with visual artists David Rosetsky and Chris Koller, and won a Green Room award for his work in Shaun McLeod's Chamber. For the past year and a half he has been producing an observational documentary focusing on a group of Melbourne's homeless community. Late in 2008 he will work with David Corbet and Simon Ellis on the development of anamnesis.
Scott Mitchell
Scott Mitchell’s art practice focuses on modding, hacking, and DIY activities. As modes of production these activities are often marginalised within ‘consumer society’. Through projects such as the “iPod Social Outreach Program” Scott uncovers the consumer agency at work within the act of consumption. These projects contribute to open information resources and seek to remake objects as public spaces. The projects privilege amateur practices and engage with gift economies. Project details can be found at www.openobject.org
Simon Ellis
Simon is a New Zealand born independent (dance) artist. He is primarily interested in examining how interdisciplinary performance modes can invigorate and rethink the audience/performer relationship, and in developing performance environments that provoke and contextualise explorations of human psychology. His choreographies have included site-specific investigations, screen dance, installation, webart, and more conventional black box works. He has a practice-led PhD (investigating improvisation, remembering, documentation and liveness) and is currently the practice-led research fellow at the University of Northampton. In 2006 Simon’s performance-installation Inert was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for ‘Outstanding achievement in independent dance’, and won two Australian critics awards. Previous choreographies include Full (2001), Lying (2002), Indelible (2003), Sleep. Wake. Dream (2004), Tight (2006), dad-project (2006), microflicks (2006), then/now (2007) and Them & Me (2008). www.skellis.net