Bob Scott is a Sound Designer, Audio Prodecer and Composer with an interest in combining modern audio techniques such as live signal processing, recording, editing and amplification with acoustic instruments.

He is Audio Director for the Anzac Day Gallipoli Broadcasts, Townsville Chamber Music Festival, Four Winds Festival, Canberra International Music Festival,  and does freelance recording and producing work for various classical music organisations including the ABC, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Opera Australia, Nigel Kennedy, Nigel Westlake, Australian Baroque Brass, Salut Baroque, Song Company and Ensemble Offspring. He has worked as sound supervisor in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. 

Bob has recently been involved in musical collaborations with Brett Dean and Genevieve Lacey on “Noctune for Miss Genevieve”; and with Tomoko Mukaiyama and Nederlands Dans Theater on “One Week in White,” a performance for piano and live processing in Aoyama, Japan.  He was Sound Designer for "Step Quietly" an exhibition of Trent Parke's photographs of the interiors of the Opera House, and Roslyn Oades’ “Stories of Love and Hate” with Urban Theatre Projects. He is a performing member of  "Moth" - Synergy Percussion. Also work with Inga Liljestrom on various projects including music for Branch Nebula’s physical theatre production, “Paradise City”.

Recent work includes sound design for Opera Australia’s “Bliss”;  Fractured Again with Ensemble Offspring; music mix for Shaun Parker’s “Happy as Larry”; a collaboration with coreographer Alaxandra Harrison “Dark, not too Dark”; sound design with the Australian Chamber Orchestra - “The Crowd” with cinematographer Jon Frank; composition for Branch Nebula’s “concrete and Bone” and Anton’s “Beautiful Noise” for Legs on the Wall at Brisbane Festival.

A graduate of W.A.A.P.A, Kay has worked professionally as a performer and choreographer in theatre, film, television, corporate theatre and street theatre. Her work has been seen both interstate and overseas, including the Hong Kong Fringe Festival, Brisbane Fringe Festival, Artrage Festival, Come Out Festival, Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She has toured her work to Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea.

Kay has worked as a movement director / theatre maker / dramaturge for companies such as Riverina Theatre (Dir: David Fenton), Siren Theatre (Dir; Kate Gaul), Theatre of Desire ( Dir: Glenn McGillvray), as well as independent productions Mary Stuart (Dir: Tanya Denny), The King and Me ( Dir: David Lynch), Chaos Fairy (Dir; Darren Gilshenan), Briwyant (Vicki VanHout). She has also consulted as dramaturge / movement director on film projects for AFTRS and UTS.

Kay began exploring making and performing solo work in 1997 and has to date produced three full-length solo productions and numerous short solo works. These pieces have been performed in festivals both nationally and overseas.

In 2004 she was awarded the prestigious Robert Helpmann Scholarship. The scholarship afforded her a year of professional development and during this time she travelled overseas participating in workshops and choreographic laboratories in Italy, Brussels, Amsterdam, England and France.

Voted one of Australia’s most interesting artist’s as part of Dance Australia’s 2007 Critic’s Survey, she took out the Judges Choice Award with her solo performance in the 2007 Short, Sweet and Dance Festival. The work has since been toured nationally after an invitation to appear in the 2011 Shorter+Sweeter Festival tour.

At the beginning of 2007 Kay was appointed Artistic Director of pulse8, a youth dance company committed to providing a platform for emerging, talented young dancers and dance makers. In 2007 and 2008, as Artistic Director, Kay produced 4 public seasons, 2 outdoor festival events, 2 education programs, mentored one emerging choreographer and nurtured and supported over 40 young aspiring dancers.

In January 2009 she launched her own professional dance company in Western Sydney, youMove Company, to support the development of the independent dance community. The company has 3 key activities – performance, mentorship and education. As Artistic Director Kay’s vision for youMove is to build new dance audiences, inspire the next generation of dance artists by providing on-going meaningful mentorship, professional development opportunities, choreographic residencies, industry exposure, career consolidation, as well as robust and participatory education programs and provide a platform where independent dance can flourish and develop.

youMove Company has been all over Australia and has been nominated twice for Australian Dance Awards. The company has been seen in 2010 Brisbane Festival, 2010 Sydney Festival’s Festival First Night, 2010 NSW Premiers Department Australia Day celebrations, 2010 Short, Sweet and Dance Festival (where the company won “Most Outstanding Choreography Week One” and won the festival’s “most Outstanding Female Performer” award.), 2011 Sydney Festival main program, FORM Dance Project’s 2009+2011 Dance Bites at Riverside Theatres. Over 1000 young people have taken part in youMove’s education programs delivered in school, at dance camps and in Campbelltown Arts Centre annual dance program - Student Series ( 09, 10, 11).

Tandem to her career in dance Kay has pursued both her love of writing and filmmaking. Her written fiction work was short listed in HQ Magazine’s 2003 national short story competition and awarded in 2003 Inner City Life competition by NSW Writers Centre. Her published editorial work has been seen in Ausdance NSW Magazine, Historic Houses Trust journal and Arts On Line. She was recently writing and reviewing for the national publication, Dance Australia magazine. Her film work was accepted and screened as part of the inaugural 2010 Short Shorts Film Festival and she most recently choreographed the television commercial ‘Housekeeping’ for Expedia.

Kay was 2010 Artist in Residence at the Parramatta Artist Studios, as well as recipient of a 2010 Fraser St Studio Residency. Kay has just completed a collaborative project with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. This work featured in the 2011 Sydney Festival program Inside Out – a triple bill with Sydney Dance Company and Australian Chamber Orchestra as part of the 2011 festival program.

She has just finished stage one development of a new work In Absentia supported by Parramatta City Council and AusdanceNSW Space Residency program, developing a new site-specific work for the original site of the historic Parramatta Female Factory.

In 2011 Kay will feature in the annual publication of Who’s Who of Australian Women for her outstanding contribution to the arts in Australia. Kay currently sits on the board of directors for AusdanceNSW and youMove Company. Always devoted to the belief in the transformative power of education, and in addition to her prolific dance career, Kay also gives time to her other great passion, animal welfare. In 2010 she volunteered for the RSPCA’s in school education program, where she visited over 20 Western Sydney primary schools delivering programs to young people about safety around dogs, animal welfare and compassion for all creatures.

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Vicki Van Hout

Vicki Van Hout is a Wiradjuri descendant. She took part as actor in the first aboriginal playwright’s conference in Canberra before becoming a graduate of NAISDA Dance College and the Martha Graham Sc. of Contemporary Dance NYC (graduated 1993).  She returned to Australia to perform with Bangarra Dance Theatre the groundbreaking ballet, Ochres and The Edge Of The Sacred,  in collaboration with the Sydney Symphony and The Aboriginal/Islander Dance Theatre. Vicki danced the role of Marilyn Miller’s grandmother in Dear Carrie with One Extra, joining Fresh Dancers with Miller to focus on the corporate and commercial market, a highlight of which was an overseas residency in Innsbruck Austria. Vicki danced at the Adelaide fringe in Marilyn’s Quinkin in 2004. Wirad’journi was Vicki’s first full-length work, inspired by Wiradjuri kinship laws. My Right Foot Your Right Foot, her 2nd work, developed at the Australian Choreographic Centre. Vicki has choreographed for, ATYP, Pulse8, NAISDA, WAAPA, the Helpman Awards, Quantum Leap, was chosen for a choreolab residency in Singapore as part of the WDA and mentored at PACT youth theatre. Recent performances include The Settlement and NOMADS at the Carriageworks with Belgian choreographer Hans Van Den Broeck, and actor/performer in The Riot Act for director Karen Therese. Vicki completed a residency with Performance Space. A second stage development of a new inter-disciplinary work titled Briwyant inspired by the brilliance effect in traditional painting. Her most memorable performance was as dancer/choreographer for the historic opening of parliament in lead up to the Apology.

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Lee Pemberton | Artistic Director of Fling Physical Theatre  www.flingphysicaltheatre.com.au

Dancer, teacher and Choreographer.

Lee trained at the VCA School of Dance Melbourne, with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance, a Post Graduate Diploma in Choreography and a Diploma of Education from Hawthorn Institute. Her professional career began as an independent dancer/choreographer and in secondary schools teaching dance. Lee soon felt limited within the education structure and decided to focus on her choreographic studies. In 1998 Lee left the Melbourne to live on the Far South Coast NSW.

Lee’s independent choreographies include Solo Feats, Yards & Yards, 50/50, Critical Condition and Critical Condition Visiting – METIS ‘06. Lee has been worked with Legs On The Wall ‘On the Case’, Quantum Leap (QL2), Ausdance Vic, ATYP, OutBack Theatre for Young People and recently with Circus Monoxide’s Half High Circus.

In 2001 Lee founded fLiNG Physical Theatre in the Bega Valley and has created a solid interest in contemporary dance and physical theatre within the region. fLiNG has become the State’s first professionally funded Youth Dance Company and has a program that includes visiting professional artists, training for young people aged 10 to 24, workshops for the community and professional touring opportunities for fLiNG’s performance group.

Under Lee’s directorship fLiNG has presented performances since 2001 to the present in Bega, Eden, Moyura, Merimbula, Bathurst, Wollongong and Parramatta Sydney. Within a community cultural development capacity Lee has worked with school students from kindergarton to year 12, adults and intellectually and physically disabled people. Lee has also developed a strong following of boys in dance.

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Philip Channells | Artistic Director, Restless Dance Theatre  www.restlessdance.org

Fiercely committed to the development of disability arts, he has been described as a man of deceptive surfaces…a compact, powerfully built man with an air of vitality and a healthy, country boy's face. He’s worked extensively throughout the UK with integrated dance companies including Candoco, Corali and StopGAP where he taught company repertoire by Hofesh Schector and Rob Tannion.

With big ambitions for the small but gutsy company, Restless Dance Theatre, Philip has raised the profile for the company since his appointment in 2009. He’s directed Next of Kin (2010) for the Youth Ensemble, From The Ground Up (2010) and Siblings (2009) for the education program, produced Debut 2 (2009) for the dancers direct project, Beauty (2010) for the Touring Company and Take Me There (2011) for the ComeOut Festival.

Philip has taught Masterclasses at the Arts Activate National Conference 2010 and the Dance Symposium 2011 in Sydney where he was also a guest speaker and panelist; the National Dance Forum’s 2011 Dance Your Heart Out program in Melbourne where he also presented on the Dance Practice in Communities panel; he screened the audio described and captioned version of the award-winning film Necessity which was accompanied by a live performance at the 2010 Don’t DIS My ABILITY campaign launch in Sydney where he was also the Key Note Speaker, celebrating International Day for People Living with a Disability

Philip Channells is a disabled artist and the first artistic director with a disability of an Australian dance company. He trained at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium of Arts (The Con), the Centre for the Performing Arts, now Adelaide College of the Arts (AC Arts) and the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). As a member of Link Dance Company he toured to France performing works by choreographers Chrissie Parrott, Phillip Adams (Balletlab), Anna Smith, and Kim McCarthy.

As an emerging South Australian dance artist and graduate of AC Arts, Philip was the recipient of the Inaugural Mentorship Program through the Helpmann Academy where he also co-founded the Foundation Front. He received project funding for his professional development to work with Kate Champion, Phillip Adams and Candoco Dance Company (UK). Philip was one of three South Australian recipients of the inaugural Athlete Career Education (ACE) program, an initiative and partnership of the Australian Institute of Sport and Ausdance National.

 After graduating with a Bachelor of Dance Performance, he worked with Elizabeth Cameron-Dalman (Mirramu Dance Company) performing at the Australian National Gallery and independent Sydney-based artist Dean Walsh on the first stage development of Back from Front. Philip worked with Balletlab in Melbourne and performed in the first stage development of Endling playing ‘the gunman in a big fur coat’ and later toured to Brisbane with the company performing as one of the dead bodies in Amplification.

Before moving to the United Kingdom to work with Candoco Dance Company’s Foundation Course and the Cultural Shift project for emerging disabled choreographers at East London Dance, Philip spent seven years working with Restless as a dancer, workshop leader and assistant director. In this role he worked with Ingrid Voorendt on In The Blood and Michael Whaites on The Laminex Man.

While based in London (2007 – 2009), Philip worked with StopGAP Dance Company as the Community & Health Artist. He toured with the company throughout the UK, Spain and Sweden teaching technique and company repertoire. He was the Project Manager for Corali Dance Company where he toured work to Ireland and established the upstart program for emerging disabled dancers at Oval House and Sadler’s Wells. He founded The Age of Unreason – a company of dancers over 60 and his own company cargogreen focusing on dance education. Before returning to Australia Philip collaborated with disabled artists Kaz Langley, Jenny Sealey (Graeae Theatre Company) and co-founder of Candoco Dance Company, Adam Benjamin on the first stage development of The Fascination of Endurance.

Appointed the Artistic Director of Restless Dance Theatre in 2009, Philip will be holding onto the company’s purpose, mission and guiding principles, (exploration, collaboration and calibre) and will continue to lead the company with the dynamism, relevance, sustainability and evolution that is very much a part of the foundations of the Company.

Since his appointment Philip has successfully produced a season of choreographic works called Debut 2 by four emerging disabled artists from the Youth Ensemble collaborating with Tutti Arts and the Adelaide College of the Arts, he was the Artist in Residence at the Riverland Special School where he directed From The Ground Up, and directed a short work for The Siblings Project for young people from Adelaide’s northern suburbs who live with a brother or sister with a disability.

With a ten-year history of working with Restless, Philip has helped to develop the company’s national profile, which, now in its 20th year, is more widely recognised as a multi-award winning dance company. Under his artistic leadership his artistic vision for the company remains key to the foundations of Restless while energising and invigorating the new Touring Company to work with established and renowned directors and choreographers to create exciting new Australian work.

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ANTON  |  www.antonchoreography.com


Anton started making dance work at age 23: His choreographies and commissions include works for Dance North and ADT in house seasons, AC Arts SA, Quantum Leap, Extensions, South Australian Children’s Ballet, DirtyFeet at (Dance House Melbourne) Brent St, Pulse 8, Queensland University of Technology, Dead Horse Productions (MeatWorks, Vic Arts Centre), Assistant Choreographer for The Actors Company at Sydney Theatre Company, Adelaide Feast Festival, Midsummer, Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and danceTANK 07 a full length work produced by the Sydney Opera House. 2009 brought opportunity with Australian Opera and a new commission with TASDANCE.
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He has made four dance films some of which have been shown in the USA, Holland, Italy and New Zealand he has received a nomination for REELDANCE Award 2004 and one for an Australian Dance Award 2006. Anton’s films were shown as apart of Dance Screen in the Sydney Festival 2008 First Night Opening for Sydney Festival 2009 and at London South Bank Centre 2009. He has worked on 4 music videos directing and choreographing two for electronic artists Mr Jigga of Level Two Music and choreographing for Abby Dobson and UK music Artists UNKLE. His video ’Garage Party’ for Mr Jigga was screened as apart of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Other Commercial Choreographies and performance have included work for Fanta, Target and  Movement Direction/ Choreography for the 2009 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards creating Choreography for Delta Goodrum, Jessica Malboy, Cassie Davies and Guy Sebastian. View more of Anton's work here

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Mathew Doyle

Matthew  Doyle   is a well known Didgeridoo player, dancer , musician and cultural educator. He is a descendant of the Muruwari nation from northwest NSW,however he was born and grew up in Sydney.Matthew performs in pre schools ,primary and high schools  and at local and major events here and abroad.He has worked and collaborated with some of Australias finest musicians Including Sydney Symphony and Queensland Orchestras,James Morrison ,Taikoz , and dance companies . Some of the major events he has performed in  include the Sydney 2000 olympic games  opening and closing ceremonies ,   World youth day Performance for the Pope,World Masters games Sydney  and appeared on top of the Sydney opera house  for the ABC’S Millenium Broadcast.Matthews group regulary perform at many International Corporate events in Sydney as well as many well known events like the Sydney festival,State of Origin game NRL.And more recently performed for Prince William on his visit to Sydney  And many for the City of Sydney including this years Lord Mayors NYE Party with his Company.

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Peta Strachan
Peta Strachan is a descendant of the Darugpeople  Boorooberongal clan of NSW. She studied at NAISDA and in 1994 joined Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre touring Australia, Indonesia, NZ and Latin America. Peta joined Bangarra Dance Theatre in 2000, appearing in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney Olympic Games, Skin and Corroboree and Walkabout. Since then she has worked as a freelance dancer teaching and choreographing for young people in communities. Peta formed Jannawi Dance Theatre and has been artistic director of the woggan-ma-gule  morning  ceremony the official opening for Australia Day For the last 5 years .

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Matt Cornell
Matt Cornell has worked in Australia, Europe & South-East Asia as a dancer, choreographer and/or digital composer spanning live Contemporary Dance & theatre to gallery installations, film, rock concerts, video clips, and street/performance art.

Some of these include:

Gavin Webber at DanceNorth, Davis Freeman, Shaun Parker Company, Sarah-Jayne Howard for QUT, Strings Attached, Buzz Dance Theatre, Angela Goh, Rimbun Dahun, Carlee Mellow, Marnie Palomares, Lisa Wilson, Anton for WAAPA, Croc Fest., Tiffany & the Curls etc.

Matt is the 2011 NT Young Achiever of the Year for Arts, a SPLENDID artist, a JUMP mentee (under Antony Hamilton), a danceWEB scholarship recipient, a speaker at TEDx Darwin and a HipHop artist in residence at the National Film and Sound Archive constructing his debut solo album - “Population: Not Many”

The future holds the creation of the S.I.K Bboy theatre show commissioned by Darwin Festival, a choreographic commission at QL2 and a premier performing with Legs On The Wall.

Matt is currently writing his first book and is an enthusiast photographer

works and info at www.TheMattmosphere.com

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