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Alisdair Macindoe

Alisdair Macindoe is an independent multidisciplinary choreographer living on unceded stolen Woi Wurrung country (Melbourne, Australia). With an interest in extending the boundaries of choreographic practice, Alisdair’s work spans dance, sound, electronics, coding and text. Recent works have seen him explore automated dance and Artificial Intelligence; new technology for music expression; trans-humanism; waste and climate change; and identity in the age of narcissism. 

Alisdair Macindoe’s independent and collaborative work has been commissioned and presented widely, including Forgery (2021, Australasian Dance Collective & Brisbane Festival); Progress Report (2023 & 2021, with co-director Alison Currie for Vitalstatistix & Frame Biennial at The Substation (2021 & 2023); System Error (2021, co-created with Chamber Made & Tamara Saulwick for Arts House); Reference Material (2021, Darebin Speakeasy); Noncompete (2018,The Substation); Meeting (2015, with co-creator Antony Hamilton, commissioned by Arts House, presented across 35 international seasons) and Bromance (2010, Next Wave, Arts House & Performance Space).

Over 2019-21, Alisdair developed the training and creation tool, A.I.D., to facilitate computer generated choreographic instruction. Collaboration with presenting partners and educational institutions influence the design of each new project and the system is also available as a remote, online experience, A.I.D ONLINE. 

Alisdair has received five Green Room awards; an Australian Helpmann Award and a New York Performing Arts Award ‘Bessie’. He was the 2019 Resident Director for Lucy Guerin Inc; the 2019 Ausdance Peggy Van Praagh Fellow; the 2020 Dancenorth NO-SHOW resident; a 2020-21Sidney Myer Foundation Creative Fellow and a recipient of the 2022 Chloe Munro Mid-Career Fellowship. He is a current board member of Ausdance Victoria.

Alisdair has an extensive history of almost 20 years working as a dancer (36 works) and sound designer (48 works) for some of Melbourne's most celebrated choreographers, including his career spanning mentor Lucy Guerin.

Sam McGilp

Dr Sam Mcgilp is a new media artist based on Wurundjeri country in Naarm. He creates collaborative modes of making with performers through playful experiments that expand the potential dramaturgies of live performance. 

Sam’s body of work includes performance (Running Machine, Arts House, 2022), hybrid digital/performance works (STACK, Zerospace New York, 2024), (Triplet State, ACC Korea and DAC Taipei, 2023, Body Crysis, ACMI, 2023 and The Substation, 2022) and films (Body Pipelines, Sydney Opera House, 2023, Bonanza! Chunky Move, MIFF, 2021). 

Sam has worked extensively in collaborative contexts including with Harrison Hall, NAXS Future (Taiwan), Lu Yang (China), and Kazuhiko Hiwa and Makoto Uemura (Japan).

Chris Chua

Chris Chua is a freelance programmer who typically works with programming embedded systems in C, C++ and Python. He has also been interested in developing software for performance art, working with machine learning systems, and in game development. He has worked with dance artists such as Alisdair Macindoe and Rebecca Jensen, and created technology-dance hybrid works such as TwitchPlaysChris (2015) and BeatStorm (2022)

Andrew Treloar

Andrew Treloar is an artist working between contemporary art, dance and fashion design through multiple practices and collaborations. These include recent projects with Henry Jock Walker, Jack Riley, Daniel Riley, Dancenorth, Jo Lloyd, Marrugeku, Lucy Guerin Inc., and Chunky Move. His design work has shown across many venues and festivals throughout Australia including the 2018 Commgames Opening Ceremony. 

He completed a Masters in Fine Art by Research in 2014 at University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (VCA) studying interrelationships between training and conditioning practices in dance and sport to generate processes for making art works. Andrew’s Visual Arts practice includes a strong component of problem-solving and material research, which has covered wearable sculptures (Metal. 2020), techno-slime installations (The Venusian Slip 1.0) and multi-venue live-streams (Porous Space. Simultaneous Event., 2014). 

In collaboration with Harrison Hall, Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Luigi Vescio, he made and produced The Venusian Slip, which had successful seasons in 2018 and 2020. He is currently in development for new work with Harrison Hall, which has been sustained by residencies at Abbotsford Convent, Lucy Guerin Inc.’s Moving Forward residency program, Temperance Hall’s Exquisite Corps residency and in Andrew’s own studio. They recently showed Surprise, Surprize for Pieces 2021 Season commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc. and The Substation.

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Amelia Lever-Davidson is an award-winning lighting designer for theatre, dance, live art, installation and events. Amelia is a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts, The Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts and RMIT. Amelia has designed lighting for Sydney Theatre Company, The Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Chunky Move, Red Stitch, Chamber Made, Elbow Room, Belarus Free Theatre, Deep Soulful Sweats, The Hayloft Project, MKA, Circa, Dark Mofo, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and many others. 

She has collaborated with a diverse range of directors and choreographers including Anne Louise Sarks, Kip Williams, Hannah Goodwin, Susie Dee, Daniel Schlusser, Robin Fox, Yaron Lifschitz, Dean Bryant, Kate Champion, Declan Greene, Luke Kerridge, Janice Muller, Sarah Aiken, Martin Hansen, Prue Clark, Bridget Balodis, Gary Abrahams, Samara Hersch, Le Gateaux Chocolate, Adrienne Truscott, Lauren Langlois and Joel Bray. Amelia’s work has been presented both nationally and internationally at festivals including Wuhzen Festival China, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin Festival, Dark MOFO, Dance Massive, Castlemaine Festival, Next Wave, FOLA, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Auckland Fringe, NZ Fringe Wellington and Edinburgh Fringe. 

Her design credits include Julius Caesar (STC); Bloom, Bernhadt/Hamlet, Girls & Boys, Slap. Bang. Kiss., Admissions, Torch The Place, The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You (MTC); Blessed Union, My Brilliant Career, Every Brilliant Thing (Belvoir); They Divided The Sky (Belvoir 25A); Because The Night, Kbox, Australian Realness, Trustees, Turbine (Malthouse Theatre); Leviathan (Circa); Myself In That Moment, System_Error, Diaspora (Chamber Made); Next Move 11 (Chunky Move); Moral Panic, Contest, Niche, Conviction, Dream Home (Darebin Speakeasy); Hand To God (Vass Productions); Looking Glass, Triumph (fortyfivedownstairs); Monument, A Simple Act Of Kindness, Desert, 6:29pm, Jurassica, Foxfinder (Red Stitch Actors Theatre); MKA’s Double Feature (MTC Neon); Meta (Malthouse Helium Season); Ground Control, Camel, Hello There We’ve Been Waiting For You (Next Wave Festival). 

Amelia’s work has been recognised with Green Room Awards for Diaspora, Contest, Looking Glass and her 2015 body of work. Amelia is an Australia Council ArtStart and JUMP Mentorship recipient, Ian Potter Cultural Trust recipient, and a past participant in the Malthouse Besen Family Artist Program and the Melbourne Theatre Company’s inaugural Women in Theatre Program. Amelia has also worked as a lighting director and lighting technician for Channel Ten, Channel Nine, the ABC, the National Gallery of Victoria and Fremantle Media. 

As lighting director, her work includes: The Sunday Footy Show; Tac Future Stars; Kids WB; A Current Affair, National Nine News. Amelia has undertaken mentorships with Paule Constable, Jon Clark, Paul Jackson, The Rabble, and international placements with Dewey Dell (Venice Biennale) and Hartley TM Kemp (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Amelia is a founding member of The New Working Group, a network of independent artists, bringing together the creative output, ideas, resources and skills of writers, directors and designers to create a support structure for new work development and presentation.

Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly

Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly is a Production and Stage Manager based in Naarm/Melbourne. 

They are a 2019 Graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and have worked as a Freelancer across multiple performance genres including Dance, Theatre, Circus, Live Music and Events. 

They have worked for companies such as The Australian Ballet, Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move, The Rabble and Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). Most recently they were the Stage Manager for Chunky Move’s latest work You, Beauty as a part of RISING 2024, Stage Manager for Steph Lake’s Colossus as a part of Ohm Festival 2024 in Brisbane and the Assistant Stage Manager for MTC’s production of Escaped Alone and What If If Only (2023).

Penelope Leishman

Penelope is an Executive Producer at Insite Arts and works out of Insite's Tarntanya Adelaide offices on the land of the Kaurna people. 

Penelope enjoys nurturing work that is diverse, inclusive and participatory, and is passionate about fostering artistic expression that captivates and facilitates a meaningful and transformative exchange between the artists and their audiences. For Insite Arts, Penelope supports creative developments, presentations and tours for artists such as Alisdair Macindoe, Alison Currie, Justin Shoulder, Sally Chance Dance, Astrid Pill and Club Até. She also produces presentations of the Luminarium, the inflatable, inhabitable sculptures created by Architects of Air (UK). 

Previously, Penelope produced several international and national tours for the musical, circus productions of Strut & Fret Production House. She has also held various roles in programming, marketing, sponsorship and ticketing with the Melbourne International Film Festival and Melbourne Fringe.