CHOREOGRAPHERS: RHIANNON NEWTON in collaboration with performer ADELINA LARSSON

COMPOSER: JAMES HAZEL

BIOGRAPHIES

PROPELLED: THE LOCK-UP & CATAPULT COLLABORATION

RHIANNON NEWTON

Rhiannon is an Australian dancer and choreographer. She creates performance works that inhabit theatre, public and gallery spaces. Her work draws on practices of repetition, studying patterns that give rise to change and stasis within the body and our world. Rhiannon has been commissioned by Dancehouse for Dance Massive 2019 (Choreographed Readings), Housemate 2018 (We Make Each Other Up) and Dance Massive 2017 (Bodied Assemblies). Her works have been presented nationally and internationally in contexts such as Brisbane Festival, March Dance, Festival 2018, Firstdraft Exhibitions Program, Trois C-L (LX), Nagib On Stage (SL), Tanzhaus Zurich (CH) and Judson Church (USA).

She has developed her practice in residencies throughout Australia, Europe and North America and been a part of international exchanges in Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia and Singapore. Rhiannon works as a collaborator and performer with artists such as Mette Edvardsen (BE), Elysa Wendi (SI), Martin Del Amo, Amrita Hepi, Benjamin Forster, Rosalind Crisp, Paea Leach and Brooke Stamp. In 2018 Rhiannon was the Dancehouse Housemate artist-in-residence and Create NSW Emerging Performing Artist Fellow. In 2019 she has become a caretaker of ReadyMade Works Inc., co-curated the Talking Bodies lecture-performance series and undertakes an Australia Council International Residency in HIAP, Helsinki.

ADELINA LARSSON

Adelina Larsson is a Swedish/Australian independent dance artist working between Australia and Europe in contemporary dance, physical theater and interdisciplinary practices as choreographer, performer, teacher, curator and producer. She trained at DOCH Stockholm and CODARTS Rotterdam.

Since arriving in Australia 2007 she has worked with David Pledger Not yet it’s difficult, Big hART company, STRUT Dance, Nadia Cusimano, Paea Leach, David Corbet, Corazon de Vaca, Sarah Kaur, Mia Holton, Legs on the Wall, QL2 Dance, Canberra Theatre Centre, You Are Here Festival, Short+Sweet Dance Festival as Festival Director, Ausdance NSW and ACT as Artistic Director of ACT Youth Dance Festival and Frank Madrid FAMA as assistant to the producer of Leigh Warren and Dancers.

In 2013 she choreographed Oneness – Voice Without Form premiering at the Sydney Opera House celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. That same year Adelina worked with Robyn Archer and the Centenary of Canberra as producer of two commissions – Biami The Creation Story of the Wiradjuri people and SpinWear fashion parade.

ACT Government’s funding body artsACT has supported Adelina’s choreographic works It’s impossible, Folding (presented in Stockholm Danscentrum), Resonance 1.1, the stars the stars, No Place and Strange Attractor Choreographic Development Platform.

She is a member of the Canberra Theatre Centre’ Advisory Committee appointed by the Cultural Facilities Corporation.

JAMES HAZEL

James Hazel is an Australian composer, sound-artist & writer who has composed music for a variety of contexts including contemporary dance, installation, new-media & traditional classical ensembles. He holds a B.Music and Honours (First Class) degree. In 2017, he was awarded the NIDA Emerging Artist Award for his production of Notes from the Underclass for Sydney Fringe. James’ work investigates sonic practices in political, social and sacred contexts; examines the role of ritual and collaboration; and, more recently, the experimentation with precarious, electro-acoustic forms.

Hazel’s work has been exhibited at the Pinnacles Gallery (Queensland), Vivid Festival (Sydney), Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Scanlines & Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Is this Art? Festival’, A Very Dlux Media Lounge, Lockup Gallery & Bundanon Trust. James’ music has been performed by 15 Minutes of Fame (Oklahoma), Gondwana Choirs, NYO, New Music Network Labs & Mini Series events, Maitland Regional Gallery, Teppo Fest (UK), National Young Writers Festival & and has been played on All the Best, FBI Radio, Difficult Listening (Perth), Interstellar Overdrive (Melbourne) & PBS (Melbourne). James has collaborated with artist such as Adelina Larsson, Rhiannon Newton, Andrew Styan, Victoria Pham, & poet Laurie May.

Photo & Film Credits: Ashley de Prazer & Alison Laird