Antony Hamilton
Antony trained in dance in Sydney, Perth and New York. Since 1999 he has worked with the Australian Dance Theatre (Garry Stewart), Kage Physical Theatre (Kate Denborough), Chunky Move (Gideon Obarzanek) and Lucy Guerin inc.(Lucy Guerin) throughout Australia and overseas. As choreographer, he has been commissioned to make works for Chunky Move, Dancenorth, The Victorian College of the Arts, Stompin and Rogue. He has also created short works for ADT’s Ignition seasons and Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces for Small Spaces seasons. In 2008 Antony directed and choreographed two full-length works Blazeblue Oneline and the Chunky Move commission I Like This co-directed by Byron Perry. In 2009 Blazeblue Oneline received two greenroom awards; Set and/or costume design, and Concept/Realisation. Antony was the inaugural recipient of both the Russell Page Fellowship in 2004, and the Tanja Liedtke Fellowship in 2009. He was also winner of the Greenroom Award for Best Male Dancer in 2005, and the Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer in 2009. Antony recently began development for a new work ‘Black Project l’ while in residence at RadialsystemV Berlin, and in December 2009 will create ‘Black Project II’ for the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Deborah Robertson
Deborah choreographs, directs, teaches and performs through the mediums of live performance and film. She graduated from WAAPA in 2003, BA Hon. Dance, completing her honours year as a member of Link Dance Company under the direction of Chrissie Parrott. In 2007, she participated in the Spark Mentorship Program, with renowned dance film-maker Tracie Mitchell as her mentor.
Deborah has performed with Compagnie Felix Ruckert (Berlin), Hydrapoesis (Perth), Aimee Smith (Perth), First Wave (Canberra), and Tall Concrete Collective (Perth). Deborah has choreographed the live works, “The Deconstruction” (2007), and “Confessional” (2008), and directed the short dance films “Lament” (2003, short-listed Reel Dance Awards) and “The Deconstruction (of my shoulder blade)” (2007).
Her film credits include Assistant to the Director on Tracie Mitchell’s dance film “Under The Weather” and Second Assistant Director on Michael Hatch’s feature-length drama “Bitter Art”.
Cass Mortimer Epper
Born in Melbourne, Cass trained at the Australian Ballet School accepting a job with West Australian Ballet (WAB) in 2006. Cass performed many principal and soloist roles with WAB and choreographed five works for the company: Ludwig Ravelling, It is, Adaptation, Verticality and most recently Soul Searching. Both It Is and Soul Searching were also performed in Strut’s seasons ‘Short Cuts’ and ‘Counter Point’ respectively. Cass has since begun his own company, Ludwig, based in Perth, with colleagues Emma Sandall, Timothy O’Donnell and Joseph Simons.
Fabien Prioville
After completing his dance studies at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers, Fabien Prioville worked with choreographers such as Josef Nadj and Davis Freeman. Choreographic commissions have taken him as far away as the Julliard School in New York and Japan. His engagements as a dancer included working with Edouard Lock‘s Lalala Human Steps and Philippe Blanchard in Sweden. Most recently (1999 – 2006) he was an ensemble member of Pina Bausch‘s Wuppertaler Tanztheater.
Michael Whaites
Michael has been performing, choreographer and teaching for the past 25 years. He was a founding member of Dance North and danced with Australian Dance Theatre before moving to New York City in 1991. Over the following four years he was a member of Twyla Tharp and Dancers and Irene Hultman Dance. He performed in the Tharp/Baryshnikov Cutting up tour throughout Mexico and North America which was the highest grossing contemporary dance tour to date. In 1995 Michael joined the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Germany, he made three new works with the company and toured throughout the America’s, Japan, and Europe until moving back to Australia in 2000. Michael has taught and made works on a variety of different companies and institutions across the globe. As a performer/collaborator he has worked with Company in Space, The Light Room Project, Wendy Houstoun In the Dark and Julie- Anne Longs’ The Nun’s Picnic. In 2005 he was Associate Director of Kim Carpenters’ Theatre of Image choreographing two works for the company. Michael is currently based in Perth and is the Artistic Director of LINK Dance Company and lectures at WAAPA.
