Dancers in 2009 & 2010 

Luke George 
(Performer)

A Tasmanian based in Melbourne, Luke began dancing with Stompin and trained at the VCA. Luke has been fortunate to have danced for choreographers Gideon Obarzanek and Chunky Move, Phillip Adams? BalletLab, Jo Lloyd, Stephanie Lake, Frances d?Ath, Shelley Lasica, Jerril Rechter, ITOH Kim (Tokyo), Miguel Gutierrez (New York) and Deborah Hay (USA).  As a choreographer Luke has created: LIFESIZE, Here - not now, Special Mention (with Bec Reid), Trike dance project (with Stephanie Lake and Frances d'Ath). Luke has been commission by Sydney Opera House, the Australian Regional Arts festival, Phantom Limbs dance company and he choreographed for Malthouse Theatre, Back to Back and Arena theatre companies. Luke was Artistic Director of Stompin, 2002-2008, He has worked throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and North America.  Recognition: Asialink Performing Arts Residency to Tokyo, Arts House CultureLAB Residency, Russell Page Fellowship for Contemporary Dance, and Melbourne Festival Choice Award and Fringe Movement Award.
 
Kyle Kremerskothen 
(Performer)

Kyle began dancing in 1997 with Stompin Youth Dance Company performing in Grind #2 and Stompin/Danceworks collaboration Distance.  In 1998 Kyle relocated to Melbourne to undertake a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts at Deakin University.  He has also studied at the Victorian College of the Arts attaining a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Arts. In 2001 Kyle worked with Phillip Adams' BalletLab in Upholster.  He has continued his relationship with BalletLab in Adams? Brindabella and in 2009, Miracle. Kyle has also worked with Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) from 2002 in Melt, Plasticine Park, Love Me, Aether, Structure and Sadness, and Corridor and also curated With the Lot for LGI, a chain-curated dance and art event held recently. In 2006 Kyle spent time working with TasDance on the season The Earth Beneath our Feet, working with Nanette Hassall, Tanya Liedtke and Byron Perry. He has also worked independently as a dancer with Shelley Lasica on Play in a Room and Full Colour and David Rozetsky, Margaret Cameron and Lucy Guerin on Think of yourself as plural.

Clair Peters 
(Performer)

Clair has been performing professionally in Australia and abroad since 2004. During this time she has worked with Melbourne based dance companies BalletLab, Chunkymove and The Australian Ballet Company. She has also lived and worked in Europe. Amidst this she has worked as part of dance research projects, and in collaboration with international visual artists for films and performance installations. This is her sixth year as a member of Ballet Lab. Having performed in "Endling 1" in 2002 as a student with Phillip Adams while at WAAPA, Clair joined the company in 2004 and has since performed in BalletLab's works SYMPOSIUM, and FICTION with guest choreographer Rebecca Hilton. She toured with the company to Seoul, as part of SIDance Festival. In 2005 she performed with Chunky Move in Prue Lang's INFINITE TEMPORAL SERIES. In 2006 she was an assistant choreographer and guest artist with the Australian Ballet in their 2006 BODY TORQUE season, performing in Phillip Adam's work, PLATINUM. She then premiered BalletLab?s work ORIGAMI in Melbourne, and at The Sydney Opera House. In 2007 she was invited to collaborate, improvise and perform with LaborGras, Berlin. Late 2007 she toured with BalletLab, performing ORIGAMI in venues across the USA. She has been involved in both of BalletLab's most recent works AXEMAN LULLABY (2008) and MIRACLE (2009).
Brooke Stamp
(Performer)

Since graduating from the VCA in 1999, Brooke has collaborated with various companies and artists including BalletLab, Chunky Move, Dance Works, Chamber Made Opera, God Be in My Mouth Theatre Company, Co Motion Dance Company, Shelly Lasica, Stephanie Lake, Rebecca Hilton, Miguel Gutierrez, and also with Musical outfits TZU and Theatre of Disco, for whom she has created various performances and music films. A member of BalletLab for 9 years, Brooke has performed throughout Australia, Asia, Eastern Europe and in New York City in all of BalletLab's works including Amplification, Upholster, Endling, Nativity, Fiction, Origami, Axeman Lullaby and Brindabella which garnered her a Green Room nomination for Best Female Dancer. Brooke studied in New York City in 2005 supported by an Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Development grant. Brooke has recently choreographed her first full-length piece for the graduating students at AC Arts in Adelaide: Mine Yours Yours Mine and Ours, which was nominated for a 2009 Fringe Festival Award. Brooke teaches technique regularly at Chunky Move and the VCA in Melbourne and has taught nationally and recently for Oni Dance Company in Los Angeles.


Joanne White
(Performer)

Joanne trained at the Graduate College of Dance in Perth, John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet School and the Victorian College of the Arts.  She was a member of the Hamburg Ballet for several years and performed in all productions in Hamburg and abroad.  Over the last 8 years she has been a part of Balletlab, performing and touring with the company.  Most recently she was involved in the first development of the Balletlab/ Australian Ballet project entitled Avairy.  Joanne has also worked with The West Australian Ballet, Buzz Dance Theatre, Tasdance, Opera Australia and several other independent companies and artists in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Tokyo. 

She is a regular teacher of contemporary dance and ballet at Chunky Move and The Victorian College of the Arts.

Rennie McDougall
(Performer)

Rennie McDougall graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance in 2009. During his time at VCA he has been involved in many creative developments and performances with choreographers such as Dr. Neil Adams, Rebecca Hilton, Lina Limosani, Antony Hamilton, Sue Healy and Stephanie Lake. In 2009 Rennie toured to the MONA FOMA festival in Hobart with BalletLab, performing an excerpt from Miracle. He also performed in Lucy Guerin Inc?s With the Lot, a chain-curated dance event by Kyle Kremerskothen. Rennie recently worked with Phillip Adams on the development of a new work, Aviary, a collaboration between BalletLab and the Australian Ballet. He will continue to work on the further development of Aviary in 2010, as well as other BalletLab projects.


Daniel Jaber
(Performer)

Daniel Jaber joined Gary Stewart's Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) as a full-time company member at the age of 18 whilst finishing his studies at the Adelaide Centre for the Arts, 2004. Daniel has created roles, performed in and assisted creatively to such works as "Devolution", "Held", "G" (dancer and costume designer), "Age of Unbeauty", "Birdbrain" and "Vocabulary" in collaboration with Adelaide's Restless Dance Company. Daniel presented his first choreography in ADT's annual in-house choreographic season "ignition6" Titled "the world's smallest stage: INVADED!"  2008 saw Daniel's emergence from Mainstream company dancer to independent Choreographer and performer on the Adelaide independent Arts scene.  Daniel has performed work created by Alison Currie,  Frances d'Ath and German choreographers Clint Lutes and Joachim Schloemer. Whilst in Berlin, Daniel created a work for the Lucky Trimmer Tanz Performance Series, a 2-minute duet titled Happy Birthday?. He then spent 3 weeks as a secondment with the Forsythe Company studying the iconic choreographic and improvisational tools of William Forsythe.