Dancers
Performers from the Faculty of VCA and Music's School of Dance can be booked to choreograph and perform original dance work for your event, provide sustained roving performances to add colour and movement to your function or facilitate movement-based workshops for conferences, seminars and workplaces.
A dance performance can provide a great centrepiece for your event. Artists Booking Service choreographers will develop an original dance work that responds to your theme, location, purpose, and audience. VCAM has produced some of the most outstanding choreographers and performers in Australian dance over the last three decades; this is a great way to access the original and innovative talent the school has fostered. The dance work will be developed in consultation with you and will usually be 4-7 minutes in length. Your guests will always remember the performance that made your event really stand out.
Roving performances can lend flair and pizzazz to your event. Our rovers can be positioned as a static feature, where their costumes and choreography provide a striking installation of bodies - this is background music for your eyes. Alternatively, our roving performers can offer movement-based interaction with your guests, along a narrative that best suits your function's theme.
Artists Booking Service can also provide dance-based workshops, to energise tired conference attendees, to foster better communication and trust between work colleagues and to generally add to any team-building efforts your company may have initiated. Artists Booking Service can develop a workshop to achieve the aims you have for your workplace, conference or seminar.
AMBER HAINES
Amber is a Melbourne-based dancer, performer and choreographer. Amber graduated from VCA in 2006 as the recipient of the Mary Orloff Prize for Most Outstanding Dancer. In 2005, while still studying, she performed as part of Tracie Mitchell's work, 'Under The Weather'. In 2007, Amber performed in the Melbourne Arts Festival for Chunky Move's season of 'Glow' and she performed in the Victorian Opera's new work 'Orphee et Eurydice' directed by Stephan Page. For Lucy Guerin's 2007 season of 'Pieces for Small Spaces' Amber co-choreographed a piece with Lily Paskas. She is also part of the 'Spark Mentoring Program' for 2007/08.
Amber has performed and choreographed corporate based entertainment at venues including the N.G.V., Ian Potter Gallery, Speigel Tent and The State Museum.
GABBY ROSE
Gabby Rose is a graduating student from the Dance Education program at UNSW. Throughout her time at university Gabby has been developing her choreographic voice, influenced by artists such as Sue Healey, Tom Hodgson, Anton and Narelle Benjamin. In 2007, Gabby was invited to create a work for Pulse8, Manly Dance Theatre, whilst choreographing and performing in two works for the Short Sweet and Dance festival in Newtown. Gabby is currently training at VCAM, where she is studying the Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Creation, majoring in choreography.
Gabby is also a qualified HSC dance and drama teacher, and has taught classes in contemporary, jazz and ballet for the past nine years. Having taught a wide range of ages and abilities, Gabby specialises in creating dance classes that are suited to the individual. Gabby’s style is built on a foundation of strong technique, where the body is trained through fun and creative movement. Gabby has also taught a number of contemporary dance workshops, teaching original repertoire, contemporary technique and exploring the participant’s own choreographic voice.
AMBER HAINES
Amber is a Melbourne-based dancer, performer and choreographer. Amber graduated from VCA in 2006 as the recipient of the Mary Orloff Prize for Most Outstanding Dancer. In 2005, while still studying, she performed as part of Tracie Mitchell's work, 'Under The Weather'. In 2007, Amber performed in the Melbourne Arts Festival for Chunky Move's season of 'Glow' and she performed in the Victorian Opera's new work 'Orphee et Eurydice' directed by Stephan Page. For Lucy Guerin's 2007 season of 'Pieces for Small Spaces' Amber co-choreographed a piece with Lily Paskas. She is also part of the 'Spark Mentoring Program' for 2007/08.
Amber has performed and choreographed corporate based entertainment at venues including the N.G.V., Ian Potter Gallery, Speigel Tent and The State Museum.
HARRIET RITCHIE
Harriet danced in Sydney and New York before moving to Melbourne to undertake a Bachelor of Dance at VCA in 2002 where she worked with choreographers such as Neil Adams, Sandra Parker, Brett Daffy, Leigh Warren and Rebecca Hilton. She received the Inaugural Dr Phillip Law travel scholarship, which took her to explore dance in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam and Malaysia. Harriet began her performing career in the 2004 Fringe Festival, in Lindy Ferguson’s Avalanche. Along side Holly Durant and Amber Haines, Harriet choreographed the original work ‘Up to my eyes’, performed as part of Mudfest 2005. Since then she has worked with Neil Adams for his PHD season Incarna (2005), Jo Lloyd for her work Animal (2006), Opera Australia in the production of Julius Caesar (2006) and of Turndot (2007).
Most recently Harriet has been working and performing for Lucy Guerin in her Melbourne season of Aether - Pieces for small spaces and will continue with the development of the new work Corridor. Also she has been working with Chunky Move on the projects Mortal Engine and Glow. Harriet is also one of the founding members of Rogue, a brand new dance collective. She looks forward to performing with Rogue in the 2008 Next Wave Festival. Harriet is currently completing her Honours in Dance at VCAM.
MATTHEW CORNELL
Since graduating from VCA 2006, Matt has had engagements with: Shaun Parker, Jon Rose, Sol Ulbrich through The Australian Choreographic Center, DanceHouse and Melbourne Dance Company, as well as multiple varied happenings in this years Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Matt’s last performance was This Show Is About People at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival. In a recent dance critique, Matt was named Most Outstanding Dancer.
Matt also composes soundscapes for both live and screen based movement art.