David Chisholm - Composer

David has an international practice defined through his diverse choice of collaborators. David has won three Green Room Awards for his scores for BalletLab for Brindabella, Axeman Lullaby and most recently, Miracle. He has also won a French Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award (2005), a Highly Commended Paul Lowin Prize, and National Young Achiever of the Year when he could call himself young. In 2009, David was composer in residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France towards a large-scale oratorio work based on the sinking of the Russian submarine KURSK which will premiere in 2011.

David Franzke - Composer

David Franzke is one of Australia's most experienced composers for theatre. His credits include Sydney Theatre Company (Venus and Adonis, The Wonderful World of Dissocia); Malthouse Theatre (Anna Tregloan's BLACK, The Odyssey, Drink Pepsi Bitch!, The Proscenium); Melbourne Theatre Company (The Joy of Text, The Grenade, August: Osage County, Don Juan in Soho, Birthrights, The Recruit); Ranters Theatre (Intimacy, Holiday) and Anna Tregloan's Skin Flick and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Franzke has collaborated with visual artists including David Rosetzky, Daniel Crooks, David Jolly and Andrew Hazewinkel. Film credits include X (2011), Acolytes (2008), Joyride and Designing Dreams (2004).

Lynton Carr - Composer

Lynton Carr is a disc jockey from Melbourne, Australia. When not working on various sound projects he enjoys spending time with his family and blue water sailing.

3 Deep Design

3 Deep Design is a design and image agency based in Australia with representation in New York, Tokyo and Europe. For over 15 years the practice has crafted programmes for the finest galleries, private clients and organisations around the world, notably Steven Klein & Madonna for Louis Vuitton, Six Scents, The Australian Ballet, Seven New York, Toni Maticevski & Materialbyproduct. 3 Deep's clients are discerning and appreciate emotionally and intellectually driven design. The practice believes in delivering memorable and considered experiences that are underpinned by a commitment to ideas, design and luxury. 3 Deep is a long-term creative partner of BalletLab having collaborated with the Phillip Adam's since 1999.

Jeff Busby - Photographer

Jeff Busby has been a commercial freelance photographer for 25 years with interests in entertainment, architecture, landscape and people marketing projects with particular emphasis on designer based work. Jeff is a long-term partner of BalletLab, contributing to campaign design and providing all photography.

Bluebottle, Design and Production Lighting Design

Bluebottle was established in 1991 as a means to support like-minded individuals. Years of investigation, research and contribution within the realm of live theatre form the foundation upon which Bluebottle continues to build. This mischievous association deploys an extensive range of knowledge and skills to influence the medium of theatre and beyond. A recent project was the new National Sports Museum, which is located under the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. This collaboration with Cunningham Martyn Design blends theatrical and architectural sensibilities, involving a detailed, integrated lighting design. The interchange between various fields informs Bluebottle's ongoing research and capacity to deliver new concepts and outcomes.

Toni Maticevski - Fashion designer

Toni Maticevski's work has been described in many ways. Captivating, Beautiful, Intricate, Haunting, Timeless and Mesmerizing. He has a flair for drama and texture and subtle elegance that is in one instance subdued and insanely striking.

Mastering and creating many his own techniques, Toni Maticevski has shown how important it is to him to take ideas and envelop them, dream in them and re-invent them. Make his own mark in everything he does. Fascinated and inspired, his work has grown to house his many skills. From ready-to-wear, exceptional hand created made to measure pieces and whimsical bridal. The layers to his ideas continue to build every season and with every piece he creates. For the catwalk, or for a private client, all pieces are crafted and designed for beauty.

2012 heralds a new beginning in many ways for Toni Maticevski. The development of the Ready-to-Wear collections has grown to offer an exciting new vision that belies his ideal of intense feminine sensuality and glamour. A darker sinister undertone, it has a feeling of the tragedy that comes with beauty and the beautiful.

Exploring his creativeness to launch the Toni Maticevski Collection, all the ideas he can dream up are developed and tested. Built on his unique and uncompromising aesthetic that is pure and fantastic, it's the imaginary world where no barriers lay. Only pure ideas. Fabrics are manipulated and shattered, torn, shredded and ingeniously handled in manners unique only to him.

With the launch of TM to come later this year, Toni brings us pieces that are part of his heritage and archive. Of comfortable, inventive and enviable easy pieces to fill your wardrobe with. The tee that you always wanted, the throw on jersey dress that needs nothing else, the perfect throw on take anywhere pieces that live with its wearers everyday. Playing with print designs, mixing it up with elements that Toni draws from and is inspired by, these complimentary pieces sit beside the ready-to-wear line at an affordable entry price.

Every thing is of value, experience is your own dream and fingerprint. And with all those layers come the many attitudes and experiences that all women can find in the many dimensions that Toni Maticevski delivers to us.

For further information, please contact Trish Nicol trish@trishnicolagency.com.au

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Doyle Barrow - Costume Designer

Doyle has designed for many of Melbourne's established and independent dance and theatre companies including ROGUE (presented at the C.U.B. Malthouse), Antony Hamilton, Carlee Mellow, Lucy Guerin's 'Pieces for Small Spaces' BalletLab for Brindabella, Anthony Crowley (Chapel Off Chapel), Susan Van Den Ham, Holly Durrant and Harriet Richie, Mudfest Arts Festival (Australian and Asian Tour); short film GONE TO EARTH by Laurie Nunn and BOXED IN: THE MUSICAL by Martin Croft (Studio 45). Doyle also spent two years fabricating with The Creature Technology Company's WALKING WITH DINOSAURS. Doyle holds a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts from the Victorian College of The Arts (Melbourne, Australia).

Richard Nylon - Milliner

Richard Nylon is a Melbourne-based milliner/artist, specialising in couture headwear utilising both traditional and non-traditional materials and methods. He has collaborated with fashion designer Gwendolynne Burkin for over a decade, creating headwear for her fashion ranges. Examples of their work are in the Powerhouse Museum's collection and in a recent exhibition at the Powerhouse, Frock Stars. The National Gallery of Victoria holds six of Nylon's works in its collections. His work was included in the Queensland Art Gallery exhibition Hats - An Anthology by Stephen Jones (2010). In the same year he was one of fourteen milliners worldwide to be accepted as a contender for the Hat Designer of the Year award, in conjunction with the designer accessories show Premiere Classe in Paris. In 2011, Nylon's work was presented in the Powerhouse Museum again, as a finalist in the Love Lace international lace award. He teaches Millinery Design and Construction at RMIT University, and is President of the Millinery Association of Australia.

http://www.richardnylon.com/

Miguel Gutierrez - Choreographer

Miguel Gutierrez assembled the first incarnation of the Powerful People in the fall of 2001 when he was invited for a choreographic residency in the pilot season of the Ensemble Studio Theater's Lexington Center for the Arts. Never having been interested in a traditional model of a "company," Gutierrez sees the participating artists in his work-dancers, composers, designers and visual artists-as part of an ever-expanding net of inspiring collaborators. Gutierrez's interest in working with others is related to the questions in his work involving group identity and communal experience. He continues to work in solo form and on smaller scale pieces. Regardless of the size of the project, it is Gutierrez's goal to create challenging and thought-provoking performance experiences. The work has enjoyed considerable attention in the printed and virtual press. The company is engaged to perform in venues across the country and internationally. Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People have created eight works: enter the seen, I succumb, dAMNATION rOAD Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies, myendlesslove, Everyone, Nothing, No thing, and Last Meadow.

Gavin Brown - Painter

Curtain Design (Les Oiseaux en Cage) for Aviary.

Gavin Brown started his career in fashion in 1980s before committing to a career as a painter. He has presented in over 30 solo and group exhibitions, both locally and internationally, including Gallery of New South Wales, Nellie Caston Gallery, 5 OPT Gallery Hong Kong and V&A Museum London. Recent examples of his scenic work can be seen in the award winning film Mary and Max by Adam Elliot, for which he painted all the scenic backdrops.

Jen Hector - Lighting Design

2010 saw Jenny design the lighting for Robyn Latham's installation Empty Coolamons, The Theatre of Speed's Frankenstein, Walpole & Sister's Mathematical Models of the Sublime, Encyclopedia of Animals' new work Urchin, Fragment 31's Irony & Sandra Parker's Transit. She realised Ben Cobham's lighting concept for Jenny Kemp's show Madeleine, designed & realised installation for the Light In Winter exhibition Luminaries at Federation Square, and designed the set for Yglam's Captain Moonlite. Jenny and Bluebottle received a Green Room award for the Lighting Design for BalletLab's Miracle in 2010.

Becky Hilton - Choreographer

Becky Hilton is a Melbourne based performer, teacher, choreographer and director. She has performed in and contributed to the work of artists such as Russell Dumas, Stephen Petronio, Mathew Barney, Michael Clark, Tere O'Connor, John Jasperse, Margie Medlin, Lucy Guerin and many more. She has an established teaching practice and teaches in training institutions, for festivals and for companies nationally and internationally. Becky generates work in a variety of situations including large-scale community events, choreographies for tertiary institutions and commissioned work for companies. She was the 2010/11 recipient of a Fellowship from the Dance Board of the Australia Council.  BalletLab will be commissioning Becky for works in 2013-14.

Matthew Gingold Film-maker

Working across artforms and media, Matthew Gingold's practice spans installation, exhibition, performance, public and community outcomes. His work has been presented in many festivals and venues including Sydney, Melbourne and Malaka International Arts Festivals, the inaugural Dance Massive, Gertrude Street Projections and Melbourne Fringe Festivals, Carriageworks, State Library of Victoria, ACMI and the Australian National Portrait Gallery. Matthew was the Director of Seventh Gallery from 2005-2008 and is a founding member of the audio-visual jam collective Outpost. Matthew first collaborated with Phillip Adams in 2010 at Dancehouse for the 24 Hour project, curated by Jo Lloyd.

Matthew Bird - Architect

Nest Design & Backdrop (Paradis) for Aviary.

Matthew Bird is a practising architect based in Melbourne. Over the past seven years he has helped realise a range of award-winning projects within Australia's premier architectural firms and is now focussing on developing and sustaining his own design practice, Studiobird. Studiobird is a boutique design practice conceiving and implementing a range of innovative and at times experimental architectural, interior design and art-based installation projects. Current projects include new-build homes, a rooftop bar and the upgrade of a major Melbourne hotel. Bird also has strong interests within architectural academia, tutoring in architecture and interior architecture, and is also a part-time PhD architecture candidate within Professor Leon van Schaik's practice-based program (by-invitation candidature, RMIT University).

Benjamin Cisterne

Benjamin Cisterne is renowned for creating bold designs, based in light, that are integral to a performance. He is passionate about the capability of light in performance design and its role in art, and works collaboratively on projects across all art forms. Since completing his studies in 2002 at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, Cisterne has been involved in the creation of lighting designs for exhibitions at venues including the Australian War Memorial and the National Sports Museum; architecture, including the Darwin Entertainment Centre; and performance projects including Tim Harbour's Halcyon for The Australian Ballet, Stephanie Lake's Mix Tape and Gideon Obarzanek's Connected for Chunky Move. He has toured extensively as both designer and master electrician and completed artistic and technical residencies in Australia and Europe. He has worked with many choreographers including Gavin Webber (Dancenorth/independent), Phillip Adams (BalletLab), Luke George and Gabrielle Nankivell. Cisterne's work has been recognised by the Green Room Awards on multiple occasions.

Tom Webster

After graduating from WAAPA in 2005, Tom Webster moved to Melbourne, where he has been working as a production/stage manager for the past six years. Currently Webster is production manager for the iconic Athenaeum Theatre. He also works freelance for companies including The Australian Shakespeare Company, Melbourne Opera, trafficlight and Fox in the Snow. His career highlights include Slava's Snow Show, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, Token's Good Evening and Jennifer Coolidge's For Tonight Only. This is Webster's first project working with Phillip Adams BalletLab and he is thoroughly enjoying the experience of working with so many talented and creative people.