Dancers
The dancers of BalletLab are an important force in the development of new works, helping shape the company's artistic standpoint. They bring a creative maturity and sympathetic understanding borne from personal experience. Bound by processes of studio practice where internal self-realisation is compounded and made manifest, artistic director Phillip Adams and the dancers adhere to the very nature of creative choreographic experimentation. It is an artistic process based on trust to bring themselves and new works through improvisational terrains. BalletLab offers its dancers learning opportunities in each distinctive project. We value their vitality and input to help articulate the creative language and collaborative dialogue we coin together. BalletLab also consistently draws from new talent emerging from Australian universities, and collaborates on projects with many emerging and established practitioners in dance and other mediums.
Luke George
Luke George is a Melbourne-based dance artist who grew up in Tasmania. His work as a performer, choreographer, teacher and curator has taken him throughout Australia, North America, Europe and Asia.
Brooke Stamp
Brooke Stamp maintains a rigorous practice as a performer, choreographer and teacher in Melbourne, while continuing the development of her solo choreographic practice and interdisciplinary collaborations throughout Australia and overseas.
Joanne White
Joanne White trained at the Graduate College of Dance in Perth, the John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet School and the Victorian College of the Arts.
Rennie McDougall
Rennie McDougall began working with Phillip Adams BalletLab while studying at the VCA in 2008, and has since collaborated with the company during developments and performances of Aviary, Miracle, Above and Amplification.
Peter AB Wilson
Peter A B Wilson graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 2010. During his time there he performed lead roles in Ji?í Kylián's Songs of a Wayfarer and Petal Ashmole-Miller's Snow Queen, among others.
Daniel Jaber
Daniel Jaber joined Australian Dance Theatre at the age of 18, performing in Gary Stewart's Birdbrain, Age of Unbeauty, Vocabulary, Devolution and HELD; and was costume designer and dancer in the 2008 Adelaide Festival production of G.
Kyle Kremerskothen
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.
Clair Peters
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.
Tim Harvey
Timothy is a dancer, teacher and Remedial Therapy practitioner from Melbourne, Australia. He has performed in the works of Philip Adams with BalletLab since 2004 (Fiction, Incarnation, Origami, Brindabella and Amplification) touring regularly within Australia, across the United States and around Europe.
Carlee Mellow
Carlee Mellow works as a choreographer, performer, and teacher of yoga and dance. Over the last 15 years she has worked in both film and live performance collaborating with many choreographers and directors, touring nationally and internationally.
Deanne Butterworth
A performer, choreographer & teacher, Deanne has been working in contemporary dance, since 1994 performing in Australia and abroad.
Matthew Day
Matthew Day is a Choreographer and Dancer who works across various artistic mediums and cultural contexts. Matthew is invested in conceptual choreographic practices that are intensely physical and push the boundaries of dance and performance.
