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Joanne White
(Performer)
Joanne commenced her dance training with the Graduate College
of Dance in Perth. After graduating, she traveled to Europe and was accepted into the John Neumier Hamburg Ballet School.
Following this she joined the Hamburg Ballet Company and performed in all productions both ballet and contemporary ballet and toured the world extensively with
the company.
After returning to Perth, Joanne performed with the West Australian Ballet, David Prudham’s Australian Dancers Company and various other independent projects. In 2001 she completed the third year of a bachelor of dance at the VCA. During 2002 she worked with Buzz Dance Theatre and was also the recipient of an Australia Council’s Foot in the Door grant to work with BalletLab.
Most recently she performed in china with Amanda Phillips and toured to Eastern Europe with BalletLab
Tim Harvey
(Performer)
Since completing a BA Dance/Drama at Deakin University, Tim has worked in Melbourne and around Victoria as a performer, teacher and choreographer.
Most recently he has continued work on the Plan Protean‚ project with choreographer Shelley Lasica; this ongoing research produced the performance Play In A Room‚ in late 2003. Other performance credits include Sandra Parker’s Symptomatic‚ Luke Hockley’s, Awkward, Shelley Lasica’s History Situation‚ and Museum Emotions‚ a film by Fiona Macdonald and Theatreworks Singapore.
Tim often facilitates extra-curricular dance workshops and works as a guest teacher for schools in regional areas of Victoria. Tim has been working with BalletLab since 2004.
Brooke Stamp
(Performer)
Brooke Stamp studied at the Queensland Dance School of Excellence before graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999.
During her time at the VCA, Stamp began as a dancer for Anna Smiths Co-motion Dance Company, and was also a founding member of Company Trike, established in 1998 by Francis D'ath, Luke George, and Stephanie LakeApart from Ballet Lab, Stamp has also appeared and toured with Dance Works in Sandra Parkers production of Fraught, she has danced for the Stephanie Lake Company in Lake's Love is the Cause and also again in Lake's Our Golden Cages and Broken Wing for the Chunky Move Live Acts and Arcade seasons.
Later in 2003 Stamp will once again join theatre Company GoD BE IN MY MouTH as a performer and choreographic deviser for James Brennan's production of The Glass Garden. . A member of Phillip Adams’ BalletLab since 2000, Stamp has performed both nationally and in such international, in Adams' three widely acclaimed works.
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Carlee Mellow
(Performer)
Carlee Mellow graduated from the VCA in 1995. She has worked in
both film and live performance as
a dancer and collaborator with choreographers Sandra Parker (Dance Works), Tracie Mitchell (Twirling Sheila Productions),
Shelley Lasica, Lucy Guerin, Sue Healy, Rebecca Hilton, Ros Warby, Trevor Patrick, Gerard Van Dyck (KAGE), Natalie Cursio, Emma Hamilton and Anna Smith and
Shelley Lasica.
In 1997 Carlee performed in Sandra Parker’s in absentia and Two Stories, a relationship that continued with Dance Works as a core company member from 1998 to 2001. In 1999, she received the Victorian Green Room award for ‘Best Emerging Artist’.
In 2000, she traveled to Cologne, Germany to participate in workshops by Stephen Petronio and Ivan Wolf, and in 2001, Carlee choreographed her first dance work, episode,
with Jo Lloyd. Since 2003 Carlee has
been working with Chunky Move Co on several productions and has been a member of BalletLab for 2 years touring and performing Artistic Director Phillip Adams’ Works.
Clair Peters
(Performer)
Clair studied ballet for fourteen
years before entering WAAPA in 2001. Clair graduated in 2003 with an advance Diploma of Performing Arts Dance. At WAAPA Clair worked with a variety of national and international choreographers including Phillip Adams, Anne Smith, Kim McCarthy, Chrissie Parrot, Olivia Millard, Leigh Warren, Marilyn Jones, Paul O’Sullivan, Sue Peacock, secondment with Link Co and toured to Hong Kong and the Global Dance Alliance held in Dusseldorf.
Since graduating Clair has been working on secondment in Melbourne with BalletLab. In 2004 Clair received an Australia Council Foot in the
Door initiative Grant to work on
BalletLab’s production of FICTION with guest choreographer Rebecca Hilton, and to travel with the company to Seoul for their performances at SIDance Festival. Most recently Clair work with Lucy Guerin Co on a new creative development Explode
Derrick Amanatidis
(Performer)
Derrick is currently completing his third year of a BA in dance at the Victorian College of the Arts and will graduate at the beginning of 2006. While at the VCA, he has worked with Brett Daffy, Leigh Warren, Neil Adams, Anna Smith, James Sutton and Phillip Adams. During this period he also worked with Raw Collective for the 2003 Fringe Festival and with the Australian Opera in 2004. Derrick joined BalletLab in mid 2005 for the creative development of Origami. Derrick will join Tasdance for a 2007 season and tour to New Zealand
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