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Past projects
2026 – Matthew Morris
'Until Falling Things Work' was created in collaboration with Alice Cummins, Josten Myburgh and Andrew Stumpfel. Exploring solitude, grief, love, transformation and the search for home, the project grew into a 55-minute performance with sound composition underway and set design realised and built. The work went on to be presented at The Blue Room Theatre to sold-out audiences, with plans for future national and international touring.
2025 – Jareen Wee & Sebastian Geilings
'Even When We’re Falling, We’re Flying' is a contemporary dance duo exploring grief, love, friendship and somatic care. Travelling from Naarm to Boorloo, the artists spent 10 days refining their shared movement language, building 40 to 45 minutes of choreography, testing live sound with musician Pavan Hari, and working with mentor Isabella Stone to deepen the work’s emotional and dramaturgical clarity.
2024 – Tyrone Earl Lraé Robinson
'Lost Culture Kid' is a new contemporary dance work exploring cultural identity, diasporic lineage and the complex experiences of mixed-race individuals. Working with a collective of six dancers from mixed-race and culturally diverse backgrounds, Tyrone used movement research and discussion to explore personal and collective experiences of heritage, belonging and tradition.
2024 – Sam Ren
'No Gravity' is a new dance work exploring the effects of a no-gravity environment for a disabled person using a hydro pool. Working with a mixed-ability team, Sam expanded ideas born from the hydro environment while advocating for greater inclusivity in the arts. The project brought together performers, artistic associates, support and sound design to test new ways of working.
2023 – Helah K. Milroy
‘The Discovery Method’ explored Indigenous and feminist ways of knowing, seeing and listening through a six-month process of meditation, vision quests, improvisation, discussion and symbolic analysis. The work invited participants to discover what they were being called to perform, resulting in a personalised ritual performance that reached audiences both familiar and unfamiliar with dance and theatre.
2023 – Rachel Arianne Ogle
‘meditations’ was a physical and sonic meditation on the impact of the human footprint on the environment and the earth. Built from the act of walking, the work used repeated weight shifts, rhythm and live sound manipulation to create a feedback loop between body, sound and space, blurring what was leading and what was responding.
2023 – Harrison Elliott
‘Experiments In Derivation’ researched methods of creation and curation across movement and writing. Through a process of trialling, discussion and scoring, the project began building a toolkit for responsive artistic experiments, with a focus on how parameters could shape the outcomes of movement and text-based practice.
2023 – Bernadette Lewis
‘The Gravity of The Situation’ was a solo interdisciplinary performance work grappling with fear, failure and falling. Drawing from Bernadette’s childhood training as a young gymnast under Russian coaches for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the project transformed personal memory into a surreal collage of images, characters and heightened events.
2022 – Rhiana Katz & Andrew Barnes
‘Strange Grace’ was a collaboration working with dancers Georgia Van Gils and Celina Hage, costume designer Mitchell Green, sound designer Edoardo Moriconi and dramaturg Geordie Crawley. The project explored symbolism in landscape, connecting these ideas directly to costume and performance, and culminated in a 30-minute showing.
2022 – Sofie Burgoyne
‘Strategy to stay with a body’ explored techniques for staying with a body, whether one’s own, another person’s, or a collective body. Working with Laura Boynes and Sam Fox, the project involved researching, learning, sharing, inventing, practising, composing and documenting physical strategies for attention, presence and relation.
2022 – Kimberley Parkin
‘Killjoy’ was an early development of a new dance work exploring burnout through an absurdist office environment. Working with Georgia Van-Gils and Scott Galbraith, the residency supported generous studio time, the articulation of key ideas, the development of a rich movement dialogue, and the creation of promotional and documentation material for future stages of the project.
2022 – Scott Elstermann & Benjamin Hurley
‘This Tale No Longer Mine’ brought together the Seed Residency artists and Edify Media in a duet exploring similarity, doubling and fiction. Drawing on past performance material and an online writing practice developed during the pandemic, the project built a new physical language full of provocation, suggestion and shifting identity.