Timeline of practice and performance

Image of TEMPLE creative development by Takeshi Kondo

2025

  • Performer/Collaborator in Spindlebun (creative development) by Michelle Heaven, supported by Lucy Guerin Inc and Creative Victoria

  • Performer/Collaborator in TEMPLE (creative development) by Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy/Triage Live Art Collective, supported by Chunky Move Minimax

  • Performer/collaborator in Passenger (creative development) by Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy/Triage Live Art Collective 

  • Bear development at Temperance Hall and Chunky Move Minimax. Work-in-progress showing at Out of Bounds supported by Dancehouse and Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Performer/collaborator in Fade (creative development) by Michelle Heaven, Madeline Flynn and Tim Humphrey supported by Dancehouse’s Compositions Commission

2024

  • Mawning by Alice Will Caroline (creative development) supported by The Australian Ballet and Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Lucy Guerin Inc Artistic Director in Residence Program (Alice Will Caroline)

  • My New People creative development supported by City of Port Phillip and Temperance Hall

  • Performer/Collaborator in Fountain (creative development) by Phillip Adams Balletlab supported by Temperance Hall

  • Molly presentation for Melbourne Fringe supported by Union House Theatre and University of Melbourne Arts and Culture

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Performer/Collaborator in Spindlebun (creative development) by Michelle Heaven supported by Temperance Hall and Creative Victoria

  • Choreographic Mentor/Workshop Facilitator for Yellow Wheel Dance Company season, Trip the Light

  • Performer/Collaborator in RENDER by Shelley Lasica at Hayden’s Gallery (July and December)

Image of My New People creative development by Mischa Baka

2023

  • Performer/collaborator in Of Seas and Silence (film) 2023 by Wendy Smith, Cathy Henenberg and Lynn-Maree Milburn

  • Artist in Residence at Union House Theatre, workshops, choreography and co-direction of Do Everything Now Before the World Ends in collaboration with Xanthe Beesley and the Union House Theatre students, Melbourne University

  • Performer/Collaborator in Untitled work (creative development) by Alice Dixon supported by Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc and Creative Victoria

  • Sessional dance lecturer for Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) 2nd year students

  • Writing About Practice Workshop and Repertoire Workshop facilitation for Transit Dance students.

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Graduated from Masters of Speech Pathology, Latrobe University

  • Performer/Collaborator in RENDER (Creative Development) by Shelley Lasica

Image of RENDER by Rudi Williams

2022

  • Improvised performances for Now Pieces, supported by Dancehouse, curated by Amaara Raheem (September) and Paea Leach (March)

  • Performer/collaborator in Murmurations (showing) by Jude Walton at Missing Persons Gallery

  • Performer/Collaborator in Yield to Resistance by Sandra Parker, presented by Temperance Hall and Dancehouse, Green Room Award winner for Best Choreography

  • What’s Actually Happening (Alice Will Caroline) presented by Dancehouse and Carriageworks for the Keir Choreographic Commission Award

  • Movement Director for Mountain by Kit Brookman and Andre Jewson presented by Geelong Arts Centre and Performing Lines

  • Recipient of Creative Victoria Creators Fund grant and residencies at Lucy Guerin Inc, The Loft Dance and Yoga Space, Geelong Arts Centre Creative Engine and Platform Arts

  • Work in Progress Showing at Out of Bounds, supported by Temperance Hall and Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Recipient of the Chloe Munro Fellowship (Alice Will Caroline) in association with Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Development and publication of The Applications of Alice Will Caroline, presented and auctioned at Das Boot by Esther Stewart and Oscar Perry as part of Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s Who’s Afraid of Public Space? Program

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Publication of essay, The Main Thing for Arabella Frahn-Starkie’s Pictures and Ghosts, presented by Platform Arts and Dancehouse

Image of What’s Actually Happening by Gregory Lorenzutti

2021

  • Commenced Masters of Speech Pathology at Latrobe University

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Performer/Collaborator in Yield to Resistance (creative development) by Sandra Parker at Dancehouse and Lucy Guerin Inc.

  • Performer/Collaborator in Replacement (creative development) by Sandra Parker at Victorian College of the Arts

  • Lucy Guerin Inc Make a Start Residency in collaboration with Michelle Heaven 

  • Performer/Collaborator in The Value by Michelle Heaven, presented by the Substation and Lucy Guerin Inc for PIECES curated by Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Online publication of essay, Everything as part of DAMN Writing – a project by Think Tank Dance Assembly

  • Performer/Collaborator in Life Changing Show (Life Changing Somatic Practice) curated by The People (Morgan Rose and Katrina Cornwell) at La Mama

  • Lucy Guerin Inc Artist Advisory Panel Member

Image of The Value by James Wright

2020

  • Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) Neighbourhood panel discussion/presenter

  • Lucy Guerin Inc Artist Advisory Panel Member

  • Publication of essay, Glenn Henn Design the Melbourne Dance Company with William McBride for Delving into Dance

  • The Wander film and research project supported by Chunky Move and Tanja Liedktke Foundation’s Solitude Residency Program

  • Australia Council Career Development Grant (Alice Will Caroline) to support networking and development opportunities in New York

  • Performer/Collaborator in Alien Affairs (creative development) by Iki Nakagawa and Walter Dundervill, New York

  • Trades Hall Residency (Alice Will Caroline) supported by Melbourne Fringe

  • WOW development and presentation in collaboration with Alice Dixon, performed by Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) 2nd Year students

  • Sessional dance lecturer at Victorian College of the Arts

  • Performer/Collaborator in The Prelude film by Phillip Adams Balletlab, Walter Dundervill and NON Studio

  • Performer in A Disorganised Zoom Reading of the Script from Contagion by The People (Morgan Rose and Katrina Cornwell)

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Training in developing and delivering Audio Description for theatre, performance and visual art with Description Victoria

Image of The Prelude by Jeff Busby

Image of Lady Example by Bryony Jackson

2019

  • Lady Example (Alice Will Caroline) presented by Artshouse for Dance Massive Festival

  • Doors Shut (Alice Will Caroline with Mark Wilson) presented by Temperance Hall for Melbourne Fringe. Winner of Green Room Award for Ensemble Performance

  • Ian Potter Museum Residency for development of Doors Shut

  • Darebin Arts Speakeasy Development Residency for Financial Stuff with William McBride

  • Performer/Collaborator in The Prelude (creative development) by Phillip Adams Balletlab and Walter Dundervill at Temperance Hall

  • Improvised performance as part of Meeting A-Droyx - performative encounters by Melbourne dance artists, curated by Prue Lang for Mathieu Briand’s Androyx exhibition at MARS Gallery

  • Performer in Batmania by the Very Good Looking Initiative, Theatreworks, Melbourne Fringe

  • I, Spartacus (Alice Will Caroline) creative development residency at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Casual professional class teaching at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Consultation, coordination and co-writing (with William McBride) for the Creative Victoria Creative State Submission by Melbourne’s independent dance sector

2018

  • Let’s Go Up Here (Alice Will Caroline) development and presentation at Artshouse for Festival of Live Art (FOLA)

  • Lady Example (Alice Will Caroline) creative development supported by Bluestone Church Residency (City of Maribyrnong) and the Substation

  • Lady Example presented by the Substation and Next Wave Festival. Nominated for Green Room Awards for Choreography, Sound Design, Ensemble Performance and Performer (Caroline Meaden)

  • Trilogy of the Desert, Mirage by William McBride (Alice Will Caroline) presented as part of FLUX-Kit-MEL for MEL&NYC Festival in partnership with National Gallery of Victoria, produced by Jamie Lewis and Dan Koop

  • Performer/Collaborator in Behaviour Part 7 by Shelley Lasica, Union House, Melbourne University

  • Performer/Collaborator in The Gallery Workout by Monica Bill Barnes & Co., presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria for the MEL&NYC Festival

  • Performer/Collaborator in the Merce Cunningham Contemporary Dance Residency for National Gallery of Australia’s American Masters Exhibition in partnership with Merce Cunningham Trust stager, Jamie Scott, supported by the Embassy of the United States of America

  • Silence Creative Development Residency at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Performer/Collaborator in The Prelude (creative development) by Phillip Adams Balletlab and Walter Dundervill

  • Performer/Collaborator in Glory (creative development) by Phillip Adams Balletlab

  • Performer/Collaborator in Playing Up by Sibylle Peters, presented by the Substation, Melbourne Fringe and Theatre of Research, Germany

  • Performer in Metamorphosen by Phillip Adams Balletlab, Melbourne Art Fair

Image of swans in sunlight for Lady Example development by Caroline Meaden

Image of Tiny Slopes by Gregory Lorenzutti

2017

  • Performer/Collaborator in Adherence to Procedure (creative development) by Sandra Parker, Dancehouse

  • Performer/Collaborator in PUSHED (creative development) by Paea Leach, the Substation

  • Performer in SURE by Tracie Mitchell, Victorian College of the Arts and Gertrude St Projection Festival

  • Performer/Collaborator in LOOP (creative development) by Nat Cursio Co., Chunky Move

  • Performer/Collaborator in In Plan by Michelle Heaven, presented by Melbourne International Festival at The Malthouse

  • Lady Example development residencies (Alice Will Caroline) at the Substation and Vitalstatistix Adhocracy (SA)

  • Panellist for Vitalstatistix Adhocracy discussion on Experimental Dance, Vitalstatistix, SA

  • City of Melbourne Boyd Studio Artists in Residence (Alice Will Caroline)

  • Performer in Spring By Dark by Melanie Lane for AsiaTopa X, Arts Centre Melbourne

  • Performer/Collaborator in Tiny Slopes by Nat Cursio Co, presented by Artshouse and Dance Massive Festival

2016

  • Performer/Collaborator in PUSHED (creative development) by Paea Leach, Chunky Move

  • Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant recipient, enabling travel and professional development in New York including solo choreography mentoring from Tere O’Connor and Shelley Lasica

  • Fallen O’er (Alice Will Caroline) presented by the Abbotsford Convent Foundation and Alchemy commissioning program. Nominated for an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance

  • Blowin’ Up: Sneaky Bastard solo presented by the Substation and Melbourne Fringe, winner of the Melbourne Fringe Artshouse Evolution Award

  • Performer/Facilitator in The Ring Cycle by Opera Australia, Arts Centre Melbourne

  • Performer/Collaborator in LOOP (creative development) by Nat Cursio Co, Chunky Move

  • Performer/Collaborator in Tiny Slopes (creative development) by Nat Cursio Co, the Malthouse

Image of Blowin’ Up: Sneaky Bastard by Mischa Baka

Promotional image for This is What’s Happening

2015

  • Performer/Collaborator in In Plan by Michelle Heaven, presented by Castlemaine State Festival

  • This is What’s Happening (Alice Will Caroline) development and presentation at Northcote Town Hall for Darebin Arts Speakeasy’s development and presentation program at Melbourne Fringe. Winner of Melbourne Fringe Best Dance Award, nominated for a Green Room Award for Sound Design and an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance

  • Performing Arts Forum (PAF) Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France Residency and Summer University Program

  • Participation in HOTBED workshop with Martin Nachbar at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Performer in A String Section by Leen Dewilde and Mole Wetherell from Reckless Sleepers (BEL/UK), The Malthouse

2014

  • Performer/Collaborator in In Plan (creative development) by Michelle Heaven, Castlemaine

  • Performer/Collaborator in And Then by Alice Dixon, presented as part of Pieces for Small Spaces, curated by Lucy Guerin Inc.=

  • Tasdance TRIP Artist Residency with Anna Smith and Alice Dixon

  • Performer/Collaborator in The Iliads (creative development) by Ben Speth, Footscray

  • Participation in workshop with Tere O’Connor, Dancehouse

  • Summer Space Grant Artist Residency (Alice Will Caroline), Dancehouse

Image of And Then by Gregory Lorenzutti

Image of Blizzard by Rachel Roberts

2013

  • Postgraduate Diploma of Performance Creation (choreography) at Victorian College of the Arts

  • This is Super Ugly and The Visit (film works made in collaboration with Alice Dixon) presented by Melbourne City Library and Private Dances by Nat Cursio Co., Northcote Town Hall and Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District Freespace Festival

  • Performer in Ballo (A Masked Ball) by Opera Australia

  • Performer/Collaborator in Blizzard by Nat Cursio Co. (with choreography by the performers) presented by the Substation, nominated for Green Room Awards for Ensemble Performance, Choreography and Concept and Relisation

  • Participation in HOTBED Workshop with Eleanor Bauer at Lucy Guerin Inc.

  • Performer in CLOCK It, curated by Davis Wells and Merophie Carr for Big West Festival, the Substation

  • Participation in Yvonne RainerTrio A Repertoire Workshop with Sara Wookey

2012

  • Mosaico Danza (Turin, Italy) Artist Residency with Alice Dixon

  • Participation in MELT Workshops at Movement Research, New York with Tere O’Connor, Lisa Race, Vicky Schick, Eva Karczag and Barbara Mahler

  • Collaborator/Performer in Phoebe Robinson’s Solo Residency and Masters research, Victoria University

  • One Strange Friend (in collaboration with Alice Dixon), presented by Dancehouse and Melbourne Fringe

  • Summer Space Grant Artist Residency (with Alice Dixon and Melissa Jones), Dancehouse

  • Recipient of Besen Foundation grant for Blizzard (with Alice Dixon and Melissa Jones)

Image of Caroline Meaden at Mosaico Danza by Alice Dixon

Image of Blizzard development by Natalie Cursio

2011

  • Performer/Collaborator in Evolve by Anna Smith for The Salon Series presented by Wendy Smith, Studio 202

  • Participation in HOTBED workshop with Marten Spangberg at Lucy Guerin Inc

  • Ausdance Victoria producing internship for Dance Massive Dance Your Heart Out Workshop Series

  • Chunky Move Maximised Artist Residency with Alice Dixon and Melissa Jones, mentored by Natalie Cursio

  • Lucy Guerin Inc Studio Artist Residency with Alice Dixon and Melissa Jones, mentored by Natalie Cursio

  • Internship with Shelley Lasica on Collect, The Malthouse

2010

  • Participation in Impulstanz Workshops: Antony Rizzi, Rasmus Olme, Francesco Scarvetta, David Dorfman, Julianna Neves, Sascha Krausneker, David Hernandez at Wien, Austria

  • Participation in Ros Crisp workshop at Siobhan Davies Studio, London

  • Performer/Collaborator in Who Knows What by Rob McCredie for Next Wave Festival, Horti Hall

  • Contained (with Alice Dixon), presented by Short & Sweet Dance at Chapel off Chapel

  • Performer in Bliss by Opera Australia, choreographed by Kate Champion

  • Recipient of City of Melbourne Young Artist Grant (with Alice Dixon and Melissa Jones)

2009

  • Performer/Collaborator in Who Knows What (Creative Development) by Rob McCredie, Carriageworks, Sydney

  • Performer/Collaborator in Clickety Clack and Aoroi by Rochelle Carmichael, presented by Theatreworks, St Kilda for Melbourne Fringe

  • Dressing, Undressing (in collaboration with Alice Dixon), presented by Short & Sweet Dance at Chapel off Chapel

  • Performer/Facilitator in Take Off Your Skin by Dario Vacirca and Yasuko Kurono, Melbourne Fringe

  • Performer/Collaborator in Vista by Feng Feng Wang and Redspan Dance Company, Victorian College of the Arts

  • Improvised Performance for The Little Con, Cecil St Studio

2008

  • Performer/Collaborator in Broken by Design by Malia Johnston for You’re not alone, you’re just in New Zealand, Dancehouse

  • Bloom (solo work) for Seamstress presented by Threadden for Melbourne Fringe

2007

  • Performer in Turandot by Opera Australia, choreographed by Graeme Murphy, The Domain, Sydney

  • Performer in Alcina by Opera Australia, choreographed by Vivienne Newport, Arts Centre Melbourne

  • Choreographer: Once Drifted presented by Room to Move Youth Dance Company, Geelong Arts Centre

  • Performer/Collaborator in Exhibit A choreographed by Kylie Shepard, presented by Dancehouse, Melbourne Fringe

  • Winner of the Splashdance Choreographic Competition (Professional Category), Geelong Arts Centre