Write! Award and was published in 2015. She was the Festival Director for Blak & Bright, the inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival in 2016. Vicki Van Hout Director and Designer Vicki is an Indigenous independent artist with over 20 years’ experience. A graduate of NAISDA Dance College and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (New York), she went on to perform with both major indigenous dance companies, Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre before joining forces with Marilyn Miller as founding member of Fresh Dancers. With Marilyn, Vicki performed Dear Carrie for Oneextra Dance and Quinkin for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. She enjoyed a residency in Austria as a part of a greater contemporary indigenous contingent and was also awarded a World Dance Alliance choreographic residency in Singapore in 2007. Vicki is predominately inspired by indigenous social custom. From this initial premise Vicki seeks to find contemporary meaning through relevant mainstream social practices. More recently Vicki has been interested in the integration of new media technologies. This has resulted in one Critical Path residency and a performative residency at Performance Space (Carriageworks), with funding from the Australia Council inter-arts board to test the application of in a project with the ongoing working ‘traditional’ painting techniques title of Briwyant. Imogen Ross Designer Imogen has worked professionally as a performance and event designer for the last 23 years in Sydney, Melbourne, London and Perth. She trained as a production designer at Western Australian Academy of
Write! Award and was published in 2015. She was the Festival Director for Blak & Bright, the inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival in 2016. Vicki Van Hout Director and Designer Vicki is an Indigenous independent artist with over 20 years’ experience. A graduate of NAISDA Dance College and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (New York), she went on to perform with both major indigenous dance companies, Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre before joining forces with Marilyn Miller as founding member of Fresh Dancers. With Marilyn, Vicki performed Dear Carrie for Oneextra Dance and Quinkin for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. She enjoyed a residency in Austria as a part of a greater contemporary indigenous contingent and was also awarded a World Dance Alliance choreographic residency in Singapore in 2007. Vicki is predominately inspired by indigenous social custom. From this initial premise Vicki seeks to find contemporary meaning through relevant mainstream social practices. More recently Vicki has been interested in the integration of new media technologies. This has resulted in one Critical Path residency and a performative residency at Performance Space (Carriageworks), with funding from the Australia Council inter-arts board to test the application of ‘traditional’ painting techniques in a project with the ongoing working title of Briwyant. Imogen Ross Designer Imogen has worked professionally as a performance and event designer for the last 23 years in Sydney, Melbourne, London and Perth. She trained as a production designer at Western Australian Academy of
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