Aimee is a choreographer and dance artist. Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a BA Honours in dance (2000 – 2004), Aimee has been working as an artist both locally and internationally.
Aimee is inspired by the possibility of using art as a forum for people to share, challenge, question, celebrate and make sense of the world in which they live, and believes in the potential for imaginations to dream up the future. This drives her practice – in both the work she makes and the opportunities she pursues.
CHOREOGRAPHIES
Recent works choreographed (Title | Production | Date):
Accidental Monsters of Meaning | The Western Australian Museum | 03/11
Breakings | PICA | 04/10
December 30 2008 | Darpana’s Vikram Sarabhai Festival, India | 12/08
Schreibstuck | Australian premiere of Thomas Lehman’s Schreibstuck | 03/08
Fragments of a fracture | TaipeIdea at TNUA, Taiwan | 06/07
Refund Policy | BUZZ Dance Theatre’s Terminal Velocity Season | 03/07
Courageously Heroic Gallantry | STRUT’s Four on the Floor Season | 03/07
Alpha.Beta. | LINK Dance Company’s Off the Map Season | 05/06
53’ | Blue Room Theatre | 04/06
Press Play | STRUT’s dance#2 2006 | 10/06
Press Play | 2006 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne | 03/06
Crease | WAAPA students | 05/05
Inhale | STRUT’s dance #1 2005 | 05/05
Lesson In Falling | LINK Dance Company | 04/05
A Story | WAAPA Honours Project | 02/04
the-state-of-inbetween | Dancers Are Space Eaters Festival | 11/03
> For more information view Projects & Productions.
PERFORMANCE
Aimee has worked internationally with Berlin based artist Paul Gazzola (performing at the Tanz Im August Festival 2006), with French choreographer Didier Theron in Harakiri (2009) and The Tenants (2007), as an apprentice with Retina Dance Company (UK & Belgium 2005) and, as a student, performed at the World Dance Alliance in Dusseldorf Germany (2002).
Aimee has worked and performed with Australian artists Sue Peacock, Gideon Obarzanek, Phillip Adams, Gerard Van Dyke, Olivia Millard, Bianca Martin, and Jessyka Watson-Galbraith. She is a member of Hydra Poeisis , and has performed in numerous festivals including the 2006 Next Wave Festival, Artrage Festival (Perth, 2006, 2002), Urban Edge Festival (Perth, 2003), and Dancers Are Space Eaters Festival (Perth, 2003).
INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES
Kyoto Art Center, Japan November 2011-February 2012; Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan April – June 2011;Arctic Circle Project, High Arctic October 2010;Asialink Residency at Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, India August -November 2008
COMMUNITY ARTS
Aimee is interested in bringing dance back into the everyday experience, endeavouring to do this through her community arts practice. Aimee participated in the World Urban EARTH Festival (Canada, 2006), worked as Lead Artist for AWESOME Arts’ 2007 regional arts program, directed TranscenDANCE.- a community dance festival in Esperance (2009), has undergone numerous artist residencies in regional WA communities, and was most recently part of the Future Landings project in Albany (2011).
TEACHING
Since 1997 Aimee has been teaching dance. She has taught a variety of styles and genres (contemporary, jazz/hip hop, classical ballet, creative dance, kindy dance, choreography) to a wide range of groups (toddlers, primary and high school students, private dance schools, tertiary institutions, professional contemporary dancers and companies, community groups).
ARTS ADVOCACY
- Participated in the World Urban EARTH Festival in Vancouver, Canada 2006, a festival advocating and celebrating arts for social change.
- Member of the DCA Young People and the Arts Panel (current)
- STRUT Dance Committee Member (current)