ABOUT
Deanne Butterworth is a Melbourne based dancer and choreographer and a graduate of the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. In a career spanning over twenty years her work in dance as a performer, choreographer and teacher has taken her throughout Australia, Europe, North America and Asia. She has always had a fascination with the simplicity of the moving body in space and how we choose to watch a performance. Deanne has had a long term performance relationship with Shelley Lasica having been involved in many of her works since 1996 as well as collaborating with her on Duelle (2009) and How Choreography Works (2015). Amongst others she has worked with Phillip Adams Balletlab, Danceworks Company, Jo Lloyd, Sandra Parker, Maria Hassabi, Adva Zakai, Lee Serle, Tim Darbyshire, Brooke Stamp, Shian Law and many more. Deanne has enjoyed residencies at Dancehouse (Housemate 2010), Bundanon Trust and PAF, (France) and in 2011 undertook a period of study visiting Performa11 (NYC) as a part of her Solo Performance Residency at Victoria University. Deanne has been involved as a performer and participant in the work of prominent visual artists: David Rozetsky, Belle Bassin, Fiona MacDonald, Alicia Frankovich, Helen Grogan and Bianca Hester. She has been nominated for Green Room and Australian Dance Awards and her work has been presented in and/or supported by Dance Massive Melbourne, Lucy Guerin Inc., National Gallery of Victoria for Melbourne Now, Dancehouse, Australia Council, Arts Victoria, Critical Path, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Melbourne Fringe, Musicircus at Melbourne International Arts Festival, Dimanche Rouge (Paris/Melbourne), and Next Wave Festival. Since 2006 she has been concentrating on creating a body of mostly solo work. Since 2009 she has collaborated with sound artist Michael Munson to create a number of new works in both traditional and non traditional spaces. Later in 2016 she undertakes a six month residency at Boyd Studios, Southbank supported by the City of Melbourne.
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1993, Graduate of Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
1998, Nominated for Green Room Award for Emerging Dance
2009, Nominated for Green Room Award for Female Dancer
INDEPENDENT PERFORMANCE WORKS & RESEARCH
2016
Development of new solo work, ‘Easy Action’
‘Easy Action’ as a work-in-progress performance for launch of Indigo Dance Magazine at Kings ARI
2015
‘Test Sites’ funded by City of Melbourne for initially testing of site specific performance work in Melbourne CBD
Participated in cross disciplinary Notation workshop at RMIT Design Hub organised by Hannah Mathews
Participated in Choreographic Lab led by Xavier le Roy and Scarlet Yu at Dancehouse and MPavilion
2014
‘Siteless Now’ for Melbourne Now in the 19th Century European Painting Room with live musician Evelyn Morris
Formal invitation to be an informal participant during the Specific In Between at ACCA in a program curated by Helen Grogan as a part of the Framed Movements exhibition curated by Hannah Mathews
Workshop leader over a 6 week period at Back to Back Theatre for Theatre of Speed, Geelong
2013
Workshop participant learning ‘Trio A’ (Yvonne Rainer, 1966) led by Sara Wookey, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA
‘Doublage’ for ‘Action/Response’ for Dance Massive 2013, curated by Hannah Matthews
Teaching Phillip Adams Balletlab Masterclass with Brooke Stamp at Chunky Move
2012
Participant in DD Dorvillier HOTBED workshop at Lucy Guerin Inc.
‘Twinships at Westspace’: Re-presentation and installation of solo performance over a 4 week period
‘Mindset’: For Dimanche Rouge Melbourne hosted by Tape Projects. Sound & video by Michael Munson, Performance by Shian Law, Choreography by Deanne Butterworth
2011
‘Dual Repérage in Threes’: Dance Massive, Melbourne
‘Dual Repérage’ at SEAM2011, Sydney
Victoria University overseas immersion to Performa04, NYC
2010-2011
Solo Performance Residency at Victoria University
2010
‘Siteless’: An Aerial View of a Plant in Four Parts: Pieces for Small Spaces at Lucy Guerin Inc.
‘Twinships’: 45 min solo work at Dancehouse, Melbourne
‘oneandthesame’: work for video
Dancehouse Housemate Residency: six months
Outside Eye for Melbourne Fringe Festival mentor program
Writing: Contributor to Swedish Dance History, (second issue), August 2010; for the everybody's publication, Everybody's Performance Scores, (March 2010), edited by Mette Ingvartsen & Alice Chauchat
2009
‘Dual Reperage’: for the 'With The Lot' event at Lucy Guerin Inc.
Residency at Bundanon, NSW
Attended Summer University at Performing Arts Forum, France
Outside Eye for Melbourne Fringe Festival mentor program
‘Time, Transcendence, Performance’ conference. Workshop participant with Martin Del Amo; Writing: for Melbourne Paper initiated in Australia by Atlanta Eke, published to coincide with the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival
2008 Showing of developing work at First Run, at Lucy Guerin Inc.
2007
Independent overseas study tour to France and Berlin
2006
Space Grant, awarded by Dancehouse to develop a new work about dance with a non-dancer working title of, ‘I Met the Young Professionals’
Independent overseas study tours to observe performances
2005
Research trip to Berlin, Leipzig, France, Switzerland to attend classes and workshops (July-August)
2004
‘In Miniature’, presented at Dancehouse, Melbourne
2003
Project Workspace 2. Research and development period supported by the Australia Council
Close 2: presented at Dancehouse, Melbourne
2002
‘Close’: Research and development leading to the live presentations of a solo dance work. Supported by Arts Victoria
2000
International Workshop Festival, with Dominique Dupuy, London,
1997
‘Remembrance’: Some Bodies Festival, Melbourne & Tasmanian Dance Festival
‘Fields of Form’: for the Melbourne Fringe Festival
1996
‘In Between’: for the 1998 Next Wave Festival, at the Motorworks Gallery, South Yarra
‘Lies Down the Body II’, the Women’s GalIery
1995
‘Watermarkerd I’, presented at the Women’s Gallery, Fitzroy
1994
‘Lies Down the Body’, the Women’s Gallery, Fitzroy
‘Catch Me’: Theatre Royal, Hobart with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
COLLABORATIONS: WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS AND OTHER ARTISTS
2016
‘Choreography and the Gallery for Art After Hours’, Art Gallery Of New South Wales for Biennale of Sydney, with Shelley Lasica and Jo Lloyd, curated by Erin Brannigan
2015
‘How Choreography Works’ with Jo Lloyd and Shelley Lasica at West Space, Melbourne
2014
‘If this exhibition were a text’ curated by Ash Kilmartin. Performer in Adva Zakai’s solo work Regarding Yesterday at Slopes Fitzroy as a part of the exhibition
2012
‘PERFORMANCE’, with Linda Tegg. A site specific work at the ‘Fuel Food Stop’ convenience store, 318 Wellington Street, Collingwood, Melbourne. Involving a group of performers, writers, and an audience
2011
‘Project Blah Blah’: with Jo Lloyd. Further developed and performed at Hong Kong Fringe Theatre, supported by Hong Kong Dance Alliance, Dancehouse, & STRUT
‘Duelle’: with Shelley Lasica. Presented at CIA Studios, Perth
2009
‘Duelle’: with Shelley Lasica. Presented at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
‘Project Blah Blah’, with Jo Lloyd. Stage one development supported by Arts Victoria
2008
‘Coming at You’: collaborative improvisational work with Jo Lloyd
2007
‘Pause + Diversion’: Created and performed with Tim Harvey. Presented at Dance New Amsterdam, (DNA, New York City) for the works-in-progress forum & shown again in Melbourne at the Meat Market
2005
‘Picnic 2’: collaborative work with Jo Lloyd for 'Generation' at Dance Works Studio, Melbourne
2004
‘Picnic 1’: collaborative work with Jo Lloyd at Lab X Gallery, St. Kilda
PERFORMANCE IN THE WORKS OF CHOREOGRAPHERS AND OTHER ARTISTS
2016
Development and Performance of work by Belle Bassin shown at Heide MOMA, ‘I Can Eat Glass’. A social sculpture in the Heide Garden.
Third Stage development for ‘Tainted Title’ a new work by Tim Darbyshire
2015
Continued development of ‘Tainted Title’, by Tim Darbyshire
Development of new work by Lee Serle, ‘Activate’
‘Solos for Other People’ , by Shelley Lasica. Premiere for Dance Massive 15 at Carlton Baths basketball court
‘Solos for Other People’, by Shelley Lasica at RMIT Design Hub, by Shelley Lasica
2014
Performer in ‘Intermission’ by Maria Hassabi at ACCA for Framed Movements Exhibition (4 week season)
Performer in new work by Brooke Stamp and Abel Korinsky for Experimenta at RMIT Design Hub
Performer in ‘Entitled Title’ by Tim Darbyshire for the Inaugural Keir Choreographic Award
Participant in work by Alicia Frankovich ‘Defending Plural Experiences’ for Framed Movements show at ACCA involving Motion Capture filming
Participant in Shelley Lasica’s ANAT research project ‘Sight and Perception in Dance’
2013
Premiere of ‘And All Things Return to Nature Tomorrow’, MTC Southbank Theatre, Melbourne
2012
‘Vianne Again’: ABC Southbank Iwaki Auditorium
Three stage development for All Things Return to Nature Tomorrow. World Premiere March 2013
2011
‘Collect’: Bagging Room, by Shelley Lasica at Malthouse Theatre, Southbank
‘The Recording’, by Sandra Parker, a new work in development
2010
Bianca Hester: ‘Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning’, at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Engaged as a performer in a non spectacle sense to carry out unannounced random actions within Hester's constructed space.
2009
‘Full Colour’, by Shelley Lasica at Chunky Move, Southbank
2008
‘Vianne’, by Shelley Lasica at Forty Five Downstairs, Melbourne
2007
David Rosetzky: ‘Think of Yourself as Plural’. Performed in this film work shown at Sutton Gallery, Fitzroy, choreographed by Lucy Guerin and dramaturgy by Margaret Cameron
‘Play in a Room’, by Shelley Lasica, (incorporating, ‘Set Up & ‘The Idea of It’), Joyce Theatre Soho, New York
‘The View From Here’: by Sandra Parker performed in New York at the Joyce Theatre Soho for APAM
Performer in ‘Amplification’,by Phillip Adams at Moorila Estate Winery, Tasmania
2006
‘Pieces from Another Piece’, by Shelley Lasica for the Lucy Guerin Inc., ‘Pieces for Small Spaces’
S’et-up & Situation Live’, by Shelley Lasica. Showings at the Centre Nationale de la Danse, (Paris) & Siobhan Davies Studio, (London)
‘Play in a Room & Plan Protean’, Shelley Lasica a continuing and shifting performance, (2003 - 2007), Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, the Arts Centre for the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Chunky Move Studio, Dancehouse & Tower Studio, Queens College, Melbourne University.
‘Brindabella’, by Phillip Adams, dancer in the stage 2 development
2005
‘The View From Here’, by Sandra Parker. Developed in Melbourne and at the Sophiensaele, Berlin. Premiered in Melbourne
2004
‘Situation Live 2’, by Shelley Lasica at State Theatre Company of South Australia Rehearsal Rooms
‘The Point Hotel’, by Sandra Parker at Space 28 Victorian College of the Arts
2003
‘Solos Project Retrospective’, by Shelley Lasica at the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), at Federation Square
‘Symptomatic’, by Sandra Parker for Melbourne International Festival for the Arts
2002
‘History Situation’, by Shelley Lasica performed at Horti Hall, Melbourne
Development of ‘Symptomatic’ shown for the behind the scenes program of Melbourne International Festival for the Arts
2001
Fiona McDonald: ‘Museum Emotions’. A film work in episodes with choreography by Shelley Lasica, playing the character 'white ellipse' shown at ACMI, Melbourne
‘hospitalsandairports’, by Jo Lloyd for Melbourne Fringe Festival
‘Fraught’, by Sandra Parker at Atheneum Theatre Melbourne and Lisbon.
1999
‘Action Situation’, by Shelley Lasica performed at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne
‘Sample’, by Jo Lloyd at Temple Studios, Prahran
1998
‘Situation Live: The Subject’, by Shelley Lasica at The Performance Space, Sydney
1997
‘Situation Live: The Subject’, by Shelley Lasica performed at La Mama, Carlton & Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, South Yarra
1996
‘Character X’, by Shelley Lasica for Next Wave Festival at Fitzroy Town Hall
1995
‘…and yet’, by Russell Dumas. Presented by Dance Exchange & SBS Television at Artspace, Sydney.
