Current Panel Members

Panel Head:
GERARD VAN DYKE's performance experience includes contemporary dance, slapstick, puppetry, motion capture, flying and acting. He co-founded KAGE in 1997 and has worked for BalletLab, Polyglot Puppet Theatre, Nat Cursio, Eleventh Hour Theatre, desoxy Theatre and Sandra Parker. Gerard has directed circus and comedy, provided dramaturgy for ballet and danced in a piano costume for Sarah Blasko. He teaches at the VCA and is a regular guest on Triple R’s Smart Arts.
Members:
MEREDITH BLACKBURN
CHRIS BOYD is a former chair of the Green Room Award Association’s Dance and Music Theatre panels. He is a performing arts critic and has reviewed dance and theatre continuously for 25 years. He is currently the Melbourne theatre critic for the Australian. He is also on the selection panel for the Australian Dance Awards (2010-2012) and helped decide the winner of the Telstra Ballet Dancer of the Year Award in 2009.
STEPHANIE GLICKMAN
TIM HARBOUR was a dancer with the Australian Ballet for 13 years, stopping in 2008 to concentrate on choreography. He has created works for the Australian Ballet, New york City Ballet, West Australian Ballet and Queensland Ballet. In 2009 the Morphoses Company debuted his work in London and New York. In 2010 Tim created ‘Halcyon’ for The Australian Ballet receiving an Australian Dance Award nomination for outstanding achievement in choreography.
STEPHANIE LAKE is a dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Melbourne. She has featured in the works of Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin and BalletLab for over ten years, touring extensively internationally. She is also an award-winning choreographer, having created over 20 works including Mix Tape for Chunky Move. Stephanie has made several large-scale public dance works involving nearly one thousand participants.
KATH PAPAS
YUMI UMIUMARE was born in Hyogo, Japan and is the only Japanese Butoh Dancer in Australia. She creates provocative Butoh Cabaret works and was a member of the seminal Butoh Company DaiRakudakan in Tokyo. Over the last 20 years Yumi’s versatile works in her distinctive style of physical theatre have been in numerous dance, theatre and film productions and festivals throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand and South Eastern Asia.