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Current work
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Research


JANE MORTISS CV



Education

1979 Undergraduate, VCA, University of Melbourne
1995 Graduate Diploma in Choreography, VCA, University of Melbourne
1997 Master of Choreography, VCA, University of Melbourne

Dance training
Ballet training:
RAD solo seal
Contemporary:
Graham
Cunningham
Limon
Release
Contact improvisation
Improvisation


Teaching
1994-2003 Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts.
2000 Lecturing exchange University of Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
1991/92 Deakin University, Rusden Campus.
1992 The National Ballet School, Melbourne.
1993 The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dance Company
1987 Dance North
1986-88 Human Veins Dance Theatre International teaching and workshops
1997 Seoul, (Seoul Contemporary Dance Company) Chen Chen,(International tertiary workshop)
1991 Fuzhou, Beijing (Australia China dance exchange project)
1989 Beijing, Shanghai.


Choreography

2002 'Griffin's Walk', VCA tertiary program, Melbourne
1999 ‘Slow Quick Flow’, VCA tertiary program, Melbourne.
1998 ‘Vanishing Point’, VCA tertiary program, Melbourne.
1997 ‘Interior Voices’ independent project, Melbourne, South Korea, Illinois USA.
1996 ‘Punch’, VCA tertiary program, Melbourne.
1996 ‘Restless’, Dance Compass Melbourne, Melbourne and regional Victoria.
1987/88 ‘Open Spaces’, Dance North, Townsville, regional Queensland and Asia.
1988 ‘The Collector’, Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra.


Professional performance
2002 Improvisation 'Cracking it open', Dancehouse, Melbourne

2002 Wildart, Bega Gallery

1998/99 Collaboration with Don Asker, Installations nos. 1, 2, and 3. Melbourne.
1999 Illinois, Krannet Centre, Urbana-Champaign, USA. ‘Interior Voices’.
1997 Seoul and Chen Chen, South Korea, ‘Interior Voices’
1996 Dance Compass Melbourne
1995 Greenmill Festival, Melbourne, ‘Star Dragon’.
1995 Body Parts season, Dancehouse, ‘Point of View’ Melbourne.
1994 Victorian Arts Centre, ‘Bending the Willow’.
1993 Sue Healey and Dancers, ‘Knee Deep in Thin Air’, Melbourne.
1993 Collaborative Project ‘Reel to Real’, Melbourne.
1993 One Extra Company, ‘Drowning in a Sea of Dreams’, development project, Sydney.
1993 Danceworks, ‘Danceworks at the Gasworks’, Melbourne.
1992 One Extra Company, ‘Bite, Pull, Suck’, Sydney.
1991 Sue Healey and Dancers, ‘Long Fall from Splendour to Splendour’, Melbourne.
1991 ‘Interior discourse#2’, Fuzhou and Beijing.
1987 Dance North
1979-1988 Human Veins Dance Theatre


Other training
2000 Participant in workshop with Dr Joan Chodorow, Jungian psychologist and dance therapist, Melbourne.
1992 Travel grant to study Looyen deep tissue body work, in North Carolina, USA
1992 Participant at American Dance Festival, faculty assistant.


Film
1999/2000 ‘Clay’ Collaboration with film-maker Nubar Ghazarian and Don Asker
1995 ‘Point of View’, directed by Dianne Reid.
1993 ‘Betrayal’, directed by Dianne Reid.