Alison Currie

“Ali­son Cur­rie blends, shoves and tears down walls to bring her audi­ence an involv­ing exper­i­ment in art and chore­og­ra­phy.”
Paul Cot­ton, Ade­laide City Search

Ali­son Cur­rie uses alter­nate meth­ods of engage­ment to cre­ate per­for­mance expe­ri­ences that cap­ti­vate audi­ences from vary­ing back­grounds and lev­els of involve­ment with the arts. Her work crosses the medi­ums dance, per­for­mance art, sculp­ture and instal­la­tion. Her recent major works include:

Three ways to hold
co-created with Brid­get Cur­rie South Aus­tralian School of Art Gallery 2010,

42a National tour 2010

THE MAIN EVENT co-directed with Sol Ulbrich at the Ade­laide Col­lage of the Arts 2009,

Bed­room Danc­ing with direc­tor Steve May­hew per­formed by Rest­less Dance Theatre

Come­out 09 — recip­i­ent Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment in Youth and Com­mu­nity Dance 2010 Aus­tralian Dance Awards.

Ali­son was men­tored by Solon Ulbrich and Amanda Phillips on var­i­ous projects between 2004 — 2008 and was an intern with The Builders Asso­ci­a­tion media and per­for­mance com­pany in New York 2005. She has per­formed in Shang­hai, China, NY, USA and New­cas­tle, UK. She has a BA in Dance Per­for­mance from Ade­laide Col­lage of the Arts, 2003.

In 2012 Ali­son will present Fame and Squalor co-created with Kel Mocil­nik at Fed­er­a­tion Square, Mel­bourne as part of Next Wave Fes­ti­val. She is cur­rently devel­op­ing Solo to be pre­sented as part of ‘Return to Sender’, a sea­son of com­mis­sioned works at Per­for­mance Space Syd­ney in Novem­ber 2011.