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Fiona Cameron
Fiona graduated from the Victorian College of The Arts (Dance) in 1991 and subsequently toured with Expressions Dance in Education team, in Queensland. From 1993 to 1995, as a performer and assistant director of Alias Compagnie (Geneva), Fiona toured throughout Europe and Canada.
Returning to Sydney in 1996, Fiona performed with Sydney Theatre Company and One Extra Dance Company. With Brett Daffy, she choreographed and performed in DNA’s development of contemporary dance, design and classical music. In 1997, Fiona presented the solo Beside Myself at the Edge Theatre, Sydney.
Fiona has been a performer with Chunky Move since 1997, touring internationally and nationally in works by Gideon Obarzanek, Paul Selwyn Norton, Lucy Guerin, Kate Denborough, Phillip Adams, Kim Itoh and David Pledger. In 1999 Fiona was commissioned to create Buy This for Chunky Move, which was performed at Live Acts and at the 2000 Next Wave Festival.
In 2001, Fiona created her first full-length work, Looking For Life Cure, with an Emerging Choreographers Grant from the Australia Council. In 2002, she created Inhabited, a series of free dance performances in six city locations. Inhabited was presented in Lisbon, Portugal at the Dance in Urban landscapes Festival in 2004. Fiona was nominated in the 2002 Green Room Awards in the category of solo performance for David Pledger’s Dark Room. In 2003 Fiona joined Kage Physical Theatre for their acclaimed Melbourne International Festival Production, Nowhere Man.
Fiona has choreographed and directed two dance films, Toyboy and Sink, which were finalists in the 2004 Reel Dance Awards. Sink received Highly Commended in the Festival competition. Her latest work The Physical Story premiered at The 2004 Next Wave Festival at Melbourne’s Federation Square. Fiona was then commissioned to choreograph two new works at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Most recently she performed with Force Majeure in Kate Champion’s Already Elsewhere at the Sydney Festival. |
