Paea Leach

Paea is an independent dancer and choreographer who trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and was based (and working) in Perth until 2005.  She has most recently performed with Australian Dance Theatre in Garry Stewart’s new work for the Adelaide Festival Devolution – a work involving collaboration with a French robotics engineer. In 2005 Paea choreographed WAN for Co. Loaded for the Perth International Arts Festival and spent time undertaking professional development with Emio Greco in Amsterdam and Vienna.  Paea also worked on a further development period for the SOLOS project – two new works by Shannon Bott and Simon Ellis – which will be performed in Melbourne and as part of the Artrage festival in Perth in 2006. Paea is a member of Arts WA, Young People and the Arts Panel, and has been funded for national and international travel. Paea began working with Chunky Move in 2005.