Common Ground

Anouk van Dijk is choreographer, director and the creator behind Countertechnique. She has been the Artistic Director of the Australian dance company Chunky Move from 2012-2019, and ran her own Amsterdam-based company anoukvandijk dc from 1999-2012. Her work is staged for a wide range of settings: from black box theatre to main stage productions, from installation work to site-specific spectacles.

In 2012 Van Dijk was awarded the Golden Swan, the Netherlands most prestigious dance accolade – in recognition of her outstanding artistic and academic contribution to dance. Central to the foundation of her creative work has been Countertechnique, providing dancers with tools for versatile dance practice in the 21st century. Currently Countertechnique has almost 40 certified teachers worldwide and the methodology holds a prominent place in the publication Dance Techniques 2010, co-written by Prof. Gerald Siegmund and Anouk van Dijk.

Anouk van Dijk is represented by Stepping Grounds Arts/Culture Management.

Jethro Woodward is a Melbourne-based composer, musical director, arranger, musician and sound designer recognized for his expansive and highly layered film, theatre and dance scores. A multi Green Room Award winner and Helpmann nominee ha has worked with some of Australia’s leading major and independent companies including Malthouse Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Victoria, Chamber Made Opera, Back to Back, Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc, Australian Dance Theatre, Aphids, Stuck Pugs Squealing, Rawcus, KAGE and more.

Jethro regularly tours his work internationally and has won Green Room Awards for his work on; ’Song for a Weary Throat’ (Rawcus), ’For The Ones Who Walk Away’ (St. Martins), ’The Bloody Chamber’ (Malthouse Theatre), ’Moth ’ (Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre) ’Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd’ (Malthouse Theatre/Arena Theatre) and ’Irony Is Not Enough’ (Fragment 31). Jethro was the recipient of the 2018 Green Room Technical Achievement Award.

Paul has designed lighting for most of Australia’s leading arts companies and has lectured in design at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University and the Victorian College of the Arts. His work has featured in festivals and programmes in the United States, Asia, Europe and the UK. Paul was listed in The Bulletin’s Smart 100, and was the Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellow for 2007. He was an Artistic Associate at Malthouse Theatre from 2007-2013 and is presently an Artistic Associate at Melbourne Theatre Company.

Paul was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship in 2017. He has received a Helpmann Award, seven Green Room Awards, two Sydney Theatre Awards, five Australian Production Design Guild Awards and a Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland.