Dance (Lens) Mini 2024: Workshops
with Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, & Cobie Orger

Presented as a part of Dance (Lens) Mini 2024.
For Dance (Lens) Mini 2024, Dancehouse is delighted to offer a suite of exciting workshops for existing and aspiring screendance artists to help polish, perfect, and inspire your creations.
Featuring three local screendance specialist artists: Sue Healey, Siobhan Murphy, and Cobie Orger, these three in-person workshops build and refresh skills and creative strategies.
The Dance (Lens) Mini workshops are a well-timed opportunity to inspire your screendance works ahead of Dance (Lens) Festival’s 2025 Official Selection expression of interest submission!
Both dance and film artists are welcome. And all screendance-making experience is accommodated including both new artists to screendance, as well as those currently creating work.
Participants are welcome to bring their own equipment, or to use Dancehouse cameras. For the EDIT workshop with Cobie Orger, participants are encouraged to bring their laptops and editing software.
All workshops are 3 hours (180 mins) with a 1-hr lunch break mid-way through. And at a minimum, can be undertaken with basic phone cameras.
>> Further information about each workshop is available below.
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MASTERCLASS with Sue Healey
11am-3pm, Thursday 28 November
Sue Healey is a guest of Dance (Lens) Mini 2024.
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RHYTHM with Siobhan Murphy
11am-3pm, Friday 29 November
Rhythm is central to the most exciting and impactful screendance works. Exploring the use of rhythm, musicality, and tempo from creative conception to performance, framing to filming, and through to post-production, with local screendance artist, and Dance (Lens) curator Siobhan Murphy.
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EDIT-LAND with Cobie Orger
11am-3pm, Saturday 30 November
EDIT-LAND is an invitation into the world of editing for screendance using the free software DaVinci Resolve. Participants are welcome to bring material from screen works in progress or work with supplied footage issued in the workshop. This is an introductory, hands on workshop so laptops or portable desktops/pc’s are required. Knowledge of, and working with, other software is welcome but Resolve will be the demonstrated app. Please have downloaded and installed DaVinci Resolve 19 on your computer before commencement of workshop – (https://www.blackmagicdesign.
SUE HEALEY is a critically acclaimed artist working in the fields of performance, installation and film. Her work draws its inspiration from dance as a transformative and poetic language yet transcends the boundaries of the form, revealing the universality of movement. With extensive experience in choreographic practice and cross-artform investigation, Healey moves seamlessly between dance, film and installation. Her work investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between disciplines, and the revelations that are sparked at those intersections. Critically, movement is at the heart of each of the works. Her recent practice explores portraiture of dance artists across Asia and Australia. Sue was the recipient of the 2021 Australia Council Award for Dance. Her work is aesthetically unique and relevant to a wide demographic, across age and interest. It is witnessed in a diversity of contexts and spaces; galleries, public spaces, screens and theatres.
SIOBHAN MURPHY is a choreographer and academic based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her practice focuses on screendance works for single channel and gallery installation outcomes, with works screened in festivals and museums in cities throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as London, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Lisbon and Edinburgh. Her recent scholarly and artistic research centers on dance portraiture, with her portrait of Joanne White at the London International Screendance Festival in 2019, and her portrait of Alice Cummins at Dance (Lens) in 2021. Her article on screendance portraiture examines the productive counterpoints of the portraiture tradition and builds toward an emergent framework for understanding how screendance portraits function. Siobhan teaches and supervises in dance studies, screendance and artistic research.
COBIE ORGER is an interdisciplinary artist working across forms including dance, video, sound and installation. Her interest lies primarily in the integration of forms and creating methodologies that utilise and mash up the creative languages at hand. Her work has been presented locally and abroad and has often stemmed from residencies at places such as Bundanon, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Dancehouse, Critical Path, Les Baines Connective and Cultuurcentrum Berchem. Her practice often involves collaborations with artists from the visual arts, music, theatre, and dance, and generates work that can exist as intimate viewing encounters, through to large scale, participatory community events. Cobie also documents a large number of live performances/events throughout Melbourne’s (usually) creative landscape and has shared this knowledge along with video editing techniques with tertiary students at the VCA and members of St. Martins Youth Theatre.