Power duo collaborates at STRUT Dance

As a leading choreographic development centre based in Western Australia, STRUT Dance often recruits and presents elite programming. Now it will present 10 dance artists and 10 composers in a collaborative program designed to encourage and foster cross-artform conversation. 

All under the exquisite leadership of power duo choreographer Stephanie Lake and composer Robin Fox, the free collaborations showing will be Sunday, October 7 from 5-6 p.m. at Subiaco Arts Centre.

Lake, the director of Stephanie Lake Company since its founding in 2014, is known for her major works, including Double Blind, DUAL, A Small Prometheus, AORTA and Mix Tape. She was awarded both the Helpmann Award and Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Choreography in 2014, three years after she won the Green Room Award for Mix Tape. Formerly the inaugural resident director of Lucy Guerin Inc, she has even received a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and the Dame Peggy Van Praagh Choreographic Fellowship. Since becoming a choreographer, Lake has been commissioned by Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, Tasdance, Stompin’, Frontier Danceland (Singapore), Sydney Symphony and the Victorian College of the Arts.

Lake often collaborates across theatre, film and TV, visual art and music videos, and has directed several large-scale public works involving over 1,000 participants. Her performance career spans 15 years, touring and dancing extensively with Gideon Obarzanek’s Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc., as well as with choreographers Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry and Anouk Van Dijk. She was a founding performer in Phillip Adams’ BalletLab. Most recently, she was bestowed an Australia Council grant. 

On the other hand, Robin Fox is a leading Australian audio-visual artist whose laser works have been performed in over 50 cities worldwide. He worked with Lake on AORTA and A Small Prometheus, which involved fire-powered kinetic musical sculptures.

Photo by Bryony Jackson, courtesy of STRUT Dance.