Artist bios
Martin del Amo is a choreographer and dancer with 30 years of professional experience. He is acclaimed for his solos fusing idiosyncratic movement and intimate storytelling, and, more recently, as a creator of group works and solos for others. Programmed by many major festivals and venues across the country, his work has toured nationally and internationally. Martin’s contribution to the Australian arts sector as a teacher, dramaturg, dance writer and mentor to emerging artists has been recognised with the 2024 Creative Australia Award for Dance, the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (2018), and the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship (2015).
Sue Healey is a choreographer, film-maker and installation artist, based on Gadigal land/Sydney, critically acclaimed for her work in dance and the moving image. Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates performance and film for diverse spaces and contexts: galleries, theatres and screens.
Her dance works and films have won national and international awards including 6 Australian Dance Awards and 2 Hong Kong Dance Awards (2017, 2021) and an Opus Klassik Award Germany’s foremost classical music prize for Best Music Video 2023. In 2021 Healey was the recipient of the Australia Council Award for Dance.
Her major work 'AFTERWORLD' premiered at Sydney Festival in Jan 2025 with percussionist Laurence Pike and 5 dancers. The 3 channel installation ON VIEW: ICONS was presented in Sydney Festival 2024 and is touring Australia 2024/25. Her work is shown in many galleries around Australia and Asia.
Her 'ON VIEW' series, cine-portraits of dance artists from Asia and Australia, culminated in the large-scale performance installation 'Panorama' in Japan 2020 and 'Panoramic Suite' in Sydney and Hong Kong in 2021. Various digital and live iterations from this work have toured to Japan, Hong Kong and around Australia.
Tra Mi Dinh is an award-winning choreographer and dancer working across Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal/Sydney.
In 2025, Tra Mi will restage Somewhere between ten and fourteen (2023 – originally commissioned for New Breed) alongside works by Rafael Bonachela and Stephen Page in a triple bill for Sydney Dance Company’s main season ‘Continuum‘. Tra Mi’s recent work Seven dances for two people (2024) commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc was named by The Australian as a standout performance of 2024. In 2022, Tra Mi won the Keir Choreographic Award for her duet The___. Other choreographic works include HOLDING (2021); And, again (2022), (UP)HOLDING (2023); Not the Piece (2023), Somewhere between ten and fourteen (2023). She is an Artist in Residence at The Substation.
As a dancer Tra Mi has worked for Lucy Guerin Inc, Stephanie Lake Company, Chunky Move, Joel Bray Dance, Michelle Heaven, Victoria Chiu, Dance Makers Collective and more.
Mitchell Christie is an independent dance artist and educator living and working on unceded land of the Gadigal and Dharug people – Sydney, Australia.
Mitchell studied at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, receiving his BFA in 2017 and launching his career as a freelance dancer and guest artist for numerous companies and choreographers in New York City. He is a founding member of BIRDHOUSE Collective, a Brooklyn-based company critically acclaimed for their innovative site-specific works and advocacy for accessible art. Mitchell has worked closely with the Merce Cunningham Trust since 2015 and became an authorised teacher of the technique in 2024.
Mitchell frequently teaches programs for community, pre-professional and professional dancers across Sydney. He is passionate about delivering programs for people living with and without disability. In 2024 Mitchell was an international Artist in Residence at South East Dance, Brighton UK for his research on inclusive dance practices.
Mitchell is currently a member Dance Makers Collective’s Artistic Directorate. His role involves designing and delivering responsive public programs, as well as choreographing and performing with the company. With DMC, Mitchell presented his largest ensemble work 'Trackwork' on 8 dancers at Riverside Theatres 2023. Mitchell’s other independent choreographic work includes 'Uh Oh' for 4 dancers at The Old Fitz Theatre in 2022, and his first solo work 'Way of Escape' produced by Catapult presented at The Lock Up in 2024.