Dance Launchpad is a professional development program designed to support emerging dancers to build experience in the professional industry, by working with local South Australian choreographers.
The Mill is excited to announce Amanda Phillips and Tobiah Booth-Remmers as the commissioned choreographers for this year’s program.
The inaugural program, was presented by The Mill with Helpmann Academy and supported by Dance Hub SA, Hopgood Theatre and Cirkidz, and in 2022 the program is supported by venue partners ADT and Dance Hub SA.
Amanda Phillips
Amanda Phillips is the Artistic Director of Dance Hub SA and the Creative producer of the production house, Felicity Arts.
She holds a Masters of Dance majoring in Choreography from the Laban Centre and is both a Churchill Fellow and Centennial Medallist, and has received numerous accolades for her work including a Ruby Award for Innovation.
Amanda has an international career as an independent Director, Choreographer, Digital Media Artist, Film-maker, Mentor, Educator and Producer across stage, screen and events. Hailed as a “Mastermind”, her ground-breaking work is described as “the new deal arts-wise at its mesmerising best”. Her repertoire has been presented worldwide including the works Chinese Whispers; subliminal translation; Agent of Language; Look Left: Not Right; Solo Reflections and Dance Between Worlds 432: dance, music and real-time visuals at world heritage site Naracoorte Caves National Park - a collaboration between Sacred Resonance and Felicity Arts.
Amanda has created a significant body of visual sonic and art-technology projects with collaborator Alexander Waite Mitchell that are attributed to pioneering Australian creative firsts across the performing and visual arts arenas, including: Otanical - the mixed reality fairytale; Like yesterday – mixed reality omnipresent monologue and physical soliloquy; The 9-channel interactive installation Mid-life love letters; The iconic Bank Street (DPTI Commission) interactive public art work MASS - Moving Audience Street Sculpture; Future Memory - Australia's first fulldome dance production; and the revolutionary 3xperimentia: Live Cut in 3D.
Photographer credit: Alexander Waite.
Tobiah Booth-Remmers
Tobiah Booth-Remmers is a freelance dance creator, performer, teacher and facilitator from Adelaide, Australia. He has worked with Garry Stewart, Graeme Murphy, Branch Nebula, Brink Productions, Larissa McGowan, Lina Limosani, Gabrielle Nankivell and Paulo Castro among many others. Tobiah has performed in major arts festivals including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Brisbane Festival, WOMAD, Dance Massive, Dublin Dance Festival and has performed at the Barbican Centre in London.
As a dance maker Tobiah has choreographed numerous commissioned and self-produced works, including large immersive, site specific and more traditional format performances. Tobiah has lectured and taught dance to students at Adelaide College of the Arts, LINK, WAAPA, QUT, Transit Dance and at SDC Pre-Professional Year.
Tobiah also regularly works overseas and has received residencies and made work in Bulgaria, Brussels, Sweden and Greece. He has taught workshops on his own creative and movement practice in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, France, Israel and Mexico.