We are thrilled to announce Beth Mooney and Chloe Annalise Moir as the recipients of the STRUT Residency for 2026.
Beth and Chloe will be travelling to Perth to develop and present their second-stage development Whispers at STRUT Dance.
This residency unites national dance sectors by providing development opportunities for dance-makers across Australia.
About the artist:
Beth Mooney is an emerging independent artist from Ireland and South Australia. Graduated in 2022 from Adelaide College Of The Arts, her endeavours have led to many explorations within movement.
As an artist with scoliosis and spinal fusion, her practice centres around pushing and seeking the limitations of an abnormal spine while having notable experiences working with major companies, festivals and artists. Some include Daniel Riley, Lee Brummer, Alison Currie, Carol Wellman Kelly, Netflix, OzAsia, RTÉ, Illuminate Adelaide, DanceHub SA, Carclew and Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Most recently, she has represented South Australia at the International Rose Of Tralee Festival, and won Creative Catalyst Award, TAFE SA Honour Awards 2025.
Chloe Annalise Moir is an emerging dance artist and choreographer from Adelaide, South Australia, with training across multiple disciplines through UniSA, AC Arts, TAFE SA and ACPA.
With a focus on contemporary dance, Chloe has participated in mentorships with DanceHubSA with Amanda Phillips, Alison Currie and Lina Limosani and performed in Adelaide Fringe and WOMADelaide events, while continuing to share her passion for dance as a Teacher and Program Leader with DanceSA.
Chloe has experience in performance, choreography and producing her own works, including Whispers Down The Lane, which premiered at the Adelaide Fringe and received the award for Best Dance Show Week One.
She also participated in DanceHubSA’s inaugural Dance X program and received Dance.Focus funding to create her first dance film, Whispers Down The Lane.
With a growing interest in dance filmmaking and music videos as alternative ways to tell stories and share her art, Chloe is passionate about collaborating with fellow creatives, developing her practice and contributing to a more accessible and inclusive arts community in Adelaide.
We’re thrilled to announce Motus Collective as the recipient of our STRUT Residency for 2025.
Felicity and Zoe will be travelling to Perth to develop and present their second-stage development TRIFLE at STRUT Dance.
This residency unites national dance sectors by providing development opportunities for dance-makers across Australia.
About the artists:
Motus Collective was formed in 2019 by Adelaide College of the Arts graduates, Zoe Gay and Felicity Boyd.
The collective was formed out of a desire to create a sense of community, to foster collaborations, expand performance opportunities, and to create a revenue of exploration and experimentation.
Motus Collective began their journey hosting Improvisation and ‘Jam Sessions’, before conducting residencies through Australian Dance Theatre, The Mill, VitalStatistix and more. With a heavy importance being placed on inter-disciplinary collaboration, Motus Collective have worked extensively within the visual arts world including performing with Tom Borgas and Amber Cronin in HyperObject, created in Arthur Art Bar’s SA LA LA LAND program, worked with Fine Print Magazine in their live response to If the future is to be worth anything, performed Hiromi Tango’s Brain Flower at Splendour in The Grass, and more recently collaborated with eDuard Helmbold in Elegy of The Pale Lion for VitalStatistix.
Motus Collective were selected to be Share House residents at Carclew in 2021, where they produced Open House, a platform for emerging artists to create and perform, and premiered White Rhino in the Adelaide Fringe, performing to sold out audiences and winning the ‘Best Emerging Artist’ award. 2022 saw Motus Collective premiere The Leftovers, a collaboration with sculptor Nicholas Hanisch, and were selected to be a part of the InSpace program through Adelaide Festival where they developed Trifle, a choreographic experiment melding clowning, cabaret and contemporary. In 2023, Motus Collective returned to the Adelaide Fringe with a remount of The Leftovers and collaborated with Dragon Mill on Unseen Fire Festival, a month long performance celebrating the Winter Solstice. 2024 saw Motus Collective present The Leftovers at the Space Theatre, produced in collaboration by Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2025, Motus Collective is focusing on building the independent sector within South Australia, by starting weekly free classes for professional dancers, and a monthly newsletter highlighting funding opportunities, classes, workshops and more happening within the state.
Felicity is currently working as a dancer, choreographer and physical theatre performer based on Kaurna Yerta, South Australia. Felicity is the co-director of project-based dance company Motus Collective, founded in 2019 after returning from touring Q&A with ilYoung dance company in Sweden. Her practice involves a multi-disciplinary approach to dance.
Felicity’s roles as a performer have most recently involved working for Lina Limosani on What Lurks on the Edge (2025), Requardt & Rosenberg (UK) on Future Cargo at the 2024 Adelaide Fringe, and as producer/performer in Motus Collective’s The Leftovers at the Space Theatre at Adelaide Festival Centre 2024. She has worked for Australian Dance Theatre as a replacement dancer on Garry Stewart’s South and toured and performed with Lewis Major Projects on Losers. She has worked with Tobiah Booth-Remmers, Eldad Ben-Sasson, Matan David and APHIDS. Felicity’s theatrical credits include Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s L’Hotel and Frank Theatre’s Chameleon, as well as Aaron Schuppan's short film Heavy Red.
Felicity’s choreographic commissions include works for Australian Dance Theatre’s The World’s Smallest Stage, Vitalstatistix’ Adhocracy, Tom Borgas’ HyperObject, Dragon Mill’s Unseen Fire Festival and Motus Collective’s co-choreographed White Rhino (winner of Best Emerging Artist award 2021), Old Body, New Management and Trifle.
Felicity holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) from Flinders University, and a Certificate IV in Commercial Dance from Gravity Studios.
Zoe Gay is an independent contemporary dancer, choreographer, and producer based on Kaurna Land. A graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance), Zoe has collaborated with a range of acclaimed artists including Lee Brummer, Israel Aloni, Lina Limosani, Garry Stewart, Michelle Ryan, and Larissa McGowan. In 2019, she co-founded Motus Collective, through which she has developed and performed in projects such as Brain Flower by Hiromi Tango, eDuard Helmbold’s Elegy of The Pale Lion, and the Vitalstatistix Adhocracy program. Her co-choreographed work White Rhino won Best Emerging Artist at the 2021 Adelaide Fringe. She also directed The Leftovers, presented in both the 2022 and 2023 festivals.
Zoe moved to Bergen, Norway in 2023, where she completed a choreographic residency at Bergen Dansesenter for a new work, Narrated by Cillian Murphy, worked for Borealis Music Festival as Ticketing Manager, and premiered Once More With Feeling in collaboration with Norwegian artist June Lysjø at Festival Danserom in Bergen. In 2024, Zoe returned to Australia to create and premiere On Not Knowing with the Bachelor dancers at Adelaide College of the Arts, and was commissioned by Adelaide Festival Centre to present The Leftovers at the Space Theatre. Zoe’s choreographic work explores the space between realism and absurdism, often drawing from time paradoxes, thought experiments, and the complexities of the human condition—constantly returning to the universal stories that connect us all.
