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Daniel Jaber

Daniel Jaber (2010), Malaysia

Daniel Jaber joined Gary Stewart’s Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) as a full-time company member while finishing his studies at the Adelaide Centre for the Arts. Daniel has created roles and performed in ADT works including G, Devolution, Held, Age of Unbeauty, Birdbrain and Vocabulary. Since 2008, Daniel has been working independently in Adelaide and Berlin. Jaber premiered his first full-length solo work Too far again, not far enough... at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2010. During his residency in Malaysia at Rimbun Dahan, Jaber will create a new work with Malaysian dancers to be performed in Malaysia and in Australia.

Supported by Arts SA and the Australia-Malaysia Institute.
Sean Taylor-Leech

Sean Taylor (2010), Malaysia

Sean Taylor is an electronic music producer, broadcast content maker, and arts curator. With a Bachelors Degree in Sound Design and over five years’ experience in production, broadcasting, performance and installation, Taylor creates immersive sound and new media products with global perspectives. He freelances through his own Mute-til-late Productions, specialising in production, performance and management for music, radio, film, and fine arts, with recent clients including Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art and ABC Radio National. Through his residency in Kuala Lumpur, Taylor will collaborate with the Instant Theatre Café to design sound and music for a new Instant Theatre Cafe production entitled Closer.

Supported by the Australia-Malaysia Institute and the Australia Council.
Andrew Hale and Renee McIntosh

Andrew Hale & Renee McIntosh (2009), Malaysia

Andrew Hale, a graduate from École Jacques Lecoq, and Renée McIntosh, a graduate of West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, formed Happy Dagger Theatre to explore the essence of theatre and its necessity for audiences in a world of blockbuster entertainment. Receiving four Equity Guild Award nominations and recipient of a 2006 Blue Room Award, their style is actor-driven, economical and physical with a reputation for vigorous collaboration and controversy.  Their residency with Instant Café Theatre in Kuala Lumpur exposed them to other collaborative approaches and working methods, especially with regards to traditional physical storytelling, comedy and instant creation from constant chaos.

Supported by Australia Malaysia Institute and The Australia Council. 

Adam Broinowski (2000), Malaysia

Adam Broinowski is a performer, writer and film maker.  He made the SBS Japanese counter-culture documentary Hell Bento! with Tetrapod and his documentary won the Columbia Film Festival, Hawaii Film Festival, and Sydney Film Festival best documentary awards and was awarded the 1998 Age Green Room Award for Best Lead Actor. In Malaysia Broinowski worked with Dramalab as a writer/dramaturg.  The theme of progress and its application through cultural deprogramming and reprogramming within the global regime is the focus of the play No Known Cure that Broinowski wrote during the residency. A reading was held at The Arts Café, National Arts Gallery performed by Albakri and Broinowski with video images by Koen Wastijn.

Funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the Australia Council.

Jacqueline Grenfell & Simon Ellis (2004), Malaysia

Dancer/choreographer Simon Ellis and sound designer Jacqueline Grenfell are artists with a particular interest in interdisciplinary work and new media. Their residency with Chen Ing Kuan's Hornland Dance Theatre Company in Sibu, Malaysia enabled them to engage with the local Chinese culture of Sarawak and create a major work Sleep, Wake, Dream, a seminar and a four-day workshop for the public.  As a result of the residency Ellis has been invited back to Kuala Lumpur to perform in the Malaysian Dance Festival.

Funded by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council

Lina Limosani

Lina Limosani (2008), Malaysia

Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999, Lina Limosani became a member of Garry Stewart's Australian Dance Theatre from 2000-05. During this time she was awarded the Emerging Artist Award by the Adelaide Critics Circle for her works in ADT's in-house choreographic seasons. She has since maintained a performance career both in Australia and New Zealand, and gone on to create her own works independently. Limosani used her residency at Rimbun Dahan to explore and research her own choreographic practice whilst creating a new work, inspired by the forces of rapid modernisation and their juxtaposition with tradition in Malaysia.

Supported by Arts SA and the Australia Council.

Steven Gration (1996), Malaysia

Queensland based theatre director, Steven Gration spent four months at the Five Arts Centre, Kuala Lumpur. During his residency Gration was invited to work as a director/facilitator on an original Theater in Education performance for secondary school students.

Funded by Arts Qld, Malaysia Australia Foundation and Australian High Commission Malaysia.

Margie Medlin (1998), Malaysia

Margie Medlin is a freelance lighting designer, projection designer and film maker.  She has created lighting and projection work for Chambermade Opera, Arena Theatre, desoxy theatre, The Contemporary Music Events Company and the National Gallery of Victoria. During her time in Korea, Margie split her residency between the Seoul Arts Centre and Kuali Works, Malaysia.

Funded by the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.

Sue Ingleton (1997), Malaysia

Sue Ingleton is a highly respected and well known performer and writer. She has worked in community theatre, cabaret, mainstream and fringe theatre in most parts of Australia and internationally. Ingleton has written over a dozen scripts including  Mythtery and Strip Jack Naked and her play The Passion & Its Deep Connection With Lemon Delicious Pudding has been published by Currency Press.  During her residency, Ingleton spent 8 weeks in Malaysia working with KualiWorks, a women’s theatre, television and media company in Kuala Lumpur. She ran workshops with women aged from 20 to in their 60’s to develop a series of one-woman shows. She also performed her own show Slice Of Her Life at the Australian High Commission Theatre.

Funded by the Australia Council.