PLAGIARY

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, REAL DANCE

ALISDAIR MACINDOE & TASDANCE
present the fourth iteration of this
acclaimed work.

Fresh from its international appearance at Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Plagiary lands in Launceston as the launchpad for its Playing Australia tour—a celebration of innovation, process, and performance.

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SHOW DETAILS

WHEN: FRIDAY 5TH & SATURDAY 6TH DECEMBER
TIME: 7:00-8:00
WHERE: THE ANNEXE THEATRE, INVERESK CAMPUS, UTAS
TICKETS: $15

CREATIVE TEAM

ALISDAIR MACINDOE — Direction, Sound, Text, Still Images, Coding, Set & Choreography
SAM McGILP — Video & Coding
AMY LEVER DAVIDSON — Lighting Design & Production Assistant
ANDREW TRELOAR — Costumes & Props
CHRIS CHUA — Software Developer
MARK HARDINGE — Production Manager (Launceston)
ZSUZSA GAYNOW MIHALY — Production & Tour Manager
PENELOPE LEISHMAN & JASON CROSS (INSITE ARTS) — Producers 

JESPER HARRISON — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
ANGIE COLLINS — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
AMY BAILLIE — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
IZZY LOCKETT — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
JACQUI MAIDA — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
LILY ALCOCK — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
ORIEL COPELAND — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
REUBEN MACDOUGAL DI MANNO — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
SARAH GROTH — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography
TOBY McKNIGHT — Dance, Spoken Word & Choreography

MEET THE DANCE ARTISTS

AMY BALLIE

Amy (she/her) is an emerging artist currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts - majoring in Sculpture & Time-based Media at the University of Tasmania.

 Amy’s practice traverses disciplines of performance art, dance, participatory performances and sculpture. World-building and space making, Amy is passionate about creating environments transporting audiences elsewhere. She thrives off of collaboration and connection, constantly seeking out opportunities to create and work with others.

 Being a member of Launceston’s Youth Dance Company Stompin since 2020, Amy has performed in Junction Arts Festival, MONA FOMA and Ten Days on the Island. Choreographing works such as ‘Into the void’ 2023, in Stompin’s Youth Choreographic Project and interning in Stompin’s major project ‘Ground Beneath, Ocean Between’ 2024.

Alongside her artistic practice, Amy is the 2024/25 Director of The Creative Pod, UTAS’ art society, and works at Design Tasmania. 

Amy hopes to create a safe, inclusive and expressive space for all as she continues to work, dance and create on Palawa country. 

Photo credit: Stevie’s Camerawork

ANGIE COLLINS

Angie Collins is a contemporary dancer and emerging artist who blends movement, theatre, and sound.

She was born in Launceston, where she loved dancing with STOMPIN and became an active part of the local theatre and arts scene. Angie has worked and performed with Tasmanian companies such as Terrapin Puppet Theatre, IO Performance, ROOKE, Mudlark, Three River, The Launceston Players and LYTE.

After moving to Melbourne this year, she joined Yellow Wheel and began studying sound production at RMIT. She most recently collaborated on experimental dance work 'CAMOPANSIES' for Melbourne Fringe Festival, and has been expanding and exploring her practice.

IZZY LOCKETT

Izzy is a Contemporary dancer currently living in Lutruwita/Tasmania. She studied Contemporary Dance at Transit Dance in Naarm/Melbourne graduating in 2022. Her training was under the directorship of Paul Malek and Bradley Chatfield.

Izzy is currently working with the creative team at Tasdance teaching regular workshops at Ashley Youth Detention Centre and working with the Smiths Family. This involves 4 day workshops introducing high school students to the mental and physical benefits of movement. She also teaches dance discovery classes through the public program at Tasdance.

Alongside continuing this path, she is also passionate about her development as a Contemporary dancer/performer. Izzy is excited for future plans to travel internationally, exposing herself deeper into the world of Contemporary dance and to strengthen and refine her individual style.

JACQUI MAIDA

Born and based in Naarm/Melbourne, Jacqui is tending to a twenty-three year long relationship with dance and movement. As an innate improviser, they find fascination in developed improvised scores, movement gameplay, image-based tasks and group improvisations. Recently Jacqui’s practice manifests in a blend of contemporary dance education, solo, duo and group improvisations, facilitating youth dance practice, and regularly attending movement presentations across Naarm. Currently in the role of Executive Assistant with Yellow Wheel, they also have developing relationships with other youth companies across the country, such as Fling Physical Theatre (Bega) , Stompin (Launceston) and QL2 (Canberra).  Read more here: https://www.jacqui-maida.com 

JESPER HARRISON

Jesper Harrison (he/him) is an emerging dance artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Originally

from Lutruwita/Tasmania, he was a member of Stompin Youth Dance Company for seven years and has worked with artists including Jo Lloyd, Phillip Adams, James Batchelor, Jenni

Large, Kyall Shanks, and more. In 2022, he co-created the full-length work ‘Rival Planes’ with Sage Price, mentored by Ashleigh Musk and Michael Smith, for Mona Foma. This year he performed in Jo Lloyd’s ‘Duo Agitato’ and Phillip Adams’ ‘Fountain’ as part of RISING

Festival 2025. Most recently he performed a new work ‘Post hoc’ choreographed by Jo Lloyd, which premiered in the 2025 season of PIECES commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc. and University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC). His practice and interests extend into sound design and exploring the body as a vessel within multidisciplinary contexts.

LILY ALCOCK

Lily Alcock is a contemporary movement artist born and based in Lutruwita/ Tasmania.

After graduating from Ev&Bow in 2021, Lily has continued to undertake diverse freelance work between Tasmania, Sydney and Adelaide; with the likes of Second Echo Ensemble, MONA, Lina Limosani, Anton, Paulina Quinteros, Dance For Parkinson’s Australia, DRILL and Lux Eterna.

As the recent recipient of the 2024 Annie Greig Scholarship, Lily undertook six months of international professional development and performances across India, Berlin, Prague, Italy and Los Angeles, with the likes of Kalakeli Arts, B12 Mavericks, Akira Yoshida, Ferus Animi//Terra Nova, ATE9 Dance and Jacob Jonas The Company.

Lily’s creative practice is centred around inquiring further into the internal kinaesthetic sensations and external physicality of what movement is produced when in flow.

Specifically, through integrating breakdance pathways, contemporary floorwork and acro flow, engaging in diverse community spaces, undertaking outdoor practices, and researchinginto the somatic healing modalities of movement.

ORIEL COPELAND

Oriel Copeland is an emerging artist and contemporary dancer. A recent graduate of the Western Australian Academy of the Arts (WAAPA), Oriel is currently based between Boorloo (Perth) and Meanjin (Brisbane).

Oriel has had the opportunity to learn from and perform the works of Kynan Hughes, Michael Whaites, Sue Peacock, Jo Omodei, Storm Helmore, Tyrone Robinson and Ella-Rose Trew, and as a featured dancer Taiwanese singer, Kowen’s “My Nova” music video, a project worked on during a student exchange opportunity at Taipei National University of the Arts.

After creating work and film in WAAPA’s student choreographic season this year, Oriel continues to explore her passion for movement, collaboration, creation between disciplinaries, performing and choreographing in the future. Plagiary will be her professional debut.

REUBEN MACDOUGALL Di MANNO

Reuben is an emerging artist, working from unceded Wurundjeri land, with a particular interest in improvisation. Reuben has an expensive piece of paper called a ‘Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance)’ and is a Yellow Wheel alumni. Reuben and the word ‘practice’ are old foes, and the two still engage in regular skirmishes, but Reuben has recently been thinking about attention… how live movement generation focuses attention. Elements of play and duration have been recurring recently, along with an emerging body of writing. Reuben is a huge process nerd whose work often ends up accidentally being about choreography or rehearsal.

SARAH GROTH

I am deeply in love with the Earth, its art, and its movement. I have spent much of my life immersed in the forest, rocks, and dirt. Born and raised on Tiwas homelands in New Mexico, my practice is shaped by place and landscape. My diverse geographical experiences infiltrate my values as an artist. My work spans improvisation, choreography, writing, and mixed-media visual art. 

My time studying and working with the Keshet Center for the Arts, a company focused on movement, mentorship, community, and youth justice, has profoundly influenced my values. Now residing in Lutruwita/Tasmania, I am honored to create, teach, and collaborate with  Assembly 197 and Tasdance. Through community classes, ARTERY dance education programs,  and co-facilitating movement sessions at the Ashley Youth Detention Center, I am continually inspired by young people from all walks of life. From my beginnings in New Mexico to my international travels and now in Lutruwita, my passion for regional practice and community continues to grow. 

Holding a BA in Contemporary Dance and Intercultural Communications from the University of  New Mexico, I also had the opportunity to study in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 2019-2020, where I  worked with Lia Haraki and Panayiotis Tofi. In 2022, I received the UETF Resiliency Residency,  during which I expanded an interdisciplinary solo piece, bodies, exploring presence, femininity,  satisfaction, and whiteness in the moving body. I also participated in the 2023 ImpulsTanz  Festival in Vienna, 2024 MAKE in Lutruwita, and collaborated on Albuquerque Contemporary  Dance Festival in New Mexico and HANNIBAL in Austria. My visual art, poetry, and short stories have been published in several international journals.

TOBY McKNIGHT

Toby McKnight (he/him) is an emerging dance artist currently based in Melbourne/Naarm.

Growing up in Lutruwita/Tasmania, Toby relocated in 2022 to further his training and immerse himself in the diverse Melbourne dance scene. During his time in Lutruwita, Toby was a member of Stompin Youth Dance company for over 7 years, performing in several works by Alisdair Macindoe, James Batchelor, Adam Wheeler, Jack Zeising and Jenni Large for major Tasmanian arts festivals such as Ten Days on the Island, Mona Foma and Junction Arts Festival. He was a collaborator in Tasdance’s ‘Reactor’ for Mona Foma 2020, and in 2021 he danced on the Burnie foreshore at sunrise as a part of David mangenner Gough’s ‘mapali – Dawn Gathering’, the opening of Ten Days on the Island that year.

Since moving from Lutruwita, Toby has performed with QL2, been in two Yellow Wheel major works and performed in Tamara Cubas’ ‘Mutlitude’ as a part of RISING festival. With a passion for accessibility and availability of dance Toby, is drawn to the communities dance creates and brings together. Toby is keen to further his practice professionally and explore how dance can respond to and shift the social-political landscape within which it sits.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.