Great Southern Dance performer
August 2025 at Studio Theatre - Theatre Royal
Photography: Rosie Hastie
Intersectional performance research by Great Southern Dance 2024-25
Executive Producers
Felicity Bott
Paul Wakelam
Gavin Harrison
Director | Artistic Director | Choreographer | Producer
Felicity Bott
Design Director | Creative Producer
Paul Wakelam
Dancer Collaborators
Alya Manzart
Robert Alejandro Tinning
Risa Muramatsu Ray
Gabrielle Martin
Producers
Gavin Harrison, The Proto 9
Mam Dolnvas, The Proto 9
Director of Photography
Joshua Lamont ACS
First Assistant Director
Gavin Harrison
Drone Pilot
Craig Garth
First Assistant Camera
David Ortiz
Production Assistant | Second Assistant Camera
Antonio Nicasio
Production Assistant | Wardrobe
Brianna Jade Shahin
Production Assistant | Catering
Sharyn Wilson
Behind the Scenes Photography
Amy Brown
‘Moth’ Cloaks Design
Tom O’Hern
Post-Production (Editing & Color Grading)
Your Figment
AN INTERGENERATIONAL DANCE EXPERIENCE
Conceived/directed by Felicity Bott with design direction by Paul Wakelam, this Great Southern Dance intergenerational dance production is created in collaboration with Mature Artists Dance Experience and four youth interns. Aged 13-76, Hiero’s cast of 20 dancers spans four generations.
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
12-1pm Saturday July 6, 2024 at Hobart City Hall
2 PUBLIC SHOWINGS
2-3pm Saturday July 6, 2023 at Hobart City Hall
4-5pm Saturday July 6, 2023 at Hobart City Hall
Hiero original artwork commissioned from Joanna Brown
Kinetic Connections is a celebration of movement and story through dance. From seaside Colombia to the far north of India to the streets of Tokyo, this immersive new performance explores the connections we share across cultures and histories.
Dancer: Maira Rodriguez, Nova A Chowdhury and Risa Muramatsu Ray
Moving Portrait: Ursula Woods
Stage Design: Edith Perrenot
Presented by Constance ARI and proudly supported through the Glenorchy City Council Cultural Celebrations Grants Program.
Photo by Cassie Sullivan
Durational performance of electro-ambient psychedelic jazz, accompanied by live dance in the fluid, slow-moving butoh tradition. Devised by Reuben Lewis in collaboration with Yumi Umiumare, I Hold the Lion’s Paw and Taka Takiguchi (滝口貴).
Artistic director
Performed at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre for Utopia Now! Installation part of Winter Light Arts Festival presented by Salamanca Arts Centre.
It envelopes me, and I cannot but absorb it. I become it.
In giving back, I cannot but leave my imprint. It becomes me.
Co-mingling, acting upon each other thus, we transform, we are transformed.
Universal. Cyclical. Sustaining. Sensitive. Unending.
2022 February at the Theatre Royal Hobart
Filmed and directed by Ursula Woods
Two channel video work, 16mm, dimensions variable
Text and palawa kani written and spoken by Neika Lehman
Gaelic spoken by Ursula Woods
Sound Hilary Woods
Dance Risa Muramatsu Ray
Women’s Art Prize Tasmania 2022 Finalist
Performance at Faro, Mona
2021~2022
3, 4 and 5 August 2021 at Peacock Theatre
Choreography, performance, composition, production
Photo by Jessica Coughlan
5th and 6th March 2021 at Moonah Arts Center
8th August 2021 at Peacock Theatre
Choreographer and project officer.
DARK MOFO 2019 Panopticon iii
Photo by Cassie Sullivan
17,18/9/2018 Ulverstone Sports centre
19,20,21/9/2018 Kingborough Sports Centre
Choreography and dancer.
24/3/2012
神楽坂セッションハウス (Kagurazaka, Tokyo)
Written, choreographed and stage produced by Risa Muramatsu (Risa Ray)
Video Nao Yoshigai
19/2/2011
ASAHI ART SQUARE (Asakusa, Tokyo)
Performance by nic
Written, choreographed and stage produced by Risa Muramatsu (Risa Ray)