Rhiannon Newton

Website: www.rhiannonnewton.com

Email: r.newton@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Rochelle Haley, Tema Milstein

Rhiannon is an Australian dancer and choreographer who grew up on Dunghutti Land on the Mid-North Coast of NSW. Her creative work draws attention to the interconnection of the body and the more-than-human world. Working from Gadigal land (Sydney), Rhiannon makes contributions to community and culture through choreography, performance, education, research and curation. She has developed her choreographic practice through residency, commission and presentation opportunities throughout Australia, South-East Asia, Europe and North America. Rhiannon's recent projects include Caresss (Riverside Theatre, 2024), Earthbound (VOLUME, AGNSW, 2023), Explicit Contents (Sydney Festival, 2021; Dancehouse Melbourne, INDance Sydney Dance Company, QL2 Dance, 2022); A Strange Place (Dance Nucleus, Singapore 2022); The Gift of a Warning (New Breed, 2021); Long Sentences (Baltic Circle, Helsinki, 2019); and We Make Each Other Up (Dancehouse, Melbourne 2018).

Rhiannon has worked as a performer and collaborator with artists such as Mette Edvardsen (Belgium/Norway), Martin del Amo, Lee Serle, Ivey Wawn, Amrita Hepi, Rosalind Crisp, Paea Leach, Angela Goh and Brooke Stamp. In 2022 she completed an MPhil at the School of Arts and Media at UNSW and she is currently PhD candidate at the School of Art and Design at UNSW. Rhiannon has been on the board of ReadyMade Works since 2015 and co-directed the organisation from 2018-2021. Rhiannon co-curates the performance-lecture series Talking Bodies since 2019, is a member of the Dance Research Australasia (DRA) working group, and is a part-time lecturer at the Australian College of Physical Education and tutor at NAISDA Dance College.