Australia Dancing - Champion, Kate (1961

Champion, Kate (1961 - )

Lansac, Regis: Kate Champion in 'The House of AWA', One Extra Company, 1984

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Kate Champion is director of Force Majeure, a collective of artists and art forms committed to the exploration of performance work with a strong physical base. Born in Sydney, Champion began her dance training with Karen Kerkhoven. She later continued her studies in Munich. She has worked with a number of Australia's best known contemporary dance companies including the One Extra Company, Dance North and Australian Dance Theatre.

A major influence on her career has been Lloyd Newson and his DV8 Physical Theatre. Champion has worked with Newson both as production assistant and performer, notably on Enter Achilles, Strange Fish, The Happiest Day of my Life and Newson's Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival commission The Cost of Living.

In the 1990s, rather than performing in works created by others, Champion began to make her own work. She has made a number of solo pieces including Face Value and About Face as well as works for Force Majeure including Already Elsewhere, Same same But Different, Tenebrae 1 + 2, The Sense of it (five short movement based films), and The Age I'm In. Force Majeure have won two Australian Dance Awards for outstanding performance by a company - in 2005 for Already Elsewhere and in 2009 for The Age I'm In.

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