Denborough, Kate (1974 - )

Seselja, Loui: Portrait of Kate Denborough, 2002

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Kate Denborough graduated from the School of Dance, Victorian College of the Arts in 1994 after initially training in Canberra. In 1996 she co-founded Kage physical theatre with Gerard Van Dyck. As the artistic director of Kage she has devised, directed and /or performed in all of the company's works and was the recipient of an Australian Dance Award for outstanding achievement in independent dance for her production Nowhere Man for Kage in 2004.

In 1998 Denborough was awarded the Green Room Award for Female Emerging Artist. In 1999 she received a Womens Artist Grant to develop Birthday her first solo dance theatre performance, which was directed by John Bolton. Birthday was first performed in Melbourne in September 2000. Denborough has also worked with companies such as Chunky Move, Australian Dance Theatre and compagnie par.b.leux (Montreal). In 2003 she was choreographer in residence at Dance Box, Osaka, and in 2005 was the artistic director of a company of six Australian performers resident at World Expo in Nagoya, Japan. More recently she directed Frank Woodley's solo show Possessed and choreographed Pink Lines for Tasdance.

See also: Australian Dance Awards, The ; Australian Dance Theatre ; Chunky Move ; Kage Physical Theatre ; TasDance

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