Shaun McLeod has danced with Australian Dance Theatre, Danceworks, One Extra and Company in Space, and in various independent projects. He has created or collaborated on works such as ‘In Visible Ink’ (1995 Green Room award nomination), ‘Cowboy Songs’ (1997), ‘Fallow’ (Danceworks, 1997) and ‘Chamber’ (2002 Green Room award for best video). Shaun was invited to perform at the 2005 Seoul International Crossover Improvisation Festival, was a participant/researcher in the improvisation event Precipice 2006 at the Australian Choreographic Centre, performed in john cage’s ‘musicircus’ for the 2008 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, and in 2009 presented ‘The weight of the thing left its mark’ at Dancehouse. He is interested in the ways in which performance improvisation intersects with choreography and believes that arts practice is a rich research methodology.
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Cecil street studio: improvised community and sustainable practices
Shaun McLeod (Deakin University Melbourne) pays tribute to some of the people who have been vital to establishing and sustaining regular meetings for dance artists to practice improvisation as performance. He talks about the groups' activities and some of the values and artistic concerns that meld the disparate individuals and practices into a flexible but functioning community.