Collaborator and Dancer - Melt, Plasticine Park, Human Interest Story
Dancer - Aether
Stephanie Lake is a Melbourne based dancer, choreographer and teacher. As a teenager in Launceston she was a founding member of Stompin and did an apprenticeship with TasDance before moving to Melbourne. Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000, Stephanie has spent the past ten years working with choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek at Chunky Move, Phillip Adams’ BalletLab, Antony Hamilton and Byron Perry and GoD BE IN MY MouTH. She has toured Australia, Europe, the UK, the US, Canada, and Asia. Stephanie won the Green Room Award for Best Emerging Dancer in 2000 and the Melbourne Festival Choice Award for Trike, which she co-directed in the same year. She has been nominated for an Australian Dance Award and Green Room Award for her work with Guerin. Stephanie has also had acclaim as a choreographer with several commissions for short works from Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin, Stompin and Natalie Cursio as well as her own projects. She has lectured and choreographed regularly for the students at the Faculty of the VCA and Music for the past ten years. Stephanie created a large participatory dance work for 100 people for Chunky Move/Ausdance in 2009 that was performed in Fed Square and a City of Melbourne mob dance for 400 dancers performed in Bourke St Mall in January this year. This year Stephanie is associate choreographer to Gideon Obarzanek for his new work, is creating a “pop-up” project for Melbourne Festival and will choreograph her own full- length piece, Mix Tape for Chunky Move as part of the Next Move program.
