Gabriel Sinclair and Jazmyn Carter
Gabriel and Jazmyn are CDT’s current Artists in Residence and are developing Superposition.
Superposition is a contemporary dance work with a cybernetic-led soundscape. In between a choreographic duel and a pas de deux, the work locks the performers in a state of simultaneous attraction and repulsion. Revealing the possibilities for sensitivity between human nature and technology, the work invites the audience to engage with this intricate relationship in a thought-provoking performance that bridges the gap between science and art.
Photo: Caitlin Dear (2024)
Showing and Workshop
Saturday 12 July, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the CDT Studio.
Gabriel and Jazmyn are proudly hosting a showing and workshop for the CDT community! The session will kick off with a 30 minute showing of their work in progress ’Superposition’. The showing will be followed by a 90 minute workshop sharing their choreographic approach. Expect to learn some repertoire and create some of your own. Bring your dancing minds and thinking bodies!
Gabriel Sinclair is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, screen dance director, and cybernetician in training. Based on Ngunnawal land (Canberra), Gabriel is company artist with Australian Dance Party.
He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), and is working towards a Master’s Degree in Applied Cybernetics at the Australian National University.
The 2024 premiere of his latest work, Superposition (co-choreographed with Jazmyn Carter, and supported by Dancehouse and Lucy Guerin Inc.), has been nominated for two Melbourne Fringe Awards and one Greenroom Award.
His latest dance-film Dragonfly has featured in Adelaide’s Trilogy Film Festival (2023), and Canberra Short Film Festival (2024). In addition to his creating and studying, he is an active teacher in Canberra’s dance and yoga communities.
Jazmyn Carter is a dance artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is an alumni of youth dance company FLING Physical Theatre and graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Dance).
Jazmyn has most recently performed in ‘Superposition’ (2024), in Alisdair Macindoe’s ‘Plagiary’ (2024) for the Now or Never Festival, for Sandra Parker in ‘TEMPORARY HOLD’ (2023) presented at Temperance Hall, and Rhys Ryan’s ‘Sermon’ (2023), shown at Dancehouse for Melbourne Fringe Festival.
In years previous she danced for Alisdair Macindoe’s ‘A.I.D.’ (2022), Jason Pearce’s ‘ALL BLANK WASTELAND’ (2022), Aimee Schollum’s ‘Skin Affinity’ (2021), Stephanie Lake Company’s ‘Colossus’ (2018,2019), and Lee Pemberton’s ‘Heritage, Lineage and Future’ (2018).
Jazmyn’s most recent choreographic work co-created with Gabriel Sinclair, ‘Superposition’ (2024) was presented at Dancehouse as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, and nominated for the 2025 Green Room Awards for Outstanding Choreography, and Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards for Best Emerging Artist, and Best Dance and Physical Theatre.
Other choreographic works include ‘Whose Thoughts Are They’ (2020), a performance and film project with the FLING Physical Theatre Company, and short dance film ‘OBSERVER’ (2019), which was shown at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris.
Previous Artists in Residence
Bella Dunk
November to December 2022
Bella has danced and worked in creative communities across various cities in the UK, Thailand and Australia. She has formal training in hip-hop, jazz, urban, ladies’ styling, contemporary, modern and lyrical dance genres. In recent times, she is concentrated on moving towards her own blended style of dance performance which is a synthesis of the multiple types of dance she has trained in; with a focus on creating pieces that tell stories of emotions and the self.
Bella used her time as CDT’s Artist in Residence to work on emphasising dance as an extension and expression of one’s varied states of being and how to present this to others. She hopes to achieve this through the culmination of a project she has conceived for a long time during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Max Burgess
February to March 2022
Max grew up in Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra) and started dancing at the Tuggeranong Art Centre’s Fresh Funk dance program. It wasn’t until the age of 20 that they decided to pursue training in contemporary dance.
Having just graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance at the end of 2021, Max has had the privilege to perform in works by Eliza Sanders, Elijah Kennar, Josh Mu, Garry Stewart’s Australian Dance Theatre, and Jeremy Beck. Max is incredibly keen to begin their choreographic journey post institutional contemporary dance training, wishing to creating works and dance spaces which have an affinity for decolonisation and queerness.
Deborah di Centa
Inaugural Artist in Residence
International Dance Practitioner Debora di Centa brings to Australia a wealth of experience and passion on dance practice, performance and events management.
Trinity Laban London trained, Debora has acquired an expertise on the contemporary developments of Rudolf Laban Principles and Practice in Choreological Studies working as a Teacher, Choreographer, Performer and Events Curator.
She currently performs in her own productions, and collaborates with other art-professionals. Her aim and desire is to develop and expose her professional experience to promote contemporary dance-art, the study of human movement and the research and analysis of the development of Contemporary Performance Arts.
She approaches her work from a Choreological Perspective. She gives courses and workshops for professionals as well as amateurs, adults, elders and children for community projects and in schools, Conservatoires and Universities. She works through her personal project: Isems Projects.