Stephanie Lake
Creative
Stephanie Lake is a multi-award winning choreographer, dancer and director of Stephanie Lake Company based in Melbourne. Her major choreographic works including Double Blind, DUAL, A Small Prometheus, AORTA and Mix Tape have been presented in France, Germany, Scotland, Denmark, Ireland and Singapore as well as festivals and theatres across Australia such as the Sydney Opera House. Stephanie won both the Helpmann Award (A Small Prometheus) and the Australian Dance Award (AORTA) in 2014 for Most Outstanding Choreography as well as the Green Room Award in 2011 (Mix Tape). In 2013 she was appointed inaugural Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc, which included working as Guerin’s choreographic assistant at Lyon Opera Ballet. She received a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in the same year as well as the Dame Peggy Van Praagh Choreographic Fellowship in 2012 and was listed in The Age’s “Top 100 Influential People” alongside partner and collaborator Robin Fox.
Stephanie has had choreographic commissions from renowned companies such as Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, Frontier Danceland (Singapore), Dancenorth, Sydney Symphony, Tasdance (with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra), Melbourne Festival and Sydney Festival. She regularly collaborates across art-forms including theatre, audio-visual, film & TV and sculpture. She has choreographed a number of music videos for artists including Missy Higgins and has created several large-scale public works involving over 1000 participants.
An acclaimed performer for over fifteen years, Stephanie has danced with some of Australia’s leading choreographers working extensively with Chunky Move founder Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin Inc, touring throughout Europe, the US and Asia as well as with Anouk Van Djik, Antony Hamilton & Byron Perry and Phillip Adams’ Balletlab. Stephanie is the Patron of Salamanca Moves Dance Festival. The Stephanie Lake Company was established in 2014.
“Stephanie Lake has danced with most of our best contemporary dance-makers and now, only five years or so into her choreographic career, she’s making a very strong bid to join them at the top table.” The Australian
"There are moments of sheer heart stopping beauty. Theatrically ingenious.” ABC Arts
