ACAC ARTISTS COLLECTIVE

Annandale Creative Arts Centre is home to the following
Artist Collective members.

The Collective supports artists in a reciprocal community to celebrate, champion and encourage each other in art making, creativity and life as well as contributing to the community arts life of the centre.

Bonnie Curtis
Choreographer

Bonnie Curtis is a multi-faceted artist, driven by an inquisitive imagination and a desire to discover. Born and bred in Sydney, Bonnie trained at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts before moving to Europe to further her artistic development. During her career, Bonnie has worked as an independent artist, playing the role of producer, director, choreographer and performer in works for film, installation and live performance.

Her creations and collaborations have been featured at ImPulsTanz, Museum Moderner Kunst (AT), Girona Film Festival (ES), Quadstock Music Festival (US), CinéWomen|Womenartconnect (EU), Asia International Youth Short Film Exhibition (CN), Biennale of Sydney, Sydney World Film Festival, and Sydney Fringe Festival (AU), among others. She is the Artistic Director of Bonnie Curtis Projects, company in residence at ACAC.

LeeAnne Litton
Physical performer

Lee-Anne Litton is a performance maker, performer, collaborator and mentor who has created and performed nationally and Internationally. Her curiosity in the line between aerial performance and dance theatre and her strong investigation and passion for Contact Improvisation, informs her work both on the ground and in the air.

Lee-Anne was a co founder of Physical Theatre Company Strings Attached, which led to their first major work “A Return to the Trees” in 2012. Her last work “All That We Are” Real Festival 2019, saw her work with community members to create an aerial spectacular over the Nepean River in Penrith.

Over the last few years, she has nurtured her interest in the poetical and expressive possibilities that arise from combining aerial performance and dance theatre, developing a strong technical practice that is reflected in her work as well as on the classes she regularly teaches. Her teaching credits include; Strings Attached, SYDC, AMPA, Australian Dance Theatre, DustyFeet, AUSTI, VCA, ACPE, USNW, NIDA, Force Majeure, Bangarra, Stalker, Aerialize, Touch Compass Co, Dance Integrated Australia, InsideOutside Theatre.

JSJ Core Team
Andrew Lorien, Keiran Hogan, Ashley Asphodel

Johnston Street Jazz is an artist-run no-profit weekly jazz and improv club. They have been supporting emerging and unlikely jazz for 20 years. Every Thursday night they host a usually-local, usually-acoustic, usually-instrumental, usually-improvising jazz band. Music of the highest quality, often new projects from established musicians or fresh music from the new generation.

Katrina Breuker
Physical performer

Katrina grew up with a love of performing arts, performing whenever given the opportunity as a child, she went on to train in theatre at a tertiary level and was stage manager for two Adelaide Fringe shows before moving to Sydney.

Since joining Annandale Creative Arts Centre, Katrina has helped produce Platform Shorts, Creative Conversations and on the event team for Sydney Artists Retreat and performed alongside other ACAC practitioners in a variety of events. She has also discovered aerial dance through classes with Strings Attached and has fallen in love with this unique art form.

Gabi Cadenhead
Poet and musician

Gabi Cadenhead is a poet and composer living on unceded Gadigal and Wangal land. Their creative practice is one of intersections – between story and sound; between performance and protest; between embodiment, queerness and the sacred. They hold a Bachelor of Music Studies (Composition) and Bachelor of Arts (English and Studies in Religion) from Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the University of Sydney.

Gabi’s poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals and performed at the National Young Writers Festival. They were selected for Express Media’s Toolkits: Poetry program in 2022, taught by Maddie Godfrey. Gabi's chamber music has been workshopped and performed by professional musicians and emerging ensembles alike. They are a founding member of Konzertprojekt, curating and commissioning new music alongside their composer colleagues. Gabi enjoys facilitating safe creative spaces in their writing and music workshops for Christian Students Uniting.