28 – 30 MARCH 2025 UAP FOUNDRY
Australasian Dance Collective acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their deep connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
Step into the world of Relic —a daring reimagining of Jack Lister’s awardwinning Still Life film trilogy.
In an unprecedented collaboration, Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) and Urban Art Projects (UAP) invite you to experience art as never before, in a site-specific dance theatre creation that defies the boundaries between performance and visual art.
Crafted for the imposing UAP Foundry, Relic explores the interplay of mortality, fragility, youth and spirit. Inspired by the timeless themes of 16th and 17thcentury still life paintings and the haunting symbolism of the memento mori movement, Relic reimagines these age-old notions of mortality through the fearless spirit of motocross—helmets for skulls, smoking rubber for snuffed-out candles, and the inevitable heralding of the final lap for the sands in the hourglass.
The industrial grandeur of the Foundry will be transformed into a mesmerising journey of discovery. The audience will be led through the space and immersed in a collection of exquisitely crafted vignettes—each scene a momentary glimpse of the delicacy of life.
Relic , a collision of visual art, performance, beauty and brutality, is woven into the storied walls of an institution dedicated to creating enduring works. Join us for the finale of this enduring series, featuring ADC’s award-winning Company Artists and special guest Leanne Kenneally, Opera Queensland Soprano.
“Australasian Dance Collective continues to carve its path as leading Australian artists.”
—Australian Stage
Established in 1984 as Expressions Dance Company by Maggi Sietsma am , the company has created more than 180 works by 80 national and international choreographers. Harnessing the talent of an extraordinary ensemble of six dancers, the company has achieved significant recognition through national awards, including three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards. Brisbane-based ADC is a significant cultural resource and a leading provider of dance performance and sector development. We recognise the need to be nationally and internationally connected, represented through our diverse range of local and global partnerships. Our core desire is to harness the power of the collective. Our signature is one of plurality not a singular fingerprint. In all areas of creation and performance we work as a collective where like-minded individuals have robust and invigorating conversations that give rise to new dance, to new art.
ADC invests in artists and art and cultivates interdisciplinary collaborations and imaginative partnerships. Through dance, we embrace an intergenerational focus and innovative co-creations — eliciting and presenting these myriad voices and forms to create something never seen before.
It is my pleasure to warmly welcome you to Relic .
I’m particularly proud of this work, as it exemplifies everything we stand for at ADC — innovation, creativity, and redefining boundaries with our audiences.
Five years ago, I invited our brilliant Associate Artistic Director, Jack Lister, to undertake the creation of a work that would have three iterations. I wanted to commission a work that could span across multiple mediums, allowing our audiences to engage with it in different ways. A proscenium stage performance, a film and a site-specific experience all drawing from the same artistic inspirations — each a standalone work of art yet connected in their genus.
So, in 2020, the Still Life project began. We first premiered the multi-award-winning triptych of exquisite films, made in collaboration with Kiosk, followed by the critically acclaimed stage work at Brisbane’s QPAC Playhouse in 2021. Now, in 2025, we are thrilled to bring it to life as a site-specific immersive experience.
This final iteration of the work embodies our commitment to reimagining spaces, but also imaginative partnerships as we are collaborating with the extraordinary team at Urban Art Projects (UAP) to realise something truly unique and unexpected.
Crafted for the imposing UAP Foundry, Relic is a collision of visual art, performance, beauty and brutality, woven into the storied walls of UAP — an institution dedicated to creating enduring works.
I would like to congratulate and celebrate Jack — he is an extraordinarily gifted creative mind, and he has embraced the challenge of the three iterations of the Still Life project. And now, as we reveal Relic , I am exhilarated by his vision and courage when taking on the grandeur and the industry of the working Foundry.
My thanks to the formidable team who collaborated with Jack to bring Relic to life — creatives Louis Frere-Harvey and Lily Potger, our very special guest artist Leanne Kenneally from Opera Queensland, the ADC production team led by Mat James and of course, the incredible ADC Company Artists.
My deepest respect and thanks to these performers — they are exceptional in their craft, and they have approached this unique work of scale with great adaptability and openness. It is their confidence and artistry that brings Relic to life.
I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to our broader collective of supporters, donors, and partners. Your unwavering support allows us to make a meaningful impact, and your generosity continually motivates us to push the boundaries of innovation and excellence. A special mention in particular to the magnificent team at UAP for their support in bringing this experience to life with us. Thank you.
On behalf of the ADC board, staff and dancers, it is my absolute pleasure to share with you, the third and final chapter of the Still Life project, Relic
Amy Hollingsworth Artistic Director & CEO
Where we meet, time is suspended.
The quiet symbolism of vanitas lingers, candles, smoke and skulls, emblematic of fate.
Yet amidst this stillness, the spirit of motocross surges. Grit and grace, framed beneath the cold gaze of gothic gargoyles.
Relics, shrouded and preserved. They watch, hollow-eyed and vigilant, silent sentinels guarding a truth well known.
Life, wild and beautiful, every race running towards an end. Engines roar like demons unleashed, filling the space with a beautiful fury disrupting its stillness.
The rider channels both the angel and demon, a tempest of grace and destruction, racing against the inevitability of time.
The final lap approaches. Is the finish line a false promise, an illusion of victory, an empty glory. Nothing can rival the sureness of the final flag.
Jack Lister Associate Artistic Director & Company Artist
CONCEPT & DIRECTION
Jack Lister
CHOREOGRAPHER
Jack Lister in collaboration with the ADC Company Artists
MUSIC COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN
Louis Frere-Harvey
COSTUME DESIGN
Lily Potger in collaboration with Jack Lister
PERFORMED BY ADC Company Artists & Leanne Kenneally (Soprano)
Following his training at The Australian Ballet School, Jack Lister joined Queensland Ballet (QB) in 2014, performing and originating many featured roles in the vast classical ballet and contemporary repertoire.
After creating his first work for QB in 2015, Lister quickly established a name as a respected emerging maker, recognized in The Australian as “a young choreographer who is going places.” With an extensive portfolio of work made for Queensland Ballet and Australasian Dance Collective, Lister has also created internationally for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet, presented throughout Australia, United Kingdom, USA, China and Germany to critical and audience acclaim.
In January 2020, Lister joined Australasian Dance Collective as a company artist and was appointed Associate Choreographer with Queensland Ballet, and subsequently in January 2022, Lister was appointed Creative Associate of ADC.
Since joining ADC, Lister has collaborated on new creations and performed in works by Hofesh Shechter, Maxine Doyle, Melanie Lane, Gabrielle Nankivell, Cass Mortimer Eipper, Kate Harman and Amy Hollingsworth. For ADC, Lister has choreographed Aftermath, a co-creation with ADC Artistic Director, Amy Hollingsworth, and The Kite String Tangle’s, Danny Harley. The sold-out season was met with audience and critical acclaim and went on to feature in three major festivals across Australia. Still Life , premiering in the first iteration of THREE at QPAC in 2021, was hailed as “exquisite, absorbing and poignant”, before touring nationally in 2022. Most recently, Lister created Halcyon , a multidisciplinary immersive dance-theatre work, lauded as “pushing contemporary dance into new areas” and “must be been seen to be believed”.
Since 2018, Lister has also collaborated with director Ryan Renshaw, creating dance films which have screened at film festivals globally. Their creations have gathered countless awards, nominations and screenings at prestigious film festivals and online platforms.
In January 2024, Lister was appointed as Associate Artistic Director of ADC.
Costume Designer & Company Artist
Hailing from Garlambirla (Coffs Harbour), Lily trained with Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London.
They are a multidisciplinary artist working across mediums of performance, textiles and costume design working with found materials.
During their career, Lily has worked most notably with Hofesh Shechter, Christopher Bruce, Anthony Matsena, The Bait Fridge and Australasian Dance Collective.
They have performed in the UK and Australia
where they continue to facilitate workshops and classes that provide spaces for the exchange of knowledge and the strengthening of community bonds.
Since returning from the UK, Lily has created and collaborated on works focusing on access and sharing between community and art across Australia.
Louis combines his training in percussion, his passion for electronic dance music and his understanding of movement, to create energetically percussive compositions, uncovering the origins of rhythm within the body and its relationship to the music.
After completing studies at WAAPA, Louis began touring as a DJ under internationally acclaimed Command Q touring Australia, NZ and North America. Following a decade of Command Q Louis began working as a freelance composer, collaborating across the mediums of dance and theatre.
Louis has collaborated with multiple awardwinning companies, directors and independent Choreographers, such as Izzac Carroll’s ‘EGOTIST’ for Project Animo, Brooke Leeder’s ‘Structural Dependency’ for PERTH FESTIVAL 2021, NICA’s ‘ECLIPSE’ with Sally Richardson, Mitchell Harvey Company’s debut ‘MINDCON’, and STOMPIN Dance’s 2023 major season.
Louis was the recipient of Minderoo Foundation’s inaugural Artist Fund 2021, as well as involvement in STRUT Dance’s SEED residency and SITU-8 programs, TasDance’s AIR with Robert Tinning, and most recently received a 2022 Performing Arts WA award for ‘Outstanding Composition 2022’..
A graduate of Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Leanne Kenneally made her Opera Debut as Pamina in 1996 with Opera Australia and as Donna Anna with Opera Queensland. She has since appeared with all the leading Australian opera companies and was a member of the Cologne Opera in Germany (1999 – 2001).
Her stage appearances include the title role of Lakmé, Juliette ( Roméo et Juliette ), Countess ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni ), Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte ), Anne Trulove ( The Rake’s Progress ), Léïla ( Les pêcheurs de perles ) Pamina ( Die Zauberflöte ), Philomele (Richard Mills’ The Love of the Nightingale ), Oscar ( Un ballo in maschera ), Mimì ( La bohème ), Giulia ( La scala di seta ), Johanna ( Sweeney Todd ), Nuria ( Ainadamar ), and Third Norn ( Götterdämmerung ).
Leanne’s concert engagements include Bach’s Mass in B minor BWV 232, Mozart’s Requiem, Mass in C minor, Handel’s Messiah, Saul, and Samson, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Britten’s Les Illuminations op. 18, Moya Henderson’s Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem, Brahms’ Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mahler’s Symphonies 2, 4, 8, Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Leanne can be heard in the role of Venus in SaintSaëns’ Hélène, released by Melba Recordings (2008), and the Navona release Mythical Creatures with music by Paul Kopetz (2023).
Leanne recently performed the role of Helena in the Australian debut of Neil Armfield’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten in Adelaide Festival 2021. She also sang La Contessa in the new production of Le nozze di Figaro , and Despina in Così fan tutte , both directed by Patrick Nolan for Opera Queensland.
Sam Hall is a dance artist, teacher, and emerging choreographer. He was born in Te Whanganui-aTara (Wellington, NZ) before his family moved to Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia) as a child. His practice primarily focuses on how dance can be a catalyst for unlocking vulnerability, leading to profound connection and understanding.
He graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2016. The following year, he performed in William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing , Reproduced with Strut Dance before joining Swedish company Norrdans for their 17/18 season as an apprentice. There he performed works by Mari Carrasco, Shahar Binyamini, Jarek Cemerek, and Helena Franzen as well as creating several short dance pieces for the company.
Hall then went on to join the cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai in China from 2018 to 2020.
He returned to Australia in 2020 and began working with Australian Dance Theatre and Lewis Major Projects, performing in numerous works by both companies over the following two years. He also began creating his first full length work Womb , which premiered in 2022. Sam then worked with Art of Spectra in Gothenburg, Sweden from 2023 to 2024.
Hall is a certified Countertechnique teacher since 2022 and has taught at dance companies and training institutions around the world.
Originally from Boorloo/Perth, Lilly King studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts graduating with a Bachelor of Dance (Elite Performance). As an independent artist Lilly performed with numerous choreographers such as Brooke Leeder, Sally Richardson, Scott Elstermann, Scott Ewen and Stephanie Lake as well as working on multiple film endeavours with Beautiful Pictures & most recently, Molasses Pictures. Lilly was also and founding member of Syndicate Performance, co-creating numerous shows in a creatively collective format.
In 2019, she was awarded Best Newcomer in the Performing Arts Awards WA for her roles in Brooke Leeder’s RADAR and Scott Elsterman & Shona Erskine’s BANG! BANG!
Since joining ADC in 2022, Lilly has has the privilege perform to various works by esteemed choreographers such as Amy Hollingsworth, Cass Mortimer-Eipper, Jenni Large, Jack Lister, Maxine Doyle and Melanie Lane.
Lilly is continuously interested in finding connection to people and places through nostalgia and finding absurdity in the everyday mundane.
Born and raised in Sydney, NSW, Taiga Kita-Leong is a Japanese/Chinese artist specialising in contemporary dance and the street styles of House and Hip-Hop. He refined his artistry through Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year (2020/21).
In 2022, he made his professional debut at the Sydney Opera House in Ohad Naharin’s DECADANCE with Sydney Dance Company for Sydney Festival. That same year, KitaLeong worked across fashion, commercial, and theatre projects, including touring The Rivoli by Miranda Wheen with Dance Makers Collective, performing in the Jordan Gogos show for Australian Fashion Week.
In 2023, he appeared in Meryl Tankard’s KAIROS and debuted his choreographic solo And From Here . He later joined Australasian Dance Collective as a Company Artist, performing in works by Amy Hollingsworth, Jack Lister, Stephanie Lake, Jenni Large, and Alisdair Macindoe.
Most recently, in 2025, he collaborated with Sue Healey in AFTERWORLD that premiered at Bell Shakespeare for Sydney Festival.
Georgia Van Gils is an Australian movement artist, graduating from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2017. Georgia’s career has evolved, mainly as a freelance artist collaborating with renowned choreographers and companies across Australia and abroad. She joined Australasian Dance Collective in 2024, premiering in Alisdair MacIndoe and Jenni Large’s pieces as part of the THREE season.
Over the years, Georgia has worked with companies such as Leg’s On the Wall, STRUT Dance, Co3, The Farm, and Kristina Chan. She has performed Hofesh Shechter’s tHE bAD in 2020, Tanja Liedtke’s Construct 2021 and Crystal Pite’s 1 0 Duets on a Theme of Rescue in 2023. Most recently she performed in the premiere of Stephanie Lake’s new work
The Chronicles as part of Sydney Festival. In 2023, Georgia was honoured to be awarded the inaugural STRUT+CO3 Fellowship.
Her interest in movement manifests in a self-practice that experiments with weaving spatial design, audience experience, and theatricality to build new worlds.
Julie
Laura
Carmenza Cespedes
Artistic
Associate
Rehearsal
Head
Head
Marketing
Production
Pre-Professional
Head Electrician
Technical
Krank’d & Wes Bluff
Music
Louis Frere-Harvey
Lighting
Youth
Mature
Administration
Accountant
Karen
ADC gratefully acknowledges the Relic Commissioning Circle, who has supported the making of this work.
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Tim Fairfax ac and Gina Fairfax ac
$50,000 – $199,999
Philip Bacon ao
$20,000 – $49,000
Stack Family Foundation
Cass and Ian George
$5,000 – $19,999
The Knights Family Foundation
Patricia Macdonald Memorial Foundation
L & R Foundation
Darren and Carmel Brown
Professor Heather Zwicker
Marian Gibney
Richard J Wood
$1,000 – $4,999
Anna and Peter Allen
Rhyll Gardner and Rusty Graham
Paul Newman and Lucy Bretherton
Dare Power
Alan Scott
Kim Parascos
Viv Tolliday
Louise Hicks
Andrew Battersby
Janelle Christofis
Melissa Blight
Sophie Mitchell
Karen Mitchell
Louise Cutler
Sandra McCullagh
Nerida MacLean
Warwick Fisher
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Elizabeth Morris
Suzanne Clegg
Libby Lincoln
Gary Frontin
Elizabeth Friend
Ben O’Connor
Carmenza Cespedes
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Joanne Eager
Riannon Struthers
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Elizabeth Lepua
Angela Roff
Cath McMurchy
Jaime Redfern
Liana Cantarutti
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Adam Sleeman
Rian Thompson
Miriam McMahon
Ayame Ochi
Fay Kaim
Nishi Mohan Haranahalli
Sharyn Bloomer
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Tim Fairfax ac and Gina Fairfax ac
$100,000 – $499,999
Philip Bacon ao
Patricia Macdonald Memorial Foundation
$50,000 – $99,999
Marian Gibney
Stack Family Foundation
L & R Foundation
Rhyll Gardner and Rusty Graham
$20,000 – $49,000
Tony Denholder and Scott Gibson
Trevor and Judith St Baker Family Foundation
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Paul Newman and Lucy Bretherton
Margo Low and Chris Sinclair
Cass and Ian George
Andrew Battersby
The Knights Family Foundation
Joseph and Veronika Butta
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Dare Power
Darren and Carmel Brown
Professor Heather Zwicker
Anne and Peter Allen
Morgans Foundation
Sophie Mitchell
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Brett Clark
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