EXPERIENCE

Curated and performed in her own 'Now Pieces' at Dancehouse 2023.

Awarded the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award 2023 for STAUNCH ASF.

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STAUNCH ASF presented in Melbourne Fringe 2023 performed at the Meat Market as part of Deadly Fringe's Blak Lodge. 

Against the Wind, an Immersive Meditation on Country 

By Jody Haines

Choreographed by Zoë Brown-Holten and Amelia O'Leary

Yirramboi Chunky Move teaching artist 

ONE DAY by Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Nations Young Artist program, presented in Yirramboi festivals 2023. Choreographer.

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Ngali/Richmond fashion show performance. Choreographer March 2023.

A Certain Mumble by Amelia O’Leary

Presented in Frame Dance Festival 2023, supported by Darebin Speakeasy program. 

Dancer, choreographer and soundscape artist 

Garabari by Joel Bray, presented by Chunky Move and Joel Bray Dance

1-10 Dec at Arts House

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Collision by Jo Lloyd presented at Junction Arts Festival 2022

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Yinarr performed in Dancehouse Season 2, 2022.

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A Certain Mumble development supported by LGI through a studio residency at WXYZ Studios.

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Multitude by Tamara Cubas

Participant in Risings Festivals Multitude by Cubas

Yinarr the Film, Presented in the Wyndham Art Gallery 2022.

Selected as a finalist in the Wyndham Art Festival.

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Yinarr by O'Leary, 2022

O'Leary's first full length work, Adelaide Fringe 2022.

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WAX  by Daniel Riley, 2021

As part of Atlas | gadhaba kurrawan. VCA 2021 graduate season.

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Chapter Seven by Danielle Micich, 2021 

As part of Atlas | gadhaba kurrawan. VCA 2021 graduate season.

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Victorian College of the Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance), 2019-2021

Studying Contemporary dance with subjects such as improvisation, dance lineages, choreographic skills, career planning and classical ballet.

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10 degrees created by VCA dance students, 2021

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Yinarr by Amelia O’Leary presented in Dance (Lens) Festival, running from 29 July—29 August 2021

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Awarded Best Editing Award for No Correct Way from Mudfest 2021 

No Correct Way Presented in Mudfest 5-13 August 2021

Dance North Secondment Participant 2021

Boonwurrung Ngargee

Engaged as Workshop Assistant, Mentor and Performer working with program participants developing their own original content for learning and performance

Evoke by Evocative Feminine Architecture (Amelia O’Leary, Molly Mckenzie and Gabrielle Fallon) 2021.

Performed at Out of Bounds presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Phillip Adams BalletLab

2021

Yinarr 2021 by Amelia O’Leary

Performed at Out of Bounds presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and Phillip Adams BalletLab 2021

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Spotlight on Shadows by Shinjita Roy as part of The National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial Extra 2021.

Performer in Spotlight on Shadows

an episode of inconveniences by Amelia O’Leary and Molly McKenzie 

Original short Film created as part of Student Works 2020

Two Rooms Directed by Gilda Jones, 2020

Choreographer and dancer for Graduate Student film Two Rooms

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WOW by Alice Dixon and Caroline Meaden, 2020

Dancer in WOW, VCA Second Year’s end of year performance season

Nuti by Meryl Tankard, 2020

Dancer in the VCA Second Year’s remount of Nuti

Micro Toxic, 2020

Original short Film created as part of Independent Contract 2020

Yinarr, 2020

Successful in receiving a Resilience in Isolation grant through YIRRAMBOI FESTIVAL to develop a 5 minute video content of original solo dance piece

After Time, 2020

Created a short dance film including all sound, editing and performance

Drmngnow’s Survive, 2020

 Performer/Dancer in music video

Crunchy, 2019

Original creation and presentation for Victorian College of the Arts Student Works

Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Peoples Young Artists Program, 2019-2022

Engaged as Workshop Assistant, Mentor and Performer working with programparticipants developing their own original content for learning and performance

The Object Is the Sound by Anna Smith, 2019

As performer in Victorian College of the Arts Four Directions series

Tanderrum 2019

Performer in opening presentation of Melbourne International Arts Festival

Yinarr, 2019

Creation and public presentation of an original dance piece, including video projections, for The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development’s Fan the Flames as a part of the Deadly Fringe Festival