Sonic portraits of Australian artists, created by Nat Grant (http://natgrantmusic.com).
Winner of the 2022 PROV Community History Award for Oral History (https://prov.vic.gov.au/winners-2022).
Dr Katrina Rank is an award-winning choreographer and educator based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. Her work creates spaces where the imagination flourishes, expressive forces are harnessed and dynamic exchanges occur.
A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, she performed in dance companies in Australia and abroad before returning home to undertake further studies including a Bachelor of Education and a PhD in Contemporary Arts (Deakin University 1994 and 2001). Katrina was the first Australian researcher to complete her doctorate through practice-exegesis, forging the way for many others to research via their creative practices.
30 Aug 2025
Deborah Kayser
Deborah Kayser performs in areas as diverse as ancient Byzantine chant, French and German Baroque song and classical contemporary music, both scored and improvised. Her work has led her to tour regularly both within Australia, and internationally to Europe and Asia. She has recorded, as soloist, on numerous CDs, and her work is frequently broadcast on ABC FM.
As a member of JOUISSANCE, and long time collaborator with Bassist/Composer Nick Tsiavos, she has performed radical interpretations of Byzantine and Medieval chant. With the the contemporary music ensembles ELISION, LIBRA and CMO she has premiered works written specifically for her voice by local and overseas composers.
Accompanying music:
From Liza Lim: The Bardo.
Footage taken of the last ELISION realisation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead installation-performance project in rural Lismore in the early 90's. Conceived by composer Liza Lim and visual artist Domenico DeClario, the highlighted performers include Deborah Kayser, Timothy O'Dwyer, Carl Rosman and Rosanne Hunt.
https://youtu.be/uYWBri5fLSM?si=f5gZnSlq_N9pdohV
Nick Tsiavos Ensemble: Axion Estin (an arrangement of Byzantine chant based on part of the Lord’s Prayer) From Liminal.
https://youtu.be/t4h2K75wuQU?si=oA-CsE7HtWdrfqos
To prostahthen mystikos: The Annunciation. From Akathistos. Jouissance Ensemble (Nick Tsiavos AD and Contra Bass)
https://youtu.be/nkMtuYS0cik?si=9Kqs6shB2iZOjIAJ
Photo by Marcus Thompson
27 Jul 2025
Rosemary Johns
Playwright, Vice-President of Women Playwrights International, actor and director. Rosemary Johns grew up as a child in a seaside town in Wales, went to a boarding school in England, spent seven intense and strange years in America and fell in love in Australia. She's a maverick
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