Gavin Webber

Gavin Webber has been working professionally in Dance Theatre for over ten years. After completing his degree at the Centre for the Performing Arts in Adelaide, Australia, he worked with Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre from 1993 to 1998. With this company he toured Australia, North America, Scandinavia, Europe and Israel.

After leaving to Europe he studied with Maguy Marin in Lyon before accepting a position with Ultima Vez in Brussels. He spent three years with the company and was involved in the creation of In Spite of Wishing and Wanting and Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed, as well as in the two short films: The Last Words and Inasmuch, created by Wim Vandekeybus. Upon returning to Australia Gavin began lecturing at the Queensland University of Technology. His teaching responsibilities have included several universities and Australian dance companies. Together with other former Meryl Tankard dancers – Michelle Ryan, Grayson Millwood, Sarah-Jayne Howard and Vincent Crowley – he formed Splintergroup in 2003, as a collaborative ensemble working in Brisbane and Berlin. They created the works lawn and roadkill as co-productions with the Brisbane Powerhouse. From 2005 to 2009 Gavin Webber was the Artistic Director of Dancenorth based in Townsville and created Nightcafe, Gravity Feed, underneath, Underground, and Remember Me. Splintergroup and Dancenorth have toured extensively in Europe, Asia and Australia and roadkill will be touring Canada in February 2010.

His last creation, called Food Chain, is in collaboration with Grayson Millwood and the Physical Virus Collective in Freiburg and Heidelberg, Germany. He is once again working with Ultima Vez as a performer for the new creation Nieuwzwart, which premiered in Barcelona in May 2009. In November 2009 he will producing and creating a new work, Rock Show, with the band Regurgitator.

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