Stephanie Lake

Stephanie Lake is the multi award-winning choreographer, dancer and director of Stephanie Lake Company. Her acclaimed works, including Colossus, Pile of Bones, Skeleton Tree, DUAL, If Never Was Now, and Aorta, have toured to France, Belgium, Ireland, Hong Kong, Denmark, Scotland, Luxembourg, Singapore and New Zealand as well as across Australia. Stephanie Lake has created works for Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, New Zealand Dance Company, Queensland Ballet, Frontier Danceland (Singapore), Tasdance, Dancenorth, Expressions and Beijing Dance/LDTX.

She is the current recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship for Dance and previously the prestigious Sidney Myer and Dame Peggy Van Praagh Fellowships. She was the inaugural Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc and currently sits on the Advisory Board for the Victorian College of the Arts. Her performance career spans 20 years, working closely with Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc as well as Antony Hamilton & Byron Perry and Ballet Lab. Stephanie Lake has collaborated across theatre, film, music video, and visual art, and has directed several large-scale works with over 1,000 participants. Her works have won Helpmann, Green Room and Australian Dance Awards for Best Choreography.