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CV
Curriculum Vita
Dance Qualifications
& Training
2015 Master
of Performance and Media Arts, (First Class) Auckland University of Technology
2011 Postgraduate
Diploma in Creative and Performing Arts, Dance Studies (Distinction), The
University of Auckland
2011 DANZ
The Producing Project
2010 DANZ
Internship
2008 New
Zealand School of Dance Diploma in Dance Performance, Contemporary Major
2007 New
Zealand School of Dance Certificate in Dance Performance, Classical Major
2005 New
Zealand School of Dance Junior Associate
Royal
Academy of Dance Advanced 2 (Distinction)
Awards and
Nominations
2016 Taipei Artist Residency, Asia New Zealand Foundation
Creative New
Zealand Grant, presentation of new work
Finalist for the NZ Photo Book Awards 2015, co-published with Solomon
Mortimer
2015 Postgraduate
Full Fee Scholarship (Art and Design), Auckland University of Technology
Creative New
Zealand Grant, choreography development
Auckland
University of Technology funding, Oceanic Performance Biennial, Rarotonga
2014 Asia New Zealand Foundation Grant, The
Subconscious Restaurant Tour, Hong Kong, Beijing and Macau
Artspace NZ Residency, to and fro
curated by Amelia Hitchcock
2012 Supreme
Winner, Short and Sweet Dance Festival, Auckland
Outstanding
Choreography, Critic’s Survey 2012, DANZ Quarterly
Best
Emerging Choreographer, Best of Auckland 2012, Metro Magazine
Creative
New Zealand Grant, choreography development
2010 Second
Prize Winner, Live Performance Competition, Exposure Postgraduate Research
Exposition,
National Institute of Creative Arts & Industries, The Auckland University
Best
Emerging Female Performer, Tempo 10 Festival Nominee, Auckland
Best
Choreographer for an Emerging Artist, Tempo 10 Festival Nominee, Auckland
2009 The
Spirit of the Festival Award, Tempo 09 Festival,Auckland
Dance Performances
and Choreography
2017
Singularity,
Ars Electronica, Linz, choreographer Carol Brown
Elliptical
Fiction, Taichung, choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Elliptical Fiction, Depopulate
07, The Venue, Taipei choreographer/performer ZahraKilleen-Chance
Elliptical Fiction, Taipei Artist
Village, Taipei, exhibition and performance Zahra Killeen-Chance
A
Figure Exhales, The Basement Theatre, Auckland, choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Subject of My Devotion, Peter
McLeavey Gallery, Wellington; exhibition and performance by
Zahra Killeen-Chance
2016
Too Soft
With a Realistic Feel, Somewhere Series, Auckland choreographer/performer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Choreographic Experiments, Undisciplining
Dance Symposium, The University of Auckland
Love Me Do, Sunset Affair,
Basement Theatre, Auckland; triple bill with work by choreographer/performer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
I’m Sorry (video), Body
Sovereignty, Yes Collective, Auckland; choreographer/performer/photographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Borderline Festival, Audio Foundation,
Auckland, curated by Jef Henderson and Rohan Evans; improvised
performance with musician Andrew McLeod
Soft With a Realistic Feel, Bowerbank Ninow,
Auckland; choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Bangers n Mash Final Countdown Series 3, Old Folks
Association Hall,Auckland, curated byKristian
Larsen; improvised performances with musicians Paul Buckton, Phil Dadson and Andrew McLeod
2015
KHAL,
Audio Foundation, Auckland, curated by Helga Fassonaki; improvised performance with musician
Hermione Johnson
Still Life, AD15: Art &
Design Graduate Shows, Auckland University of Technology; St Paul
Street Gallery;choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Still Breathing, 2-Day Circuitous
& Evolving Performance Event, postPILOT series, St Paul St Gallery,
Auckland; choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
The Scenic View, Q Theatre, Tempo
Dance Festival NZ, Auckland; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
The Fallen Mystery, Hagely Open Stage,
The Body Festival, Christchurch; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Antumbra (video), AD15:
Art & Design Graduate Shows, Auckland University of Technology; choreographer/performer
Zahra Killeen-Chance, co-produced with Solomon Mortimer
The Fallen Mystery, Q Theatre, Tempo
Dance Festival NZ, Auckland; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Antumbra, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington;
exhibition collaboration Solomon Mortimer and Zahra
Killeen-Chance
Breath of Air, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland; choreographer/performer Zahra
Killeen-Chance
The
Fallen Mystery, Auckland Art Gallery; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Bangers n Mash 5, Old Folks Association Hall, Auckland; improvised performance curated
by Kristian
Larsen
Breath of Air, Oceanic Performance Biennial, Rarotonga; choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Reef
Sub, Oceanic Performance Biennial, Rarotonga; choreographer Janine
Randerson
Reef
Sub (video), Oceanic Performance Biennial, Rarotonga; choreographer/editor
Janine Randerson
& photographer Solomon Mortimer
Pah,
Auckland Arts Festival; choreographer Carol Brown & composer Gillian
Whitehead
2014
The
Fallen Mystery, Prime Cuts, Tempo Dance Festival, Q Theatre, Auckland;
choreographer Zahra
Killeen-Chance
Film Series
#1 Presentation, Prime Cuts, Tempo Dance Festival, Q
Theatre, Auckland; authors Carol Brown,
Anne Niemetz & Margie Medlin
When the sun sets
your eyes change colour (I hope this is true), Peter
McLeavey Pop Up Gallery, Wellington; exhibition collaboration
Zahra Killeen-Chance & Solomon Mortimer
Is That Her, The Subconscious Restaurant 2 Tour, Live Music Association, Macau; choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Is That Her, The Subconscious Restaurant 2 Tour, XXX, Hong Kong choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Is That Her, The Subconscious Restaurant 2 Tour, Zajia Lab, Beijing;
choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Hearing the
Body, to and fro, Artspace NZ; choreographer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
party.gif, to and fro, Artspace NZ; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance &
photographer Solomon
Mortimer
Gold Plated
Glory, to and fro, Artspace NZ;
choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Glossy Specks, Pointy Dog, Auckland; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
I.ryoko/Zahra
Killeen-Chance collaboration, Audio Foundation, Auckland; improvised performance
Is That Her, Depopulate 03, Treasure Hill, Taipei, Taiwan; choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Friends
of the Earth Co-op Initiative, Festival of Uncertainty, Old Folks
Association Hall, Auckland; choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
2013
GoGoDo,
Trifle - A Triple Bill, Tempo ‘13, Q Theatre, Auckland; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
out the
window breath bone feather, Pah Homestead,
Auckland; choreographer Carol Brown & composer Gillian Whitehead
To
Be Glorified, The Basement Theatre, Auckland; choreographer/performer Zahra
Killeen-Chance
Something
about Feeling, Champagne & Limousines, Basement Theatre, Auckland; choreographer
Anna Bate
Ninetysecondnumbers,
21 Mercury Lane, Auckland; concept and direction Zahra Killeen-Chance & Jessie
McCall
You
Move Me, Part 1 (Ritual of Abduction): 111. The Rite Camp, Rites: New
rituals for the living, The
Kenneth Myers Centre,
Auckland; concept and direction Claire O’Neil
Pushing
Gravity; Brown/Whitehead Collaboration Studio Sharing, The Kenneth Myers
Centre, Auckland;
choreographer Carol Brown & composer Gillian Whitehead
An
Unfortunate Willingness to Agree, Auckland Fringe Festival, The Basement
Theatre, Auckland; choreographer
Oliver Connew
Awkward
Alters, Auckland Fringe Festival, The Basement Theatre, Auckland;
choreographer Cat Ruka
2012
Moving
Canvas, Unwrapping Christmas - Random Acts, Aotea Square, Auckland; choreographer
Zahra Killeen-Chance & body artists Rainbow Rascals
GO
GO DO, Medley, The Living Room, Aotea Square, Auckland; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
White
Nights Dancing Girls, Medley, The Living Room, Aotea Square, Auckland;
direction MaryJane
O’Reilly
Meme(skin),Prime Cuts, Tempo Festival, Q Theatre, Auckland; choreographer Kelly Nash
Waterslides, Prime Cuts, Tempo
Dance Festival, Q Theatre, Auckland; choreographer Christina
Houghton
Somehow in
Relation, The Big Rethink, Q Theatre, Auckland;
directed improvised solo,
director Kristian Larsen
Crazy,
The Big Rethink, Q Theatre, Auckland; choreographer Georgia Giesen
Ferris
Wheel Dance, The Big Rethink, Q Theatre, Auckland; choreographer Georgia
Giesen
Water
Slides, Point Chevalier Sailing Club, Auckland; choreographer Christina
Houghton
Is
That Her, White Fungus Art Tour, Whammy Bar, Auckland; choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Is
That Her, White Fungus Art Tour,The Physics Room, Christchurch;
choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Is
That Her, White Fungus Art Tour, Waikato Museum Te Whare Tanga O Waikato, Hamilton; choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
A Norwegian Special, Feeding Habits 4, Old Folks Association Hall, Auckland; improvised
solos and duet, Zahra
Killeen-Chance & Kristian Larsen
Is
That Her, Too Solo Show, Basement Studio, Auckland; 19 Tory Street,
Wellington; choreographer/performer/video
Zahra Killeen-Chance
GO GO DO Part Two, En Route IN TO, Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre, Auckland; choreographer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Killeen-Chance
& Son Collaboration (Skype), S.A.M.P.L.E., San Francisco Bath House,Wellington;
dance and live music performance, Zahra Killeen-Chance & Samin Son
Blind
Bride, Fluid City, Silo Park, Auckland Waterfront; choreographer Carol
Brown
GO
GO DO, Short and Sweet Dance Festival, Concert Chamber, Town Hall,
Auckland; choreographer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Circular
Persuasions, The Performance Arcade, Wellington Fringe Festival, Wellington Waterfront;
choreographer Serene Lorimer
2011
Orgelpark
Workshop Performance, Orgelpark Church Concert Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
choreographer Katie Duck
The
Producing Project, The Live Series Season One: Taste Me, Galatos, Auckland;
curated by Zahra
Killeen-Chance & Christina Houghton
Shanty,
Short and Sweet Theatre Festival, Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland; choreographer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Past,
Present, Future, Pacific Dance New Zealand, Metro Theatre, Auckland; artist
in residence
& choreographer Keneti Muaiava
I
Walk The Line, Joan of Hearts, Old Folks Association Hall, Auckland;
choreographer/ performer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
I Walk The Line, A Return to Service, Theatre466, Auckland; choreographer/performer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Point-Blank,
A Return to Service, Theatre466, Auckland; choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Playing John Cage, Composition and Early Music, Music Theatre, School of Music, The University of Auckland; improvised solo
Zahra Killeen-Chance, composer Sean Scanlen
& pianist Flavio Villani
heel ruby, The Grind Date, Wellington Fringe Festival, Whitireia Performance
Centre, Wellington;
choreographers/performers Zahra Killeen-Chance & Emily Campbell
I Walk The Line, The Grind Date, Wellington Fringe Festival, Whitireia Performance
Centre, Wellington;
choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
The
Adventures of Ghost Heart and Golden Horse, The Grind
Date, Wellington Fringe Festival,
Whitireia Performance Centre, Wellington; choreographer Anna Bate
2010
Random
Acts of Christmas (Roving Performance Act), Big city little, The Edge,
Downtown Auckland;
choreographers/performers Zahra Killeen-Chance & Emily Campbell
pinefresh,
A Call to Arms, Theatre466, Auckland; choreographer/performer Zahra Killeen-Chance
Doing
it for Daddy, The Works, Musgrove Studio, Maidment Theatre, Auckland; choreographer/performer
Zahra Killeen-Chance
Here
and There, One Step Beyond Youth Dance Company; choreographer Zahra Killeen-Chance
heel
ruby, Tempo 10 Festival, TAPAC, Auckland; choreographers/performers Zahra
Killeen-Chance &
Emily Campbell
Zeitgeber
Excerpt, Tempo 10 Festival, TAPAC, Auckland; choreographer Ai Fujii Nelson
heel
ruby, Dunedin Fringe Festival, Allen Hall, Dunedin; choreographers/performers
Zahra Killeen-Chance,
Emily Campbell & Carly Townrow
Zeitgeber
Excerpt, W.I.P.: Season Three, Galatos, Auckland; choreographer Ai Fujii
Nelson
Situation
Project Lynch, W.I.P.: Season Two, Galatos, Auckland; choreographer Anna
Bate
ruby,
W.I.P.: Season One, Galatos, Auckland; choreographers/performers Zahra Killeen-Chance &
Emily Campbell
Zeitgeber,Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland; choreographer Ai Fujii Nelson
ruby,
Platform, Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland; choreographers/performers Zahra
Killeen- Chance &
Emily Campbell
ruby
in white (Live Installation), LIVE.REPEAT.PLAYBACK., Window Box, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland; choreographers/performers
Zahra Killeen-Chance & Emily Campbell
Instead of allowing
some things to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things, 4th Auckland Triennial, St
Paul St Gallery, Auckland; choreographer Tino Sehgal
2009
Pace,
Auckland Fringe Festival, The Art Lounge, Auckland Art Gallery; choreographers/performers
Zahra Killeen-Chance & Alysha Firbank
Pace,
Tempo 09 Festival, TAPAC, Auckland; choreographers/performers Zahra Killeen- Chance &
Alysha Firbank
Amapolas,
Tempo 09 Festival, TAPAC Auckland; choreographer Josephine Searles
Textures,
Tempo 09 Festival, TAPAC, Auckland; choreographer Melanie Turner
Rule
and Exception, Dance Your Socks Off Festival, Bats Theatre, Wellington; choreographers/performers
Zahra Killeen-Chance, Alysha Firbank & Adam Tatana
Sick
Disco, Cassette #9, Auckland; choreographer Alana Yee
2008
The
Settlement Project, The Print Factory, Wellington; directed by Hans Van den
Broeck & Claire O’Neil
We
Can Fight, New Zealand School of Dance Graduation Season,Te Whaea Theatre, Wellington
Steel
Skeletons, New Zealand School of Dance Choreographic Season, Te Whaea
Theatre, Wellington
Space
wish, Choreographic Season, New Zealand School of Dance; choreographer
Zahra Killeen-Chance