Alice Dixon is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and performer based in Naarm/Melbourne who works across contemporary dance, theatre and experimental performance. She has worked as a dancer, performer and collaborator with leading Australian and international artists and companies including: Natalie Cursio, Lucy Guerin, Monica Bill Barnes & Company (NYC), Chunky Move (Antony Hamilton), Opera Australia, Aphids, Victoria Chiu, Andrew Byrne, Reckless Sleepers (UK), Phillip Adams BalletLab, Walter Dundervill (NYC), Euginia Lim, Rob McCreddie, Emma Riches, Nebahat Erpolat, Deanne Butterworth, Gabrielle De Vetri and One Step at a Time Like This, amongst others. Recent performance highlights include performing in Lucy Guerin’s retrospective, NEWRETRO at ACCA (2023) and NEWRETRO REDUX (2024) as well touring to Venice and Paris to perform in PENDULUM, created by Matthias Schack-Arnot and Lucy Guerin. Most recently Alice performed alongside Mish Grigor in Class Act at The Sydney Opera House. 

Between 2014 and 2024 Alice worked in collaboration with fellow dance and performance makers William McBride and Caroline Meaden. Together they have made and performed eight original works of dance and theatre, carving out a distinctive aesthetic and formal contribution to the local dance ecology. Blending forms and references to create highly local and specific “Gesamtkunstwerks", they wilfully embrace and subvert “genre”, and slyly “perform performance”, allowing intuitive and subconscious logics to impose their desires on the process.  Alice Will Caroline have presented work in festivals and venues including Dance Massive, Next Wave, FOLA (Festival of Live Art), Dancehouse, Carriageworks, the Substation, Temperance Hall, Arts House, Abbotsford Convent, Northcote Town Hall and the National Gallery of Victoria. Their most recent work ‘What’s Actually Happening’ was presented as part of the Keir Choreographic Award 2022.  Their work together has been recognised by numerous awards and nominations including the 2020 Green Room Award for Best Ensemble (Dance). As mid-career dance artists they are active advocates and mentors for younger artists. They were key figures in the development of TTDA (Think Tank Dance Assembly) in 2020. 

In 2022 Alice, Will and Caroline were honoured to receive a Chloe Munro fellowship. Alice, Will and Caroline are the 2024 Directors in Residence at Lucy Guerin Inc. In 2024 they also received a bespoke 6 week residency at The Australian Ballet Centre.

Alice’s individual  work has been supported by residencies including: Lucy Guerin Inc. Studio Residency; PAF Summer University (France); Maximised by Chunky Move; Arts House Four Walls; Tasdance TRIP Residency; Dancehouse; Orbost Centre for Dance Research (Rosalind Crisp and Andrew Morrish); Mosaico Danza  (Italy); and Strange Attractor: Make, Think, Speak with David Pledger (Gorman House, ACT). She has received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts (ArtsStart); Besen Family Foundation; the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria.

Selected Choreography

  • The Folded Scene – Choreographer (Commissioned by Stephanie Lake Company for Escalator) – 2025

  • Automated Intelligence – Choreographer (Collaboration with composer Andrew Byrne for Astra Chamber Music) – 2025

  • 4/4 – Rehearsal Director, Chunky Move – 2023

  • What’s Actually Happening – Choreographer & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), Keir Choreographic Award – 2022

  • Glass – Assistant Choreographer (Marc Brew & RAWCUS, Darebin Arts Speakeasy) – 2021

  • WOW – Choreographer (Work created on 2nd year VCA dance students) – 2020

  • Lady Example – Choreographer & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), Substation & Next Wave Festival – 2018; Arts House for Dance Massive – 2019

  • Madama Butterfly – Revival Choreographer, Opera Australia – 2019

  • Doors Shut – Creator & Performer (Alice Will Caroline feat. Mark Wilson), Temperance Hall – 2019

  • Trilogy of the Desert: Mirage – Creator & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), NGV (MEL+NYC Festival) – 2018

  • Let’s Go Up Here – Creator & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), Arts House (Festival of Live Art) – 2018

  • Contest – Movement Director (Darebin Arts Speakeasy) – 2018

  • Blowin’ Up – Choreographer & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), Substation, Melbourne Fringe – 2016

  • Fallen’ O’er – Choreographer & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), Abbotsford Convent – 2016

  • This is What’s Happening – Choreographer & Performer (Alice Will Caroline), Darebin Arts Speakeasy/Melbourne Fringe – 2015

  • This is SUPER UGLY! But You Might Want It… – Video Work, Nat Cursio Co’s Private Dances (Melbourne & Hong Kong) – 2015

  • Lest We Forget – Revival Choreographer/Assistant, QL2 Dance – 2015

  • And Then – Choreographer, Lucy Guerin Inc. (Pieces for Small Spaces) – 2014

Selected Performance Credits

  • Now Pieces – Improvised Solo with Andrew Byrne, Dancehouse – 2025

  • Class Act – Actor/Dancer, Substation – 2022; Sydney Opera House & Vitalstatistix – 2024

  • Molly – Dancer, Caroline Meaden, Union House Theatre – 2024

  • NEWRETRO REDUX – Dancer, Lucy Guerin, Melbourne Art Fair & Chapter House – 2024

  • NEWRETRO – Dancer, Lucy Guerin Inc., ACCA – 2023

  • Dead Rich – Performer, Aphids for NGV’s Melbourne Now – 2023

  • PENDULUM – Dancer, Lucy Guerin & Matthias Schack-Arnott (RISING 2021, Melbourne Fringe 2022, Venice Biennale 2023, Chaillot Paris 2024)

  • Slow Calm Drama – Dancer, Deanne Butterworth, Dancehouse – 2021

  • This is What Happened in Shanghai – Dancer, Victoria Chiu, Asia TOPA – 2020

  • Alien Affairs – Performer, Walter Dundervill & Iki Nakagawa, New York – 2020

  • Token Armies – Dancer, Antony Hamilton (Chunky Move), Melbourne International Arts Festival – 2019

  • The Gallery Workout – Dancer, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, NGV/MEL+NYC Festival – 2018

  • The Australian Ugliness – Performer, Eugenia Lim (Open House Melbourne) – 2018

  • Tiny Slopes – Dancer, Natalie Cursio, Arts House (Dance Massive) – 2017

  • LOOP – Dancer, Natalie Cursio, Arts Centre Melbourne – 2017; Drum Theatre – 2018

  • La Bohème – Actor, Opera Australia, Arts Centre Melbourne – 2016 & 2018

  • The Ring Cycle – Actor/Dancer, Opera Australia – 2016

  • A String Section – Performer, Reckless Sleepers (UK/Belgium), Malthouse Theatre – 2015

  • Urban Rupture – Dancer, Dancehouse – 2015

  • Madama Butterfly – Dancer, Opera Australia – 2015

  • The Marriage of Figaro – Actor, Opera Australia – 2015

  • Since I Suppose – Performer, one step at a time like this, Melbourne International Arts Festival & Festival of Live Art – 2014

  • Blizzard – Dancer/Collaborator, Natalie Cursio, The Substation – 2013 (Green Room nominations, ADA shortlist)

  • La Traviata – Dancer, Opera Australia (Handa Opera on the Harbour, Sydney) – 2012

  • Above – Dancer, Phillip Adams (BalletLab), MONA FOMA – 2011

  • Who Knows What – Dancer, Robert McCredie, Next Wave Festival – 2010

  • The Pearlfishers – Dancer, Opera Australia – 2007–2011 (Sydney Opera House & Arts Centre Melbourne)

  • With a Bullet: The Album Project (Remastered) – Dancer, Natalie Cursio Co., Arts Centre Melbourne – 2007

Awards & Nominations

  • Winner – Green Room Award, Best Dance Duet/Ensemble (Doors Shut) – 2020

  • Nominee – Green Room Award, Best Ensemble (NEWRETRO, Lucy Guerin Inc.) – 2023

  • Nominee – Green Room Award, Best Ensemble & Best Production (Lady Example) – 2019

  • Winner – Arts House Evolution Award, Melbourne Fringe (Blowin’ Up) – 2016

  • Nominee – Australian Dance Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (Fallen O’er) – 2017

  • Nominee – Australian Dance Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (This is What’s Happening) – 2016

  • Nominee – Green Room Award, Best Sound Design (This is What’s Happening) – 2016

  • Winner – Melbourne Fringe, Best Dance (This is What’s Happening) – 2015

  • Nominee – Green Room Award, Ensemble Performance (Blizzard) – 2014