Ashley Dyer

Ashley Dyer is not a dancer, not a singer or musician, not an actor, not a writer, not a video artist, yet his work often incorporates these things. He is currently working on three projects. The first Melancholia and the Compulsion to Repeat is a dance/storytelling performance that samples and loops live sounds to create music for the performance. The second And Then Something Fell On My Head will be presented at the 2010 Next Wave Festival. And the third Erskineville’s Live Art festival Tiny Stadiums, which Ashley is managing/curating/producing for the second straight year with Quarterbred Collective. In September this 2009 he worked on Jeff Stein’s new site-specific physical theatre work The Secret Name with Legs on The Wall. And in May 2009 he performed in Michael Cohen’s Fire Water, as part of Vivid Sydney, singing an improvised vocal solo using extended voice techniques aboard a sinking ship in Sydney Harbour to four thousand people. As an improvisational performer and dancer he has trained extensively with Martin del Amo and Andrew Morrish and performed in festivals in Hobart, Canberra, Sydney, Paris and Rotterdam. He has journeyed overseas to train vocally at the Roy Hart Theatre in France and at the Institute for Living Voice in Rotterdam. He was a part of the Spark National Mentoring Program in 2007/08 and has been involved in ensembles with both Urban Theatre Projects 2005 and PACT 2002 . In 2006 he graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts Honours First Class in Performance Studies.