Bron Batten
Bron Batten is a Melbourne based theatre- maker, choreographer producer and performer. She has trained at tertiary institutions such as Deakin University and most recently at The Victorian College of the Arts, graduating with Post Graduate Diploma in Theatre Making (Animateuring).
While at The VCA her work My Kingdom for a
Horse was chosen to be part of the VRAP program, an initiative providing arts access for regional students.
Bron has been the co-curator and producer of the performance event The Last Tuesday Society since 2008, which has been presented at several inner city venues and festival clubs, including hosting Tuesday nights at the HiFi Bar and Ballroom for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The Last Tuesday Society presented Comfort Zones at Witches in Britches Theatre Restaurant as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival and staged events at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland and This Is Not Art Festival (TINA) in Newcastle, NSW .
Bron was a long time performer and collaborator with the performance project Penny Machinations, staged at the 2008 Chookahs Children’s Festival at The Victorian Arts Centre; 2006 & 2007 Falls Festivals; 2006 & 2007 The Village; 2005 & 2006 Melbourne Fringe – Winner- Outstanding Special Event award 2005
She co-devised and performed the physical theatre work We Could Live Here for the 2008 Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals and devised the dance piece I want to dance with somebody for the 2008 Next Wave Festival’s Nightclub Project, which was the concluding work for the entire festival.
Bron was a collaborator and performer in Interior Theatre’s dance work Last Drinks for the 2008 Short and Sweet Independent Companies season at The Victorian Arts Centre, winning the award for Best Comedy Writing.
Bron was the Production Manager and Artist Liaison for The Village Festival at the 2008/9 Marion Bay Falls Festival, Tasmania, and co-devised and performed the dance work Sugar High as part of the 2009 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Bron also premiered her long awaited solo work Welcome to the Jungle at the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival to critical acclaim, a mixture of stand up, storytelling, dance and visual theatre.
Bron was recently a performer in an international collaboration between UK performance artist Mem Morrison and North Melbourne’s Art House, resulting in a production called Ringside, a work that has been similarly staged in London, Edinburgh and Singapore.
Bron devised the work You don’t stand a chance if you don’t move now for the 2010 Next Wave Festival’s keynote piece The Sports Club Project at The George Knott reserve in Clifton Hill. She was also a performer in the national premiere of The Sister’s Grimm play The Rimming Club, staged at the 2010 TINA Festival.
In 2010 Bron was awarded funding through the Ian Potter Foundation to attend the Twenty Second International Society of Humour Studies Conference at the City University of Hong Kong and The Tenth International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. She also received an Artstart grant from the Australia Council for recent arts graduates.
Bron was the choreographer for singer/songwriter Darren Hanlon’s film clip All These Things and is a theatre reviewer for Australian Stage and Arts Hub.
