About

Ivey Wawn (1990) is a dancer living and working in Eora (Sydney), making choreography for a range of contexts. Her experience primarily lies in live performance for theatres and galleries, but she has also made video and writing in other instances. She works with dance as a hyper-real approach to being alive, with imagination as a way to accentuate such realities, and with choreographic structuring systems to house it all. She is actively engaged in what meaning live performance can produce within capitalist social relations and is committed to dance for its pro-sociality and its resistance to the commodity form.  

Her work and the work she has contributed to as a choreographer has been presented and supported by institutions such as; Artshouse (VIC), Art Gallery of NSW (NSW), Carriageworks (NSW), Cementa (NSW), Museum of Contemporary Art (NSW), National Gallery of Australia (ACT), Next Wave Festival (VIC), Performance Space (NSW), RMIT Design Hub (VIC), Tate Galleries (UK), and UTS Galleries (NSW) among others. 

She has strong collaborative relationships and working friendships with artists from Australia, and abroad which have been honed through time working on different projects together. These include Adam Linder, Alice Heyward, Angela Goh, Asad Raza, Atlanta Eke, Brooke Stamp, Rhiannon Newton, Rochelle Haley, Tino Sehgal, and Xavier LeRoy among others.

She has spent time working extensively as a performer, but in recent years splits her labour time between work as an artists and work as a hospitality provider in her restaurant Fontana, which she owns and operates with friends on Gadigal country, in Redfern NSW.