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Following the sold out success of Relic in 2025, Australasian Dance Collective’s latest site-specific work takes over Level 20 of commercial office tower 300 George Street, combining contemporary dance, virtuosic live music and a striking performance experience set high above the Brisbane CBD.
Embedded within the architecture of corporate life, Code of Conduct exposes our uneasy devotion to work.
“Australasian Dance Collective continues to carve its path as leading Australian artists.” — Australian Stage
Established in 1984 as Expressions Dance Company by Maggi Sietsma AM, the company has created more than 200 works by national and international choreographers.
Harnessing the talent of an extraordinary ensemble of six dancers, the company has achieved significant recognition through national awards, including three Helpmann Awards and three Australian Dance Awards.
Brisbane-based ADC is a significant cultural resource and a leading provider of dance performance and sector development. We recognise the need to be nationally and internationally connected, represented through our diverse range of local and global partnerships.
Our core desire is to harness the power of the collective. Our signature is one of plurality not a singular fingerprint. In all areas of creation and performance we work as a collective where like-minded individuals have robust and invigorating conversations that give rise to new dance, to new art.
ADC invests in artists and art and cultivates interdisciplinary collaborations and imaginative partnerships. Through dance, we embrace an intergenerational focus and innovative co-creations – eliciting and presenting these myriad voices and forms to create something never seen before.
For some, it is transactional – a structure that sustains the everyday. For others, it becomes vocational – something tied closely to identity and purpose. For many, the relationship is complex: fuelled by passion and curiosity, but also by rigor and the persistent desire to do something well.
The tension between ambition and capacity –between wanting to keep going and recognising when one is spent – sits close to the surface. The impulse to keep refining, improving and executing with excellence can be both sustaining and exhausting. Ambition fuels growth, but it can also bring us close to the edges of our capacity.
Code of Conduct grew from conversations about these tensions – our complicated relationships with labour, motivation and ambition, and the ways we quietly measure ourselves through productivity, endurance and performance.
As artists, many of us have never worked within corporate structures, yet we are deeply familiar with the language of discipline and output. Placing the work within the architecture of an
office allowed us to offer our own rendering of the strange choreography of work – the rhythms, repetitions and behaviours that shape how we move through our days.
For Australasian Dance Collective, projects like this also reflect an ongoing curiosity about space. I am continually interested in how dance might live beyond the theatre – meeting audiences in unexpected environments and reimagining the places we think we know. Presenting Code of Conduct on Level 20 at 300 George Street invites us to encounter performance within the architecture of corporate life itself.
This work has been shaped through the generosity and commitment of many collaborators. In particular, I want to acknowledge and thank Jack Lister, whose vision and drive have been pivotal in bringing this work to life.
My heartfelt thanks also go to the remarkable ADC dancers, composer Louis Frere-Harvey, pianist Alex Raineri and to Josie Reid for costuming. I am deeply grateful to the ADC team – especially Jade and Maddy – and to our exceptional production team, Mick, Claire, Wes and El, who transformed an empty office floor into a fully realised performance environment.
Finally, my sincere thanks to our community of supporters – our partners, donors and collaborators – whose belief in our work makes projects like this possible. In particular, I acknowledge Lynette Denny for enabling Alex Raineri’s live performance, and Carmel and Darren Brown and our Commissioning Circle for supporting the creation of Code of Conduct.
On behalf of the ADC board, staff and artists, it is my absolute pleasure to share with you our latest site-specific adventure: Code of Conduct
Amy Hollingsworth, Artistic Director & CEO
To work like a dog, one implies that it is all nose down, bum up. Lock in, dig deep, work hard.
We call it drive, and we reward it. Like dogs, our work is a junction for purpose, pride, even pleasure.
In a modern world where ‘busy’ has become an emotional state and an aspirational status symbol, the tension between ambition and capacity, wanting to keep going and recognising when one is spent, sits close to the surface.
Code of Conduct emerges from this tension — a reflection on our craving for ‘balance’.
CONCEPT & DIRECTION
Jack Lister & Amy Hollingsworth
CHOREOGRAPHY
Jack Lister & Amy Hollingsworth in collaboration with the ADC Company Artists
MUSIC COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN
Louis Frere-Harvey
PERFORMED BY
Sam Hall
Lilly King
Taiga Kita-Leong
Lily Potger
Hugo Poulet
Te Atawhai Kaa
Alex Raineri — Piano Soloist
PIANO COMPOSITION
Etudes: No. 6 — Philip Glass
6 Impromptus, Op. 5: Impromptu V — Jean Sibelius
Transcendental Etudes, S. 139: No. 12, Chasse-neige — Franz Liszt
Following his training at The Australian Ballet School, Jack Lister joined Queensland Ballet (QB) in 2014, performing and originating many featured roles in the vast classical ballet and contemporary repertoire.
After creating his first work for QB in 2015, Lister quickly established a name as a respected emerging maker, recognized in The Australian as “a young choreographer who is going places.”
With an extensive portfolio of work made for Queensland Ballet and Australasian Dance Collective, Lister has also created internationally for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet, presented throughout Australia, United Kingdom, USA, China and Germany to critical and audience acclaim.
In January 2020, Lister joined Australasian Dance Collective as a company artist and was appointed Associate Choreographer with Queensland Ballet, and subsequently in January 2022, Lister was appointed Creative Associate of ADC.
Since joining ADC, Lister has collaborated on new creations and performed in works by Hofesh Shechter, Maxine Doyle, Melanie Lane, Gabrielle Nankivell, Cass Mortimer Eipper, Kate Harman and Amy Hollingsworth.
For ADC, Lister has choreographed Aftermath, a co-creation with ADC Artistic Director Amy Hollingsworth and The Kite String Tangle’s Danny Harley. The sold-out season was met with audience and critical acclaim and went on to feature in three major festivals across Australia.
Still Life, premiering in the first iteration of THREE at QPAC in 2021, was hailed as “exquisite, absorbing and poignant”, before touring nationally in 2022. In 2023, Lister created Halcyon, a multidisciplinary immersive dance-theatre work, lauded as “pushing contemporary dance into new areas” and “must be seen to be believed”.
Since 2018, Lister has also collaborated with director Ryan Renshaw, creating dance films which have screened at film festivals globally. Their creations have gathered countless awards, nominations and screenings at prestigious film festivals and online platforms.
In January 2024, Lister was appointed as Associate Artistic Director of ADC.
Amy Hollingsworth is a multi-award-winning dancer and director based in Brisbane, and was described by the UK Observer as one of “the most compelling and intelligent dancers on the world stage”.
Classically trained at The Australian Ballet School, she performed as a leading dancer in companies worldwide such as Rambert Dance Company, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Bonachela Dance Company, Michael Clark Company, Hofesh Shechter Company and Sydney Dance Company.
With an impressive international performance and creative career spanning large-scale classical ballet and contemporary dance, Amy is a highly versatile director of dance. She has produced, collaborated on and performed in a wide range of live art collaborations, collectively driven independent work, film, documentaries, art gallery installations and large-scale music videos and tours.
Notable appointments outside of her performance career include Assistant Director of Bonachela Dance Company, Dance Director for Sydney Dance Company, Rehearsal Director for Expressions Dance Company and Creative Associate for Queensland Ballet. Amy was appointed the Artistic Director of Australasian Dance Collective in 2019.
Throughout her career, Amy has also choreographed numerous works – a fulllength collaboration with Jack Lister and The Kite String Tangle’s Danny Harley, Aftermath drew rave reviews: “From its initial blistering explosion of light, sound and movement this bold, audacious work positively thrills… Part gig, part performance, Aftermath is exceptional”.
Her 2023 work, Lucie In the Sky, saw Amy leading an international multidisciplinary team to develop a cutting-edge stage work featuring dancers and drones, extensive creative learning resources and an in-depth research project in arts and autonomous agents.
Amy is also a sought-after keynote speaker, industry mentor and creative consultant with a deep interest in cybernetics.
Louis is a composer, percussionist and performer whose work sits at the intersection of contemporary classical music, electronic and club culture, and movement.
Drawing on his training in percussion and a deep understanding of the body in motion, Louis creates energetically percussive scores that explore rhythm at its physical source and its relationship to sound.
His practice spans theatre, dance and music, with compositions and arrangements ranging from small ensembles to full orchestras, often blending acoustic instrumentation with electronic elements.
Following a decade of touring Australia, New Zealand and North America as the internationally acclaimed DJ Command Q, Louis transitioned into freelance composition, scoring works presented throughout Australia, North America and Venice.
He has collaborated with award-winning dance and theatre companies, directors and choreographers including Club Guy & Roni, Slagwerk Den Haag, Australasian Dance Collective, Milwaukee Ballet, Scott Elstermann (Venice Biennale), Brooke Leeder (Perth Festival), The Last Great Hunt, ROOKE Circus, Sally Richardson (NICA) and Mitchell Harvey Company.
Louis is a recipient of Minderoo Foundation’s inaugural Artist Fund (2021), has undertaken residencies with STRUT Dance and TasDance, and was awarded the Performing Arts WA Award for Outstanding Composition in both 2022 and 2024.
Australian-Italian artist Alex Raineri is a piano player, harpsichordist, composer, improviser, curator, producer, writer, musical director and educator.
Though trained classically, Alex is passionate about deconstructing genre barriers, nurturing how the tendrils of an old (classical) tradition can resonate vibrantly in today’s world. Alex’s creative ethos embodies a gentle shift towards a utopian future, leveraging storytelling through music as a powerful vehicle for manifesting social change.
His collaborative and original work foregrounds diversity and innovation. As a commissioner, he has activated over 90 new works. Alex’s own compositional practice explores the intersection between old and new, weaving musical conventions in fresh ways. Beyond music, he has collaborated with dancers, actors, filmmakers, visual artists, and designers.
Critical praise for his work has lauded him as “a musical chameleon … a visionary prophet of the keys” (Limelight), “fearless, playful, and technically formidable” (Stage Whispers), “a born communicator” (The Australian), and “a brilliant young musician” (Otago Times).
As a performing artist, Alex’s extensive international touring includes shows throughout USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. With an expansive repertoire traversing Monteverdi to Xenakis, he is equally authoritative in interpreting the classical canon and premiering new work.
As a recording artist, his discography includes releases with Decca, Parma Records, ABC Classic, Kammerklang, MOVE Records and Soothe Sounds. He has made television appearances in Australia and Germany, and radio broadcasts on BBC, ABC, Radio NZ, Chicago’s WFMT and Florida’s WSMR.
Alex is the artistic director and producer of Brisbane Music Festival and FourthWall Arts. He is an artist ambassador for Kawai Australia.
Sam is a dance artist, teacher, and emerging choreographer. He was born in Te Whanganui-aTara (Wellington, NZ) before his family moved to Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia) as a child. His practice primarily focuses on how dance can be a catalyst for unlocking vulnerability, leading to profound connection and understanding.
He graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2016. The following year, he performed in William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing, Reproduced with Strut Dance before joining Swedish company Norrdans for their 17/18 season as an apprentice. There he performed works by Mari Carrasco, Shahar Binyamini, Jarek Cemerek, and Helena Franzen as well as creating several short dance pieces for the company.
Sam then went on to join the cast of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Shanghai in China from 2018 to 2020. He returned to Australia in 2020 and began working with Australian Dance Theatre and Lewis Major Projects, performing in numerous works by both companies over the following two years. He also began creating his first full length work Womb, which premiered in 2022. Sam then worked with Art of Spectra in Gothenburg, Sweden from 2023 to 2024.
Sam is a certified Countertechnique teacher since 2022 and has taught at dance companies and training institutions around the world.
Originally from Boorloo (Perth), Lilly King studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Dance (Elite Performance).
As an independent artist Lilly performed with numerous choreographers such as Brooke Leeder, Sally Richardson, Scott Elstermann, Scott Ewen, and Stephanie Lake, as well as working on multiple film endeavours with Beautiful Pictures, and most recently, Molasses Pictures. Lilly was also a founding member of Syndicate Performance, co-creating numerous shows in a creatively collective format.
In 2019, she was awarded Best Newcomer in the Performing Arts Awards WA for her roles in Brooke Leeder’s RADAR and Scott Elsterman & Shona Erskine’s BANG! BANG!
Since joining ADC in 2022, Lilly has performed various works by esteemed choreographers such as Amy Hollingsworth, Cass Mortimer Eipper, Jenni Large, Jack Lister, Maxine Doyle and Melanie Lane.
Lilly is continuously interested in finding connection to people and places through nostalgia and finding absurdity in the everyday mundane.
Taiga Kita-Leong is a Japanese–Chinese contemporary dance artist born and raised in Warrang (Sydney). Working across contemporary and street dance forms, his practice draws from Hip-Hop and House foundations, merging street vocabularies with contemporary performance. He refined his training at the Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year program (2020–2021).
In 2022, Kita-Leong made his professional debut at the Sydney Opera House, performing Ohad Naharin’s Decadance with Sydney Dance Company. That same year he began working as an independent artist, touring nationally with The Rivoli by Miranda Wheen for Dance Makers Collective, and appearing as a runway model in Jordan Gogos’s show at Australian Fashion Week.
His work spans across performance, fashion, film, and commercial projects, collaborating with brands and institutions including Oakley, Hermès, Westfield, Vivid Sydney, SBS, ABC, and Network 10, as well as artists including Harrison Hall, Meryl Tankard, and Sue Healy.
In 2023, he joined Australasian Dance Collective as a Company Artist, performing works by Amy Hollingsworth, Jack Lister, Hofesh Shechter, Stephanie Lake, Melanie Lane, Jenni Large, and Alisdair Macindoe.
In 2025, Kita-Leong toured internationally across Europe performing Bad Nature, a collaboration between Australasian Dance Collective and the Netherlands-based company Club Guy & Roni. Later that year, he toured to Hong Kong performing Lucie In the Sky by Amy Hollingsworth.
Hailing from Garlambirla (Coffs Harbour), Lily trained with Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London.
They are a multidisciplinary artist working across mediums of performance, textiles and costume design utilising found materials.
During their career, Lily has worked most notably with Hofesh Shechter, Christopher Bruce, Anthony Matsena, The Bait Fridge and Australasian Dance Collective. They have performed in the UK and Australia where they continue to facilitate workshops and classes that provide spaces for the exchange of knowledge and the strengthening of community bonds.
Since returning from the UK, Lily has created and collaborated on works, focusing on access and sharing between community and art across Australia.
Hugo Poulet is a multidisciplinary, independent artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). A versatile and unique mover, he draws on a wide range of movement practices to push contemporary dance forward. He has performed with Stephanie Lake Company in Auto Cannibal, Sydney Dance Company in Ohad Naharin’s Decadance, as well as in Drenched by Caetlyn Watson and The Ring Cycle with Opera Australia.
Hugo has collaborated with leading choreographers including Rafael Bonachela, James Vu Anh Pham, Larissa McGowan, Omer Backley-Astrachan, and Gabrielle Nankivell, among many others.
As a choreographer, Hugo is an award winner, receiving Best Duet Choreography at FORMS’ Sharp Short Dance Awards and winning DUTI’s 2025 Profound Choreographic Competition. Most recently, he debuted his first full-length work orbital at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists in 2024.
Te Atawhai Kaa is a contemporary movement artist from Aotearoa, now based in Meanjin/Brisbane. A graduate of the Australasian Dance Collective Pre-Professional Program (Advanced Diploma of Professional Dance – Elite Performance), she brings a grounded physicality and emotional clarity to her performance work.
Te Atawhai previously trained at the New Zealand School of Dance and has undertaken secondments with Atamira Dance Company, Co3 Contemporary Dance, and the New Zealand Dance Company.
In 2025, she performed and understudied in ADC’s 40th Anniversary Season Blue, appearing in the remount of In your rooms by Hofesh Shechter.
Her practice is driven by collaboration, cultural grounding, and a commitment to physically dynamic contemporary performance.
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To Darren & Carmel Brown , Tony Denholder & Scott Gibson and our Commissioning Circle for their generous support of this project.
To Lynette Denny AM for generously enabling the appearance of Alex Raineri.
To Wes Bluff at Krank’d Productions for the significant contributions that shaped the production and technical realisation of this work.
To Bill Dickson for providing the set pieces that helped build the world of Code of Conduct
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