Work — LUCY MARINKOVICH

DANCER

Lucy Marinkovich trained at the New Zealand School of Dance, before joining Footnote Dance Company as a full time member for three and a half years. She has since worked as a freelancer performing throughout Aotearoa and internationally, appearing as a Guest Artist with Malia Johnston’s Movement of the Human as well as for the New Zealand Dance Company. Lucy also performs for her own company, the Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Strasbourg 1518, Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Strasbourg 1518, by Borderline Arts Ensemble, commissioned by NZ Festival of the Arts. Pictured: Lucy Marinkovich and Michael Parmenter (MNZM). Photo: Philip Merry.

Malaysia residency. © 60Seconds for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Lobsters. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

The Devil Made Me Do It. © Miranda Manasidis and There Should Have Been Roses Co.

Suitcase. © Maria Alperi for Shahar Dor.

Lucy Marinkovich at Auckland Art Gallery with Footnote Dance Company. © David St George Photography.

© John McDermott for The New Zealand Dance Company.

© Dean Zillwood for Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Life! Death! Prizes! by Lucy Marinkovich and Anita Hunziker. © Celia Walmsley for Tempo Dance Festival and Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Purlieu by Malia Johnston. © Footnote Dance Company.

We Have Been There by Lisa Densem. © Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Body Fight Time by Malia Johnston. © Philip Merry for Malia Johnston and Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Instances When We Are Like Horses by Malia Johnston. © Dean Zillwood for Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Straight Laced by Craig Bary for Footnote New Zealand Dance Company’s ChoreoCo. © Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

SMASH #3 Berlin. © Lucy Marinkovich for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

So Euro by Lucy Marinkovich. © Short+Sweet Dance Festival for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Good Good Fortune. © George Town Festival and Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Lucy Marinkovich and Robbie Curtis at New Zealand School of Dance. © Stephen A’Court.

Body Fight Time by Malia Johnston. © Philip Merry for Malia Johnston and Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Absence by Michael Parmenter. © Josephine O’Sullivan for Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Absence by Michael Parmenter. © Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

CHOREOGRAPHER

Lucy Marinkovich works as contemporary dance choreographer, with choreographic credits for professional companies, freelance projects, and secondary and tertiary students. Lucy has created multiple works on Footnote New Zealand Dance Company, for contemporary students at the New Zealand School of Dance, is the choreographer for her performing arts company Borderline Arts Ensemble, and most recently created a new work for the New Zealand Dance Company.

Strasbourg 1518 #Strasbourg1518

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Strasbourg 1518 #Strasbourg1518 #DeathandtheMaiden

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Strasbourg 1518 #Strasbourg1518 #ThePatient

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Strasbourg 1518 #Strasbourg1518 #FrauTroffea

Strasbourg 1518 #Strasbourg1518 #AnOldFriend

Strasbourg 1518 by Borderline Arts Ensemble, commissioned by the New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Photo: Alex Efimoff.

Lobsters. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

The Shyness of Trees. © Style Revisited for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Centerfolds. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble and Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

Centerfolds. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble and Footnote Dance New Zealand Company.

The Bosch Box. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

The Bosch Box. © Gussie Larkin for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

The Surrealists. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

The Shyness of Trees. © Style Revisited for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

So Euro. © Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Nomad. © Joie Koo for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

ORGANS. © Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Little Gypsies. © Jeremy Brick for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Good Good Fortune. © Shih Yun Yeo for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Good Good Fortune. © George Town Festival for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Good Good Fortune. © Jeremy Brick for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

HELPERS: Changing Homes. © Alex Efimoff for Yuka Oyama.

HELPERS: Changing Homes. © The Dowse for Yuka Oyama.

HELPERS: Changing Homes. © Alex Efimoff for Yuka Oyama.

The Bosch Box. © Jeremy Brick for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Awesome Robots. © John McDermott for The New Zealand Dance Company

Thursday

Thursday. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

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Thursday. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

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Thursday. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

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Thursday. © Philip Merry for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

DANCE TUTOR

Lucy Marinkovich works as a dance tutor, across both contemporary and ballet disciplines. Her work as a dance tutor includes teaching ballet and contemporary technique, improvisation, composition, choreographic devices, creative movement classes, conditioning for dancers, and learning repertoire.

Lucy is the Dance Educator for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, travelling throughout Aotearoa facilitating dance workshops and teaching dance to students from 5 - 19 years of age. Lucy was formerly an adjunct contemporary tutor for the New Zealand School of Dance, and Deirdre Tarrant Dance Studios.

Lucy has taught internationally, as an independent teacher and festivals. Lucy taught choreographic workshops and technique masterclasses at Croatia’s Dance and Non-Verbal Theatre Festival in Svetvinčenat, at Malaysia’s Penang Dance Day Festival, and at the 2016 South East Asian Choreolab.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © David Unwin.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © Lucy Marinkovich.

Penang Dance Day Festival workshop. © Joie Koo.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © Lucy Marinkovich.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © St. Kentigern’s College.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © Limelight Dance Academy.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © Lucy Marinkovich.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Touch Tour. © Stephen A’Court for Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich © Lucy Marinkovich.

DANCER - FOOTNOTE

From 2010 to mid-2013, Lucy Marinkovich was a full time company member of Footnote New Zealand Dance Company. Lucy toured and performed throughout New Zealand with Footnote, and overseas to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Berlin, Frankfurt, Antwerp and London. During this time she danced in works by Michael Parameter, Malia Johnston, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Claire O’Neill, Kristian Larsen, Kate MacIntosh/ Jo Randerson, Lisa Densem, Lyne Pringle, Sarah Knox, Juila Milsom and Victoria Columbus.

During her time with Footnote Lucy taught at primary, intermediate and secondary schools throughout Aotearoa, and created her first professional choreography on the company. Lucy has since choreographed and directed four works on Footnote.

© Caroline Atkinson for Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

© Philip Merry for Malia Johnston and Footnote New Zealand Dance Company.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Since 2016, Lucy has been invited to and undertaken four international Artistic Residencies. These projects and locations include:

Artist In Residence - INSTINC Art Gallery (Singapore, Singapore)

Choreographer in Residence - Rimbun Dahan (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Choreographer in Residence - The Mediterranean Dance Centre (Svetvincenat, Croatia)

Choreographic Residency - Dance Nucleus (Singapore, Singapore)

Malaysia Residency at Rimbun Dahan. © 60Seconds for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Singapore Residency at Dance Nucleus. © Yun Ying Foo for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Singapore Residency at INSTINC Art Gallery Singapore. © Shih Yun Yeo for Borderline Arts Ensemble.

Croatia Residency at the Mediterranean Dance Centre. © Borderline Arts Ensemble.

MODELLING

Lucy Marinkovich occasionally does modelling that incorporates her physicality and performance skills from being a dancer. She has had numerous collaborations with Richard Taylor’s Weta Workshop, posing as a model for sculpture.

Lucy also performed with the World of Wearable Arts for years, including their tour to the Hong Kong Arts Festival and mini-shows around New Zealand. Lucy has also modelled for Wellington’s Circa Theatre and the Wellington Woman Magazine.

A Bit of a Bea r, Jane Dodd. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

Naked Barcelona , Dan Palmer. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

Primavera , Lucas Ebbeke. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

Poi Kura 2011 , Matthew McIntyre Wilson. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

Le Dragonfly en Tremble , Julian Bartrom. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

Timekeeping , Sarah Walker-Holt. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

Literality , Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova. New Zealand Jewellery Design Awards finalist. © Kate Macpherson.

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR

Lucy Marinkovich has assisted other New Zealand choreographers in facilitating their own choreographic projects. These include Tiki Taane Mahuta, a large-scale, nationally touring theatre work for Taki Rua Productions, and Malia Jonhston’s The Art of Colour for the opening of the Te Auaha campus in Wellington.

Lucy also worked as a Rehearsal Assistant, alongside Rehearsal Director Lyne Pringle, for the 2015 New Zealand Festival’s Le Grand Continental. Choreographed by Montreal-based Sylvain Emard, the 50 minute work was performed by 140 amateur dancers from Wellington on the opening night of the Festival, filling the Civic Square with dance, light and music.

Le Grand Continental by Sylvain Emard for New Zealand Festival © Matt Grace, courtesy of New Zealand Festival.

Le Grand Continental by Sylvain Emard for New Zealand Festival © Monique Ford for Fairfax Media.

Le Grand Continental by Sylvain Emard for New Zealand Festival © Ross Giblin for The Dominion Post.

Tiki Taane Mahuta © Taki Rua Productions.

The Art of Colour by Malia Johnston for Te Auaha © Te Auaha.

The Art of Colour by Malia Johnston for Te Auaha © Lucy Marinkovich.

FILM + OTHER MEDIA

Lucy Marinkovich works as a performing artist across disciplines, collaborating with film and theatre makers. Lucy had a 2 second film role in Taika Waititi’s mockumentray horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows, and this remains her only film role to date.

Lucy has worked as a Movement Director on multiple projects with filmmaker Jeremy Brick, including commercials and the music video for Ils Winter.