Philip Channells collaborates across art forms including dance/theatre, film, performance installation, community art projects, site-specific work and artist in residencies with collaborators who value, challenge, redefine and inform our different perspectives of contemporary life.
With over 25 years of experience in performance as both a creator and producer in Australia and internationally, his contemporary dance theatre work is deeply rooted in social justice and community engagement. Over the decades he has collaborated with various companies including Access Arts, Accessible Arts, Arts Northern Rivers, Ausdance, Bundanon Trust, Carriageworks, Candoco Dance Company, Corali Dance Company, Danselaboratoriet & Danseteateret Søker Seniordansere and DansiT, Force Majeure, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, ITAK, Mirramu Dance Company, MCA, No Strings Attached, Restless, Scottish Dance Theatre, Sprung, Stopgap, SOH, Tasmania Performs, Tutti Arts, West Kowloon and Zodiak. He focuses on developing performances that, through their themes and cultural significance, challenge and subvert the status quo, pushing audiences to rethink their expectations.
Philip founded Dance Integrated Australia in 2013 and established MOVE IT – Dance Fitness Fun in 2018. He was recently engaged by Arts Northern Rivers to research and design the Dance Sector Uplift (DSU) project and is one of PAC Australia’s Tour Producer Training 2023 cohort. In 2024 he developed the PRACTICE AND PLAY and PH(R)ASE//: initiatives designed to meet some of the long term goals recommended by the data collection agency, Patternmakers for the creative recovery of the Northern Rivers dance, physical theatre and experimental performance sector.
Clarence Valley
Lismore
