Contemporary Workshop with Freya List

Transit Origins is excited to offer this workshop with Freya List as part of a 6 week workshop series with our Contemporary extension faculty. These online youth workshops are aimed at dancers 12 and up, and will offer insight into what Transit Dance Contemporary extensions offers, including contemporary technique, improvisation and creative practice.

About Freya List:

Freya List is an innovative Australian choreographer with a unique approach to storytelling. After graduating Spectrum Dance and moving to New York to intern at Broadway Dance Center, Freya continued training and creating works in Melbourne, New York and Europe. Freya’s choreography can most recently be seen in Bright Star (Pursued By Bear); for which she received a Green Room Nomination, The Children (Dir. Sarah Goodes, Melbourne Theatre Company & Sydney Theatre Company), RENT (Dir. Mark Taylor, James Terry Collective), A View From The Bridge (Dir. Iain Sinclair, Melbourne Theatre Company), Kabaret Dietrich (Fringe Festival), Woodes Tour, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week & Chelsea Wilson Album Launch.

Freya has creatively been involved with many festivals, music launches, charity events, corporate performances & creative projects, including the premier of her own show Half Full (Collaboration The Project). Freya’s screen choreography and credits include: Utopia (Dir. Rob Sitch, ABC), The Doctor Blake Mysteries (ABC/ Seven Network), Good Morning America, The Pacific (Dreamworks) , the Australian Dance feature film UP HERE (Project Y), Neighbours (Network Ten), and has been involved in music videos for Hopium, Sex on Toast, Thelma Plum, Dustin Tebbutt and Braille Face. Freya loves the relationship between music and dance, resulting in the creation of the event series Playing Field.(Collaboration The Project).

Freya is a guest teacher and faculty member at several tertiary institutions and studios throughout Australia and has taught in Europe, America, Singapore, Cambodia and India. It is in India where she works with CERES Global to create trips and opportunities to teach dance for relationship development in remote communities. Freya absolutely loves being in the studio with students and encouraging lifelong learning and storytelling.