LGI HOTBED: Constructive Feedback Lab

Join us for a dynamic three-day workshop exploring diverse approaches to facilitating and engaging in effective artistic feedback. 

Designed for artists, creatives, and facilitators from across disciplines, this series offers an opportunity to hone your critical dialogue skills.

Each day focuses on a distinct feedback methodology, led by experienced facilitators and industry professionals. Sessions include:

• Expanding Critical Dialogue with Luke George
• The DAS Feedback Method with Rebecca Hilton
• Dramaturgy in Practice with Emma Valente

This workshop is open to artists at any stage of their practice who are interested in refining their feedback skills in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Workshop Details 

When
Wednesday 2 April – Friday 4 April 2025
Wednesday & Thursday: 12pm – 5pm / Friday: 12pm – 6pm (includes session wrap)

Please note: attendance at all three days of the workshop is required in order to participate.

Cost
$90 + booking fee
Includes free daily Morning Class for all three days

Access
A range of facilities support people with a wide range of access needs to visit WXYZ Studios. For more information, please visit our website.

About the Facilitators

Luke George (he/they) is a multidisciplinary artist creating work that spans performance, installation, craft and curation. Luke was born in lutruwita/Tasmania and resides on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Through their work, Luke examines the dynamics of intimacy and collectivity to create ‘safe spaces’ that allow for care as well as risk.

Luke’s artistic practice is informed by queer politics and spaces, whereby people are neither singular nor isolated; bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke creates and performs work across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, with notable presentations at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, RISING, AsiaTOPA, Dance Massive, Liveworks Festival, Spring Festival (Utrecht), Concertgebouw (Brugge), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), ThéâtredelaCité for laBiennale (Toulouse), Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris).

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne), Luke has been Co-Artistic Director of Stompin Youth Dance Company (Tasmania), Co-Curator of ‘First Run’ (Melbourne), Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall (Melbourne), and is a studio artist at the Collingwood Yards. Over his career Luke has received 4 fellowships including, Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2019) and a Chloe Monroe Fellowship (2022).

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Rebecca Hilton is a Melbourne born dance person living in Stockholm by way of New York City.  In over four decades as dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher, facilitator, curator and researcher, she has contributed to the work of an array of artists - Russell Dumas, Stephen Petronio, Mathew Barney, Michael Clark, Tere O’Connor, Jennifer Monson, John Jasperse, Lucy Guerin, Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu, Chrysa Parkinson etc., in range of environments -  universities, hospitals, dance companies, festivals, community based organisations, friendship circles and family groups.

Rebecca is currently Professor in Choreography for the profile area - Site Event Encounter - at the Stockholm University of the Arts, where she leads the interdisciplinary research group BODIES, researching relationships between embodied practices, oral traditions and choreographic systems. She is an artistic researcher in residence at both  Malarbacken Residential Elder Care Centre in Stockholm, and Douta Galla Aged Care Facility in Footscray as part of DöBra (Good Death), a decade-long international, transdisciplinary research program exploring relationships to aging, death and dying.

Emma Valente is a freelance director, dramaturg, lighting designer and occasional trouble maker. She is the Co Artistic director and Co CEO of feminist theatre company THE RABBLE.

Emma is the recipient of the Creators Fund grant from Creative Victoria, a Sidney Myer Fellow, was the Curator at Large (performance) at The SUBSTATION for four years and received a Lifetime Achievement award for Technical Achievement from The Green Room Awards.

Emma has directed works that have been performed for Dublin Fringe Festival, Arts House, St Martins, Wuzhen Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Dark MOFO, Brisbane Festival, Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir, MTC, The Substation, Theatre Works, CarriageWorks and La Mama. Emma is currently collaborating with Malthouse Theatre, Nicola Gunn, Wang Chong and on several new works.  

Emma has been the dramaturg for artists including Joel Bray, Nicola Gunn, Wang Chong, Liv Satchell, Eryn Jean Norvill, Emma McManus, Rae Perks, Alison Croggon, Angus Cerini, Zoey Dawson, Bridget Mackey, Daniel Schlusser, Andrea James, Elise Hearst and Meg Wilson. Emma’s essay on Dramaturgy and Silence was published by the centre for Dramaturgy and Curation.  

Emma is also an award-winning Lighting Design and has worked for many major theatre companies across the country including: Queensland Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Fraught Outfit, Sisters Grimm, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Women’s Circus, Theatreworks, CarriageWorks, La Mama and many more.  

Emma founded an initiative to increase gender equity in the technical design sector (lighting, sound and video design) and has been an advocate for change around Sexual Harassment and Bullying in the sector.

Image credit: Gregory Lorenzutti