Naarm-based Joel Bray is a proud Wiradjuri dancer and performance-maker, and Artistic Director of Joel Bray Dance. He performed with European companies and choreographers and with CHUNKY MOVE. Joel's dance-theatre encounters in unorthodox spaces spring from his Wiradjuri heritage, and use humour to engage audiences in rituals about sex, history, trauma and healing. Joel makes his work in collaboration with Elders, Community and Country.
Joel's works- Biladurang, Daddy, Considerable Sexual License, Garabari, Giraru Galing Ganhagirri, Homo Pentecostus and Monolith - have toured to major arts festivals and galleries in Australia and overseas. Joel has made works for the RISING, Malthouse Theatre, Artshouse, CHUNKY MOVE, Sydney Dance Company, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Established in 2017, Joel Bray Dance creates, presents and tours high calibre works of immersive dance-theatre for metropolitan, regional and international venues and festivals. We deliver workshops, paid internships, work-in-progress showings/sharings and eldership consultation with First Nations communities in Melbourne, Regional Victoria and on Wiradjuri Country.
