MSTM
MSTM
MSTM is a collaborative quartet work I made with incredible artists Martin del Amo, Sue Healey, and Mitchell Christie. A commission from Campbelltown Arts Centre, the work premiered 6-8th November 2025.
A note from the program below —
MSTM stands for our initials - Martin, Sue, Tra Mi, and Mitch - and the work embodies this layered collaboration. Each of us moves fluidly between the roles of choreographer and performer, navigating shifting alignments and testing the balance between individual expression and collective decision-making. At times, the process less like making a work, and more like an inquiry into how we work, how we listen, and how we coexist artistically.
The result is a piece that unfolds through movement, observation, and negotiation. For each of us, MSTM marks a moment of recalibration - a remidner that collaboration is not only a method but a way of imagining the future of our dance practice itself. We invite audiences to witness MSTM as what it has come to mean for us: a living act if collaboration, perception, and response.
Creative team:
Choreographer/Performer : Martin del Amo, Sue Healey, Tra Mi Dinh, Mitchell Christie
Composer & Sound Designer : Gail Preist
Lighting Design : Frankie Clarke
Producer : Anthea Doropoulos
Images by Nat Cartney
MSTM was commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre
“MSTM is genuinely exceptional due to its ability to convey concepts so complex that language fails. There are moments when four bodies moving in the space communicate ideas that no script could articulate. These passages transcend entertainment to become something closer to philosophical inquiry made visible through physical form.
The work's examination of lineage and artistic inheritance never becomes an academic exercise. Instead, watching Healey, returning to the stage after a decade focused on film and installation, move alongside Christie's Cunningham-influenced precision, while Del Amo and Dinh bring their distinct approaches, creates a living demonstration of how dance knowledge transfers between generations without requiring uniformity.”
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