Proper Motion

14/12/2025

13/12/2025

TODAY!!
4 in PLAY, a collection of four new solo works from artists , , and in collaboration with Kraig Grady.
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When - Sunday 14th of December 5 - 6:30 pm
Where - University of Wollongong building 29

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12/12/2025

4 in PLAY

Deep, Eternal Hum

Pohaturoa - a sacred, natural space, defaced to make way for a road. Cut, cut, cut all you like but the deep, eternal hum of the ancestors still beckons, never to be silenced.

Lisa Maris McDonell is a choreographer and performer based on Dharawal Country. A WAAPA graduate, Lisa has facilitated projects both within Australia and internationally over a 25 year period. In 2021 Lisa started presenting work under the title Proper Motion in an effort to provide opportunity and visibility to NSW South Coast based artists. Lisa is also a dance educator who has worked for many of Australia’s leading dance organisations. She currently teaches the full-time students at Joanne Grace School of Dance and across Sydney Dance Company’s various programs.

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10/12/2025

4 in PLAY

BLEACHED
Choreographed by

An exploration of becoming more than you could ever know

Hailing from Yuin Country, Hannah is a formally trained multidisciplinary creative and performer. Her creative practice explores the intersection between alternative music production and choreographic form. An alumni of both and WAAPA’s undergrad and Honours programs, Hannah is now choreographing and performing between the South Coast and Sydney both independently, and as a part of Dance Makers Collectives Future Makers program. Her recent choreographic credits include ‘PLATINUM’ presented in uNCOILEd for Austi Dance and Physical theatre and MOVE FM with Dance Makers Collective.

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08/12/2025

4 in PLAY

Irregular Atmospheres

Choreographed by and performed in collaboration Kraig Grady

Our imaginations are rich with infinite images. Images swirling in the darkness of timelessness and space. Swooshing in, birthed into being, embodied for an instant, only to disappear again and be usurped by another image. Linda (dance) and Kraig (percussion) entangle sound and movement to find the joy of instability.

Linda lives in the Dharawal/ Illawarra region, NSW. Linda’s extensive career includes performances with De Quincey Co and Proper Motion as well as independent choreographers. She facilitates CO/MINGLING supported by Merrigong Theatre. Linda teaches performance-making at the University of Wollongong, where she is also undertaking a Doctorate of Creative Arts.

Kraig Grady, a Californian now living in Australia, is a composer renowned for his work with acoustic instruments of his own making or modification. For Irregular Atmospheres he will perform live with percussion instruments collected from Tibet, China and a Native American Drum reflecting his Chippewa Ancestry.

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04/12/2025

4 in PLAY

JOAN

Choreographed by

Searching for redemption in the darkroom, I put on my armour to face the night.

A work inspired by Q***r nightlife culture.

Jack is currently a regionally based artist on Dharawal Land. Jack has predominantly performed as an artist with Catapult Dance and Proper Motion in addition to other project based work that has led him to perform nationally in Australia and internationally including Mexico City and Berlin.

This presentation of JOAN builds from jack’s first development as resident artist in the inaugural .step__ facilitated by

4 in PLAY is an evening of four works by Illawarra artists and
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Photography by Ashley De Prazer

28/11/2025

Proper Motion is proud to present 4 in PLAY, a collection of four new solo works from artists , , and in collaboration with Kraig Grady.
Save the date:
When - Sunday 14th of December 5 - 6:30 pm
Where - University of Wollongong building 29

Ticket link in Bio

07/11/2025

Proper Motion is excited to be curating ReadyMade Work's Happy Hour #20 :The BUDGET.

Dates: Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December
Time: 6pm
Tickets: $15 (https://events.humanitix.com/happy-hour-20-the-budget)

Happy Hour #20 is curated by Lisa Maris McDonell who has reimagined this iteration of Happy Hour as the third stage development of her ongoing project, The BUDGET.
Lisa says "This Happy Hour I'm bringing a handful of Sydney's most respected and experienced artists out from behind their desks (where they work in order to survive and also support our ever more fragile dance community) for a new work development that doubles as a performance. The BUDGET does just as our funding overlords would like us to do and places The BUDGET at the centre of creative output. The BUDGET looks at an artist’s relationship to money in a world that requires everything to have a dollar value.
Performers: Jane McKernan, Maya Gavish, Emma Saunders, Lizzie Thomson, + others TBA.
Live projection: Martin Fox
More information on Happy Hour #20 on our website
Happy Hour is supported by the NSW government through Create NSW
Image Credit: Image of Linda Luna in The BUDGET by Lisa Maris McDonell

28/10/2025

Go to link in bio to book for KineStruct two day contemporary dance workshop 29th and 30th November!! EARLY BIRD rate ends today!
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24/10/2025

EARLY BIRD rate closes 29th OCTOBER!

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15/10/2025

KineStruct is now happening over two days! Mark your diaries for the 28th and 29th of November for a two-day workshop with Lisa Maris McDonell building individual and group scores, and ending with a performance for invited guests! To acknowledge the slight timetable change we have extended EARLY BIRD rates to 29th October!

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