ABOUT & CONTACT
Alisdair Macindoe is an Australian independent choreographer, director, performer, composer and sound designer who extends the boundaries of dance by building conceptual frameworks for new ways of moving, making and thinking—using each new work to push his practice into fresh terrain. Based in Melbourne, he works on stolen, unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. His practice moves across mediums, collaborators and places, treating choreography as an experimental laboratory where movement and ideas are inseparable, and where the body tests how contemporary life is shaped by language, technology, social systems, and inherited cultural narratives.
Alisdair respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which he lives and works, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and pays respect to their Elders, past and present.
Alisdair Macindoe is an independent multidisciplinary choreographer living on unceded stolen Woi Wurrung country (Naarm/Melbourne, Australia). Alisdair creates concept driven dance works with embedded value systems. With an interest in extending the boundaries of choreographic practice, Alisdair’s work spans dance, sound, electronics, coding and text. Recent works have seen him explore postcolonial Australian identity; colonial violence, genocide and trauma; cult leaders; automated dance and Artificial Intelligence; new technology for musical expression; trans-humanism; waste and climate change; and identity in the age of narcissism.
Alisdair’s independent and collaborative work has been commissioned and presented widely, including The Shepherds (commissioned by the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship Alumni Commissioning Program; Rising Festival @ Arts House, 2026), A Figure of Speech (Korea/Australia tour, 2025), Depth Perception (Science Gallery Melbourne, 2025), Plagiary (2024 - Now or Never Festival @ Fairfax Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne & Unwrapped @ The Studio, Sydney Opera House. 2025 - Grand Theatre Groningen, Noorderzon Festival), DULL BOY (2024, Part of Three, Australasian Dance Collective, Ohm Festival @ Brisbane Powerhouse),“OK, Bye!” (UMAC presents Lucy Guerin Inc’s PIECES), PROGRESS REPORT 2025, 2023 & 2021, with co-director Alison Currie for Vitalstatistix, Frame Biennial @ The Substation & INDance @ Sydney Dance Company), FORGERY (2021, Australasian Dance Collective & Brisbane Festival @ QPAC), SYSTEM ERROR (2021, co-created with Chamber Made & Tamara Saulwick @ Arts House), REFERENCE MATERIAL (2021, Darebin Speakeasy), NONCOMPETE (2018, The Substation), MEETING (2015, with co-creator Antony Hamilton, commissioned by Arts House, presented across 35 international seasons), and BROMANCE (2010, Next Wave, Arts House & Performance Space).
His most recent independant work Plagiary is part of a series of works that harness artificial intelligence to generate instructions for performers to interpret live. Plagiary is a work for 10 local performers who, because of the AI system, are able to perform the work within two days of rehearsal, as each performance is directed live by computer voice.
Alisdair has received 6 Greenroom awards; an Australian Helpmann Award, and a New York Performing Arts Award ‘Bessie’. He was the 2019 Resident Director for Lucy Guerin Inc; the 2019 Ausdance Peggy Van Praagh choreographic Fellow; the 2020 Dancenorth NO-SHOW choreographic resident; a 2020-21 Sidney Myer Foundation Creative Fellow and a recipient of the 2022 Chloe Munro Mid-Career Fellowship.
Alisdair has an extensive history of over 20 years working as a dancer, and sound designer for some of Melbournes most celebrated choreographers, including his career spanning mentor Lucy Guerin. To view some of his older work as a collaborator please click HERE.
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