Brian Lucas

Brian Lucas has developed a national reputation for his solo physical performance pieces, with a history of producing provocative, powerful and intelligent works, which use his considerable skills in theatre and dance and seamlessly merge elements of both.

Trained in both acting and dance, Brian Lucas has worked with many of Australia’s most well-known performance companies, including Chunky Move, Rock’n’Roll Circus, Chamber Made Opera, QUT Creative Industries, Dance North, Extensions Youth Dance Company, Queensland Ballet, Queensland Theatre Company, La Boite Theatre, The Lyric Opera, KAGE Theatre and for almost 8 years with Expressions Dance Company (4 of those as assistant artistic director).

Brian has been involved in an extensive range of performance and creative development projects, and has initiated a wide variety of independent and fringe projects, including the Crab Room Performance Space, the Cherry Herring Collective, and the EMERGENCY peer-mentoring project.

Since 2001, Brian has held the position of Artist-in-Residence at Brisbane Powerhouse, where many of his highly acclaimed solo performance pieces - including monster, the book of revelation(s) and Underbelly - have premiered.

During 2007, Brian will be performing with Clare Dyson’s Subject to Change collective on a new work entitled absence(s), working with director Jessica Wilson on an original visual theatre piece entitled Dr Egg (for presentation in Sydney and Melbourne), and participating in the Creative Development of a new work with KAGE Theatre entitled Appetite. In addition, he will be returning to Chunky Move to perform in Tense Dave (in Melbourne and Adelaide), and presenting Underbelly in Canberra and Brisbane.

Brian was awarded a two-year fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2005 to reflect on and further refine his creative processes and chosen area of focus - solo work. As part of his fellowship program, Brian will create and present two original full-length solo dance works on autobiographical themes. Underbelly premiered in June 2006 to critical and popular acclaim and was short-listed for an Australian Dance Award. The second new work - Performance Anxiety - is scheduled for performance in November 2007. He will also use the time to actively promote his work by making contact with producers and presenters in Australia and internationally in Canada, North America, United Kingdom and Europe.