Creative Practice



​For almost 20 years, Hart has been dedicated to developing a deeply considered dance improvisation practice, that seeks to continually find the ‘new’ within our corporeal and experiential history.  This practice is based in an investigative improvisation process, informed by the potential of the body as a site for conceptual confusion, artistic challenge, aesthetic rigor.

Highlights of this work in a triptypch of solo dance installations works that explore the relationship between the body and alternative spaces; presentation of work at AvignonOFF festival (France), and performances at the National Gallery of Australia,  TarraWarra Museum of Art, and the Malthouse.

Hart's body of work is continually expanding, and attempts to understand choreography within and expanded context.  Their work has toured extensively throughout the East Coast of Australia, as well as recent forays in the European festival and performance circuit.
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Hart's award winning choreography investigates the spaces between corporeality, improvisation and inhabited space.  This just so happens to the be the title of their Master's thesis.

Leadership Practice

With a lifelong, and unwavering dedication to the development of dynamic, progressive and responsive creative communities, Hart continues to find new forms and methods of support for the creative industries. 

Currently, Hart is the Creative Director & CEO of Burrinja Cultural Centre (www.burrinja.org.au), a counter-urban, contemporary community arts organisation. Here, Hart oversees the creative program, organisational direction, strategic planning, and stakeholder management for this regionally significant organisation. Joining the team in late 2020, Hart has already had a significant impact, seeing revitalisation of the contemporary exhibition, performance and festival program, as well as securing multi-year funding from Creative Victoria.

Hart is the former Executive Director of Arts Mildura, a community based arts organisation within the deep North-West of Victoria. Hart led the strategic development, governance, business development and creative program. Taking a place-based approached, Arts Mildura works towards achieving its vision of 'transforming our community through exceptional art experiences'.

In 2014, Hart launched hillsceneLIVE, a live art and performance festival in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria.  hillsceneLIVE works tirelessly to support artists working within live and time based forms of art, through an annual curated festival, professional development opportunities and mentoring. It is the only program of it's kind in the region.
In 2017 Hart was awarded an Australia Day Award for outstanding contribution to the Yarra Ranges community.
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In 2018. Hart was selected to participate in the highly competitive Australia Council for the Art Future Leader Program.  This 10 month program saw them undertake an intensive leadership program alongside a cohort of 26 participants from the Asia-Pacific region.
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Previously, Hart has worked as the co-Artistic Director of CRACK Theatre Festival, Producer (secondment) with London International Festival of Theatre, and Festival Administrator (volunteer) of the Australian Youth Dance Festival.
Hart has a dedication to creating culturally responsive and innovative festivals that tell the critical stories of this time and in this time.

​Hart has sat on numerous grant assessment panels for Creative Victoria, Regional Arts Victoria and Yarra Ranges Council, and in 2015 was in the top 1% of donors to the crowdfunding website 'Pozible'.