Sue Healey is a choreographer, educator, installation artist and dance-film maker based in Sydney. Originally from New Zealand, Sue graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne with a BA (Dance Performance, 1984). She later gained a Masters Degree in Choreography (2000) with First Class Honours, Melbourne University.
She was a founding member of Danceworks with Artistic Director Nanette Hassall performing and choreographing, nationally and internationally from 1983-1988.
From 1989-91 Sue worked in New York with Zvi Gottheiner Company and studied with many seminal artists including Trisha Brown, Dana Reitz, Irene Hultman and Merce Cunningham.
She was Artistic Director of Vis-à-Vis Dance Canberra (1993-95) and the Sue Healey Company from 2002. She has received multiple commissions from companies including The One Extra Co., Dance North, Tasdance, Danceworks, Limbs Dance Co. (NZ), Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and The Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya Japan. Her worked has toured to the United States, United Kingdom, China, Japan and New Zealand.
She was awarded the prestigious Choreographic Fellowship from the Australia Council (1999/2000) and the Robert Helpmann Scholarship, Arts NSW(2009/10).
Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates dance for diverse spaces; theatres, specific sites and the camera. Healey’s dance films have had wide international exposure and received many awards including; Winner People’s Choice Reeldance Australia (2008), Best Dance film Reeldance, Australia (2004), Best Dance Film Australian Dance awards (2003 and 2008), winner Il Coreografo Elettronico, (Independent section 2004) Italy. All 6 recent dance films have been finalists in major international film festivals and have been purchased by ABC television and several European television networks. Other film credits include choreography for the feature film The Goddess of 1967 (2002) and Quantum Leapers (2004).
