ABOUT
Rob McCredie is a choreographer, artistic director, and costume and set installation designer. His work has included short and full-length live works, as well as a full-length film. He is also an arts producer and a former not-for-profit CEO, with experience in artistic program development and delivery, project management, strategic planning, brand development and website design. Rob also supports artists and NFP organisations with business strategy and mentoring.
Rob was Co Artistic Director of youth dance company FLING Physical Theatre from 2016-2023, alongside Co Director Gabrielle Rose. His time at FLING included many highlights, from large-scale projects, to community events, to nurturing and celebrating young and emerging artists and collaborating with exceptional local and visiting artists from around Australia.
He created Body and Environment, winner of the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Dance (2018), later recreated as a full-length film in 2022, after being unable to undertake a tour due to covid. He was a collaborator and performer in My Black Dog (2019), directed by Kate Denborough for FLING, which won a Mental Health Matters award for Youth, and was later also redeveloped for film.
He was associate artist and led FLING’s involvement on ENCOUNTER, directed by Emma Saunders and produced by FORM Dance Projects, in partnership with FLING and Sydney Youth Orchestras, and presented at Four Winds (2019) and Sydney Festival (2020). Rob navigated the challenges of making the tour to Sydney happen in the midst of the worst of the January 2020 bushfires, which devastated the Bega Valley region where FLING is based.
Rob created numerous short works for FLING including Speech (2015), Collected Thoughts (in collaboration with Gabrielle Rose), and Impending Ending (2023), among others. Shifting (2019) and Ongoing Going On (2022) were both presented at the Australian Youth Dance Festival in Melbourne.
His last full-length work for FLING was The Tent, presented in May 2024, incorporating a large-scale set installation, with an original full-length script developed from task-based work with The FLING Company, exploring the challenges and frustrations of democratic processes in a farcical re-enactment of a creative process. This work stood out as a new creative direction- drawing on his past practice but reaching a new level of confidence, humour and depth.
Image: Rob with Holly Durant, HORO Collaboration- Image Pia Moore
Rob has a Bachelor of Dance from VCA. He has performed with Legs on the Wall/ Form Dance Projects (Puncture for Sydney Festival 2015), Natalie Cursio Co (With a Bullet 2007), and Finucane and Smith (Salon De Dance 2009 and 2010), and numerous independent artists including Alisdair MacIndoe, Brooke Stamp, Martin Del Amo, Melissa Jones, Tanya Voges, Harriet Ritchie, Heidi Barrett, Danelle Lee and Lucy Farmer, among others. He has created his own work for Next Wave Festival (for the Nightclub Project 2008 and his first full-length work Who Knows What 2010), DirtyFeet (Untitled [Dark Green] 2013 and What it Is 2014) and Lucy Guerin’s Pieces for Small Spaces (his own work Here We Go in 2007 and performed in other artists’ work in 2008 and 2014). He has also created set installations for Fiona Bryant and Jo Lloyd, and created work integrating dance and design with collaborators Holly Durant and Tim Newth.
Rob is currently based in Naarm/ Melbourne. Recent projects include costume design for Caroline Meaden’s Molly (2024), Costume Design for a FLING commission for Wanderer Festival, assistant producing with Sage Arts, and website design and mentoring for a range of artists and not-for-profits.
Images: Rob in Salon de Dance- Image Paul Dunn, with Holly Durant - Image Pia Moore, in rehearsal with FORM Dance Projects/Legs on the Wall- Image Kath Melbourne, in rehearsal at DirtyFeet- Image Hayley Rose, with Harriet Ritchie in Pop Love, with Melissa Jones in her work Gatherway- Image Gregory Lorenzutti