Jamie Winbank is a dancer, improvisation artist, choreographer and dance teacher based in Canberra. Originally from Young, NSW he has studied at The University of Sydney, NIDA (The Presenters Studio) and graduated from WAAPA (Bachelor of Arts – Dance) in 2011. Jamie was the movement director for Canberra’s first major fashion festival, FASHFEST, and the Assistant to the Artistic Director for the 2013 Australian Dance Awards and CSIRO’s DANscienCE Festival.
As a dancer, Jamie has performed in Meryl Tankard’s “VX18504” for ATYP, Kate Champion’s “My Mutation” for Sydney Spring Dance Festival, performed an intervention in Les Ballet’s C De La B’s production of “Out of Context: For Pina” and most recently in a guest role as the Bear in LINK Dance Company’s East Coast Tour of “I Said Ha Ha” choreographed by Ross McCormack. Jamie has been a member of QL2 Dance’s youth ensemble, Quantum Leap for 9 years as a performer including in “Eternity”, “Reckless Valour” and “Landscape: time.place.identity” at the Playhouse Theatre and also in “Toes On The Edge” (a tour across Thailand). He appeared as Macavity in Free Rain Theatre’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “CATS”.
As a choreographer he has presented works in Canberra, Sydney and Perth. 2012 saw Jamie teaming up with with Melbourne dance artist Kelly Beneforti, co-choreographing and performing in “Couch” for Dance On The Edge at Belconnen Arts Centre; being invited as a guest panelist at “The Next Gen”, a youth arts forum at Belconnen Arts Centre; performing a roving improvisation at Art Not Apart with independent artist Alison Plevey and teach several workshops in and around Canberra.