Mimi Van Buuren is an emerging dance artist who graduated from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in December of 2009. She is passionate about performing and creating dance that engages with audiences on both an intellectual and visceral level. Choreographically, Mimi is interested in creating dance that explores human characteristics and personas. Contrasting this against narratives or situations that are surreal, fantastical or conceptual.

In 2009, Mimi choreographed ‘A Grimm Fare’ for QUT’s New Moves season at the Woodward Theatre. The work revolved around a sinister and strange encounter on a train, resulting in a collision of two worlds, one familiar and mundane, the other foreign and strange. The piece evoked connotations of contemporary myth and the power of physical and mental manipulation.

More recently, Mimi was involved as a performer in the production ‘Hey Scenester’, choreographed by Claire Marshall at the Visy Theatre – Powerhouse. An installation based, contemporary dance work; ‘Hey Scenester’ explored Brisbane’s club culture in the early-mid 1990s, a world where corruption and freedom of expression existed side by side.

Currently, Mimi is working as choreographer and dancer for the performance project ‘Tether’. A collaborative project between a group of independent Brisbane artists, ‘Tether’ is inspired by human connections and aims to explore, abstractly, the immaterial connections which bind all of us to a common humanity.

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