igneous - Australia www.igneous.org.au the collaborative brainchild of Belgian multi-disciplinary artist Suzon Fuks and Australian dancer James Cunningham, established in 1997, creates multimedia movement-based performances for the stage, screen and alternative spaces, documentary photography, and conducts forums, workshops and masterclasses.
Igneous’ interests lie in process, interaction, diversity, and challenging values.
International residencies allow them to collaborate with other artists and across disciplines: Department of Performance Studies University of Sydney, Brisbane Powerhouse, Asialink in Kochi (India), Dance4 Nottingham, University of Brighton, and a fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre in Canberra.   The show Body In Question toured in Australia, India, and throughout Europe.
Since 1999 igneous productions include Body In Question a multimedia solo dance show, The Hands Project a performance with a cast of 17 in which the audience move from room to room, Fragmentation a site-specific installation performance at Dance4 Nottingham UK, Thanatonauts - Navigators of Death a "serial" multi-site performance delivered over 7 days and later adapted to a screen-based video. top of page

James Cunningham - Australia, performer, choreographer
born in Melbourne, is co-artistic director of Igneous and has performed in each of its productions. In 2000 he performed with DV8 Physical Theatre (UK) and in 1999 received an Emerging Artist's grant, as a choreographer, from the Australia Council through Ausdance. He paralysed his left arm in a motorbike accident in 1992, prior to which he was three years with Dance North, Townsville (89-91).
James completed an advanced certificate in Performance (Dance) at the Centre for Performing Arts, Adelaide (87-88). top of page

Suzon Fuks - Australia, multimedia artist, director
born in Brussels, has lived in Australia since 1996.
Co-artistic director of Igneous, she created the multimedia projections for, and directed, each of its productions. She gives workshops in tertiary institutions in Australia and Europe integrating video with the performing arts and fostering multimedia artistic collaboration, as well as tailoring workshops for community cultural development projects.  In 2002 she received a grant from the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council to research telematic performance. She has been commissioned to make visual installations for various companies including Parcours (Belgium) and sacredCOW (Brisbane). She made award-winning films, videos and solo performance shows, and created the film part of the Mandragore Theatre's The Strange Mr Knight, which toured the world for 5 years (87-92).
Her photographic exhibition Keeping the Light toured from 1997 to 2001 to seven capitals of the world. Her documentary photographs are part of the State Library of NSW and the National Library of Australia collections (some of which feature in the 2004 publication "Intersections"). Trained in dance, theatre and music at Lilian Lambert Academy, Brussels (69-76), she completed her masters in Visual Arts at La Cambre, Brussels (79–84). top of page