Gavin Robins

Aerial/Circus Director

Gavin Robins draws inspiration from a broad spectrum of theatre training and performance experience. His work focuses on the biomechanics of the actor and the animation of the actor for both the stage and screen. He has toured internationally as a physical performer with Legs on the Wall with many productions including the renowned All of Me. He was instrumental in the training and choreography of the Tin Symphony in the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Olympics. He has created large-scale visual and aerial performances in many theatre festivals throughout the world. As a recipient of the Churchill Fellowship Gavin worked in LA and NY alongside leading specialists in animating the body for the stage and screen.

Director: High Flyers, Festival First Night Sydney Festival, At First Sight, National Institute of Circus Arts, La Fanciulla del West (AD), Opera Australia, Sydney Festival First Night, Sydney Festival (AD),Kaleidoscope, Cirque Du Soleil/ATYP, Wars of the Roses (AD) Bell Shakespeare Co, Wicked Bodies, La Boite. Gavin’s credits as a Movement Director and Choreographer include: Wrong Skin, Adelaide Festival/Malthouse, La Fanciulla del West (AD), Opera Australia The Sydney Theatre Company, The Crucible, Gallipoli, BlackBird, Tales From the Vienna Woods,Riflemind, The Art of War, Ruby Moon, Season at Sarsaparella, Troupers, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Fat Pig, Woman in Mind, The Lost Echo, Mother Courage, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard. Company B, The Promise, Reuben Guthrie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Conversations With the Dead, Spook, The Chairs, The Bell Shakespeare Company, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, R&J, Tempest, Richard lll, Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Servant of Two Masters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wars of the Roses, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice and As You Like It, Pericles. The Queensland Theatre Company Christmas at Turkey Beach, School for Scandal. Ensemble Theatre Co, Are You There.

For Television and Film his credits as movement director include Farscape Series 2, The 2001, 2002 and 2004 ARIA Awards, The AFI Awards, and Australian Idol (series1,2 and 3) Australian feature film Prime Mover and TV series Spirited. Gavin has worked as a movement coach with all of Australia’s major record labels. He trains artists for the stage and screen and has directed performers in numerous video clips, commercials and large scale stage performances. Gavin is a teacher of movement and acting at a host of our leading performance training institutions.

Awards: 2007 Churchill Fellowship, 2001 Asialink Travelling Fellowship, 1999 Mike Walsh Travelling Fellowship, N.I.D.A.1998 Tongue Tied Third Prize, Tropfest,1996 Herald Angel Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festivalndon); Carmen (The Metropolitan Opera House, New York).