Lucy Marinkovich

Born and raised in Wellington, Lucy began dancing at age five at Tarrant Dance Studios, and at age 15 was accepted into the Junior Associate programme of the New Zealand School of Dance and subsequently went on to train fulltime as a contemporary major. She has modelled in the Montana World of Wearableart since 2005 and has enjoyed performing repertoire by Jiri Kylian and Sarah Foster within NZSD productions. In her final year at NZSD Lucy undertook secondments with Footnote Dance and Spinning Sun, and travelled to Belgium to study at the P.A.R.T.S Summer School. In 2009 she graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance with a Diploma in Dance Performance. Lucy joined the Company in 2010.

Emily Adams

Emily began dancing at the age of five and trained in ballet and American Jazz. In 2004 she studied contemporary full time at the NZ School of Dance. She worked as a freelance dancer, dance teacher and pilates instructor in Auckland from 2007-2010. She has worked with Tim Gordon (‘Company Z’), Mary-Jane O’Reilly, ‘Inside Out Productions’ and in a variety of commercial dance works. Emily toured with ‘The Cuban Groove’ Company (Contemporary/Latin fusion,2009), and performed in the World of Wearable Art Awards (2004, 2010).In 2010 Emily toured with Carol Brown’s Urban Devas, and danced for the Urban Soul Orchestra from London as part of the ‘People in your Neighborhood’ tour. She joined Footnote Dance in 2011.

Emmanuel Reynaud

Born and raised in Townsville, Australia, Manu graduated in 2006 from the New Zealand School of Dance, studying as both a classical and contemporary major. Moving to Europe he worked with Disneyland Resort Paris before moving on to the UK to dance as an apprentice with Diversions The Dance Company of Wales, then freelancing with RancidAnce in London, performing in H1-N1( London Bridge Festival) and Mixology (The Cloud Dance Festival at Jacksons Lane Theatre). In 2010, Manu began teaching contemporary and ballet for his parent’s dance school in Townsville. He performed in the improvised opening of the See/Hear/Now Festival and the Ulysses Dance Group production of Giselle. Before returning to New Zealand, Manu was invited as a guest artist with Compagnie Mado in New Caledonia for Bijoux. Manu joined the Footnote team in 2011.

Olivia McGregor

Olivia began dancing in wellington with Bronwyn Bennett and was a member of both the Junior Associate Programme and the regional Scholars of the New Zealand School of Dance. She studied full time and graduated from the NZSD in 2010. In her final year Olivia was seconded to Tasdance and particularly enjoyed being part of choreographic works programme Kylian in NZSD Graduation season. She was also new to Footnote at the beginning of 2011.

Alice Macann

Alice Macann began dancing when she was three years old, studying ballet and then later, modern dance. In 2005 Alice was accepted into the Junior Associated programme for the NZSD as a contemporary major, and remained a part of the programme for four years. In 2009 she began her fultime studies at NZSD as a contemporary major. By the end of that first year she had received the Katrina Todd scholarship. In 2010 Alice performed in works by Sarah Foster, Raewyn Hill and Jiri Kylian. In her final year of training Alice spent time with Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, Sydney Dance Company, Black Grace and Australian Dance Theatre. In 2011 Alice also choreographed a work called ‘Ignite’, and at the end of that year she performed works by Maria Dabrowska, Paul Taylor and Ross McCormack in the NZSD Graduation Season ‘Sketch’. Soon after graduating Alice performed a duet and solo in New Caledonia choreographed by Victoria Colombus. Alice is very excited to be working with Footnote in 2012.