Amber Haines

Amber believes the role of the artist in contemporary society is to guide people towards the notion of care. To illuminate other vantage points of worldly processes and what it means to be human with in a larger framework, an eco-system of life.

From this space As the Associate Artistic Director and company photographer for Dancenorth, Amber has co-directed the creation of nine mainstage works over the past nine years with her long-time collaborator and life partner, Kyle Page. Their critically acclaimed works, including Syncing Feeling, Spectra, Rainbow Vomit, Dust, Communal Table, NOISE, World Interior, RED, and Wayfinder, have toured extensively across Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, France, and Mexico. These works have also been featured at major international arts festivals such as Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival, Perth Festival, Adelaide Festival, Darwin Festival, MOFO, RISING, OzAsia Festival, Ten Days on the Island, WOMADelaide, and The Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.

Amber as a moving artist encourages people to recognise that their bodies are intrinsically connected to something larger. That the intelligence of the soma is inherently wise and circulates information, stories and creative potential that are an unstable living process impossible to define by linearity or reductionism. Bypassing analytical processes, Amber invites non-judgmental embodiment as an expression of freedom, aliveness and recalibration.