PAST WORKS
The Spider Queen (Or) photo by Robert Coppa
Mask making and Mask performance since 2002.
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As an Australia Council JUMP Mentee, Cormick undertook a mentorship in Bali, Indonesia, with master mask maker and dancer Ida Bagus Anom in 2011, working with traditional Balinese wood carving methods to create both traditional and contemporary masks. She continued her mask making practice in Paris, gaining an apprenticeship with Commedia master Stefano Perocco di Meduna over 2012-2013, specialising in traditional Italian Commedia leather mask creation.
Cormick has created Masks for The Snow Queen (Wild Voices Music Theatre), Or (JUMP Mentorship Program for Young & Emerging Artists), The Last Man to Die (Last Man To Die), Vital LMTD (Last Man To Die), We Come in Peace: Shoot to Kill (Hunting Season), Cognotion (Hunting Season), In Cinders Lie (CSU Honours Project), Witch Hunters (Maenad Theatre), Twisted Circus (CSU TV), Requiem In Sanity (Hawker College), and, under Stefano Perocco, for The Marriage of Figaro (Avignon Festival). She works primarily in wood, leather, papier mache and mixed-media.
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Cormick has trained in a variety of Mask performance styles including Neutral Mask, Expressive Mask, Larval Mask, Full and Half face Comedie Humaine and Commedia dell'Arte under Paola Rizza, Jos Houben, Jason Turner, Giovanni Fusetti, Davide Giovanzana, Robin Davidson, Ashley Wain, Clarence Sophie Dany and Wendy Strehlo. She has trained in Balinese Topeng and Trance Mask under Ida Bagus Anom & Per Brahe in Ubud, Bali, as well as theatrical Trance Mask under Steve Jarrand, Patti Stiles, Simone Tani and Steve Brown.
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Cormick was selected as one of two assistants to Paola Rizza in representing Ecole Jacques Lecoq at the Neutral Masque conference in 2013.
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