Gerard Van Dyck is a dancer, actor, and educator. His performance experience includes contemporary dance, acting, slapstick, puppetry, motion capture, aerial performance, and illusion.
He was Creative Director of KAGE, which he co-founded in 1997, and has contributed to and performed in KAGE’s award winning works across Australia and abroad. Gerard premiered his award winning solo THE COLLAPSIBLE MAN in 2001, and toured it to multiple venues across regional and metropolitan Australia.
In 2015, Gerard presented his follow up solo work PICNIC which also toured across Australia. He has performed and toured extensively with BalletLab and Polyglot Theatre, and collaborated with artists Nat Cursio, Eleventh Hour Theatre, Clare Dyson, Legs on the Wall, desoxy Theatre and Sandra Parker.
Gerard has choreographed and performed in music video clips, dance films and TV advertisements. He danced in a piano costume for Sarah Blasko and floated in a space ship for David Noonan. He has directed circus and comedy, and provided dramaturgy for ballet. Gerard is also a greatly sought after teacher across Melbourne, facilitating workshops in partnering skills, Pilates conditioning, acting for dancers, and body awareness for actors. Gerard’s other creative outlets include designing and building papercraft sculptures.