BA, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. MFA, Bennington College. In Australia, Shugg worked extensively with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange and Linda Sastradipradja. He also appeared in the works of Lucy Guerin, Philip Adams, and Antony Hamilton. In New York City, he worked with Jon Kinzel, Jodi Melnick, and Cori Olinghouse and was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2011 to 2016. He has presented his own choreographic work in New York at the Centre for Performance Research, Gibney Dance Centre, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Cathy Weis’s Sundays on Broadway, in Uruguay at Teatro Solis, and in Melbourne, Australia, at The SUBSTATION and Monash University's Museum of Modern Art. In 2017, he worked in Paris, France, with dancers from De l’Air dans l’Art on a Set and Reset/Reset project, based on choreography by Trisha Brown. Recently, he choreographed a work with students from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. He continues to teach workshops, classes, and Trisha Brown repertory internationally. SLC, 2018–
Graduate Courses
MFA Dance 2019-2020
Contemporary Dance Practices
Component—Year
In these classes, emphasis will be on the continued development of basic skills, energy use, strength, and control relevant to the particular style of each teacher. At all levels, attention will be given to sharpening each student’s awareness of time and energy and to disciplining the body to move rhythmically, precisely, and in accordance with sound anatomical principles. Students will study complex movement patterns, investigate somatic use, and concentrate on the demands of performance.