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Alice Vance is an emerging set & costume designer for stage and screen. Her design practice is driven by a love of vintage charm and draws from an artistic focus. Alice seeks to entice audiences with detail to invite a second look and surprise through a playful, yet conceptual approach. Alice’s work is rooted in her passion for people, and eagerness to create an impact.
Her design credits include Set & Props design for NIDA student productions: Orpheus in the Underworld, Dance Nation; Costume design for student productions at NIDA: Dance Nation, Photograph 51. Production and costume design for triple J x NIDA music video: “London” by chloe: the brand. Alice additionally co-directed and wrote for the NIDA Design for Performance Campaign: “Feed your creativity, Find your place”.
alicekvance@gmail.com | 01 ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
CREDITS:
Conductor: Stephen Mould
Conductor: Simon Lobelson
Director: Constantine Costi
Choreographer: Shannon Burns
Costume Designer: Isaac Valentine
Lighting Designer: Harry Smyth
Set & Props Designer: Alice Vance
Assistant Director: Ava Rusch
Assistant Director: Cameron Taylor
Technical Manager: Archer Dametto
Production Stage Manager: Thomas Howieson
Deputy Stage Manager: Lily Browning
Deputy Stage Manager: Hayley Cantrill
Construction Manager: Zoe Howard
Costume Supervisor: Katrina Mark
Costume Supervisor: Azure Chapman
Props Supervisor: Oliver Gregg
Head Electrician: Jay Cairns
Leading Hand Set: Jamie Sellar
Costume Maker: Charlotte Johnson
Costume Maker: Jessica Marshall
Costume Maker: Karamea Gostt
Costume Maker: Katrina Mark
Costume Maker: Siann Lau
Assistant Stage Manager: Luke Ferguson
Assistant Stage Manager: Grace Wilson
Properties Buyer: Soham Apte
Costume Design Assistant: Carmi Pirola
Set & Props Design Assistant: Ella Seiffert
Costume Assistant/Dresser: Charlotte Johnson
Floor Electrician/Board Operator: Atlas Andrews
Followspot Operators: Lucy van Luyt
“In collaboration with designers Alice Vance (sets), Issac Valentine (costume), and Harry Smyth (lighting), and my long time collaborator Shannon Burns (movement direction) we turned to the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical as our touchstone, a world of impossible glamour and unapologetic theatricality.
Within this stylised, larger-than-life universe, gods and mortals are freed to run riot, to dance with abandon, and to embrace their demons in spectacular fashion. The heightened world of MGM soundstages and Busby Berkeley dreamscapes provides both the gloss and the grit, a playground where parody and grandeur, vulgarity and beauty, can coexist.”
- Constantine Costi
NOVEMBER 2025
NIDA X SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC
PARADE THEATRE
OPERA
SET & PROPS DESIGN
Photography by Julia Firak
Photography by Cameron Taylor
ACT 1, SCENE 1
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ACT 2, SCENE 1
ACT 2, SCENE 2