Composer Fiona Hill’s latest work is about to premiere in the Sydney Festival presentation All In, a contemporary dance work marking Hill’s third collaboration with choreographer Miranda Wheen and her first with Western Sydney’s Dance Makers Collective.

Choreographer and composer have come to share common ground, says Hill, whose work to date blends electro-acoustic elements to create detailed and immersive sound worlds for film, multimedia and collaborative projects. Hill is a Masters graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and holds a PhD in composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she now lectures in Composition for Creative Industries.

“One thing that emerged from Miranda’s explorations of the dancers’ inner world is text as a driving force, a complementary theme in many of my own compositional works,” Hill tells Limelight. “This allows us to give voice to some of the concepts that the work is exploring in a way which allows the audience to be invited into the dancers’ world.”

Western Sydney Dance Collective: All In. Photo © Joshua Morris

In the early stages of making All In, company dancers were interviewed about what they do, why they...