UNTOLD
AYO x NIDA / Momentum
2025
In a bold cross-artform collaboration, artists from AYO and the NIDA Momentum Leaders Program present UNTOLD, a newly devised work where movement, music, and storytelling collide. This sonically immersive experience unveils voices that have been kept silent, created collaboratively by the Momentum Leaders artists.





















UNTOLD
Over five months, nine artists collaborated both in person and remotely, beginning with a five-day workshop in Brisbane where they connected, experimented, and planted the seeds for what would become a 60-minute shared performance. UNTOLD will be presented twice on Friday 6 June in the NIDA Studio Theatre.
UNTOLD heralds stories that have moved, troubled, or shaped these artists, some of which are deeply personal. Above all else, the work invites its audience to listen gently, hungrily, furiously to what has remained hidden until now.
Sudip Sauden- Director
Lily Thomson- Dramaturg
Abigail Lui- Violin, Composer
Paul Nicolaou- Harp, Composer
Kit Millais- Trombone
Jet Chong- Percussion
Julia Magri- Double Bass
Elliot Plumpton- Violin
Jessica Scott- Flute
Momentum Leaders mentors and facilitators - Tim Munro, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
John Babbage and Christa Powell - Topology
Deline Briscoe - Gaba Musik
Yaron Lifschitz - Circa
Jacqui Somerville - Queensland Conservatorium
Samuel Cairnduff - Griffith University
AYO staff
Kimbali Harding, Tim Matthies, Johanna Mulholland,
Warren Lenthall, Bronwyn Lobb, Rossy Yang, Peyton Hawkins,
Tina Ma, Aedan McNamara, Shenei Savage, Paige Gullifer
NIDA staff
Liz Hughes, Andrew Comrie, Georgia Gilbert, Joe Hepworth, Ben
Schostakowski, Alex Duffy, Kate Gandy, William Yates