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