Alice Vance

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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

Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers, a comic operetta satirising the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Our production was designed through the love of 1940s Hollywood musicals, unapologetic theatricality and the smelly destruction of it all.

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NOVEMBER 2025
SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC X NIDA

OPERA

SET & PROPS DESIGN

02 LONDON - CHLOE: THE BRAND

chloe: the brand’s music video “london”. The video takes us on a journey through history, recontextualising iconic queer figures in a mystically beautiful adventure. An absurd array of animal-headed dancers, colourful historical costumes, and a mysterious library give backdrop to the artist as they long for something new.

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AUGUST 2025
NIDA

MUSIC VIDEO

PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN

03 PHOTOGRAPH 51

Photograph 51, a searing and emotional story that reignites the life of scientist Rosalind Franklin to be more than just a story of science and discovery.

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JUNE 2025
NIDA

THEATRE

COSTUME DESIGN

04 DANCE NATION

NIDA’s 2024 Acting 2 Plays Project show Dance Nation, uncovers the depths of female relationships as young women, and playfully exposes what it means to grow up.

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NOVEMBER 2024
NIDA

THEATRE

SET & COSTUME DESIGN

05 THE OVEN MITT

Have you ever thought about how you treat your oven mitt?
This short performance reveals the true feelings of an oven mitt - tired and fed up with being overworked and underappreciated. She’s brought to the boiling point, done with the cakes, the burn holes, and dances to her freedom, but not before she can destroy her enemy - a Donna Hay magazine.

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NOVEMBER 2023
NIDA

THEATRE/ PERFORMANCE

COSTUME DESIGN/ MAKE

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| alicekvance@gmail.com |