Lucy Marinkovich is a contemporary dancer, choreographer and the Artistic Director of Borderline Arts Ensemble. A former member of the esteemed Footnote Dance Company and recent Guest Artist with New Zealand Dance Company, Lucy has been awarded Tempo Dance Festival’s “Best Emerging Artist” and “Best Female Dancer” awards, the Eileen May Norris Dance Trust Scholarship and the Creative New Zealand Tup Lang Choreographic Award. Lucy is a Leadership Network member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and is the current Dance Educator for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. The Borderline Arts Ensemble is a project-based performing arts collective from Wellington. Formally established in 2015 by dancer and choreographer Lucy Marinkovich to facilitate her choreographic work, the group's primary mediums are contemporary dance and performance art works. Borderline's projects have been presented in Aotearoa in festivals, galleries, shipping containers and site-responsive contexts, and internationally in Spain, Singapore, Malaysia and Croatia.