Helga Hill is the researcher, director and costume designer for the Rippon Lea Renaissance Dancers and, as a foundation member of the Early Music Consort of Melbourne, a performer on a wide range of Renaissance and Medieval instruments. For twenty years she was a church organist. She taught Renaissance and Baroque Dance in Europe annually from 1977-1997, with frequent courses in Austria, England and Sweden. For ten years she was in charge of Historic Dance Studies at the Dartington (UK) International Summer School where she also presented Historic Gesture for actors and singers and advised on period stage movements. Helga Hill has presented reconstructed choreographies for 17th Century operas and masques at Dartington (UK), in Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank, London), the Festival of Flanders in Bruges, with Schola Cantorum in Basle, and at Victoria University in Wellington (N.Z.)

At the University of Melbourne she is responsible for the Renaissance Dance Ensemble and recently inaugurated studies in the Art of Gesture - the first such tertiary program anywhere. In 2006 she directed and gestured the university's Opera Project - The Judgment of Paris by John Eccles (1701). In 2008 she directed and gestured the Scarlatti serenatas Il rato di Proserpina and Fede, Idolatria e Furore (both c.1700) for performances at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Her 2009 schedule will include performances by the Consort, dancers and associate artists at the National Gallery of Victoria of the Llibre Vermell, the 14th century manuscript of pilgrim songs and dances from Montserrat in Spain, An Afternoon in the Renaissance at Bairnsdale as part of the Creative Gippsland Festival and On the Spanish Steps - a program highlighting Spanish dance at the time of the Hapsburgs - to be staged at the National Gallery of Victoria as an adjunct to the Salvador Dali Exhibition.