About
Employment
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2012 2011 |
Director of Post Graduate Studies, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT Coordinator, Doctorate of Creative Industries |
| 2007 - present | Associate Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology |
| 2000-2006 | Head of Dance, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT |
| 1985-1995 | Founding Artistic Director and resident choreographer, Dance North, touring nationally to approximately sixty centres, and internationally to six countries. Implemented a policy of commissioning all new Australian work with leading and emerging choreographers, composers and visual artists. Initiated cultural exchange programs with Vietnam, China, Japan. |
| 1988 - 2002 | Directed 16 cultural exchange programs in Asia, 12 in Vietnam. |
| 1982 – 1984 | Rehearsal Director, One Extra Company, Sydney. Artistic Director, Kai Tai Chan. Specialised in cross-cultural and innovative dance theatre programs. |
| 1983 | Coordinator/Artistic Director of Sydney Festival dance program, Cell Block. |
| 1980-1982 | Founding member of contemporary dance company, Human Veins Dance Theatre, Canberra, Artistic Director, Don Asker. |
| 1978-1979 | Contemporary dance lecturer, Australian Ballet School and the Victorian College of the Arts. |
| 1970-1975, 1977 | Member of Australian Dance Theatre, Artistic Directors Jonathon Taylor, Jaap Flier, Elizabeth Dalman (founder). Repertoire of new Australian, European and US works. Extensive Australian and international touring, university residencies, site specific, cross-art form works |
Awards (selected)
| 2007 | Distinguished Alumni Award, Flinders University of South Australia |
| 2003 | Lifetime Achievement Award, Australian Dance Awards. |
| 1998-1999 | Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake full-time doctoral research. |
| 1995-1997 | Australian Artists Creative Fellowship, awarded by Australian Government ‘in recognition of outstanding artistic contribution to the nation’ |
| 1995 | Two gold medals awarded by the Vietnamese Government for contribution to dance development in Vietnam by the Ministry of Culture, and for contribution to women’s issues by the Vietnam Women’s Association. |
| 1994 | Ausdance NSW award for services to Australian dance. |
Positions (selected)
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2012 2009 - present |
Panel member, Australian Dance Awards General Secretary, World Dance Alliance (WDA) |
| 2008 | Chair, World Dance Alliance Global Summit & Convenor of WDA International Conference |
| 2005 | Honorary life member of Ausdance National (Australian Dance Council) |
| 1996 - 2008 | Vice-President (Pacific region) of the World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific Centre (WDA-AP), Australia Chapter Head |
| 1999 | Selected as a choreographer/director to be archived at the National Film and Sound Archive (ScreenSound Australia), in the ‘Australia Dancing’ collection. |
| 1997 - 1999 | Chair of the Emerging Choreographers Fund, Australia Council |
| 1996 – 2000 | National President of Ausdance, Australian Dance Council. |
| 1992-1995 | National Vice-president of Ausdance, Australian Dance Council. |
| 1994-1995 | Chairperson, Academic Arts Advisory Committee, QUT |
| 1990-1992 | Member of Arts Advisory Committee of the Queensland Government, tasked with co-writing ‘State of the Arts’, the Arts Policy document for the Queensland Government. |
| 1987-1989 | Chairperson of the Dance Board of the Australia Council. |
| 1984-1986 | Member of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council. |
Creative works (selected)
| 2006 | Creative Producer and Director, Accented Body, multi-site international collaboration, Brisbane Festival, 15-17 July. |
| 2002 | Conception and direction, here/there/then/now, multi-site work, Brisbane Powerhouse. |
| 2000 | Unravelling, Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre, Hanoi |
| 1998 | Traces of Home, QUT Theatre, Brisbane, Philippines Cultural Centre, Manila. |
| 1997 | Choreography for Australian musical Summer Rain, Director Robyn Nevin. Queensland Theatre Company. |
| 1997 | Qua Mat Phuong Hoang (Through the Eyes of the Phoenix), Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre, Hanoi. |
| 1995 | Land of Waiting Souls, Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre, Opera House, Hanoi. |
| 1995 | Dancing Lives, with Lucette Aldous and Elizabeth Dalman. Director Jim Hughes, Perth. |
| 1994 | Please, No More Palms, music Balanda Dancing, Kronos Quartet, design by Robyn Gordon. Premiered, National Festival of Australian Theatre, Canberra. |
| 1994 | Meet Me at Kissing Point with Dance North and the Townsville community. A large-scale community event staged in and around the sea with over 400 participants. Musical director, Linsey Pollak. |
| 1993 | Broken Places in collaboration with Robyn Archer. Design by Ben Anderson. Premiered Townsville, toured extensively. |
| 1992 | Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, co-director with Aubrey Mellor, for Queensland Theatre Company, music Donald Hall, design Mary Moore. Commissioned for the Melbourne International Festival. |
| 1975 - 1992 | Choreography (various) for Dance North, Australian Opera, Canberra Dance Ensemble, Australian Dance Theatre, Footnote Dance Company (NZ). |
| 1982 | Suspense, created and performed by Cheryl Stock, Steven Champion, Kate Champion, and Paul Blackwell, sound design by Paul Charlier, designed by Eamon d’Arcy. A theatre work incorporating circus and aerial skills, dance and text, with performers and audience suspended in a theatre-in-the-round environment. Sydney, Seymour Centre, Sydney Opera House. |