Dance Australia

artists

Profiles of professionals in Australia dance.

Penelope Mullen
04 Jun 2013 Penelope Mullen, Head of the Dance Department at the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (ACPA), chats to Nina Levy ahead of her next season, Blaque Bordello.
Antonia Hewitt with Brendan Bradshaw.  Photo:  Evan Li.
11 May 2013 Antonia Hewitt was born in Wellington, New Zealand, before moving to Canberra when she was a baby. Growing up, she wanted to be a farmer or an actor, but eventually it was ballet that stole her heart.
06 May 2013 Born in Sydney, Ashley studied at Wendy Gibbs School of Ballet, learning classical, jazz, contemporary and tap, before moving to Melbourne at age 13 to finish her training at The Australian Ballet School.
Meng Ningning and Hao Bin in Giselle. Photo: Ken Sparrow.
17 Apr 2013 Queensland Ballet principals Hao Bin and Meng Ningning had just given their final performance for 2011 of Swan Lake when I caught up with them in the Green Room at Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Chengwu Guo.  Photo:  Tim Richardson.
25 Feb 2013 Chengwu Guo was just a child when he left his home to study dance. Now he is an audience favourite in Australia.
Tess Sturmann, now with the Dutch National Ballet.
13 Feb 2013 Four-year-old Tess Sturmann was tossing up between being a dolphin trainer, kindy teacher and ballerina as a career – the latter won out, and now she is an “aspirant” with Dutch National Ballet (Het Nationale Ballet).
Robert Sturrock teaching at The Space in Prahran, Melbourne.
31 Jan 2013 Sally Clark catches up with a man with a passion for bringing out the best in his students.
Anouk van Dijk
08 Jan 2013 Anouk van Dijk's memory of the first "real" dancer she saw still moves her tears. The newly appointed artistic director of Chunky Move is now a very cosmopolitan woman in her mid-40s whose career has spanned many countries.
01 Oct 2012 Melbourne dance-theatre company KAGE is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Limelight catches up with co-creative directors.
17 Sep 2012 Stijn Cellis has been invited to create a new work for Dancenorth in Townsville.
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