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PROFESSIONAL PERFORMER/CHOREOGRAPHER

1977 - 1980
Founder-Artistic Director, Limbs Dance Company (New Zealand)
Created over 20 short works and performed nationally and internationally in theatres ~ festivals ~ campuses ~ TV & film ~ also taught regular dance classes and workshops to the general public in the company’s studio

1982 - 1997
Founder-Artistic Director, Darc Swan (Australia)
Created 15 public performance works and 8 dance-in-education programmes ~ this was primarily a dance-in-education company that toured nationally to an annual audience of approximately 100,000 young people ~ also taught regular public dance classes and workshops

1976 - 2006 (New Zealand & Australia)
performer
Movement Theatre (dance-in-education) ~ Korobushka (folk dance) ~ Auckland Ballet & Opera Workshop ~ Auckland Symphony Orchestra ~ Sideshow Burlesque Co ~ Australian Opera Co ~ various documentaries, telethons, & Australian and NZ light entertainment & children’s TV programmes

choreographer
Royal New Zealand Ballet (2 works) ~ Footnote Dance Co, New Zealand (2 works) ~ Aboriginal/Islander Dance School, Australia (created numerous small works & directed 2 end-of-year productions) ~ Australian Dance Theatre (1 work) ~ Toe Truck Theatre Company, Australia (1 production) ~ Marionette Theatre of Australia (1 production) ~ Australian Contemporary Dance Company (2 works) ~ John Gordon Productions, Australian contemporary opera (choreographed and performed in 1 production) ~ Touch Compass, NZ mixed ability dance company (1 work) ~ Auckland Dance Festival, choreographic showcase (1 work) ~ plus various music videos

director
Sydney Puppet Theatre (1 production) ~ Sydney Children’s Choir (3 productions) ~ The Song Company, Australia (1 production) ~ Nightsong Productions, NZ experimental theatre (3 productions)

TEACHING

1998-2007
Head of Dance, Unitec School Of Performing And Screen Arts (New Zealand)
Ran a practice-based tertiary dance course, along with academic leadership and industry liaison, duties included: teaching choreography, performance, research, funding, production, touring, professional practice, videodance, interdisciplinary collaboration ~ choreographing for student performances & national tours (8 works) ~ supervising and mounting student works and productions

1976 - 2007
Guest tutor and choreographer for various teaching organisations including: University of Western Sydney (Dance Dept) ~ Centre for Performing Arts (Adelaide) ~ South Australian College of Advanced Education (Adelaide) ~ NSW, Queensland, and Victorian Regional & Metropolitan Education Depts (primary & secondary schools, in-services, dance camps) ~ Pan Pacific Dance Camps ~ University of Newcastle (P.E. Dept) ~ South Brisbane Music Camps ~ University of New South Wales (Dance Dept) ~ Auckland Dance Educators Network

CONFERENCE PAPERS/PUBLICATIONS

2001
Performing Immortality, Danz Research Forum, University of Waikato, New Zealand – conference paper

2005
Scoping High-End Dance: What Makes A Great Performer? Dance Canopy conference, Unitec, New Zealand – conference paper

2006
Mentoring Dance, Danz Tamaki (the Auckland branch of DANZ) – seminar presentation

Dance and Body Language, Auckland University, Dance Research Seminar Series – seminar presentation

A Precarious Boom, DANZ Quarterly – an article

OTHER

2005 - 2006

Artistic consultant/mentor for emerging New Zealand contemporary dance choreographers under the auspices of DANZ