Resume

Training

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• 1995 Australian Ballet School, Melbourne

• 1994 Royal Ballet School, London

• 2013 GaGa Winter intensive, Tel Aviv, Israel

• 2014 Roman Pilates method, Sydney

• 2014 Certificate 4 Australian Institute of Fitness, Sydney

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Engagements

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• 2013 Founder, Body Playground

• 2012 Jury member, Prix de Lausanne

• 2010-2013 Co-director Ludwig

• 2005-2009 West Australian Ballet, soloist

• 2002-2004 Scottish Ballet, coryphee 

• 2000-2001 Royal Ballet, coryphee 

• 1997-2000 Bejart Ballet Lausanne, soloist 

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Awards 

Choreographer:

 

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography, West Australian Dance Awards, 2013

Premio Roma Danza International Choreography Competition, Italy- bronze medal 2011 

Stuttgart International solo- dance- theater competition finalist, Germany  2011

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Awards 

Dancer

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• Prix de Lausanne, Switzerland, Bourse 1994

• Silver Adeline Genee Award, London, UK, 1993

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Residencies 

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• Interactive Media Innovation residency, Sydney, November 2012

• Mod Productions creative artist residency, Sydney, February- June 2013

• Impulstanz Artistic Residency, Vienna, Austria, August 2011 

• Strut Seed Residency, Perth, Australia, July-October 2010 

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Choreography and Dance Video productions

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• "An Ambivalent Woman of 37", hour long cabaret dance theatre performance, Sydney Fringe Festival, Flight Path Theatre September 10th-14th 2024.

• “Fleck&Flecker”, full length dance and animation work, Subiaco Arts Centre, Perth, 2012

• "BodySong”, short solo work, finalist in the  Stuttgart Solo Dance Theater festival March 2012

• “Crossing Satie”, short solo work, Prime Cuts Perth and Bronze medal, Rome International Choreography Competition, presented at Implustanz Festival Expressions, 2011 

• “La Jeune Fille et la mort” , full length duo work, co-created with Sthan Kabar-Louet, Noumea 2010 

• “No More Shall We Part”, SYTYCDA Top 12, 2010 

• “Love Lost” SYTYCDA Top 4, 2010 

• “Verticality”, short dance film co-created with Cass Mortimer Eipper, 2009

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Writing

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• Sydney correspondent, Dance Australia Magazine 2014-

• Sydney Correspondent Dance Europe Magazine 2015- 

• “Fleck&Flecker”, text and poetry featured throughout production, 2011-2012

• "An Ambivalent Woman of 37" stage adaptation of Sheila Heti's novel Motherhood.

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Grants received

Department of Culture and the Arts (Western Australia State Government)

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2010

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Artform Development Grant

Creation of a full length dance work

$36,596

One of four grants awarded in this category in 2010.

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2011

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Travel Grant

Supporting attendance at the National Dance Forum

$1,000

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2012

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Artflight Grant

Present a new solo work at the 16th International Solo Dance theatre Festival in Stuttgart Germany March 2012.

$4,450

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2012

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Artform Development Grant

Final stage development of the full length dance duet Fleck & Flecker in residency at the Subiaco Arts Centre, culminating in public performances.

$18,846

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Australia Council for the Arts (Australian Government)

2011

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Dance Projects

Fleck& Flecker: second stage development of a two person work by Emma Sandall and Cass Eipper.

$14,882 

2012

 

WA Dance Initiative: Projects

Final stage development and performance of Fleck & Flecker: A new two person work created by Ludwig.

$19,700

One of two grants awarded in this category

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STRUT dance Inc

2010

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Seed residency for research and creative development

A Room of My Own

$5,919

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2011

Prime Cuts

Performance of Crossing Satie at the Dolphin Theatre

$2,284

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Dance Teaching

2009-2014 

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• Ga’aton Workshop, Israel

• Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Israel

• Israeli Ballet, Tel Aviv

• Brent St Academy, Sydney

• Ev&Bow, Sydney

• Academy Ballet, Sydney

• Ludwig, Perth, Australia 

• Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Australia 

• Rudra, Lausanne, Switzerland 

• Strut Dance, Perth, Australia 

• Dance Your Heart Out, Ausdance Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 

• Link Dance Company, Perth, Australia 

• Dance Creation, Melbourne, Australia 

• Academie Etoiles, Perth

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Other 

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Master of Ceremonies, Plate up the Positives, Butterfly Foundation Dinner, 2014