biography
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| (1951– )
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| biography:
| Ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet director, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. He trained at the Australian Ballet School in New York City, and at Sadler's Wells in London, then worked as a freelance choreographer before rejoining the Australian Ballet Company as dancer and resident choreographer. Appointed director of the Sydney Dance Company in 1976, he gained international stardom by creating dances which feature a sexy, eclectic range of subjects and styles, all rooted in the classical idiom, one of the best known being Poppy (1978), based on the life of Jean Cocteau. In 1988 he created Vast, an Australian bicentennial performance featuring many Australian dance companies. He later directed Turandot (1990) and Salome (1993) for the Australian Opera Company. |
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