Our contributors—the talented people who research and write about dance—their work champions innovation, creativity and diversity in dance.
John Haag View Full Bio
John Haag has worked in Australia and overseas in a wide range of performance roles. He has also worked as illustrator in places such as QNPWS and QAC. In the last five years Jon studied animation and recently formed Moco, a company that explores motion capture as a tool in live performance. John is currently a Masters Research (performance studies) student at QUT (2008).
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Inertial motion capture and live performance (with a focus on dance)
Bree Hadley View Full Bio
Bree Hadley is a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts and Creative Writing in the School of Media, Entertainment, Creative Arts, Performance Studies at Queensland University of Technology. Her interests as a performance theorist and practitioner converge around issues of the body, identity, performativity and politics, and her writing about performance has appeared in Australian Stage Online, Australasian Drama Studies and the forthcoming collection International Faust Studies.
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Unthinkable complexity: dance, datascapes and the desire to connect in Lucy Guerin’s Aether
Marc Haegeman View Full Bio
Marc lives in Ghent, Belgium and, apart from being a critic, is also a dance photographer. He travels extensively, especially, to follow the Russian ballet. He contributes to magazines such as Dance View and Danceviewtimes, Ballet Alert (Washington DC), The Dancing Times (London), Dance Now (London), Dance International (Vancouver), Dance Magazine (USA), Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Ballet (Moscow), BALLET2000 and BallettoOggi (Turin), and Brolga (Australia). His photographs have been exhibited and published in those magazines, in theatre programmes and in many other publications about dance. Selections of Marc Haegeman’s photographs and articles are available on his website For Ballet Lover Only.
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The Kirov Ballet ready for the new century
The Bolshoi ballet only the strong survive
Lynette Haines View Full Bio
Lynette Haines is a teacher for the South Australian Education Department (DECS) and a private dance studio teacher. She lectures in Dance at the University of South Australia, and also works with children and young adults with Downs Syndrome. Lynette has also worked as the Education Officer for Ausdance SA, providing ‘in school’ dance programs and professional development for teachers. Lynette holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Movement, first class Honours in Health Science and has a Bachelor of Education (Specialisation) in Secondary Dance. She also holds the Theatrical Teaching Diploma of the Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing, the Teaching Certificate of the Royal Academy of Dance and is a fully registered member of the Royal Academy of Dance.
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Performing arts students go public —an Australian education, an Asian performance tour
Stephanie Hanrahan View Full Bio
Stephanie Hanrahan completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia in the area of attributional style in sport. After a short stint at the University of Otago in New Zealand, Dr Hanrahan joined the academic staff at The University of Queensland as a lecturer in 1990. She was a UQ Teaching Excellence Award winner in 1997 and is currently an associate professor holding a joint appointment with the Schools of Human Movement Studies and Psychology.
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Success in salsa: students’ evaluation of the use of self-reflection when learning to dance
Joanne Harris View Full Bio
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Margaret Barr, storyteller part two: Climbers
Margaret Barr, storyteller Part one: Snowy
Harry Haythorne View Full Bio
Harry Haythorne (1926–2014) was a dancer, ballet master and guest artist with companies around the world and was assistant artistic director of Scottish Ballet and artistic director of the Queensland Ballet and Royal New Zealand Ballet. Between 1955 and 1959 he was chairman of the British Dance Notation Society, an organisation formed to promote the understanding and use of dance notation systems. He was a lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, the National Theatre Ballet School and the Christine Walsh Dance Centre. At the 2001 Australian Dance Awards, Harry was awarded Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer for his performance in Sydney Dance Company's Tivoli.
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Guillermo Keys Arenas 1928–2006: an appreciation
Helen Herbertson View Full Bio
Helen Herbertson has been crafting performance for over three decades for intimate non-theatre venues, traditional theatrical settings, large-scale outdoor sites, theatre and opera performances, educational projects and touring programs. She has been active in the development of Australian dance, dancers and choreographers through a variety of advisory and leadership roles such as Artistic Director of Danceworks (1989-97), Artistic Director of Dancehouse (2001-03) and Deputy Chair of the Dance Fund, Australia Council (1998). Helen's choreographic work has received many awards, including an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance (2003). Her individual awards include the Kenneth Myer Medallion for Outstanding and Distinguished Contribution to the Performing Arts. Helen is Graduate Coordinator, Dance at the University of Melbourne.
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Thoughts on work, October 2010
Felicia Hick View Full Bio
Felecia Hick is an independent dancer/choreographer whose works include Waiting (2002), a Dance Australia Critics’ Choice, Hunger (2005), an Australian Dance Award nomination, and mute, stark, rich (2007), a collaborative dance film funded by ArtsSA. An Australia Council grantee, Felecia has lectured at the Elder Conservatorium (2000-07) and currently teaches at Adelaide private studios.
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When in doubt, laugh
Virginia Hollister View Full Bio
Virginia is a freelance arts administrator and researcher, writer, curator and artist.
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Moving on: career transition of professional dancers in Australia
Duncan Holt View Full Bio
Duncan Holt, MA, DC, FMCA, SFHEA (Panel Chair) a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy is a freelance lecturer and researcher in Dance in the UK. In industry he performed with Cycles Dance Company (UK), as well as companies in Canada and Australia and was Dance Artist in Residence at Theatr Clwyd, Wales. Postgraduate student research supervision includes site-specific choreography and current developments in Thai dance. Recent publications include work on ‘touch’ in dance and auto-ethnographic studies in career structures. His current research concerns aspects of men in dance, youth dance and his second career as a McTimoney Chiropractor.
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Dance in higher education in the UK
Christina Hong View Full Bio
Associate Professor Christina Hong is Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning, Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. She has established specific expertise in the fields of arts education curriculum, assessment and leadership. Christina has previously held academic leadership and management responsibility as a Head of Department (school and higher education sectors) and as a National Co-ordinator for the Arts, for the New Zealand Ministry of Education.
In 2007, Christina was a Visiting Scholar at Texas Woman’s University, (USA) and in 2008 participated on the Institute for Management and Leadership in Higher Education at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.
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Transcultural perspectives on digital practices and the arts in higher education
Avril Huddy View Full Bio
Avril Huddy is a lecturer in contemporary dance at QUT, having graduated in 1993 with a BA majoring in dance. Avril was a co-founder and co-curator of the Crab Room and Cherry Herring Performance Spaces in Brisbane, and has worked extensively as an independent dance artist. She spent five years with Dancenorth (1997-2001) returning in 2005 as acting tour manager and rehearsal director.