2012 - Ballet - Leigh Rowles from Australian Ballet - Dip ABS, Grad Dip Ed - Visual & Performing Arts, VGCEBI*
Leigh Rowles danced with The Australian Ballet for 8 years, touring internationally and gaining the privilege of working with many great choreographers and dancers.
She left The Australian Ballet to pursue wider theatrical interests including playing opposite John Waters in the stage play Dracula, together with performing in many music theatre productions, and fulfilling numerous choreographic engagements – The Wizard of Oz, They’re Playing Our Song, and Piaf, for operas Don Giovanni and Faust, and for television series Blue Heelers and Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
Accepting an invitation to become Director of the National Theatre Ballet School, Ms Rowles developed a love of teaching, honing her skills from junior to graduate levels. She also created vast numbers of choreographic works during this time.
Ms Rowles was invited to teach and choreograph at her old home, The Australian Ballet School in 1991.
Working with Director, Marilyn Rowe OBE, the then ‘Junior Associates’ programme evolved into the junior levels of The Australian Ballet School. Ms Rowles also created the ITP (Interstate/International Training Programme) as an adjunct to Levels 1 – 4.
Continuing to seek a creative outlet, Ms Rowles created choreographic works for the School, including Divine Tempest in 1999, Ascension in 2000 and Chopin in 2001. 2002 saw the premiere of her full-length version of Nutcracker, The Gift of a Dream at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, a production that has since toured regional centres across Australia as part of The Dancers Company repertoire, and which was again performed by the School at the Bowl in 2008.
In 2004 Ms Rowles choreographed Ab et Ad performed by Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE, Marilyn Rowe OBE and David McAllister AM for the School’s 40th Anniversary Gala. Continuing her work with the School she has also choreographed The Friends and Grand Trantelle, which debuted at the Arts Centre’s Morning Melodies in Melbourne in 2005 and 2006. These were followed by Batucada and Matya’s Dance, both of which were received by thrilled audiences at the School’s Graduate Exhibition and the Arts Centre’s Morning Melodies series in 2008 and 2009. Ms Rowles was excited to create Overture in 2009 to help celebrate the School’s 45th Anniversary
She left The Australian Ballet to pursue wider theatrical interests including playing opposite John Waters in the stage play Dracula, together with performing in many music theatre productions, and fulfilling numerous choreographic engagements – The Wizard of Oz, They’re Playing Our Song, and Piaf, for operas Don Giovanni and Faust, and for television series Blue Heelers and Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
Accepting an invitation to become Director of the National Theatre Ballet School, Ms Rowles developed a love of teaching, honing her skills from junior to graduate levels. She also created vast numbers of choreographic works during this time.
Ms Rowles was invited to teach and choreograph at her old home, The Australian Ballet School in 1991.
Working with Director, Marilyn Rowe OBE, the then ‘Junior Associates’ programme evolved into the junior levels of The Australian Ballet School. Ms Rowles also created the ITP (Interstate/International Training Programme) as an adjunct to Levels 1 – 4.
Continuing to seek a creative outlet, Ms Rowles created choreographic works for the School, including Divine Tempest in 1999, Ascension in 2000 and Chopin in 2001. 2002 saw the premiere of her full-length version of Nutcracker, The Gift of a Dream at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, a production that has since toured regional centres across Australia as part of The Dancers Company repertoire, and which was again performed by the School at the Bowl in 2008.
In 2004 Ms Rowles choreographed Ab et Ad performed by Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE, Marilyn Rowe OBE and David McAllister AM for the School’s 40th Anniversary Gala. Continuing her work with the School she has also choreographed The Friends and Grand Trantelle, which debuted at the Arts Centre’s Morning Melodies in Melbourne in 2005 and 2006. These were followed by Batucada and Matya’s Dance, both of which were received by thrilled audiences at the School’s Graduate Exhibition and the Arts Centre’s Morning Melodies series in 2008 and 2009. Ms Rowles was excited to create Overture in 2009 to help celebrate the School’s 45th Anniversary
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