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The Australian Ballet company draws 95% of its dancers from the school, and many graduates dance as principals and soloists around the world. Offered are: an eight-year course for talented students. After School Program (Levels 1–3), for students generally between 10 and 13 years of age. Classes take place after school hours and on Saturdays.
Janet Karin OAM (born 1938 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian dancer, educator, and choreographer. She is a founding member of The Australian Ballet.Karin is recognized for her contributions to dance education and currently serves as the Head of Artistic Studies and Kinetic Educator at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne.
The roots of the Australian Ballet can be found in the Borovansky Ballet, a touring repertory company [1] founded in 1940 by the Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky.Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company of the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and, after visiting Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, he decided to remain in Australia, establishing a ...
To mark her contribution to ballet in Australia, Rowe was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1980. Two Green Room Awards and an Adams Award The First Victorian Honour Role for Women, which honours her contribution to Victoria and the Nation. 2003 The Lord Mayor's Certificate of Commendation presented by the City of Melbourne for her significant contribution to the ...
All students share academic subjects, but follow either a specialised dance, music, theatre arts or visual arts training program for half the day. The school also provides academic classes to secondary students from other institutions including the Australian Ballet School, [2] and Gymnastics Victoria.
In 2010, at the age of twelve, she moved to Melbourne to join the Australian Ballet School. [9] She toured with the school's Dancer's Company in 2014 and 2015 and undertook a student exchange to Canada in 2015. In 2015 she was selected to join The Australian Ballet, [10] where she was the second indigenous ballerina after Ella Havelka. [11]
The Australian Ballet School is the primary training body for the Australian Ballet. It was founded in 1964 and operates out of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. [130] Most other forms of dance are participatory rather than theatrical performances, with several important exceptions.
The Australian Ballet school, located in Southbank Victoria, is the national centre for elite vocational classical dance. The school aims to train dancers of the highest calibre who will then be able to move into The Australian Ballet and other professional dance companies.