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National Theatre, Melbourne
The National Theatre is a 783-seat Australian theatre and theatrical arts school located in the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda, on the corner of Barkly and Carlisle Streets. The building was constructed in 1921 as The Victory Theatre (3000 seat cinema), rebuilt as 2550 seat cinema in 1928, finally converted to a live venue 1972/4 with 783 seats. The stalls seating was converted to studios and rehearsal rooms for the schools National Theatre Movement The National Theatre Movement (NTM), the current owners, was established in 1935 by soprano Gertrude Johnson. After returning from an overseas career that included performing at Covent Garden, Miss Johnson was dismayed at the lack of training and performing opportunities for Australian artists in their own country. To that end the National Theatre was founded along with a network of companies throughout Australia. The Ballarat National Theatre was founded in 1938 along with other branches in Heidelberg, Yallourn and Swan Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 6 km (4 miles) south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. St Kilda recorded a population of 19,490 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. The Traditional Owners of St Kilda are the Yalukit, Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon wurrung, Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, Kulin Nation. St Kilda was named by Charles La Trobe, then superintendent of the Port Phillip District, after a schooner, ''Lady of St Kilda'', which mooring (watercraft), moored at the main beach in early 1842. Later in the Victorian era, St Kilda became a favoured suburb of Melbourne's elite, and many palatial mansions and grand terraces were constructed along its hills and waterfront. After the turn of the century, the St Kilda foreshore became Melbourne's favoured playground, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Heathcote
Isabella Heathcote (born 27 May 1987) is an Australian actress and model. She began her acting career in 2008. The following year, she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera '' Neighbours''. Heathcote has since portrayed governess Victoria Winters in Tim Burton's film adaptation of ''Dark Shadows'', Jane Bennett in ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'', model Gigi in ''The Neon Demon'', Nicole Dörmer in the dystopian alternate history thriller series ''The Man in the High Castle'', Leila Williams, a deranged ex-lover of Christian Grey, in '' Fifty Shades Darker'' and Olive Byrne in ''Professor Marston and the Wonder Women''. Early life Heathcote was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her father was a lawyer. She attended Korowa Anglican Girls' School. She began her career in 2008. In May 2010, she was a recipient of a Heath Ledger Scholarship. Career In December 2010, Heathcote was cast in David Chase's film '' Not Fade Away''. In February 2011, Tim Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Education In Australia
Dance is a performing art art form, form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolism (arts), symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its History of dance, historical period or List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin, place of origin. An important distinction is to be drawn between the contexts of Concert dance, theatrical and Participation dance, participatory dance, although these two categories are not always completely separate; both may have special functions, whether Social dance, social, ceremonial dance, ceremonial, competitive dance, competitive, erotic dance, erotic, war dance, martial, or sacred dance, sacred/liturgical dance, liturgical. Other forms of human movement are sometimes said to have a dance-like quality, including martial arts, gymnastics, cheerleading, figure skating, synchronised swimmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Schools In Australia
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal jazz the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian College Of The Arts
The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the university. Courses and training offered at the VCA cover eight academic disciplines: dance, film and television, drama, Indigenous arts, music theatre, production, theatre, visual art, and writing, alongside the Centre for Ideas and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development. The library on the Southbank campus is known as the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library. History The Victorian College of the Arts was established in 1972 by a government order under the Victorian Institute of Colleges Act 1955, initiated by the Premier of Victoria and Minister for the Arts, Rupert Hamer. Subsequently, in 1973 the VCA was affiliated as a college of advanced education with the Victorian Institute of Colleges. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gailene Stock
Gailene Stock CBE AM (28 January 194629 April 2014) was an Australian-born ballerina, teacher and Director of the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden. Early years Gailene Patricia Stock was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She was the second of three daughters to Roy and Sylvia. She began dancing from the age of three. However, she contracted polio at the age of 8, which left her hospital in an iron frame for 18 months. Remarkably, she was back dancing again by the time she was 12, attending the school of Paul Hammond, formerly a leading soloist with the Borovansky Ballet. Two years later, however, she had another setback when she suffered serious injury - a fractured skull and jaw - following a collision between a cement lorry and her father's car; she was left in a coma for three days. She had been due to take her Royal Academy of Dance exam. Incredibly, she recovered and passed her exam with "commendation". Rise to Principal Dancer In 1962, at the age of 16, Stock was awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Gorham
Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Gorham (7 September 1928 - 30 April 1983) was an Australian ballerina. Early life Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, the second of four children of Marcus Gorham, an Irish-born railway employee, and his English-born wife, Hilda Muriel Florence (née Somers), Kathy Gorham lived much of her life in Melbourne.Robin Grove, "Gorham, Kathleen Ann (Kathy) (1928–1983)"''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University accessed 4 April 2015. Career She began dancing at the age of fifteen with the Borovansky Ballet, continuing to dance with the Ballet until it disbanded in 1960 upon the death of Edouard Borovansky. She then danced overseas with companies in Paris and London. In 1962, Gorham became prima ballerina of the newly formed Australian Ballet. During 1952 and 1953 she danced in London with the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, and in Europe with Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. In 1954 she returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Smith (dancer)
Damian Smith is an Australian retired ballet dancer who was a principal dancer at the San Francisco Ballet. He is now the artistic director of The National Ballet school in Melbourne. Early life Smith is from Newcastle, New South Wales and is of Indigenous descent. He is the youngest of six children, and his mother, a teacher, took care the children after his father died. Smith decided to start ballet at age 9, after seeing a performance, and was offered free tuition from the Robyn Hick School of Dancing. He then trained at The McDonald College in Sydney. At age 16, he accepted a scholarship to train at School of American Ballet in New York City. Career Smith joined the San Francisco Ballet in 1998. He was promoted to soloist in 1998 and principal dancer in 2001. His repertoire includes full-length classics, works by Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan and George Balanchine, and he created roles with choreographers such as Helgi Tómasson and Christopher Wheeldon. As a gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy Of Dance
"Health and happiness" , predecessor = , successor = , formation = 1920 , extinction = , type = NGO , status = Registered charity , purpose = Examination board – dance education and training , headquarters = 36 Battersea SquareSW11 3RA , location = London , coords = , region_served = Worldwide , membership = 12,337 , language = English , general = , leader_title = President , leader_name = Dame Darcey Bussell, DBE , leader_title2 = Chairman , leader_name2 = Guy Perricone , leader_title3 = Chief Executive , leader_name3 = Tim Arthur , leader_title4 = Artistic Director , leader_name4 = Gerard Charles , key_people = , main_organ = Board of Trustees , parent_organization = , affiliations = *Ofqual *Council for Dance Education and Training *International Dance Teachers Association , budget = , num_staff = , num_volunteers = , website = , remarks = , former name = Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Hannaford
Esther Hannaford is an Australian singer and actor who has performed major roles in musical theatre in Australia. Her roles include Penny Pingleton in the original Australian cast of ''Hairspray'', for which she received a Helpmann Award, Ann Darrow in ''King Kong'', and Carole King in ''Beautiful''. Early life Hannaford grew up in Camberwell in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Her parents were a stay-at-home mother who later had her own clothing label and an electrician father who was a former SAS officer. She is the third of five children. She took dance lessons from the age of five. As a child, she performed in the 1993 Melbourne season of '' Scrooge'', and also appeared on television talent show ''New Faces'' dancing with three of her siblings to a medley of " Glory of Love" and "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)". Growing up, Hannaford's interest was in contemporary dance, and she did not pursue singing seriously until after high school. She deferred a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Quinn
Geraldine Mary Quinn (born 7 June 1975) is a songwriter, guitarist, singer, comedian and actor based in Melbourne, Australia. She won the Best Emerging Cabaret Artiste award at the 2006 Green Room Awards (Australia), and was nominated for Original Songs. Personal and early life Quinn was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and moved to Melbourne with her family at a young age. She attended St John's Regional College between 1987 and 1992. She trained as an actor at National Theatre Drama School. Career Quinn has appeared on Australian TV shows '' Spicks and Specks'', '' RocKwiz'', ''Adam Hills Tonight'', The Comedy Channel and ''Upper Middle Bogan''. In 2007, 2008 and 2015, Quinn toured with Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow and she is a regular guest on ABC Radio's The Conversation Hour (Australia). She has performed solo shows ''SEXDEATHBOWIE'', ''Bad Ambassador'', ''Hex and the City'' and ''Shut Up and Sing'' in the Melbourne International Comedy Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Mooney
Lawrence Mooney (born 22 April 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, and former television and radio presenter. Radio career Mooney has held various jobs including a cleaner, salesman, furniture polisher and collecting golf balls at a driving range, before becoming a stand-up comic. He hosted the drive time show on Melbourne Talk Radio. He has also been a fill-in host and guest on MTR's Steve Vizard Show and ABC Radio Melbourne and 3AW. In 2016, he regularly appeared on the Triple M impersonating Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with weekly spots on the Sydney and Melbourne breakfast shows, and as a guest co-host on ''Merrick & Australia''. He was part of the morning drive show on Triple M Brisbane from December 2017 to December 2018. On 15 January 2019, Lawrence replaced ''The Grill Team'' for Sydney Breakfast on Triple M with ''Moonman in the Morning,'' alongside Gus Worland, Chris Page and Jess Eva. In October 2019, Mooney won an Australian Commercial Radio A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
