With a passion for dance, theatre, puppetry, and musicals, Carol’s 37 years of professional practice includes dance performance, teaching, choreographing, directing, facilitating and management and has taken her to many parts of the globe. Carol danced in professional contemporary dance companies across Australia before heading to London for seven years to work as a dancer, teacher, choreographer in the UK and Europe. Returning to Australia, she became Assistant Director for Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide with AD Garry Stewart, creating significant contemporary dance mainstage work which toured extensively across Europe, UK, Asia and the USA.
Carol is currently an independent freelance Dance/Theatre artist working across multiple arts platforms and education environments. Her work with theatre companies began with movement direction for State Theatre Company SA; The Glass Menagerie and The Three Sisters followed by choreographing the Helpmann award winning musicals “Pinocchio” and “Rumpelstiltskin” both Windmill Theatre Company/ State Theatre Company SA productions which toured to NYC 2014 and London 2018 respectively. Along with lecturing in Dance and Movement Studies at Flinders University Drama Centre and Adelaide College of the Arts Drama department, Carol is dedicated to creating access to the arts for all and is a trained Audio Describer describing live arts performances and events for blind and partially sighted
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