Performer

Danielle Canavan

Danielle began her dance training with Sue and Kevin Hayes at Utassy Ballet School. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2005, she has worked and performed in various dance projects including: the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival, guest teacher at the 2007 Geelong splash! Dance Festival, 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony, Red Span Dance Company (2006), Jo Lloyd and Tim Harvey (2006), emerging choreographer Kate Stanley (2006), Lucy Farmer’s dance film Bear Me: Me Bear, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria in The Merry Widow (2004 & 2008). She is a founding member of ROGUE, a new dance collective, who last year performed in Lucy Guerin’s Pieces For Small Spaces and is currently preparing for their show in the 2008 Next Wave Festival. She also travelled to Malaysia with ROGUE to participate in the 2006 Sanggar Choreography Festival at Akademi Seni Kebanagsaan (ASK).

Danielle also has a double degree in Primary Teaching and Science (Human Movement) and works as a relief teacher in primary schools. She teaches a range of dance styles at a number of local ballet and dance schools, as well as choreographing and directing productions.