Dance Australia

Students shine

THIS program [held at the Concourse Theatre on September 27], beginning with a défilé honouring the late Dame Margaret Scott, the school’s founding director who died this year, was sometimes poignant but mostly exhilarating.

Simon Dow, a resident choreographer and teacher at the school, choreographed the first work, Divertissement, that premiered for the entire school in 2016. This year he has added solos and quartets for the school graduates.

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