NEWLY retired from the Australian Ballet and looking forward to her continuing role as resident choreographer, Alice Topp hit a road-block back in 2020. “I retired from dance on the cusp of lockdown. The plan was to stop dancing and continue with my choreographic career. But everything came to a stand-still.” The experience, she says, was like “running full-pelt on a treadmill, and someone hitting the emergency stop button – I face-planted!”
From that shock, however, multiple conversations started. “My retirement process ignited conversations with other newly-retired dancers from a wide spectrum of genres,” she explains. She and
