Stanton Welch

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Stanton Welch (born 1969) is an Australian dancer and choreographer.

Early Life

Welch was born in Melbourne to Marilyn Jones and Garth Welch, two prominent Australian dancers.[1]

Career

Welch was initially trained at the dance school run by his parents.[1] In 1989, after a year as a scholarship student at the San Francisco Ballet School,[1] Welch was accepted into the Australian Ballet where he became a leading soloist.[1]

While with The Australian Ballet, Welch developed an interest in choreography and, in 1990, received his first commission.[1] By 1995, he had been appointed a resident choreographer with the Australian Ballet[1] and, in 2003, he was also appointed artistic director of the Houston Ballet.[1]

Welch has received choreographic commissions from many international companies including the Australian Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the Atlanta Ballet, BalletMet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and the Moscow Dance Theatre.

Works

  • The Three of Us (1990)
  • A Time to Dance (1990)
  • Of Blessed Memory (1991)
  • Passion and Canon (1992)
  • Before the Rain (1993)
  • Divergence (1994)
  • Corroboree (1995)
  • Madame Butterfly (1995)
  • Red Earth (1996)
  • Maninyas (1996)
  • Cinderella (1997)
  • X (1999)
  • Indigo (1999)
  • Bruiser (2000)
  • Fingerprints (2000)
  • Clear (2001)
  • Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison (2002}
  • Tu Tu (2003)
  • Velocity (2003)
  • Carmina Burana (2003)
  • Bolero (2004)
  • Blindness (2004)
  • Tales of Texas (2004)
  • Falling (2005)
  • Nosotros (2005)
  • Sleeping Beauty (2005)
  • Swan Lake (2006)
  • Punctilious (2007)
  • A Doll's House (2008)
  • Mediæval Bæbes (2008)
  • Marie (2009)
  • La Bayadère (2010)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Stanton Welch". Australia Dancing. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 

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