Michelle Maxwell
Choreographer
About
Michelle Maxwell is Artistic Director of AUSTI. Dance and Physical Theatre, an accomplished teacher and choreographer. Her driving passion for working with young dancers, giving them professional opportunities, mentorship and guidance is infectious.
Michelle studied ballet full-time at the Saill Academy of Dancing, before attending Sydney’s Bodenwieser Dance Centre, working with Margaret Chapple, Jane Beckett, and Patrick Harding Irmer among others. Her creative practice historically reflects real-life situations, world events, or personal experiences. This is clearly reflected in her choreographic history, including works based on concepts as diverse as the New York subway, Neuroplasticity, waiting for a bus in Kenya, and life in the Gaza Strip.
Michelle studied ballet full-time at the Saill Academy of Dancing, before attending Sydney’s Bodenwieser Dance Centre, working with Margaret Chapple, Jane Beckett, and Patrick Harding Irmer among others. Her creative practice historically reflects real-life situations, world events, or personal experiences. This is clearly reflected in her choreographic history, including works based on concepts as diverse as the New York subway, Neuroplasticity, waiting for a bus in Kenya, and life in the Gaza Strip.
Michelle’s choreographic work for AUSTI. Dance and Physical Theatre includes; Aggravated Disruption (2011) While We Wait (2012), Critical Shift (2013), REWYRED (2014), LOCKEDIN (2015), Odyssey (2016), EnTrance (2018), Life Interrupted (2019) and Sifting (2021). These pieces have humbly shared the stage with leading international and national choreographers for local and en tour productions at the Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, receiving rave reviews.
Past Productions
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Australasian Dance Collective acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their deep connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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