Adams, Neil (1955 - )

Scambler, Paul: Portrait of Neil Adams, 2002

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Melbourne-born Neil Adams graduated from Rusden College (now Deakin University) in 1980 with a Bachelor of Education (Dance and Drama). The following year he joined TasDance as a foundation member. In his career with TasDance, which included a role as rehearsal director from 1985, he choreographed many works for the company. They included Naught Beside (1981), Go 1234 (1981), Colours (1984), Interface (1984), Sextet (1985), Sports Shorts (1986), Sights and Settings (1986), Mountain Clear Morning (1987), Intersection (1987), Stillness Falls (1988), Lunar Return (1989), Nocturnus (1990), Superheroes (1990), Gotta Go (1991) and Metta Terra (1992).

Adams has worked extensively as a freelance choreographer and has made works for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Two Dance Plus, Dance Works, Dance North and Sutra Dance Company in Kuala Lumpur. In 1999 and 2000 Adams worked as a lecturer in contemporary dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University. During that time he made Triptych (2000). In 2002 he returned to work with TasDance and made The Darkling for the company's twenty-first birthday season.

Adams is currently completing a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts. He was the winner of the professional category (the Robert Helpmann Award) of the 2004 Dance Creation competition, a choreographic award established by the Australian Institute of Classical Dance. Adams' work for Dance Creation 2004 was Vapour Trail.

Bibliography:

Neil Adams, 'Triptych: a beautiful multiplicity', Brolga, 14 (June 2001), pp. 36-44. A list of Neil Adams' choreographic work for TasDance is in The Ausdance Guide to Australian Dance Companies 1994 (Canberra: AGPS, 1994), pp. 228-243.

See also: Dance North ; Dance Works ; Smith, Anna ; TasDance

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