Gordon, Timothy (1959 - )

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Timothy Godon was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but moved to Australia at an early age. He began his dance training in Sydney with Joan and Monica Halliday from where he was accepted into the Australian Ballet School. He joined the Australian Ballet in 1979 and performed with the company for three years before leaving to work in Europe. His European career began in The Hague with Jiri Kylian and Nederlands Dans Theater in 1982 . Gordon worked and toured with NDT until 1984 when he joined Frankfurt Ballet. In Frankfurt he danced the Forsythe repertoire and was later appointed ballet master to the company. With Frankfurt Ballet he choreographed several experimental works and also coached and taught for the company.

Returning to Australia in 1986, Gordon joined the faculty of the Australian Ballet School as a senior classical tutor and choreographer. He taught at the school, then under the direction of Dame Margaret Scott, from 1987 to 1991. During this period Gordon created ballets for both the school and the company. They included Sonata for Seven in 1987, and My Name is Edward Kelly in 1990.

In 1992, Gordon began a free-lance career as a choreographer creating dance works for the Singapore Dance Theatre, the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Australian Ballet. Back in his native New Zealand in 1993, he set up a project group, Company Z, in Auckland and choreographed two full-length evenings, No Limits in 1994 and Slow Fever in 1995. During this time he also took up teaching engagements with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany and the Bejart Ballet-Lausanne.

Gordon returned to Europe in 1995 and based himself in Lausanne where he worked with the Maurice Bejart's company and school, Switzerland in order to fulfil teaching engagements with The Bejart Ballet-Lausanne, The Bejart School as well as the Vienna State Opera Ballet. He was also guest teacher with the Royal Danish Ballet and later toured Europe as guest teacher with the Tokyo Ballet and Sylvie Guillem.

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A list of Gordon's choreography is available on his website. See Choreography.

See also: Australian Ballet, The ; My Name is Edward Kelly ; Scott, Margaret

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