Australia Dancing - Parker, Sandra (1964

Parker, Sandra (1964 - )

Sandra Parker was born in Rosebud, Victoria. She graduated from Rusden College in 1985, then joining Tasdance where she performed the work of Nanette Hassall, Neil Adams, Louise Burns (USA) and Helen Herbertson amongst others. She then moved to New York where she undertook an apprenticeship with the Trisha Brown Company and performed in the work of Meg Stuart, Risa Jaraslow and Wendy Perron. Since returning to Australia in the early 1990s, Parker has made works for Tasdance, Dance North, Buzz Dance Theatre, Vis-a-Vis Dance Canberra, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In 1997 she created the full-length works in absentia and Two Stories, touring in absentia to the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Performance Space, Sydney.

From 1998 to 2006 Parker was the artistic director of Dance Works, creating innovative collaborations with many artists and arts organisations for touring and festivals including the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. International projects include an Asialink residency to Tokyo, Japan and the creation of Span with Shelley Lasica and American choreographers Bebe Miller and Susan Braham for Danspace, St Mark’s Church, New York. Parker's work has toured nationally and internationally to the USA, Germany, France and Portugal.

Returning to independent practice in 2007, Parker established Sandra Parker Dance. In January 2007 she presented The View From Here at the Joyce Soho in New York as part of the Australia Council 'Dance Down Under' promotion where she was a featured artist. In late 2007 she created Playhouse for the Guandong Modern Dance Company, China.

In 2001 Sandra Parker received a Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and dance.

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