Australia Dancing - Warby, Ros (1967

Warby, Ros (1967 - )

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Ros Warby was born in Sydney and received her dance training in Europe with Marika Besobrasova in Monte Carlo, the Central School of Ballet in London and the Royal Danish Ballet School. She pursued further study at the European Dance Development Centre, Arnhem with Eva Karczag, and in the United States with Lisa Nelson, Dana Reitz and her mentor Deborah Hay.

Returning to Australia in 1989, Warby has performed with Dance Works, Dance Exchange, Lucy Guerin Inc and Deborah Hay Company. She received a Greenroom award in 1999 for ensemble performance in Guerin’s Heavy, and in 2000 for her performance in another of Guerin’s works The End of Things.

Together with her long standing creative team, designer Margie Medlin and composer Helen Mountfort, Warby creates elaborate choreographies that focus on the solo dance form and the relationship between dance, film, sound and light. SOLOS and SWIFT have toured extensively both within Australia and internationally to Europe and the US, with SOLOS receiving the 2002 Greenroom award for best solo performance. Monumental premiered at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2006 and won Warby a Green Room award and a Helpmann award for best female dancer. This work toured to the United States in 2008/9.

Warby was an Australia Council Fellowship recipient for 2002-2004, and in 2008 was the individual winner of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.

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