Australia Dancing - Gordon, Paige (1968

Gordon, Paige (1968 - )

Green, Jon: Portrait of Paige Gordon teaching at Buzz Dance Theatre studios, c. 2002

Paige Gordon was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, and began her movement training in callisthenics. Later she took up ballet with Kira Bousloff and then went on to study dance at tertiary level at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Her first professional engagement was with the Meryl Tankard Company in Canberra in 1990. She worked with Tankard until 1992 appearing in Nuti, Kikimora, Court of Flora, Songs with Mara and Chants de mariage.

In 1993 she began working in Canberra as an independent artist and shortly afterwards set up Paige Gordon and Performance Group. Gordon's creations for Paige Gordon and Performance Group, which she presented in a variety of traditional and non-traditional dance spaces, included Shed – A Place Where Men can Dance (1994), The Coast (1995), Three Trees (1995), Paper City (1996), Party! Party! Party! (1996), Aves (1997) and Raising the Standard (1998).

Gordon was appointed artistic director of Buzz Dance Theatre, Perth, at the end of 1998 and took up the appointment in 1999. With Buzz Gordon revived Paper City and Raising the Standard and created several new works for young people, including Rumpelstiltskin, which toured to South Africa in 2001. She left Buzz Dance Theatre in 2003.

Bibliography:

Edited extracts from Paige Gordon's oral history interview for the National Library of Australia are published as 'Theatres of life' in Brolga, 17 (December 2002), pp. 7-15. See also Michelle Potter, 'Paige Gordon: observing life in Canberra and beyond', National Library of Australia News: Canberra Arts Supplement, March 1997, pp. 54-56.

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