Raewyn hill biography net worth
Raewyn Hill
New Zealand choreographer and dancer now active in Australia (born )
Raewyn Hill (born ) is a New Zealand choreographer and dancer now active in Australia.
Career
Hill was born in Oamaru and entered the New Zealand School of Dance when she was fifteen, graduating in She has worked with Sue Healey and Garry Stewart's dance company Thwack.
She performed as a dancer in various productions including Xena: Warrior Princess and the BBC's The Lost World.
Raewyn hill biography wikipedia Graduating in , she received the Best All Round Student award. In , Hill established Soapbox Productions which toured throughout New Zealand and performed eight full-length works, including When Love Comes Calling , inspired by a series of love letters between a seventeenth-century nun and her lover; White, exploring the state between sleep and wakefulness; Night , an examination of the darkest hours of the night; Angels with Dirty Feet , a study of drug addiction; A dance for the forgotten and Finders Keepers. Of her relationship with dance, Hill has said: 'Within my work I take pride in having the ability to embody social issues and provoke emotional reaction through pure dance. I aspire to take both the performers and the audience on a journey, which allows them to experience the exceptional power of a story, whether it is through its sheer horror or in its capacity to inspire and move us' Tanzconnexions, www. Hill retired from performing in after a successful tour of her solo show, We are gathered here today.Her last performance was the solo production We are gathered here today. Hill retired from performing in She provided choreography for the TVNZ series Rude Awakenings in and also provided advice to the producers of the New Zealand's So You Think You Can Dance. Hill has been a guest teacher and choreographer for Royal New Zealand Ballet, Footnote Dance, New Zealand School of Dance, Beijing Dance Academy, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and , she formed Soapbox Productions, which toured New Zealand, performing eight full-length works.
After she married dancer Richard Longbottom, it was renamed Raewyn Hill and Dancers.
Raewyn hill biography At five years of age Raewyn Hill asked her mother if she could learn ballet but was told she had to wait a year — her first lesson in patience. And, of course, everyone else was in little pink leotards and pink tights and shoes. Hill says on reflection her first dance experience makes sense now in terms of what she does, how she expresses herself and what her work looks like. At 15 years of age Hill secretly auditioned for the New Zealand School of Dance, was accepted, left home and moved to Wellington. The contemporary performance, that sees each dancer portray a particular emotion, is the creation of Hill who is choreographing the new work for the upcoming MoveMe Festival.She established her own dance company New Zealand Dance Theatre.[1]
Hill was artist in residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from to From August to October , she took up a further artist in residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and in August , another position at Baryshnikov Arts Center.[2]
In , she became artistic director for Dancenorth in North Queensland.[3] In , she became artistic director of the new Contemporary Dance Company of Western Australia.[1][4]
In April , Hill said about her work:[5]
I don’t consider it a passion: I consider it my life – my reason for existence– my reason for being.
When I am in performance, dance is the settling of my “self”. I’m in harmony; I’m truthful; I am complete. Now, in my role as an artistic director, I have a deep sense of responsibility and desire to leverage my position in the community to empower, support and nurture our next generation of artists, be it through my choreographic practice, my pedagogy or my role as a director.
Notable works
Hill's notable works include: