Turning Point’s Summer Dance Intensive
‘For Ballet Students’
is a 5 day workshop with some of Adelaide’s respected Dance Artists & Therapists.
18 - 22 January, 2021
FACULTY
CHYLIE COOPER
Chylie Cooper was born in Thailand and grew up in Adelaide studying ballet with Jaqueline Tucker, Christine Underdown and performing with the South Australian Children’s Ballet Company.
Her further studies were undertaken in Perth at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , graduating with a Diploma of Dance. In 1996 she worked with Rex Reid at Dance Theatre Victoria, then danced with David Prudham’s Australian Dancers Company in Perth for its 1998/99 seasons and with West Australian Ballet.
In 1999, Chylie joined Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide under the direction of Garry Stewart.
Chylie then moved to Sydney and joined Sydney Dance Company in 2000. She toured with the Company throughout Australia and to the United States, Mexico, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, China and the UK.
In 2011, Chylie joined MOD Dance Company for a season premiere at Star city.
During the past seven years, Chylie has performed independently and taught in Sydney at Newtown High School of Performing Arts and Tutustudios. She is currently teaching at the Australian Dance Theatre.
REJANE GARCIA
Rejane artistic policy: “my work is motivated by a personal interest of self-emancipation. I express what is between feeling and thinking surround by raw emotions. I try to capture and engage dancers and non-dancers through a free and organic desire in making movement dance”. Performing Experience:
2016 – “CollabRIO”. Choreographed by Nikky Watson and Directed by Jean Abreu. Venue: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 2014 – Commercial Work ”Lily’s song” for Channel 4. Directed by Ray Moody.
2013 – “Letters:Cartas”. Choreographed by Rejane Garcia. Venue: Lilian Bayles Studio, Vyner Street Gallery, London and Veakion Open Air Theatre Greece.
2013 – StopGap Youth Dance Company Choreographed by David Willdridge. Venue: Leatherhead Theatre, Surrey.
2013 – “The Sountracking to our lives”. With Surrey Dance Collective. Choreographed by Gary Clarke. Venue: Kings International College, Surrey.
2012 – “Big Dance, Paper Solo” with Secondhand Dance Company. Choreographed by Rosie Heafford. Venue: Peckham library, Guildford library and Dorking library.
2012 – “Humpty Dumpty” with Secondhand Dance Company. Choreographed by Rosie Heafford. Venue: The Arc Caterham, Libraries in Surrey and Woking Dance Festival. Teaching Experience:
2017 – White Oak Audition at Pineapple – Professional dancers. 2016 – Workshop of creative dance at the British Museum – children 6-10 years old.
2016 – 47th World Congress in Dance Research, Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance – all levels. Saint Petersburg,Russia.
2016 – Classical Performance Awards IDTA Classical Ballet – Grade 2, 3, 4, 5 and Intermediate. Addlestone, Surrey.
2015-2017 – DanceAlive – Swan Lake, Don Quixote and Giselle workshop – all levels London.
2014 – City Academy Don Quixote and Giselle workshop – all levels London.
2013 – Swan Lake and Giselle Workshop produced by City Academy, London, Royal Opera House and Sadler’s Wells.
2013 – Research movement workshop for Letters:Cartas Project, London.
2012-2013 – Ballet4Life – Classical ballet and contemporary dance – Intermediate and advanced. Chiswick, London.
2012-2013 – Surrey Arts and Surrey Dance Collective. Skills Fusion (Dance and Football) Project, Early Years Project and professional class for Surrey artists.
MELINDA PRIVOPOULOS
At the age of 13, Melinda performed with the English National Ballet Company’s production of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, inspiring her passion to pursue a career as a professional ballet dancer. Whilst striving for this, she developed an injury, requiring extensive Physiotherapy treatment, realising her true passion for rehabilitating performers’ injuries as well as addressing the factors that may have contributed to the injury.
Melinda graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Applied Science - Human Movement & Health Studies, and a Masters of Physiotherapy. She also obtained a Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction with Polestar Pilates International, a Graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy with La Trobe University, and is currently studying her Masters in Sports Physiotherapy.
Melinda founded Bodycentric, Dance & Vocal Physiotherapy in the Adelaide CBD in 2017, which is a clinic dedicated to treating and optimising the performance of pre-professional, professional dancers and performing artists via hands-on therapy and exercise based prehabilitation and rehabilitation. Melinda often also works in theatre as the resident Physiotherapist for touring musical theatre productions.