• To become Western Australia’s second state company that specialises in touring dance to regional and remote Western Australia and eventually all of remote Australia

• Foster and promote dance in all its forms throughout Western Australia, Nationally and Internationally

• To foster and promote dance within all sectors of the community inclusive of Indigenous Australians, non-english speaking people and people with disabilities

• To teach dance workshops in regional and remote Western Australia to communities that would not normally have access to elitedancers and this style of training.

• To teach the children in regional and remote Western Australia a specific dance which they would be able to perform with the company in the main performance to give them the experience of working with professional dancers and in a large scale production

• To fuse genres and work with other companies like Melbourne City Ballet (Artistic Director Michael Pappalado) and Zahara Dance Company (Artistic Director Tabetha Vagliviello) creating new works to present to the general public

• To constantly create new ballets/works which are innovative and different that incorporate different genres throughout• To every now and then in collaboration with other choreographers and companies to work on known ballets to give our dancers

the opportunity to dance in these performances

• To conduct master classes and workshops throughout Perth CBD and Regional Western Australia for the wider community utilisingall of the expertise of the professional dancers/choreographers and specialists when available in Western Australia

• To give more dancers, stage and theatre staff job opportunities in Western Australia

Aims

Company Vision

The vision of the WA Dance Company is to become semi-professional as soon as possible (which is the dancers being paid at the award rate for all performances this will depend on funding applications).

Achieving the above goals will mean producing performing seasons of the highest calibre and to do this, dancers of the highest level are needed.

2016 is the year Robin Hood is presented. Robin Hood opening season will be done in Perth. It is envisaged that it will tour to some regional towns which will include:

Geraldton

Merridan

Wongan Hills

Bridgetown

Mandurah

There will be towns added but these are to start with conducting dance workshops for the local ballet schools to also help fund the tour.

About the company

WA DANCE COMPANY

Offers dancers the opportunity to perform and tour.

Trains dancers in the OMOSD safe dance syllabus

Dancers will work on new and innovative works

When fully funded offers dancers paid employment

Gives in-depth training for professional re-development

Dancers will have the opportunity to work with our best professionals

The dancers then have the opportunity to work their way up through the company into more prominent roles.

Fiona OliverArtistic DirectorDance Mistress

Artistic Director/Dance MistressWA Dance Company IncChoreographer Re-training Company Dancers and Rehearsing Company dancers

WA Dance School/Midland Dance StudiosPrincipal/Owner/Choreographer/teacher Train students from 3yrs to adults in Classical Ballet (OMOSD) technique, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Pointe, Pas de Deux etc

OMOSD (Oliver Method of Safe Dance) has been 40+yrs in the making and I am teaching this syllabi now to all of my students, which is not only training new students but also retraining injured students and the general public through the rehabilitation side of the syllabi.

Started dancing in 1961 at the age of 3yrs. Started teaching at the age of 16yrs.

1961-1977 Royal Academy of Dancing (R.A.D.), Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing (C.S.T.D.)

Classical Ballet/Jazz/Tap/Character/AcrobaticsTraining in the above syllabi methods of dance to advanced standards.Training in different ballet syllabi/contemporary dance (Kirov, Borovansky, Cunningham, Harold, Graham methods)

Teaching all areas of classical ballet, jazz, tap and Contemporary dance for students 3yrs-Adults

1969-1970 Junior W.A. Ballet Company Chors De Ballet/Principal.Under direction of Floris and Saskia Gout, followed by Louis Merino and Kira Bousloff trained and performed in productions

Fiona OliverArtistic DirectorDance Mistress

1979-1982Serenade Ballet Company Entered as Chors de BalletBecame Principal Artist/ SoloistUnder direction of Kira Bousloff, Cynthia Mayan (Ex Royal Ballet Soloist), some direction from Louis Merino and Madame Des Stephano, danced and performed throughout WA. Teaching dance workshops in the rural communities in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Tap and Contemporary Dance

1981-1985Daedalus Dance Company WACo-Founder, Choreographer, Dance Mistress, Principal Artist/Soloist, Artistic Director, Set Design, Costume DesignCreated a successful touring dance company to perform, teach dance workshops and tour the rural communities of W.A. which was sponsored fully. Tours included city performances to open and close, these were generally done at the Dolphin or Octagon theatres in Perth then.Re-trained all dancers in the OMOSD syllabus, Choreography, principal/Artistic Director/Dance mistress auditioning dancers, interviews with road crew and stage hands, artistically directing all rehearsals, Danced solo and Pas de Deux, designed costumes and scenery etc

1981-1985Daedalus Dance Company WAMarketing, Public Relations, Co-ordinater, Government Liaison Officer, Budgeting, Tour Organizer/ Bookings Officer, General Administration which included:

Liaison with government bodies, writing proposals for funding, advertising, budgeting, tour planning, booking tours, organising workshops, cost analysis for tours-costuming-scenery-fuel-etc, bookkeeping, typing, design and organisation for the printing of programmes tickets-posters, etc

Fiona OliverTouring

TOUR EXPERIENCE

Fiona Oliver has had extensive experience touring a company. Touring with a small ballet company (Serenade Ballet Company…Under Direction of Madam Kira Bousloff) in the late 70’s to regional and remote WA started Fiona’s thirst for a touring dance company in 1982, Fiona founded her own company Daedalus, which focused on regional and remote WA for each season in 1983, 1984 and 1985.

In 1982 prior to the touring season starting, Fiona gathered sponsors for goods and services to the value of $78,000.00

Major sponsors of this company were Honda Australia 1983, Perth Building Society 1984 and Peters Ice Cream and Browns 1985.

Fiona not only marketed the company but also Artistically Directed the company and trained the dancers in the OMOSD syllabus.

TOUR PROJECTION

WA Dance Company will perform in Perth CBD for opening and closing each season but its focus is on becoming Western Australia’s State touring company to take dance and dance workshops to Regional and Remote Western Australia and at a later time to tour Nationally and Internationally but with the aim of Regional and Remote areas.

Fiona’s expertise in Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Booking, Marketing and Promoting Regional and Remote tours goes back 30 years. Add to that her Sales, Public Relations, Reception, Clerical, Bookkeeping and Public Speaking experience and experience touring as a dancer and Principal Artist, makes Fiona an invaluable part of the WA Dance Company with it’s given aims and objectives.

Touring towns will include:

Mukinbudin, Southern Cross, Merredin, Kellerberrin, Northam, Dalwallinu, Wongan Hills, Mingenew, Three Springs, Geraldton, Newman, Mount Magnet, Carnarvon, Port Hedland, Dampier, Tenants Creek, Waroona, Pinjarra, Darkan, Brookton, Wagin, BoyupBrook, Kendenup and Bridgetown to name a few.

WA Dance Company will take new and innovative works to these towns and incorporate dance workshops for the wider communities in these areas to give them access to as many genres as possible.

During these workshops the children will learn a small piece which they will perform with the company in the evening which will also give them the amazing experience of working with and performing with professionals.

Company

DancersThese dancers have been recently selected through the audition process….

Auditions are still in progress and will continue to be until the company quota of 18 performers has been reached.

Sondra BellertPrincipal Artist (Classical and Contemporary)

Michael Vu

Soloist

(Classical and Contemporary)

Garibaldi SimonoCorps de Ballet

(Classical, Contemporary and Cuban)

Grace Chen Corps de Ballet

(Classical, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap)

Yannick Benoit Corps de Ballet

(Samba, Salsa, Latin and now retraining in

Classical)

Dark Fantasy

A Collaborative works with

WA Dance Company and Manifest Bboy Brendan Burns

Dark Fantasy is a gothic tale about the continuous fight between good

and evil. Our scene is set in the medieval era with a church graveyard heaven

and hell

It is an exciting story that incorporates a Demon, a She Devil with a live snake,

Monks, Angels, A Spider Queen, the Black Widow Spider and of course more

demons, devils and angels in the ultimate battle over a Soul…

Sat 31st Oct 2015

Venue TBA

Tickets - Through ticket booth available as of 1st Feb 2015

Stay tuned to websites...more details very soon

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WHAT IS OMOSD?

The Oliver Method of Safe Dance (OMOSD), exercise and rehabilitation is a safe dance syllabus specialising in core strength correct alignment and biomechanics.

If an injury already exists the student is worked with to rehabilitate this injury prior to further technique.

OMOSD’s main aim is to bring about an awareness of correct body alignment and core stability together with the strengthening of the skeletal muscles whilst understanding their

individual ROM of the body and joints.

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The Oliver Method of Safe Dance, Exercise and Rehabilitation (OMOSD), has been over 40 years in the making.

This method has been developed over time based on the trial and tribulations of its developer Fiona Oliver. Fiona arrived at this point through a number of “light bulb” moments based on some interesting training exercises and momentous accidents in her life. All of the exercises

have been developed based on good practice, knowledge of physical anatomy, and her personal life experiences.

Fiona started dancing at three years old , and trained in R.A.D Classical Ballet and C.S.T.D Classical Ballet, Jazz ( Modern Stage), Tap, Character and Acrobatics.

Throughout the years she developed problems with her knees from locking into sway back legs in classical; her feet from pointe work; her ankles and knees from Tap and Jazz ,and various

problems with her wrists, lower back and knees from Acrobatics.

Fiona also developed large thighs, buttocks and calf muscles from the Classical Ballet techniques she was trained in. Along with all of these issues she also developed a very regimented arm and

upper body movement. In her teenage years, Fiona began participating in classes with numerous teachers in an attempt to improve on the above problems, to no avail.

However, she was acknowledged as promising enough to audition with the Australian Ballet.

At the age of nineteen - just prior to this monumental audition - Fiona had a car accident which saw her break a car windscreen with her body. As a result , major injuries were sustained in this accident. Questions as to whether she was able to walk or dance again were posed (even if she

would have some quality of life). Orthodox methods of treatment appeared to make things worse. Fiona then started to exercise herself, and each exercise and movement that created

relief and support , Fiona wrote down.

Through the next ten years Fiona was to be involved in another four car accidents, one of which was a head on with a truck! Further injuries were sustained, old injuries were made worse (even

after the improvements that Fiona had made through her own exercise regime).

After successfully rehabilitating her back from the first accident, she was then faced over the following ten years with different injuries including her shoulders (gaps in the joints from them being wrenched out of the sockets), upper back (weakened skeletal muscles causing scoliosis), lower back (bulging vertebrae) and neck (4 bulging vertebrae). The only part that she did not

have a problem with was her hips.

Again Fiona worked on herself, as orthodox methods appeared to only make things worse. As each exercise retrained her body, and gave the movement the rehabilitation required, Fiona

again wrote it down. Fiona found that all of the exercises she had written, had the potential to become a training program, and retraining process for people from all walks of life.

On the 30th June 2006, Fiona had her sixth car accident. Her car was hit from behind twice

while her left foot was on the clutch. This accident put her hips out of alignment, which gave

her yet another physical area of the body to research, and design a set of exercises for

rehabilitation.

As a result of all this research, Fiona found that if the legs were out, the back hurt, if the torso

was incorrect her hips and spine hurt. From all of her knowledge and experience together with

her own trials over a 40 year period she was able to dance and perform again thus...

OMOSD Safe Dance and Rehabilitation was born.

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