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Ros Warby is a Melbourne based performer and dance maker. She has toured internationally with companies and artists including the Lucy Guerin Co (‘97), Danceworks, and Dance Exchange.

Warby met Hay in 1997, and has performed Hay's FIRE as part of her SOLOS program for the past 4 years.

Her choreography stems from her commitment to the development of improvisation and solo performance practice. Her work has been supported through grants and residencies from the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne and PICA.

Warby’s recent program, SOLOS, received the 2002 Greenroom award for best Solo Performance. SOLOS was presented in Melbourne 2001 and has toured worldwide. A recent solo SWIFT, presented at the Melbourne International Festival 2003, and was nominated for an Australian Dance Award.

Warby is an Australia Council Fellowship recipient for 2002-2004. She trained in Europe with Marika Besobrasova, Monte Carlo, Central School of Ballet, London, and the Royal Danish Ballet School, with further study at the European Dance Development Centre, Arnhem with Eva Karczag, and in the USA with Lisa Nelson, Dana Reitz and Deborah Hay.

 

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