Curriculum Vitae
for
Professor Susan Street
Curriculum Vitae – Professor Susan Street
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CURRICULUM VITAE FOR
PROFESSOR SUSAN STREET
PERSONAL DETAILS
SURNAME
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STREET
GIVEN NAMES
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Susan Patricia
TITLE
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Emeritus Professor
NATIONALITY
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Australian
CURRENT POSITION
:
Executive Director, QUT Precincts
BUSINESS ADDRESS
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Queensland University of Technology
Division of International and Development
QUT Precincts
Old Government House
2 George Street
Brisbane, QLD 4001 Australia
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
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Master of Arts (Arts Criticism)
City University, London
Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
Company Directors Course Diploma
EDUCATION
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MacRobertsons Girls High School, Melbourne
Ballet Victoria, Melbourne
City University, London
MEMBERSHIPS
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International Women’s Forum
Ausdance – Australian Dance Council
World Dance Alliance
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WORK HISTORY (Summary)
2011
Appointed Executive Director QUT Precincts
2010
Appointed to the Queensland Performing Arts Trust (1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013)
2010 to 2013
2007 to 2010
Re-appointed to the Advisory Board of the Australia-China Council (3 years)
Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Australia-China Council (3 years)
2006
Elected National President, Australian Dance Council
Sep 2005 to 2011
Executive Dean, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of
Technology (QUT)
1999 to 2005
Chair of Artistic Advisory Committee for Hong Kong Ballet
Awarded title Emeritus Professor by QUT
Dean of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA)
Board of Governors, Hong Kong Ballet
1999
Recipient of 1999 Australian Dance Award for Services to Dance Education
1998
Promoted to the title of Professor, QUT
1998 to 1999
Chairperson Dance Panel
Member of Council for the Australia Council for the Arts
1988 to 1999
Head of Dance, Academy of the Arts, QUT formally Brisbane College of Advanced
Education
Sep to Dec 1995
Consultant to The Australian Ballet School. Curriculum writer for new Advanced
Diploma in Dance Teaching
Jun 1993 to Nov 1994
Acting Head, Academy of the Arts, QUT
1993
Promoted to the title of Associate Professor, QUT
1991
Awarded Master of Arts (Arts Criticism), City University, London
1984
Lecturer in Dance, Brisbane College of Advanced Education
1983
Part-time tutor in dance, Brisbane College of Advanced Education
1976 to 1982
Professional Dancer
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PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
2009
Arts Touring Funding Committee - Arts Queensland
Appointed Co-Chair
Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) – Create.Ed: Strengthening
learning and teaching in the Creative Arts disciplines
Committee Member
Centre for Culture and Development, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Appointed International Advisor
2007
Australia-China Council
Appointed by the Federal Government (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) as Council
Member
2006
Australia Dance Council - Ausdance
Elected National President
Journal of Artistic and Creative Education (JACE)
Member of International Panel of Reviewers
2005
South China Morning Post
Appointed Arts Reviewer
2004 to 2005
Hong Kong Ballet
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Chairman, special committee to select new Artistic Director
Chairman, Artistic Advisory Committee – appointed 2001
Board of Governors – appointed 1999
Shanghai International Ballet Competition
Jury Member
2003 to 2005
Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education
International Advisory Editorial Board
2002 to 2005
Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Arts Advisor
2000 to 2005
Leisure and Cultural Services Department – HK Government
Performing Arts Expert Advisor
Johnson Strokes & Masters Solicitors
Provided expert advice reports on dance injury cases
1999 to Current
Research in Dance Education (RIDE) (Journal)
International Advisory Board Member
1999 - 2005
Odyssey Dance Theatre (Singapore)
Honorary Artistic Advisor
1998 to 1999
Australian Dance Theatre (Adelaide)
Member – Selection committee for the position of Artistic Director Advisor to the State
Government Department of Arts SA for their review of Australian Dance Theatre
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1998
Brisbane City Council (Brisbane)
Appointed as a Director for the Brisbane Arts and Environment Trust
May 1997
National Symposium on Research in the Performing Arts
Member – National Advisory Committee
1996 to 2006
World Dance Alliance – Asia Pacific Dance Education Association
Chairperson
1996 to 1998
Ausdance (Queensland)
State President (Member 1990 to 1999)
1995 to 1998
Choreographic Centre (Canberra)
Member:
Member:
1993 to 1996
Artistic Advisory Committee
Selection committee to appoint Centre Director
Tertiary Dance Council of Australia
Chairperson (Member 1988 to 1999)
1988
World Expo 88 Authority
Principal Dance Consultant – World Expo. Programming advice on all dance related matters
throughout the projects six month run
ACADEMIC CONSULTANCY
Nov 2010
Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (Melbourne)
Selection Committee member for 3 ballet teaching positions
Jul 2010
Central Queensland University (Rockhampton)
External Member for Senior Appointments Committee for the position of Dean of School of
Creative and Performing Arts
Apr 2009
AMBASSADE DE FRANCE - Consulat Général de France
Invited to establish links with leading French National art and design schools
Jul 2007
Australian Ballet School
Facilitator - Board Planning Day
Oct 2006
Edith Cowan University
Member of Review Panel for Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) School
Review
Oct 2003
Taiwan National University of Arts
Member of Review Panel for School of Dance
2000 to 2005
LaSalle SIA College of the Arts (Singapore)
Chairperson of the Diploma in Dance Course, Advisory Committee
2002 to 2005
SPACE, Hong Kong University
Appointed member of Academic Advisory Committee for the Certificate and Diploma in Dance
2001
College of the Arts, Education and Social Sciences, University of Western
Sydney
Member of Review Committee for the BA (Dance)
1999
Queensland University of Technology
Member of Creative Industries Faculty Advisory Committee
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1997 to 1998
The University of Adelaide
Appointed Advisory Group member to consider dance course offerings
1997
Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide Institute of TAFE
External Member – Accreditation Panel, Bachelor of Dance Performance
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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1996 to 1999
External examiner in Ballet for academic year 1997
Chair of re-accreditation panel for the Ballet stream in 1998
Box Hill College of TAFE
Industry Steering Committee
1995 to 1999
Australian Ballet School
Industry Advisory Committee
1995 to 1998
Victorian College of Arts
Course Advisory Committee, School of Dance
1995
University of Tasmania
Dance Course Evaluation Report
1994
Deakin University
External advisor on proposal to offer 2 additional BA (Hons) Strands
1993 to 2005
Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation
Member of the register of subject specialists in the Arts. Chair of the re-accreditation panel
considering the Ballet stream at the HKAPA in 1998
GUEST SPEAKER / LECTURER
Aug 2010
Beijing Dance Academy : 18th International Congress of Aesthetics : Forum of
Dance Aesthetics and Education
Invited keynote address
Dec 2009
Hong Kong Design Centre
Invited speaker: Global Design Network Symposium 2009
Jun 2009
Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) (Canberra)
Guest speaker: Future Directions for the ‘Design Dialogue’
Feb 2009
Australian Technology Network - Women's Executive Development Program
(ATN WEXDEV) - Leadership Program
Presentation: Perspectives on academic leadership in higher education
Nov 2008
Australian Learning & Teaching Council
Facilitator - Leading Change Symposium
Jul 2008
Dance Dialogues 1: Eighth Dame Peggy Van Praagh Memorial Address
Nov 2006
Beijing Dance Academy
Guest lecturer: Creativity in 21st Century Education
Jun 2006
International Dance Conference, Hong Kong
Keynote speaker: Seizing the Moment: Creative Industries – what opportunities for Dance?
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Jun 2005
National Taiwan College of Physical Education
Invited keynote speaker: Seizing the Moment: Creative Industries – what opportunities for
Dance?
Sep 2004
Beijing Dance Academy 50th Anniversary
Invited speaker: 2004 Beijing Forum on International Dance Education and Development
Sep 2003
Singapore Dance Matters Forum
Guest speaker: Developing talented young dancers
2001 and 2003
7th and 9th Dance Competition, Hong Kong Institute of Education (Hong Kong)
Honorary Guest and Speaker
Oct 2000
The Second International Conference on Hong Kong Culture, Local & Global:
Identity and Difference
Guest speaker: Analysis of work by Hong Kong choreographer Yuri Ng
Choreography in Asia & Australia (Guinness Theatre, The Substation, Singapore)
Public Lecture
2000
What is Classical Ballet (Hong Kong)
Guest lecturer: Public Education series, HK Ballet Group
International Dance Education Conference (Hong Kong)
Chair for proceedings organised by HK Dance Federation
1998
The Scholar and the Stage Symposium (Melbourne)
Invited to present paper on current debate and research in the areas of dance and physical
theatre
Aug 1997
Dance On 97 – Hong Kong
Paper presentation: Cultural Policy in Australia – Implications for Dance
Jul 1997
Green Mill Dance Project
Paper presentation: Cultural trends – the future for Dance
1996
Green Mill / World Dance Alliance
Session Chair: Reshaping Dance Research
Youth Making Dance Conference, Ausdance Queensland
Guest speaker: National Dance Teacher Registration
1995
Korea and Asia Dance Event 95
Guest speaker: Art and Technology, the future according to Creative Nation
Green Mill Dance Project
Guest speaker: Scientific theory and its effect on the arts and Technology
1994
Green Mill Dance Project
Guest speaker: The Grecian Origins of Ballet
DANCE TRAINING / PROFESSIONAL DANCER
1981 to 1982
Dancer: International Folkloric Dance Theatre (Amsterdam, Holland)
Position – Company dancer. Toured extensively in Western and Eastern Europe
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1977 to 1980
Dancer: Kolobok Dance Company (Melbourne)
Position – Soloist. Gave over 1,000 performances across Australia including schools, adult
performances and television appearances
1977
Ballet Victoria – Teacher Training Course
Course Director: Laurel Martin OBE
1976
Ballet Victoria – Full-time professional course
Course Director: Garth Welch AO
Dancer: Ballet Victoria (Melbourne)
Position – Corps de Ballet. Petrushka season with guest stars Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia
Makarova
1965 to 1975
Ballet Victoria
Awards:
1970 School Scholarship
1972 School Bursary
Studied:
Ballet and Contemporary Dance Technique, Jazz Character, Folk, Notation
and Dance History
MANAGEMENT TRAINING
2007
Australian Institute of Company Director’s Course
Director’s Residential Course
The Cranlana Programme – The Colloquium : Cultivating Wisdom in Leadership
2006
Leading in the New Era
Senior Management Development Program – QUT
2006
Creative Leadership Forum International Masterclass
Business School, Sydney
2004
Women of Influence
Conference, Hong Kong, organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
2000
Ethical Leadership Forum
Conference, Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre
Culture and Humanity in the New Millennium – The Future of Human Values
Conference, Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre
National Innovation Summit
Conference by invitation of the Australian Government, Melbourne
1998
Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee – Academic Leadership Program
4 day residential course at Clear Mountain Lodge, Brisbane
1996
Quality Women in Leadership Program
9 month leadership development experience individually tailored for senior QUT staff
1994
Managing Industrial Relations
6 day residential at Mt Eliza Australian Management College
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PUBLICATIONS
Jun 2009
Brolga (An Australian journal about dance) – Reframing - Arguments about the Value of
Contemporary Dance : putting creativity at the centre of dance practice, policy and
education (No. 30 June 2009)
14 Jul 2008
The Ausdance Dame Peggy van Praagh Memorial Address - World Dance Alliance
‘Dance Dialogues’ (Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane)
2007
Seizing the Moment: Positioning Dance within 21st Century Creative Industries Taiwan Dance Research Journal (No. 3, June 2007) – Special Issue: Antropo-Aesthetic Domains:
Song, Dance, and Landscape
2006
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2004
Dance Forum (guest editorial) (Vol. 16, No. 4, Summer 2006)
Dance Australia (guest editorial) (Issue 145, August/September ’06)
Shifting Sands, Dance in Asia and the Pacific (guest writer) – Stephanie Burridge,
Editor - ISBN 1 875255 15 X
Why They Dance, Narrations of Hong Kong Dance (book chapter) – Hong Kong
Dance Alliance – ISBN 10:962-85199-5-6
Hong Kong Ballet’s The Legend of the Great Archer (review) - Dancing Times (London)
(July)
2003
Currency Comparison to Music and Dance (author of sections on Dance Training and Tertiary
Education in Dance) – Currency House, Sydney – ISBN 0958121311
2002
Developments in Dance Education in Hong Kong - Research in Dance Education
Mar 2002
Hong Kong Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet (review) - Dance Journal / HK (Vol. 4, No. 2) - Hong
Kong Dance Alliance
2001
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New Development in Dance Education in Hong Kong’ (conference paper) - Dance
Bridge - World Dance Alliance 2001 (Singapore)
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Making Ideas Dance (conference paper) - Dance Education Conference 2001 - Hong
Kong Arts Development Council
Aug 2001
The New Experience (article) Dance Journal / HK (Vol. 3, No. 4) - Hong Kong Dance
Alliance
Sep, Oct, Nov 2000
What is Classical about Classical Ballet? (article) - Dance Journal / HK (Vol. 2, No. 6, No. 7,
No. 8) - Hong Kong Dance Alliance
1997
What will be the Impact on the Profession? - Dance Forum - Journal of the Australian
Dance Council
12 May 1996
Dance debate critic ‘negative’ - Arts Forum, Canberra Times
1995
Scientific Theory and its effect on the Arts and Technology (conference papers) - Green
Mill Dance Project
1994
The Origins of Classical Ballet (conference paper) - Green Mill Dance Project
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1993
Dance Criticism in Australia (conference paper) - Japan and Asia Dance Event – JADE 93
The New Experience - Dance Forum (Autumn edition)
1992
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On the Edge (review) - Perform (July edition)
Do BA Degrees Meet Demands? - Dance Australia (April/May edition)
Taming of the Shrew (review) - Perform (May edition)
CHOREOGRAPHY
2007
Urban Ballet - Dance Bytes - QUT Theatre (Brisbane)
2004
Faust (Act II) – Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
2001
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2000
Prayer – Odyssey Dance Theatre, Drama Theatre (Singapore)
1998
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1997
11 Travatore (Act II) – Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Adiemus – Dance Repertory Concert – Studio 1, HKAPA
Glory Box – Dance Collections, QUT Theatre (Brisbane)
Compendium – Tsoying High School (Taiwan)
Heavens Place – contribution to the work of John Utans, Dance Graduation, QUT Theatre
(Brisbane)
1996
Gaudette – Kaohsiung (Taiwan), Dance Collections, Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
1994
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1993
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1992
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1990
1989
Marriage of Figaro – Lyric Opera of Queensland, Lyric Theatre (Brisbane)
Dancing at Lughnasa – Queensland Theatre Company, Suncorp Theatre (Brisbane)
Gaudette – QUT – Dance Collections, Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
Broadway Medley – Lyric Opera of Queensland, Lyric Theatre (Brisbane)
Troubadour – QUT – Dance Graduation, Lyric Theatre (Brisbane)
Chrysalid – QUT – Dance Collections, Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
Midsummer Night’s Dream – Queensland Conservatorium of Music - Basil Jones
Theatre (Brisbane)
 Sherwoodstock – Toadshow Production, Lyric Theatre – member of choreographic team
 The Conductor – BCAE – Dance Graduation, Princess Theatre (Brisbane)
 Chrysalid – The Queensland Ballet School – Schonell Theatre (Brisbane) – four
choreographic works for New Zealand Summer School
1987
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Peter Gunn – BCAE – Dance Collections, Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
Calusari - Romanian Folk Dance – BCAE – Dance Graduation, Woodward Theatre
(Brisbane)
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Classical Variations for Two (Collaboration) – BCAE – Dance Collections,
Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
1986
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The Couch Waltz – Warana Festival – City Hall Auditorium (Brisbane)
The Party – BCAE – Dance Collections, Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
Ariel – BCAE – Dance Collections, Woodward Theatre (Brisbane)
Parade (Collaboration) – BCAE – Dance Graduation, Princess Theatre (Brisbane)
1984
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Ultra Chic – TN! Theatre Company – Brookes St Theatre (Brisbane)
Hamlet on Ice – TN! Theatre Company – Brookes St Theatre (Brisbane)
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