Dance - Professional Experience
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1957
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Winnipeg Summer Stock - Dancer
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1957 - 1959
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Royal Opera Ballet, Royal Ballet I, and Royal Ballet II - Student Performer
Demonstrated syllabus for R.A.D. on eight-week tour of England with Claude Newman
Sadlers Wells Opera Ballet - Dancer
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1959 - 1963
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National Ballet of Canada - Corps de Ballet
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1963 - 1964
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Les Grands Ballet Canadiens - Soloist
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1964 - 1965
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London Festival Ballet - Soloist
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1965 - 1966
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Ballet Minerva - Principal Dancer
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1966 (Fall)
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Festa Italiana - Columbia Festivals, Rome and U.S.A. - Dancer
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1967 (Spring)
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Dublin Grand Opera - Principal Dancer & Choreographer in Aida (Verdi) and Adriana Le Couvreur (F. Cilea)
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1967 - 1969
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Soloist
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1969 - 1970
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London Festival Ballet - Wardrobe master and costume designer
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1970 - 1973
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Ballet Horizons, Vancouver B.C. - Founder/Artistic Director
Choreographed:
- Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) - full length
- L'après-midi d'un Faune (Debussy)
- Spectrum (Strauss) - set to Four Last Songs
- Manfred Pas de Deux (Tchaikovsky)
- Bolero (Ravel) - House Lights to Half set
- Mass in A Major (Cesar Franck) - Ballet
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1973
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Private coaching, Berlin
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1973 - 1975
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Staatstheatre, Darmstadt, West Germany - Ballet Master for Tanztheater and Opera Ballet. Created and tested Wiseman Technique (a physical training technique that facilitates awareness, strength and flexibility) in the professional field
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1975
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Training and private coaching in ballet and Wiseman Technique in Brisbane, Australia
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1980 - 1981
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Workshops & classes in Wiseman Technique, Hawaii
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1981 - 1983
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Taught Wiseman technique for the University of British Columbia's continuing education program
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1981 - 1998
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Classes and Workshops in Vancouver training professional dancers and teaching body awareness using "Wiseman Technique", including publication on Audio Cassette in 1981
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1994
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Teaching Wiseman Technique at Wild Rose College, Vancouver
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1995
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Workshops and classes in Wiseman Technique at the Ballet Summer School, Surrey BC
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1995-1998
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Private lessons and workshops in Wiseman Technique
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1999
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Teaching Wiseman Technique privately to competitive skaters and at the Arbutus Club Skating School to adult skaters.
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2000 |
Taught
Wiseman Technique privately to competitive
skaters in British Columbia Canada and gave workshops in Wiseman
Technique to dancers enrolled at the University in Brisbane Australia
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2002 |
Published WISEMAN
TECHNIQUE FLOOR STRETCHING EXERCISES on video with online Instruction
Manual |