Dance Visual Arts Skating Awareness Training Wiseman Technique
Training and Studies

  1955 - 1957 Dr. Gwenyth Lloyd in Toronto
  Summer 1956 Banff School of Fine Arts
  1957 - 1959 Royal Ballet School - London (Canada Council Grant)

    Other London Dance Teachers
  • Cleo Nordie
  • Stanislas Idzikowski
  • Audrey de Vos
  • Maria Fay
  • Andrew Hardie
  • Many staff/guest teachers in each of the professional situations listed in Dance - Professional Experience, below
  • Major R.A.D. exams

Dance - Professional Experience

1957 Winnipeg Summer Stock - Dancer
1957 - 1959 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
1959 - 1963 National Ballet of Canada - Corps de Ballet
1963 - 1964 Les Grands Ballet Canadiens - Soloist
1964 - 1965 London Festival Ballet - Soloist
1965 - 1966 Ballet Minerva - Principal Dancer
1966 (Fall) Festa Italiana - Columbia Festivals, Rome and U.S.A. - Dancer
1967 (Spring) Dublin Grand Opera - Principal Dancer & Choreographer in Aida (Verdi) and Adriana Le Couvreur (F. Cilea)
1967 - 1969 Royal Winnipeg Ballet - Soloist
1969 - 1970 London Festival Ballet - Wardrobe master and costume designer
1970 - 1973 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
1973 Private coaching, Berlin
1973 - 1975 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
1975 Training and private coaching in ballet and Wiseman Technique in Brisbane, Australia
1980 - 1981 Workshops & classes in Wiseman Technique, Hawaii
1981 - 1983 Taught Wiseman technique for the University of British Columbia's continuing education program
1981 - 1998 Classes and Workshops in Vancouver training professional dancers and teaching body awareness using "Wiseman Technique", including publication on Audio Cassette in 1981
1994 Teaching Wiseman Technique at Wild Rose College, Vancouver
1995 Workshops and classes in Wiseman Technique at the Ballet Summer School, Surrey BC
1995-1998 Private lessons and workshops in Wiseman Technique
1999 Teaching Wiseman Technique privately to competitive skaters and at the Arbutus Club Skating School to adult skaters.
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

2002 Published WISEMAN TECHNIQUE FLOOR STRETCHING EXERCISES on video with online Instruction Manual