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Garry Stewart
Garry studied dance at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne, before dancing with a number of companies including Australian Dance Theatre, Queensland Ballet and One Extra Company, and beginning a career as a choreographer.
During the 1990s, Garry worked as a freelance choreographer, making works on some of Australia’s notable contemporary dance companies, such as Chunky Move and Sydney Dance Company, as well as independent work and choreographies for most of Australia’s major tertiary dance training institutions.
Housedance, Garry’s first project for Australian Dance Theatre, was performed on the outside of the Sydney Opera House on New Year’s Eve 1999 to an estimated television audience of two billion. His first full length work for ADT was Birdbrain, a deconstruction of Swan Lake, which has been performed extensively around the world. Other works for the company include Plastic Space, Monstrosity, The Age of Unbeauty, Nothing. HELD (2004), a collaboration with New York based photographer, Lois Greenfield, has toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe.
In 2005 he co-produced Vocabulary with Restless Dance Company, a dance company for young people with and without a disability. In this year he also choreographed the award-winning dance film Nascent with U.K. film maker Gina Czarnecki in 2004. Garry’s most recent work, Devolution (2006), was a collaboration with French Canadian roboticist Louis-Phillipe Demers.
In 2006, Garry co-produced and directed the dance gala UNIFIED for UNICEF Australia at the Sydney Opera House which raised over $110,000. He went on to work with director Nigel Jamieson on Honour Bound (2006) - a dance, flim, theatre and aerial performance that explores the experiences of Terry Hicks and his son David who is being held in Guantanamo Bay.
Garry has been awarded a number of fellowships and scholarships, including the biennial Sir Robert Helpmann Fellowship from the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts, and an Australia Council Fellowship to research dance and new media technologies.
Garry studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Communications at the University of Technology Sydney majoring in cultural theory and film, video and new media production.