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VAL DEAKIN, ONZM:<\/b><\/span> Born in New Plymouth. Trained at the Arts Educational School and on scholarship at the Royal Ballet School, London.\nTeachers have included Margaret Craske, Molly Lake, Pamela May and Harold Turner. In 1958 she was sent by the Royal Ballet for the British Council to the State Conservatoire, Ankara, Turkey under the auspices of Dame Ninette de Valois. In 1960 she was invited to return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, where she choreographed for the Opera Ballet (e.g. La Traviata, Othello) as well as dancing with them and appeared with the with the Royal Ballet in such well known works as Swan Lake and Cinderella.<\/p>\n
She directed the National Ballet School in Washington, D.C. and her own company in the USA.<\/p>\n
Her works have been performed by the New Zealand Ballet and shown on television in the USA and New Zealand. She has received several grants from the QEII Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand). Recipient of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993, the Taranaki Soroptomists Women of Spirit Awards in 2008 and recently listed in the \u201cWho’s Who\u201d of America.<\/p>\n
Her studies in all facets of dance and theatre production enable her to give an all-round training for the theatre. She is the director of the Val Deakin Dance Theatre Trust which performs throughout New Zealand and has toured to England. The Trust presented the first pilot programme of lecture\/demonstrations in schools and continued presenting programmes in schools for over 10 years.<\/p>\n
Val has been an active member on various Arts Council and committees over the years including the Dance selection panel for the QE II Arts Council.<\/p>\n
In recognition of her teaching and choreographic work, Val Deakin was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2024 New Year\u2019s Honours.<\/p>\n
CHOREOGRAPHED WORKS AVAILABLE:<\/h4>\nClassical ballets: Full length<\/h6>\n
Alice in Wonderland (Les Six collage)
\nCinderella (Prokofiev)
\nCoppelia (Delibes)
\nLa Fille Mal Gardee (Herold\/Lanchbury)
\nNutcracker (Tchaikowsky)
\nSleeping Beauty (Tchaikowsky)
\nSnow White ( Bax, Elgar and others)<\/p>\n
Classical ballets: One act or short<\/h6>\n
Ancient Aires (Respighi)
\nArensky Dances (Arensky)
\nBizet Variations (Bizet)
\nBrahms Trio (Brahms)
\nCarnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens)
\nCoral Suite (Tchaikowsky)
\nChrysalis (Martin)
\nDanza Romantica (Stoltz)
\nDevil\u2019s Dice (Hummel)
\nEl Amor Brujo (de Falla)
\nFantasia (Levitsky)
\nFaust Suite (Gounod)
\nFlashback (Ken Wilson and compilation)
\nFor Roberto (J S Bach)
\nForever Bubbles (collage)
\nGayne (Khatchaturian)
\nGuide to the Orchestra (Britten)
\nHat Trick (Blacher)
\nJardin d\u2019Amour (Faure)
\nKites (Benjamin)
\nLa Boutique Fantasque (Rosenthal\/Rossini)
\nMasque of the Red Death (Caplet)
\nNightdrift (Grieg)
\nParis Banquet (Ibert)
\nPeter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
\nPolovtsian Dances from Prince Igor (Borodin)
\nReflections (Chopin)
\nRhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
\nRodeo (Copland)
\nRope Triangle (Biss)
\nSeasons of Love (Gunther)
\nShakespeare\u2019s Spell (collage)
\nSnow Maiden (Carr)
\nSuite No. 3 (Tchaikowsky)
\nSpanish Suite (Soler)
\nSteps in Time (collage)
\nStrauss Reveries (Strauss)
\nTales from Mother Goose (Ravel)
\nThree Salts (Creston)
\nTouch and Go (Abramson)
\nTubby the Tuba (Kleinsinger)<\/p>\n
Also jazz, character and contemporary dance works<\/p>\n
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JANE ROSEMAN:<\/b><\/span> Studied at the School of American Ballet in New York where her teachers included George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova. At 16 she was the youngest member ever contracted by the National Ballet Company, Washington, D.C. She has appeared with the California Ballet Company, Maryland Ballet Company, Manhattan Festival Ballet, Capitol Ballet, Jean Erdman Open Eye Theatre, Portland Dance Theatre and Dance Concerts, D.C.<\/p>\n Her studies included folk dance, modern (Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber), jazz (Luigi, Matt Mattox), mime (Claude Kipnis), historical (Wendy Hilton) and ballet (Margaret Craske, Val Deakin).<\/p>\n She was an original member of a group of young dancers who formed the Val Deakin Dance Company in the USA (all students of Val Deakin). In 1973 she came to New Zealand on a working holiday to continue her studies and teach in the Val Deakin Dance School, and was a founder member of the Val Deakin Dance Theatre Trust.<\/p>\n In 1979 she was awarded a QE II-Air New Zealand overseas study grant.<\/p>\n She has worked on various Arts Councils and committees and is a dance reviewer for the Taranaki Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Val Deakin on May 23, 2015. A memorial service was held at the Dance Centre to celebrate her extraordinary life and legacy in dance and the community. VAL DEAKIN, ONZM: Born in New Plymouth.… <\/p>\n