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Four members of the junior music theatre class Dianna Nixon teaches for the Kim Harvey School of Dance were selected to sing the role of Alice in a work by ANU academic and composer, Frank Millward. This saw them receive coaching from Frank and his partner (voice coach/performer/director/AMEB examiner) Heather Keens. A great learning experience […]

September 15th we performed our Italian songs & arias programme in the Courtroom Gunning, with its beautiful acoustic. Followed by a glass of wine on the verandah in the lovely afternoon light. Cheers.

This was recorded via Zoom, interviewed by Sarah Casey, back in July. I was engaged by the University of the Sunshine Coast for this, and it is being used as part of the materials for their Creative Entrepreneurship course. Make a cuppa as it’s 25 mins long, but I think some of you will find […]

On this day, when male dancers have been doing ballet in Times Square, and sharing amazing photos and stories, I thought I’d share this pic. (Photo by James D Morgan) These are the 4 boys playing Billy Elliot for the Australian production. They are currently in rehearsal, and the opening night is on 10th October. […]

This month has been chockers. Last week we spent an intense time at The Street Theatre, working with David Sisco, a New York based MT composer, voice teacher, director and pianist. 8 ACT region performers and 2 writer/composers were in the room for the duration, and were joined by performer and composer/lyricist Vidya Makan for […]

Dianna Nixon was engaged by the National Gallery of Australia to assemble a group to learn and improvise the actualisation of the work of Indonesian artist, Duto Hardono. The group spent a day and a half with Duto at the Gallery learning the ‘rules’ of his piece. We’ve since actualised the work multiple times over […]