Danielle Rowe

Danielle Rowe is the guest for episode four of  'A Body's Language'.Dani Rowe was born in Shepparton, Australia and trained at The Australian Ballet School. From 2001-2015 Dani was a Principal Dancer with the Australian Ballet and Houston Ballet, and also danced with the prestigious Nederlands Dans Theater. She now lives in San Francisco and works as a choreographer, film director and creator and writer. She is the former Associate Artistic Director of SFDanceworks.We speak about how during  the COVID-19 pandemic, Dani pivoted to film making. Her creations included Shelter, created, directed and choreographed with Garen Scribner and Alexander Reneff-Olson, Wilis in Corps-en-tine for The Australian Ballet, written, directed and choreographed with Garen Scribner, I Am Spartacus for The Australian Ballet, written, directed and choreographed with Garen Scribner and The Animals for Ballet Idaho. The films garnered positive attention from Vogue, The New Yorker, The Guardian and Dance Magazine.We also speak with Dani about her career as a choreographer and how she never imagined herself 'making dances'.  Dani has created works for San Francisco Ballet, most recently creating 'Wooden Dimes' for their digital season, Nederlands Dans Theater’s SWITCH program, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Co.Lab Dance (featuring dancers from American Ballet Theater), Ballet Idaho, Grand Rapids Ballet, SFDanceworks, Diablo Ballet, Oakland Ballet and Berkeley Ballet Theater. She also choreographed for the award-winning dance film Sirens Tango (featuring principal dancers, Sasha de Sola and Luke Ingham of San Francisco Ballet), and we speak about her cross-disciplinary immersive theater production of FURY (a collaboration between San Francisco Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet and indie-pop band YASSOU).Dani also reflects on her incredible dancing career.  She originated roles in creations by Paul Lightfoot/Sol Leon, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor, Alexander Ekman, Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke and Medhi Walerski and worked with choreographers Mats Ek, Jiri Kylián, Hans van Manen, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Bruce. Rowe has also performed in works by Kenneth McMillan, Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Mark Morris and Nacho Duato as well as the title roles in Giselle, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don Quixote and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8PMw7NuaPM Link for Danielle Rowe as 'The Baroness' in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake.The Australian BalletChoreography - Graeme MurphyThe Australian Opera and Ballet OrchestraConductor - Nicolette FraillonThe Sydney Opera House - 2008https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CISGInB-bagLink for 'Shoot the Moon' trailer. Music: Philip Glass: Movement II from Tirol Concerto for piano and orchestra © Dunvagen, New York / Albersen Verhuur B.V., ’s-Gravenhage | Light: Tom Bevoort | Choreography, decor and costumes: Sol León and Paul Lightfoot.