ABOUT
Mara Elisabeth Glass
I have been dancing since I was eight years old, training primarily in ballet and contemporary. At eighteen I began my Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from Queensland University of Technology (QUT). I graduated at the end of 2017 and spent a year teaching in Canberra. In this year off, I realised how much I missed dancing full-time, so I auditioned for Wollongong's AUSTI Dance & Physical Theatre (formerly Austinmer Dance Theatre). I was offered an apprenticeship position and started at Austinmer in 2019. That same year I began a Postgraduate Degree in Writing and Literature through Deakin University.
I am currently undertaking a Masters of Dance Research for Professional Practitioners through Rambert School.
I have always loved choreography. I explored it in an amateur sense as a child and teen. It wasn't until my third year at QUT that I was able to complete my first fully realised choreographic work, Are You Seeing Me? (2017). Since then I've completed four other works: The Parting Glass (2017), My Battery is Low (2019), Joy Box (2020), and Ankle Deep Water (2022). I plan to continue to create choreographic works and explore my motivations and process with the help of this blog.