Alice Lee Holland
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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STEPS BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
- Gabrielle Sullivan (Chair)
- Melanie Jasper (Deputy Chair)
- Lindzay Baldsing (Treasurer)
- Barbara Gdowski (Secretary)
- Jane Murray
- Brendon Ellmer
- Sue Smith
- Tyrone Robinson
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- Adam Wheeler - Guest Choreographer
- Tyrone Robinson - Assistant Choreographer
- Holly Boyton - Costume Designer
- Sascha Budimski- Composer
- David Barr - Set Designer
- Andrew Lake - Lighting Designer
- Jenny Toomey- Stage Manager
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Alice Lee Holland
Alice is an independent choreographer based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2008 Alice created and presented her first full-length work titled Preparing to be Beautiful, which held its premiere, sell-out season in October 2008 at the Moores Building in Fremantle as part of the Silver Artrage Festival.
Earlier in 2008 Alice travelled to New York on invitation to create Pillars for Labor Force Dance Company, which premiered in June at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Alice maintains a strong professional network in the USA since living there between 2001-2004. During this time, Alice performed with the John Gamble Dance Theater (North Carolina) and at The Yard (Massachusetts), where she returned on invitation to present work in 2005, as well as completing her Master of Fine Arts in Choreography and Performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Locally, Alice has created works for Strut Dance, WAAPA, Artrage, The Graduate College of Dance, and will create a new work for Buzz Dance Theatre in 2009. She has worked on a number of STEPS Youth Dance Company productions including Kissxx (2006), POWDERMONKEY-King of the Castle in Kalgoorlie (2007), the Boys Can Dance 10 year Anniversary production dash, which won the 2007 West Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography, and most recently as Project Artistic Director on moonwebs & scorched thongs (2009).
Her passion for youth dance has also taken her to Canberra to work with Quantum Leap Youth Dance Ensemble as a commissioned choreographer for the company’s 2007 and 2008 Playhouse seasons, Unspeakable and My sister, my brother. In addition to her choreographic practice, Alice is a lecturer in contemporary dance at WAAPA and The Graduate College of Dance, and is also the Secretary of the Board of Management for Strut Dance.
Alice first performed with Steps in 1992 and vividly recalls auditioning for the project with a broken elbow. In 1997 she was one of Steps’ young choreographers in the Nexus Season, which coincided with the first Boys Can Dance performance.