WA Dance Company a new vibrant dance company in Midland WA. Set to take the WA dance scene by storm here is our direction and a brief introduction in WA DANCE COMAPNY

2. • To become Western Australia’s second state company that specialises in touring dance to regional and remote Western Australia
and eventually all of remote Australia
• Foster and promote dance in all its forms throughout Western Australia, Nationally and Internationally
• To foster and promote dance within all sectors of the community inclusive of Indigenous Australians, non-english speaking people
and people with disabilities
• To teach dance workshops in regional and remote Western Australia to communities that would not normally have access to elite
dancers and this style of training.
• To teach the children in regional and remote Western Australia a specific dance which they would be able to perform with the
company in the main performance to give them the experience of working with professional dancers and in a large scale
production
• To fuse genres and work with other companies like Melbourne City Ballet (Artistic Director Michael Pappalado) and Zahara Dance
Company (Artistic Director Tabetha Vagliviello) creating new works to present to the general public
• To constantly create new ballets/works which are innovative and different that incorporate different genres throughout
• To every now and then in collaboration with other choreographers and companies to work on known ballets to give our dancers
the opportunity to dance in these performances
• To conduct master classes and workshops throughout Perth CBD and Regional Western Australia for the wider community utilising
all of the expertise of the professional dancers/choreographers and specialists when available in Western Australia
• To give more dancers, stage and theatre staff job opportunities in Western Australia
Aims

3. Company
Vision
The vision of the WA Dance Company is to become
semi-professional as soon as possible (which is the
dancers being paid at the award rate for all
performances this will depend on funding
applications).
Achieving the above goals will mean producing
performing seasons of the highest calibre and to
do this, dancers of the highest level are needed.
2016 is the year Robin Hood is presented. Robin
Hood opening season will be done in Perth. It is
envisaged that it will tour to some regional towns
which will include:
Geraldton
Merridan
Wongan Hills
Bridgetown
Mandurah
There will be towns added but these are to start
with conducting dance workshops for the local
ballet schools to also help fund the tour.

4. About the company
WA DANCE COMPANY
Offers dancers the opportunity to perform and tour.
Trains dancers in the OMOSD safe dance syllabus
Dancers will work on new and innovative works
When fully funded offers dancers paid employment
Gives in-depth training for professional re-development
Dancers will have the opportunity to work with our best professionals
The dancers then have the opportunity to work their way up through the company into
more prominent roles.

5. Fiona Oliver
Artistic Director
Dance Mistress
Artistic Director/Dance Mistress
WA Dance Company Inc
Choreographer Re-training Company Dancers and
Rehearsing Company dancers
WA Dance School/Midland Dance Studios
Principal/Owner/Choreographer/teacher
Train students from 3yrs to adults in Classical Ballet (OMOSD)
technique, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary, Pointe, Pas de Deux etc
OMOSD (Oliver Method of Safe Dance) has been 40+yrs in the
making and I am teaching this syllabi now to all of my
students, which is not only training new students but also
retraining injured students and the general public through the
rehabilitation side of the syllabi.
Started dancing in 1961 at the age of 3yrs. Started teaching at
the age of 16yrs.
1961-1977
Royal Academy of Dancing (R.A.D.),
Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dancing (C.S.T.D.)
Classical Ballet/Jazz/Tap/Character/Acrobatics
Training in the above syllabi methods of dance to advanced
standards.
Training in different ballet syllabi/contemporary dance (Kirov,
Borovansky, Cunningham, Harold, Graham methods)
Teaching all areas of classical ballet, jazz, tap and
Contemporary dance for students 3yrs-Adults
1969-1970
Junior W.A. Ballet Company
Chors De Ballet/Principal.
Under direction of Floris and Saskia Gout, followed by Louis
Merino and Kira Bousloff trained and performed in
productions

6. Fiona Oliver
Artistic Director
Dance Mistress
1979-1982
Serenade Ballet Company
Entered as Chors de Ballet
Became Principal Artist/ Soloist
Under direction of Kira Bousloff, Cynthia Mayan (Ex Royal
Ballet Soloist), some direction from Louis Merino and
Madame Des Stephano, danced and performed throughout
WA. Teaching dance workshops in the rural communities in
Classical Ballet, Jazz, Tap and Contemporary Dance
1981-1985
Daedalus Dance Company WA
Co-Founder, Choreographer, Dance Mistress, Principal
Artist/Soloist, Artistic Director, Set Design, Costume Design
Created a successful touring dance company to perform,
teach dance workshops and tour the rural communities of
W.A. which was sponsored fully. Tours included city
performances to open and close, these were generally done
at the Dolphin or Octagon theatres in Perth then.
Re-trained all dancers in the OMOSD syllabus,
Choreography, principal/Artistic Director/Dance mistress
auditioning dancers, interviews with road crew and stage
hands, artistically directing all rehearsals, Danced solo and
Pas de Deux, designed costumes and scenery etc
1981-1985
Daedalus Dance Company WA
Marketing, Public Relations, Co-ordinater, Government
Liaison Officer, Budgeting, Tour Organizer/ Bookings Officer,
General Administration which included:
Liaison with government bodies, writing proposals for
funding, advertising, budgeting, tour planning, booking
tours, organising workshops, cost analysis for tours-
costuming-scenery-fuel-etc, bookkeeping, typing, design
and organisation for the printing of programmes tickets-
posters, etc

7. Fiona Oliver
Touring
TOUR EXPERIENCE
Fiona Oliver has had extensive experience touring a company.
Touring with a small ballet company (Serenade Ballet
Company…Under Direction of Madam Kira Bousloff) in the late 70’s
to regional and remote WA started Fiona’s thirst for a touring dance
company in 1982, Fiona founded her own company Daedalus, which
focused on regional and remote WA for each season in 1983, 1984
and 1985.
In 1982 prior to the touring season starting, Fiona gathered sponsors
for goods and services to the value of $78,000.00
Major sponsors of this company were Honda Australia 1983, Perth
Building Society 1984 and Peters Ice Cream and Browns 1985.
Fiona not only marketed the company but also Artistically Directed
the company and trained the dancers in the OMOSD syllabus.
TOUR PROJECTION
WA Dance Company will perform in Perth CBD for opening and
closing each season but its focus is on becoming Western Australia’s
State touring company to take dance and dance workshops to
Regional and Remote Western Australia and at a later time to tour
Nationally and Internationally but with the aim of Regional and
Remote areas.
Fiona’s expertise in Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Booking,
Marketing and Promoting Regional and Remote tours goes back 30
years. Add to that her Sales, Public Relations, Reception, Clerical,
Bookkeeping and Public Speaking experience and experience touring
as a dancer and Principal Artist, makes Fiona an invaluable part of
the WA Dance Company with it’s given aims and objectives.
Touring towns will include:
Mukinbudin, Southern Cross, Merredin, Kellerberrin, Northam,
Dalwallinu, Wongan Hills, Mingenew, Three Springs, Geraldton,
Newman, Mount Magnet, Carnarvon, Port Hedland, Dampier,
Tenants Creek, Waroona, Pinjarra, Darkan, Brookton, Wagin, Boyup
Brook, Kendenup and Bridgetown to name a few.
WA Dance Company will take new and innovative works to these
towns and incorporate dance workshops for the wider communities
in these areas to give them access to as many genres as possible.
During these workshops the children will learn a small piece which
they will perform with the company in the evening which will also
give them the amazing experience of working with and performing
with professionals.

8. Company
Dancers
These dancers have been recently selected through
the audition process….
Auditions are still in progress and will continue to be
until the company quota of 18 performers has been
reached.
Sondra Bellert
Principal Artist
(Classical and Contemporary)
Michael Vu
Soloist
(Classical and Contemporary)
Garibaldi Simono
Corps de Ballet
(Classical, Contemporary and Cuban)
Grace Chen
Corps de Ballet
(Classical, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap)
Yannick Benoit
Corps de Ballet
(Samba, Salsa, Latin and now retraining in
Classical)

9. Dark Fantasy
A Collaborative works with
WA Dance Company and Manifest Bboy Brendan Burns
Dark Fantasy is a gothic tale about the continuous fight between good
and evil. Our scene is set in the medieval era with a church graveyard heaven
and hell
It is an exciting story that incorporates a Demon, a She Devil with a live snake,
Monks, Angels, A Spider Queen, the Black Widow Spider and of course more
demons, devils and angels in the ultimate battle over a Soul…
Sat 31st Oct 2015
Venue TBA
Tickets - Through ticket booth available as of 1st Feb 2015
Stay tuned to websites...more details very soon

10. KIND SPONSORS

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WHAT IS OMOSD?

13. The Oliver Method of Safe Dance (OMOSD), exercise and rehabilitation is a safe dance
syllabus specialising in core strength correct alignment and biomechanics.
If an injury already exists the student is worked with to rehabilitate this injury prior to further
technique.
OMOSD’s main aim is to bring about an awareness of correct body alignment and core
stability together with the strengthening of the skeletal muscles whilst understanding their
individual ROM of the body and joints.

14. Omosdorigin?

15. The Oliver Method of Safe Dance, Exercise and Rehabilitation (OMOSD), has been over 40 years
in the making.
This method has been developed over time based on the trial and tribulations of its developer
Fiona Oliver. Fiona arrived at this point through a number of “light bulb” moments based on
some interesting training exercises and momentous accidents in her life. All of the exercises
have been developed based on good practice, knowledge of physical anatomy, and her personal
life experiences.
Fiona started dancing at three years old , and trained in R.A.D Classical Ballet and C.S.T.D
Classical Ballet, Jazz ( Modern Stage), Tap, Character and Acrobatics.
Throughout the years she developed problems with her knees from locking into sway back legs
in classical; her feet from pointe work; her ankles and knees from Tap and Jazz ,and various
problems with her wrists, lower back and knees from Acrobatics.
Fiona also developed large thighs, buttocks and calf muscles from the Classical Ballet techniques
she was trained in. Along with all of these issues she also developed a very regimented arm and
upper body movement. In her teenage years, Fiona began participating in classes with
numerous teachers in an attempt to improve on the above problems, to no avail.
However, she was acknowledged as promising enough to audition with the Australian Ballet.

16. At the age of nineteen - just prior to this monumental audition - Fiona had a car accident which
saw her break a car windscreen with her body. As a result , major injuries were sustained in this
accident. Questions as to whether she was able to walk or dance again were posed (even if she
would have some quality of life). Orthodox methods of treatment appeared to make things
worse. Fiona then started to exercise herself, and each exercise and movement that created
relief and support , Fiona wrote down.
Through the next ten years Fiona was to be involved in another four car accidents, one of which
was a head on with a truck! Further injuries were sustained, old injuries were made worse (even
after the improvements that Fiona had made through her own exercise regime).
After successfully rehabilitating her back from the first accident, she was then faced over the
following ten years with different injuries including her shoulders (gaps in the joints from them
being wrenched out of the sockets), upper back (weakened skeletal muscles causing scoliosis),
lower back (bulging vertebrae) and neck (4 bulging vertebrae). The only part that she did not
have a problem with was her hips.
Again Fiona worked on herself, as orthodox methods appeared to only make things worse. As
each exercise retrained her body, and gave the movement the rehabilitation required, Fiona
again wrote it down. Fiona found that all of the exercises she had written, had the potential to
become a training program, and retraining process for people from all walks of life.

17. On the 30th June 2006, Fiona had her sixth car accident. Her car was hit from behind twice
while her left foot was on the clutch. This accident put her hips out of alignment, which gave
her yet another physical area of the body to research, and design a set of exercises for
rehabilitation.
As a result of all this research, Fiona found that if the legs were out, the back hurt, if the torso
was incorrect her hips and spine hurt. From all of her knowledge and experience together with
her own trials over a 40 year period she was able to dance and perform again thus...
OMOSD Safe Dance and Rehabilitation was born.

18. FINI