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CELESTAR DANCE COMPANY
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Ms. Celeste Frances Theunissen, The
Artistic Director
& Resident Choreographer of
Celestar Dance Company
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CELESTAR DANCE COMPANY
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Ms. Celeste Frances Theunissen, The
Artistic Director
& Resident Choreographer of
Celestar Dance Company
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| ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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1982-1984 |
University of Cape Town Ballet School (Dip. In Ballet) |
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1977-1981 |
Riverlea Senior Secondary School (Matriculation) |
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1970-1976 |
T.C. Esterhuizen Primary School |
| OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS: |
Registered Ballet teacher - (The Royal Academy of Dancing London) Solo Seal Award - (The Royal Academy of Dancing London 1984) Jazz dance workshops - Luigi technique, Matt Mattox, Gus Giordano IN MALAYSIA |
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Ballet and Jazz Dance Lecturer Ballet and Jazz Dance teacher
CSOPA level 5 Founder Lecturer |
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Assessor and Examiner of the Celestar Jazz Dance Syllabus President Malaysia Jazz Dance Society Artistic Director Celestar Dance Company Managing Director Celestar Studio of Performing Arts |
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| DANCE QUALIFICATIONS: |
Solo
Seal (RAD) Introductory
syllabus (CSOPA) Performers syllabus (CSOPA) Spanish Flamenco (Level 3) National dance (Hungarian, Russian, Polish) Modern (Advanced Level) |
| FULL LENGTH WORKS: |
Just Jazz Dance 1
(Celestar Dance Company 2005) Dengar tangisan ku (CSOPA jazz dance Society 2002) A Ballet Night (Steps school of dance and art 1997) The Little Mermaid (Wendy’s dance centre 1997) Beauty and the beast (Kinaritari 1992) The Golden Bird (Nu-Image 1985) |
| PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCES: |
2001, 2004, 2005 |
Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop performance (Boulder Colorado) |
| 2002 | CSOPA Jazz dance Society-(Choreographer, dancer) | |
| 2002-2003 | Kazana stage creations-(Performer) | |
| 1998-2000 | Puppet
Shoulders Danceworks (Artistic director, dancer, Choreographer)
The One Productions (dancer, choreographer) |
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| 1997 | Jazzmates
Productions (dancer, choreographer)
The One Productions (dancer, choreographer) |
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| 1995-1996 | The Boom-Boom room (dancer) | |
| 1994-1995 | CZ Productions (Artistic director, dancer choreographer) | |
| 1993-1994 | SW Show Productions (dancer, choreographer) | |
| 1990-1993 | Jazzmates Productions (artistic director, dancer, choreographer) | |
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OVERSEAS |
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| 1997 | Studebakers (Singapore)-dancer for 2 weeks | |
| 1988-1990 | (Taiwan)-freelance dancer, choreographer, teacher | |
| 1988 | (Taiwan, Jakarta)-dancer and magicians assistant with the Dick Foster Productions show “Spellbound”) | |
| 1987-1990 | (South Africa)-dancer for the Sun International Dance Company and performed in their different venues, e.g. Sun City, Thaba’Nchu Sun, The Wild Coast Sun | |
| 1985-1987 | (South Africa)-dancer for St. International at performed in their venues, e.g. Gold Reef City | |
| 1984-1985 (South Africa) | CAPAB Ballet company-in the corps de Ballet of Les Sylphide, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Firebird, The Four Temperaments, Nell Gwynne, Spartacus, Serenade, Concerto Barrocco, and as a soloist in the ballets of Lindy Raizenberg and a fairy in The Sleeping Beauty when the company went on a national tour. | |
| 1983-1984 (South Africa) | The
University of Cape Town Ballet School
Youth Company - soloist and toured nationally with the Company. |
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| 1977-1981 | (South Africa) - The Johannesburg Youth Ballet-soloist- toured both nationally and internationally with this company. | |
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(Israel)
- took part in the Israeli dance festival
(London, Scotland) - represented South Africa in the International Festival of Youth Orchestras and Performing Arts. |
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| 1979 | (Israel)
- took part in the Israeli dance festival
(Rome) - represented South Africa in the Unicef effort to celebrate the year of the child. |
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| 1965-1981 | Member of the Johannesburg Ballet Association and performed in their annual shows and eistedfods. | |
| 1969 |
made professional debut as the duck in the Wendy Woolfe dance company’s version of ‘Peter and the wolf’ |
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| REFEREES:
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Kim
Chow (Principal of Steps School of Dance and Art) Malaysia-012-355-2270
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Ross Coleman (Australia)-rossoleg@hotmail.com Oleg Thirmusen (Australia)-rossoleg@hotmail.com Hsu-Ming-(Taiwan)-service@hmi.com.tw Carlo Spetto (South Africa) Vincent Benjamin (The One Productions-Malaysia)-012-3051767 (mobile ) Guna (Kazana Stage Creations-Malaysia)-017-3930623 (mobile) Nigel Grant (Dance Teachers on line-UK)-nigelgrant@dtol.ndirect.co Lara Branen (Boulder Jazz Dance WorkshopUSA) - boulderjazz@juno.com |
| AMBITIONS:
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To live life to it’s fullest, to do things to this best of my capabilities, to raise the standard of Jazz dance ( Malaysia) and to give the dancer a respectable place in society as a professional. I am also hoping that the syllabus can reach people in other countries so that they too can have the opportunity of contributing to raising the standard of Jazz Dance to a theatrical level. |
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