Chrissie Parrott

Chrissie Parrott (* 1953 ) is an English- Australian ballet dancer , choreographer and multimedia artist.

Parrott began dancing at the age of three and took professional lessons from the age of seven. In 1963 she came to Australia with her family. At the age of nineteen she became a member of the West Australian Dance Company , of which she was a member for seven years. It was here that she created her first choreographic works: Like Hisoshima: Just Another Fallout (1976) and, as the first major commissioned work for the Sydney Opera House, Catherine's Wedding .

In the late 1970s she moved to the Sydney-based One Extra Dance Company . with which she made a tour to Europe. In Germany she joined the Tanzforum Köln and had about 3000 appearances with it. She then became a member of Stockholm's Crammeer Ballets before returning to Australia after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster .

Here she founded the Chrissie Parrott Dance Company with funding from the government of Western Australia , which became known for successful productions of modern dance. Parrott created most of the choreographies himself, successfully combining theater and dance. The company toured Australia and abroad and has won the Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award (1992) and The Sounds Australia Award , among others .

After the change of government in Western Australia in 1996, the funding for her company fell away and this had to be dissolved, and Parrott went to the dance department of Edith Cowan University . She began exploring new teaching methods through the use of high-tech animation and toured France and the USA on ArtsWA scholarships .

Upon her return, she started realizing large dance performances and digital works of art in Perth. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , she continued to experiment with motion recording, video and color tracking techniques. She also founded LINK , a dance company that was supposed to make the transition into the professional world easier for university graduates .

In the early 2000s she taught multimedia at the Queensland University of Technology . In 2003, she founded the Jambird Multi Arts Company with the composer Jonathan Mustard , with which both created multimedia works using digital technology, music and dance. In 2011 they were commissioned for a play to mark the opening of the State Theater Center of West Australia , and in 2013 for an open-air dance to mark the centenary of the University of Western Australia . In 2014 Parrott received the Lifetime Achievement Award and the West Australian Dance Award .

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SURNAME	Parrott, Chrissie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English-Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and multimedia artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1953