KIALEA-NADINE WILLIAMS

Bio

Kialea-Nadine Williams brings over 20 years of professional performance knowledge to her pedagogical practice. Training at London’s prestigious conservatoire, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, before joining Phoenix Dance Theatre, a repertoire dance company working with a wide variety of choreographers. She then worked with the acclaimed Michael Clark Company, performing the work I do in the Stravinsky Project, before flying to Australia to join the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in 2008 under the direction of Garry Stewart.

During her time with ADT (2008 – 2012), Kialea-Nadine was an original cast member of Stewart’s G, Be Your Self, Worldhood, and Proximity and performed excerpts of previous Stewart works.

Since 2012 Kialea-Nadine has been working as an independent dancer, creator, actor, puppeteer and educator, fulfilling mentoring and rehearsal director roles with artists and companies including Rehearsal Director for Tasdance’s Luminous Flux 2013, Madame: A Story of Joseph Farrugia: Torque Show (Actor & Dancer), Reassessment & A Dying Swan: Daniel Jaber, Mortal Condition: Larissa McGowan, Beep: Windmill Theatre Company (Actor & Puppeteer), The Spinners: Lina Limosani Projekts. Returning to Australian Dance Theatre in 2017 & 2018 for the work Beginning of Nature & Hibernation: an original play by Finnegan Kruckemeyer, directed by Mitchell Butel performed with the State Theatre Company South Australia (Actor), Now Pieces #7, Dancehouse 2022, Cthuluscene Frame Biennale, collaboration with Dr Megan Beckwith, 2023.

As an educator, Kialea-Nadine previously worked at Adelaide College of the Arts for five years as a contemporary dance, classical ballet, and acrobatic tumbling teacher, choreographer, and rehearsal director in the BA Creative Arts (Dance) course. In January 2022, Kialea-Nadine became the Tutor in Dance at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) program. At VCA, Kialea-Nadine coordinates subjects
and teaches across three-year levels in the BFA Dance course, covering a diverse range of disciplines, including ballet for contemporary dancers, contemporary dance technique, floor work, partnering, acrobatic tumbling, improvisation, composition, repertoire, and choreographic process.

Kialea-Nadine Williams was the recipient of the Critics Circle Award 2007 Best Female Dancer UK, for the performance of the acclaimed work Harmonica Breakdown, choreographed by Jane Dudley in 1938.