Loughlan Prior

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Loughlan Prior is a dancer and choreographer. He creates theatre, film and multimedia projects, and has had his work presented in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Germany and the United States. [1]

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He was appointed choreographer in residence at the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2018. [2]

Biography

Prior was born in Australia. [3] He started ballet when he was five, and continued through high school going to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. [3] Moving to New Zealand after that, he attended the New Zealand School of Dance in Wellington and graduated in 2009, when he joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet. [3]

Prior developed his choreographic practice while he was dancing at the Royal New Zealand Ballet, retiring from his dance role in 2019. [2]

In 2014, Prior became the creative director of Prior Visual, a project-based film collective, and in 2020 started a company Lo | Co Arts, with composer Claire Cowan. [4]

Credits

As choreographer

Awards

References

  1. "Loughlan Prior". Dance Masters International. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Loughlan Prior — RNZB". RNZB. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Loughlan Prior: A Creative Tour de Force". DANZ. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Loughlan Prior". Queensland Ballet. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  5. "Loughlan Prior: transfiguring music through dance". RNZ . 26 February 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. 1 2 Fox, Rebecca (8 April 2021). "The colour of creativity". Otago Daily Times . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  7. Tarrant, Deidre (30 July 2021). "The Firebird - Timeless story applied to the darkest aspects of today's existence". Theatreview. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  8. Knight, Brigitte. "Review: The Firebird with Paquita (Royal New Zealand Ballet) – Theatre Scenes: Auckland Theatre Blog (Reviews and commentary)" . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  9. Pringle, Lyne (21 November 2021). "Dance graduates step into the future with uplifting programme". Stuff . Retrieved 24 January 2022.