Floeur Alder
Floeur Alder
Dancer
After Floeur graduated from WAAPA in 1998, she received a Creative Development Fellowship to undertake a four month study tour in Europe to several top contemporary dance companies. Floeur also compiled a solo show, Divert, working with five choreographers when she returned to do her Bachelor in Performing Arts in 2003. In 2004 Floeur received a Foot in the Door grant from the Australia Council to work with Leigh Warren and dancers and Tasdance. She also was given more funding to create a work on her parents, Rare Earth, for which she was awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Choreography and is currently creating a dance film of the work. Since 2005 Floeur has worked with Tasdance and with various choreographers such as Toni Rizzi, Nanette Hassell, Tanja Liedtke, Byron Perry, Raewyn Hill, Natalie Weir and Anna Smith. Floeur has also been nominated Dancer to Watch and Most Outstanding Dancer in Dance Australia magazine. Her recent Tasdance production have been Parenthesis and the Ten Days on the Islane Festival 2009.