Friedemann Vogel
Friedmann was born in Stuttgart and trained with Marika Besobrasova in Monte-Carlo. Heis the winner of several prestigious awards including the John Gilpin Scholarship, the Prix de Lausanne, the Junior Gold Medal, Prix de Luxembourg, the Erik Bruhn prize at the Erik Bruhn Competition Toronto (Canada) and the Bronze Medal at the International Ballet Competition Jackson (USA).
In 1998 he joined the Stuttgart Ballet and was promoted to Principal dancer in 2002. His vast repertoire includes lead roles in amongst others, Cranko’s ‘Swan Lake’, ‘Theme and Variations’, ‘Giselle’, ‘The Sleeping Beauty’,’La Fille mal Gardee’, ‘Onegin’ and Romeo and Juliet’.
He has performed as a guest artist in Germany, England, Korea, Australia, America, Monaco, Russia, Greece and South Africa. He performed in The South African Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty in 2003.
Johan Kobborg
Born in Denmark, Johann entered the Royal Danish Ballet School in 1988 and joined Royal Danish Ballet in 1991. He was appointed Principal ranking in 1994.
He joined The Royal Ballet (UK) in 1999. His repertory includes Franz and the Prince (The Nutcracker, Cinderella), Solor (Le Corsaire) , Basilio (Don Quixote), Siegfried (Swan Lake), Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Albrecht (Giselle) , Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Des Grieux (Manon), Colas (La fille mal Gardee) amongst others as well as roles in The Leaves Are Fading, Agon, Masquerade, Remanso, Les Rendezvous, Symphonic Variations, In the middle, somewhat elevated, Scènes de ballet, Danses concertantes, Les Saisons, Symphony in C and Anastasia.
Amongst the many prizes he has won is the the Nureyev Ballet Competition, Grand Prix, Hungary, and Jackson International Ballet Competition, USA, and the Erik Bruhn Competition where he won the gold medal in 1993.
He has also appeared with the Kirov Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, La Scala Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Hamburg Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Teatro San Carlo, Naples.
In September 2003 he created his own show, Out of Denmark, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In 2004 he partnered Alina Cojacuru in The South African Ballet Theatre’s Giselle.
Alina Cojocaru
Born in Bucharest, Alina trained in Kiev before joining the Royal Ballet School in 1998 on a Prix de Lausanne scholarship. She returned to dance with Kiev Ballet for a year before she joined The Royal Ballet. In 2001, she was promoted as a Principal dancer.
Her repertory includes Kitri in ‘Don Quixote’, Aurora in ‘the Sleeping Beauty’, the title roles in ‘Cinderella’, ‘Giselle’, ‘Manon’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Ondine’, Clara and Sugarplum Fairy in ‘The Nutcracker’, Swanhilda in ‘Coppélia’, Nikiya in ‘La Bayadere’, Odette / Odile in ‘Swan Lake’, Aurora in ‘The Sleeping Beauty’, Titania in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Olga in ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Raymonda’, Vera in ‘A Month in the Country’, ‘Les Sylphides’, ‘The Leaves Are Fading’,
‘Scènes de Ballet’, ‘Symphonic Variations’, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and ‘Symphony in C’. She created roles in ‘This House Will Burn’ and ‘Les Saisons’.
Her guest appearances include performances with the Kirov Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Royal Danish Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet and The South African Ballet Theatre in ‘Giselle’ in 2004.
Maina Gielgud
Born in London in 1945, Ms Gielgud studied under the leading teachers of the time including the great Tamara Karsavina of the Ballet Russe. She danced for several ballet companies including the London Festival Ballet from 1972 to 1975 and made appearances as Guest Artist with companies in England, France and Czechoslovakia. She was the Artistic Director of Australian Ballet from 1983 to 1996 and then with The Royal Danish from 1997 to 1999. She is the niece of well - known actor Sir John Gielgud. Ms Gielgud was invited to coach the dancers of The South African Ballet Theatre in preparation for its season of Cinderella-the Ballet in March 2009.
Jean-Paul Comelin
French-born US resident, choreographer, director and master teacher Jean-Paul Comelin has long been associated with the world's most prominent ballet companies, and some of the greatest names in the dance world of the 20th century. Jean-Paul Comelin joined the Paris Opera Ballet in 1956 and went on to dance with London Festival Ballet, the National Ballet of Washington and the Pennsylvania Ballet as a principal dancer. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the Australian Ballet, performed with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and was coached by George Balanchine in several of his own ballets. Mr. Comelin choreographed his first Ballet, Autumn Songs for the National ballet of Canada for Ballerinas Veronica Tennant and Karen Kain. He then proceeded to create over sixty works for companies on five continents. As Artistic Director, Producer and Teacher, Mr Comelin has built companies and schools in San Diego, Sacramento, Milwaukee, Tucson and Phoenix, where he was the first Artistic Director Ballet Arizona.
From 1974-1980, he was the artistic director of the Milwaukee Ballet. In 1980 Mr. Comelin was invited by Artistic Director Marcia Haydee to be Ballet master of the Stuttgart Ballet, where he created two new works for the company, Saltarello and Overtones and supervised Jiri Kilian's creation of Forgotten Land , Lady of the Camellias (by John Neumeier) as well as the repertoire of John Cranko, Maurice Bejart and the classics. As Artistic Director of Ballet du Nord in France, he created several works each year: an original work on Christopher Columbus, a new version of The Nutcracker , a new version of The Firebird , a collaboration with painter Majhoub Ben Bella and Mozart's Requiem .
He has organized tours in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and the former Soviet Union and has worked with dancers such as Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Lawrence Rhodes, Carla Fracci, John Gilpin, MarciaHaydee. Today Mr. Comelin continues choreographing, directing, lecturing and teaching around the world, and works as a consultant in the development of dance. He has travelled twice to South Africa to work with The SABT, once in 2007 and again in 2008.
Brian Loftus
Mr Loftus trained in London and Paris, and danced professionally with Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet in London and with La Grande Ballet Classique de France in Paris. For twenty three years, he taught at Arts Educational School in London, where he was Director of the Student Dance Course.
He regularly attends teacher's training courses and successfully completed a course at the Vaganova School in St Petersburg, Russia. He has, for 22 years held Open Professional Classes in London's Covent Garden area for dancers from all over the world- his past pupils include Galina Samsova, Andre Prokovsky, Maina Gielgud, Marion Tait, Eva Evdokimova, Wayne Sleep and Adam Cooper. He has also been a guest teacher with numerous ballet companies, including the London Festival Ballet (now
English National Ballet); Rambert Dance Company; London Contemporary Dance Company; London City Ballet; and Kiel Ballet Company in Germany.
He was guest coach on the film 'Nijinsky', where he taught class to the film's stars Carla Fracci, Lesley Browne and George de la Pena. Mr Loftus is patron of the West Midlands Youth Ballet. In 2008, he was invited to teach the class for the Maris Liepa Gala in London, participants included stars from Bolshoi Ballet, Maryinsky Ballet, Paris Opera, and London's Royal Ballet.
Mr Loftus taught Company class at The SABT studios in May 2009.
Veronica Paeper
Veronica Paeper was born in Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and started learning ballet at the age of five with Yvonne Adkins. In 1953 she joined the University of Cape Town (UCT) Ballet School and obtained a ballet teacher's diploma with distinction. In 1962 she became a member of the UCT Ballet Company (subsequently the CAPAB, or Cape Performing Arts Board, Ballet Company) and in 1965 she danced as guest artist with Ballet Natal in Frank Staff's Apollo '65 and Soiree Musicale . In 1966 she joined the PACT, or Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal, Ballet Company in Johannesburg and created many roles for Staff including “The Woman” in Raka . In 1969 she joined the PACOFS, or Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State, Ballet Company in Bloemfontein and continued to dance in more ballets by Staff. By 1970 she had shaped different characters in Comment? Kaleidoscope and The Séance . During her performing career Veronica Paeper became a principal dancer with three South African ballet companies: CAPAB Ballet, PACT Ballet and PACOFS Ballet.
Paeperre joined CAPAB Ballet in 1971 and the following year she choreographed her first ballet entitled John the Baptist . She was made resident choreographer of CAPAB Ballet in 1974 and was the recipient of the Oude Libertas Bursary for studies abroad in 1975. In 1977, she received the Department of Education's choreographic prize for Herrie-Hulle and Cinderella , and the same prize was awarded to her in 1980 for Concerto for Charlie and Don Quixote . It was also in 1980 that she won a coveted Nederburg Prize - an honour repeated in 1992. In 1986 the Friends of the Ballet presented Paeper with a choreographic award for Sparante - a work set in a gymnasium and choreographed especially for PACT Ballet. In 1987 Paeper choreographed Elastokovitch for the NAPAC, or Natal Performing Arts Council, Dance Company and was simultaneously appointed Assistant Director of CAPAB Ballet. In 1991 she succeeded David Poole as CAPAB Ballet's Artistic Director and two years later shared an Artes award with Peter KlatzowforHamlet . Veronica Paeper is one of South Africa's most prolific choreographers today. She has created a spread of over fifty comedy-styled and dramatic works of which twenty-one are full-length ballets. These reflect diverse themes inspired by African folklore (TheRain Queen , Tintinyane ), antiquity (Cleopatra ), the Bible (John the Baptist ), history (Spartacus , Nell Gwynne ), literature (A Christmas Carol , A Midsummer Night's Dream ,Hamlet , Romeo and Juliet ), mythology (Daphnis &Chloé , Undine ), opera and operetta (Carmen , La Traviata as Camille , The Merry Widow , The Tales of Hoffmann ), South African literature (DrieDiere , Herrie-Hulle ), and re-interpretations of the classical ballet repertoire (Cinderella , The Nutcracker , Don Quixote ).
The Cape Town City Ballet (CTCB) was inaugurated in April 1997 with Paeper's new three-act ballet entitled The Story of ManonLescaut . In 1998 she created Work in Progress for the first collaborative season between the State Theatre Ballet Company (STBC) and the CTCB. In 2001 she staged Carmen for the South African Ballet Theatre (SABT) and, towards the end of the year, created a new and very different Cinderella for the CTCB. Although this production was set to Johann Strauss II's only ballet score, Paeper returned to the Sergei Prokofiev music for the two productions in 2003 by the CTCB and the SABT. During 2004 she produced Frank Staff's Raka for the CTCB and Staff's Transfigured Night for the SABT while in 2005 she staged her own balletic version of La Traviata for the Northern Ballet Theatre in England and, most recently, for the SABT in 2008. In 2009, SABT presented her production of Cinderella-the Ballet accompanied by the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Junor de Oliveira Souza
Junor began his training Escola de danca Alice Arja in Brazil.
He is the recipient of the first prize at the Danzamerica competition (Argentina) as well as the RosetaMauri (Spain) competition and has also competed in the Prix de Luasanne in 2006 and 2007n 2007 he travelled to
In he relocated to the United Kingdom to take up a scholarship at the prestigious English National Ballet School. While at the School he appeared in performances of The Snow Queen, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker with The English National Ballet (ENB).
After graduating in 2008 Junor was accepted into the ENB where he has performed the lead role of the Prince in The Nutcracker as well as Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty.
He recently appeared in a Gala performance alongside Principal artist Carlos Acosta and soloist Anais Charland in Young Apollo choreographed by Adam Hougland. Junor makes his debut with The South African Ballet Theatre for its season of FNB’s Giselle in August and September 2009 at the Joburg Theatre.
Sergey Kheylik
Mr Kheylik joins The South African Ballet Theatre as guest artist for the August / September 2009 season of Giselle at the Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein. Mr Kheylik will perform the lead role of Albrecht partnering Anya Carstens as Giselle.
Mr Kheylik trained at the John Cranko Ballet Academy, Stuttgart at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School and the Voronezh Ballet School in Russia.
In 2000, Mr Kheylik won the Prize of Hope at the Prix De Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2001, he won the Gold Medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition held in Bulgaria in 2002.
He then joined the Universal Ballet of Korea, the Vienna State Opera and the Carolina Ballet. In 2005, he joined the cast of Zumanity(Cirque Du Soleil). Mr Kheylik also appears in the films The curious case of Benjamin Button as well as Infiniti – Performance.
From 2006 to 2008, he was a Principal dancer with the Los Angeles Ballet.
Mr Kheylik is currently guest Principal artist with the Los Angeles Ballet,
Odyssey Dance Theatre and the Festival Ballet Theatre. He has worked with Coleen Neary, Jose De Udaeta, Jennifer Backhaus, Patricia Neary, and Wade Robson amongst others. His roles include the Principal leads in Agon, Apollo, Four Temperaments, Rubies, Who Cares? and The Sleeping Beauty.
Raimond Martinov
Mr. Martinov graduated from the Riga Choreography High School in 2000 and has been a member of the Latvian National Opera Ballet since 2000.
He received additional training at the Anaheim Ballet Summer Courses (USA), the International Bartolin Ballet Seminar in Denmark as well as at the Vienna State Opera Ballet school (1990-1993).
In 2005, he was a finalist at the 8th New York International Ballet Competition. In 2008, he was the bronze medal winner in the South African International Ballet Competition and in 2009 reached the final round of the 6th Seoul International Dance Competition.
In 2004 he performed as a guest artist with the European Youth Ballet tour of Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
In 2007 he was awarded the Latvian Theatre’s Spelmanunakts Prize for ‘Best Dancer of the Year’ and is also the recipient of the Aldaris Prize for special achievement in 2005.
Mr. Martinov has performed in countries around the world including Great Britain, Japan, Israel, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Russia, Germany, USA and Switzerland.
His roles include Basilio in Don Quixote, Albrecht in Giselle, Franz in Coppélia, Conrad in Le Corsaire, Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Piotr in Shostakovich’s The Bright Stream, Man in Stravinsky’s Le Sacre Du Printemps, Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew,Protector in Cinderella, and Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Vronsky in Eifman’s Anna Karenina, Khan Girey in The Fountain of Bakhchisaray, James in La Sylphide,Coppélius and Coppola in Christian Spuck’s Der Sandmann and the Prince in The Nutcracker.
His roles with the Cape Town City Ballet include Romeo in Veronica Paeper’s Romeo & Juliet and Danillo Danilovitc in The Merry Widow.
He has also modeled for various projects such as ''Calendar.lv'' and ''Underwater Photo Ballet'', a multimedia charity project shot by acclaimed photographer Sergey Kondrashin with ballet pictures taken under water.
Dirk Weyershausen
Mr Weyershausen attended the prestigious School of the Hamburg Ballet graduating in 1995. He then joined the Hamburg Ballet and in 2003, auditioned successfully for the Norwegian National Ballet where he is currently a Soloist.
He has appeared in several important roles including the Prince in "The Nutcracker", the King Neumeier´s "A Cinderella Story" and many other ballets by renowned choreographer John Neumeier.
His roles for the Norwegian National Ballet include the Prince in "Swan Lake", Onegin in "Onegin”, Lucentio in "Taming of the Shrew”, Oberon in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", Espada in "Don Quixote" and the title role in george Balanchine’s "Apollo".
He has also appeared in several ballets choreographed by William Forsythe including "The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude", "Workwithinwork", and "The Second Detail".
Mr Weyershausen makes his debut as Don José in Veronica Paeper’s ‘Carmen-the Ballet’ when he travels to South Africa for the first time to appear with The South African Ballet Theatre.
Adam Thurlow
Born in Melbourne, Adam Thurlow trained in the Cecchetti method with Lorraine Blackburn at the Heidelburg and District Ballet School from the age of 5 with his twin brother. Adam was accepted into the Australian Ballet School aged 14. There he received several scholarships and awards and graduated with Honours and dux.
He then joined the Australian Ballet under the Artistic Director Ross Stretton and was promoted to Soloist two years later.
In 2002 he was offered a Soloist contract with the English National Ballet in London where he performed lead roles before joining the Opera National de Paris in 2003. He thus became the first Australian to dance with this prestigious company. He performed several lead roles with the Paris Opera including Cinderella and Le Sacre Du Printemps during his time with the company. In August 2006 he returned to the Australian Ballet before leaving to take on a freelance career at the end of 2008.
During his career Adam has had the opportunity to work with many of the world’s leading dancers, choreographers, and artistic figures such as Nureyev, Balanchine, Cranko, MacMillan, Killian, Bejart, Forsythe, Duato, and has performed the lead roles in ballets such as Don Quixote, Manon, Giselle, Swan Lake, Apollo, Theme & Variations, The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda and many more.
Kenneth Greve
Mr Greve was born in 1969 and trained at the Ballet School of the Royal Theatre and at School of American Ballet.
In 1986 he was engaged by the New York City Ballet, in 1988 by the American Ballet Theatre, and in 1989 by the Paris Opera Ballet, where he was appointed Danseur Etoile. In 1990, he performed with the Stuttgart Ballet and in 1991 the Wiener Statsoper. In 1992 he was engaged as a principal dancer by the Royal Danish Ballet.
Kenneth Greve has danced a large number of leading roles with the Royal Danish Ballet, including James in La Sylphide, Apollon in Apollon Musagetes, Struense in Caroline Mathilde, Romeo in Romeo and Julite, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Prince Désiré in Sleeping Beauty, Albrecht in Giselle and solo roles in Agon, Barber Violin Concerto, Tchaikowsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Dreams and Bolero.
Kenneth Greve has created several choreographies, including 2 mans Tale for the American Ballet Theatre and L'Emotion for the Stuttgart Ballet. In 2003, he created Hamlet making its world premiere for The South African Ballet Theatre.
Guillaume Côté
Born in Lac St. Jean, Quebec, Guillaume Côté trained at the National Ballet School in Toronto, where he received both the Peter Dwyer and Erik Bruhn Awards. He joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1999 and was promoted to Second Soloist in 2000, to First Soloist in 2002 and Principal in 2004. In his brief time with the company, Côté has already performed many leading roles, including Prince Ivan in The Firebird, the Poet in Les Sylphides, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Peter in The Nutcracker, Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, Act III, the title role in Apollo, and Solor in La Bayadère.
Guillaume Côté also created the role of Will in the world premiere of James Kudelka's acclaimed ballet The Contract. In May of 2002 he represented the National Ballet of Canada at the Sixth International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize.
A trained musician and composer as well as dancer, Côté has composed music for a number of dance and theatre productions, including Dominique Dumais' still.nest for the Stuttgart Ballet and Dumais' Sans Detour for the Alberta Ballet.
Côté first danced in South Africa with SABT in 2003 and returned for performances during 2004.
Elyse Borne
Elyse Borne began her dance training in her native Los Angeles, and finished it at the School of American Ballet in New York as a recipient of a Ford Foundation scholarship. She was invited to join the New York City Ballet where she danced for thirteen and a half years, being promoted to soloist in 1983.
Her principal roles performed there include George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (sharing a debut with Mikhail Baryshnikov), Vienna Waltzes, Apollo, Harlequinade, Tchaikovsky Suite #3, Divertimento #15, Symphony in C, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Union Jack, Emeralds and Jerome Robbins’ The Goldberg Variations, Dances at a Gathering and The Four Seasons.
During this time, she also made several television appearances in Dance in America and Live from Lincoln Center productions as well as Live from Studio 8H, a Jerome Robbins Special and Ruth Page’s The Merry Widow. She travelled nationally and internationally on concert tours with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Martins, Suzanne Farrell, Jean Pierre Bonnefous, Patricia McBride and Edward Villella.
In 1986, she became the principal ballet mistress for the Miami City Ballet. In 1994, she began devoting herself full-time to staging ballets for the George Balanchine Trust and teaching. She has staged more than 20 ballets for the Miami City Ballet, the Boston Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Central Ballet of China, Alberta Ballet, Kirov Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet, among others. Borne has also taught and coached at the Royal Swedish Ballet. She joined the Artistic staff of San Francisco Ballet as Ballet Mistress from 1997 to 2002.
César Morales
Born in Chile, César Morales trained at the Municipal Theatre's Ballet School in Santiago before beingoffered a scholarship by Ben Stevenson to train at the Houston Ballet Academy. He joined Ballet de Santiago at 16, and was promoted to Principal within two years. César has won gold medals at both the Prague and New York International Ballet Competitions, and the Altazor Prize, awarded by professional dancers of Chile. He joined English National Ballet in 2004, and guested with The South African Ballet Theatre in 2005 and Vienna Staatsoper in 2006. In November 2008, he danced the role of James in La Sylphide with Ballet de Santiago.
César joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2008. His repertory with the Company is wide-ranging and extends from the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, the Southern Cape Zebra in 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café and Troyte in Enigma Variations to Amynta in Sylvia and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.
Mr Morales is the recipient of several prestigious prizes including Dancer of the Year, Critics' Cirlce for the Arts - Chile, 2000; Altazor Prize, awarded by the professional dancers of Chile, 2002, 2003; Gold Medal, Prague International Ballet Competition, 2002; Gold Medal, New York International Ballet Competition, 2003.
Margaret Illman
Margaret was born in Adelaide and was Cecchetti trained by Dorothy Noye and the Australian Ballet School. In 1985 she was invited to join the Australian Ballet and won a scholarship to study further with the graduating year of the Paris Opera Ballet School. In 1988 she became a soloist with the Australian ballet. In 1989 she joined the National Ballet of Canada and was promoted to principal dancer in 1990.
In 1993 she performed the leading role in "THE RED SHOES" on Broadway. She came to Germany in 1996, initially for two seasons as principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet and then in the 1999/2000 season as a guest artist with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She continued her successful engagement in Germany in the season 2001/2002 as a Principal dancer at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. For 2002/2003 she returned to Australia where she joined the Australian Ballet for its 40th anniversary. Her first appearance was in a new creation of "Swan Lake" by Graeme Murphy, with its world premiere in September 2002.
Since November 2003, Ms Illman has been Principal Dancer of the Vienna Staatsoper.
In the course of her extensive international guesting she has danced with many different companies such as New York City Ballet, The South African Ballet Theatre, English National Ballet, and the ballet companies of La Scala in Milan, Rome Opera and San Carlo in Naples.
In addition she has danced with the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, the Dresden Ballet and the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, Aalto Theatre Essen, Hannover, Zurich and Vienna Staatsoper and at modern dance Festivals in Tel Aviv and in 2004 Granada, Spain.
Her varied repertoire includes works by Ashton, Balanchine, Béjart, Deane, Kylián, MacMillan, van Manen, Petit, Preljocaj, Robbins, Scholz, Spoerli and Taylor amongst others. Amedeo Amodio, Patrice Bart, Mauro Bigonzetti, David Bintley, Luciano Cannito, Marguerite Dolon, William Forsythe, James Kudelka, Lar Lubovitch, Graeme Murphy, John Neumeier, Ricardo Nunez, David Parsons and Glen Tetley have created new choreographies with Margaret Illmann.
Margaret Illmann has won many prizes for her work as an artist including, in 1989 The South Australian Young Achiever´s Award and for her time on Broadway, 1994, three honours. The Theatre World Award for acting and the Fred Astaire Prize for her dancing; she was also nominated by the New York Drama Desk Association as the best leading female performer in a musical. Margaret was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Danse 2000 for her interpretation of the role of Titania in Heinz Spoerli´s "a Midsummer Night´s Dream ".She has been voted several times the most outstanding female dancer in the annual international critics´ survey of 'Dance-International'. Margaret Illmann was awarded the 2000 critics´ prize by the 'Berliner Zeitung' and the 2001 German Critics Prize by the 'German Critics Association'.
In 2002 and 2003, she was invited to moderate for the Australian International Cecchetti Competition in Melbourne Australia and was made an 'Honorary Member of the Cecchetti Soceity'.