Juliet Burnett
Juliet Burnett is a senior artist with The Australian Ballet. When she’s not captivating audiences Juliet can be found reading E.E. Cummings, enjoying gastronomic delights with her husband Nick and promulgating her love of animals, in particular their two bunnies Jack and Sadie. The most watched DVD in their collection is probably the complete Monty Python, and her minimum bribe level is a bottle of Shiraz.
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Vicki Car
Vicki Car is Head of Millinery for The Australian Ballet. After 11 years in London she and her husband Nick decided that any more of that kind of fun was bad for them and thought it best they come home. Vicki now has a son called Nate, a pink 1961 Fordomatic called Kitty and is easily distracted by things that twinkle.
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Annie Carroll
Annie Carroll hung up her pointe shoes in 2009, leaving The Australian Ballet to study Media and Communications at RMIT. When she is not putting pen to paper, she is most likely found indulging her passion for independent publications, perusing pretty clothes, and digesting tea and biscuits. She hopes to one day soon acquire a puppy, name him Neil, and live happily ever after.
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Rose Mulready
Rose’s first memory (age two) is sitting entranced through a performance of The Sleeping Beauty by The Australian Ballet. Her ballet career ended at age ten; she likes to blame this on weak ankles rather than early-onset indolence. Since then she’s made a living from writing about travel, dance, art and food before fetching up as publications editor at The Australian Ballet.
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Colin Peasley
Colin Peasley is a founding member of The Australian Ballet. He retired as a Principal Artist from the company, a position he had held from 1987, to concentrate on establishing an Education Programme for The Australian Ballet, which he currently manages while continuing to perform character roles with the company as well as maintaining a busy international schedule as coach, teacher and adjudicator.
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Martyn Pedler
Martyn Pedler is a writer and pop-cultural critic. He has written and spoken on comic books, contemporary art, cult TV, and horror movies, and is currently the film critic for Triple J’s jmag. He’s also a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, completing a thesis on superhero stories called X-Ray Vision.
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Kate Scott
Kate Scott worked as a music journalist for eight years, dabbled in fashion and studied modernist literature before joining The Australian Ballet as a writer and editor. She particularly loves writing about costume and wishes, fervently, she could appropriate some of The Australian Ballet’s pieces for her own wardrobe. Kate co-edits Behind Ballet along with Jasmin Tulk.
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Hila Shachar
Hila Shachar is a writer and researcher. She completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia, where she is now an Honorary Research Fellow within the Department of English and Cultural Studies. When she is not typing away on her own blog, le projet d’amour (http://hila-lumiere.blogspot.com/), she can be found writing for Desktop Magazine Online.
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Anna Sutton
Anna loves writing, and you can often find her chiselling away like a chipmunk on a postmodern cuneiform in her batwing cave. Other than that it’s all rhinestone and glitter, naturally.
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Laura Tong
Laura is a soloist with The Australian Ballet. She grew up in New Zealand amid kiwifruit paddocks, three sisters and a cow called Wobbly who became hamburgers. She spent five years living and dancing in London before moving to Australia because the crosswords are better. When not on stage she enjoys shopping for vintage clothes, hiking with her husband and playing Chopin on the piano loud enough to make your ears bleed. She has yet to find a way to combine all three.
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Jasmin Tulk
Jasmin is the graphic designer for The Australian Ballet and will regularly delve into The Australian Ballet archive to retrieve some photographic and design gems over their (almost) 50-year history. Jasmin co-edits Behind Ballet along with Kate Scott.
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Lorelei Vashti
Lorelei Vashti is a writer and book editor. She quit ballet not long after she started it, when she was six years old, but gave it another attempt 20 years later at a beginner school for adults. She is still hopeless, but she really just loves wearing the leotards and stockings.
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Kitty Walker
Kitty entered The Australian Ballet family as media relations manager. She dabbles in a bit of music journalism on the side, has decamped from the National Gallery of Victoria and, just to mix things up a bit, spent a few years backstage at Victoria Police. Kitty wounded her pride by taking adult ballet classes with Colin Peasley but vows to continue the quest to be en pointe by the end of the year.
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