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Article in NorthSide Magazine November 2010
Written by Michael Campbell
“It’s quite funny, I was reading some old articles from when I was about 12 talking about what I want to do when I’m older and realised everything I said I have done or am doing now,” says Anna-Louise Dillon-Herzog.
She has just come off stage, rehearsing a day ahead of North Harbour Club Charitable Trust’s ‘My Way’ variety concert.
Anna-Louise is a cheerful, bubbly personality who also happens to be a two-time AIMES award winner – first receiving the Award for Excellence in the Field of Dance in 2002, before taking home the ASB Arts Award at last year’s ceremony.
Those old dreams she’s reminded of when reading through decade-old clippings are those of becoming a successful dancer with an international career, living in New York and dancing for a company.
And this is exactly what she is doing today.
Having completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in dance at Australia’s Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Anna-Louise has spent the last 18 months living and dancing in New York.
When she first got to the city, Anna-Louise started studying at the Merce Cunningham School for a semester to give herself a base while she was auditioning. Once she got her first job work has continually flowed through, either from being seen in productions or through networking and contacts.
“New York is very competitive, you’re constantly surrounded by the best artists,” she says. “Right now I’m dancing at a lot of the festivals.”
She has recently performed at Capitol Fringe Festival in DC, the Jacob’s Pillow dance festival in Massachusetts and Dance Now NYC
“They have a lot of festivals for choreographers to showcase so we do them constantly, there’s always a show or a festival at least every month.”
As we chat, Anna-Louise has only been in the country two days and is still feeling the lasting effects of jet-lag. She has flown back specially for tomorrow night’s My Way concert in honour of the late North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust founder, Ross Finlayson.
“There’s nothing like coming home,” she says. “I’m here predominantly for the My Way concert but it’s good for a bit of a holiday to see my family as well.
“The concert is a way to say thank you to the North Harbour Club for their continued support throughout my career.”
It is this continued support, through the AIMES Awards, which has helped Anna-Louise though the last 18 months in New York and even before that, helped with the training it took to get her here.
“I’ve been able to do so many things. Dancing is really expensive, the first award gave me a lot of help with training, costumes and ability to further my career from an international perspective,” she says. “The second award; well dance is probably the most underpaid profession and it really did help with workshops and just to supplement my living – New York is a really expensive city.”
“That award has helped me so much, giving me the ability to take advantage of everything over there.”
Anna-Louise says her greatest experience and achievement since arriving in New York was being chosen as one of 24 artists, who are taken from thousands of applications around the world, to take part in the Jacob’s Pillow Professional Development Program – a prestigious internationally renowned month-long program, known as the ‘Mecca’ of the dance world – where she earned the Professional Advancement in Dance Award from Jacob’s Pillow.
“You spend three weeks working with the top artists in the world,” says Anna-Louise. “I was really lucky to get that because thousands of people apply for 24 spots and the standard was just huge – and they only accept 12 girls which is nothing, it’s such a small chance to get in.”
“That was a huge career boost and confidence booster.”
That all happened last year, and then this year, Anna-Louise was back at Jacob’s Pillow, this time as a performer.
“I went from one year performing as part of the professional development program to the next year performing with a New York based dance company at Jacob’s Pillow. It was cool to go back but this time I was the professional, which has been the main career shift for me.”
With the prestige of Jacob’s Pillow backing her, ongoing work and her own dedication, Anna-Louise has set herself new goals to continue the trend she has set herself.
“I want to get into a really internationally renowned company,” she says. “One of those big international names as opposed to the really good national or New York based smaller ones, because that’s really hard and would put me at the top.”
“Once you get work with one of those companies you can go anywhere.”
And in another 10-years time she could be anywhere, no doubt dancing for one of those major companies and contemplating what goals to set herself next... The North Harbour Club wishes her luck!
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North Shore swimmer Melissa Ingram took top honours at this year’s North Harbour Club AIMES Awards.
Ms Ingram won the supreme award for excellence during a gala dinner at the Bruce Mason Centre.
The 25-year-old back-stroke swimmer and long-standing member of the North Shore Swimming Club has won medals in numerous international competitions.
She received $30,000 including $20,000 for the supreme award and another $10,000 for the North Harbour Club, AUT and Millennium Institute of Sport and Health Award for Excellence.
A thrilled Ms Ingram says she will use the money to train overseas in her build-up to the Commonwealth Games in October 2010.
"With a big training year ahead of me, the timing of the award is incredibly good.
"The North Harbour Club has given me a really fantastic opportunity to pursue my swimming career to the best of my abilities and afford the extras required to perform at world-class level," Ms Ingram says.
This year’s winners represent the cream of the Shore’s young crop of achievers, says club president Peter Wall.
Former Rangitoto College student Anna-Louise Dillon-Herzog won the Excellence in the Arts Award and a $10,000 grant.
The 21-year-old, who is studying dance in New York, first received an AIMES award in 2002.
The Excellence in Information Technology was jointly awarded to computer scientist Daniel Playne and astronomer Yvette Perrott who each received $10,000.
This is the third consecutive award for Mr Playne while Ms Perrott’s talent was recognised in the 2008 Hayes Knight Emerging Talents Awards.
Musicians Grayson Masefield and Amalia Hall were joint recipients of the Excellence in Music Award, both being given $10,000 each.
A pianist, Mr Masefield is studying in France as a pupil of Professor Frederic Deschamps, one of the best accordion teachers in the world.
Ms Hall is studying with 32 of the world’s most talented violin students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
The Excellence in Education Award went to qualified barrister and solicitor Adrienne Anderson who is looking at completing her masters in law at Harvard and Yale.
Shore community worker Cameron Calkoen received the North Shore City Council Service to the Community Award.
Cash grants
The potential of six young men and women from the North Shore was recognised as part of the North Harbour Club’s annual AIMES awards.
The awards went to pianist Jason Bae, triathlete Sophie Corbridge, clarinet player Ellen Deverall, scientist Jenna Gallie, scholar Arkesh Patel and karate athlete Christopher Rahardja.
They each received an unconditional grant of $4000 for their exceptional achievement in one of the award categories – the arts; information technology, innovation and science; performing arts, music; education; sport and community service.
For the second year, the North Shore’s largest accounting firm, Hayes Knight, sponsored the Emerging Talent Awards.
“These young people are on their way to the top in their chosen field and we are thrilled to be helping them on their way with a cash grant,” North Harbour club president Peter Wall says.
North Shore swimmer Melissa Ingram took top honours at this year’s North Harbour Club AIMES Awards.
Ms Ingram won the supreme award for excellence during a gala dinner at the Bruce Mason Centre.
The 25-year-old back-stroke swimmer and long-standing member of the North Shore Swimming Club has won medals in numerous international competitions.
She received $30,000 including $20,000 for the supreme award and another $10,000 for the North Harbour Club, AUT and Millennium Institute of Sport and Health Award for Excellence.
A thrilled Ms Ingram says she will use the money to train overseas in her build-up to the Commonwealth Games in October 2010.
"With a big training year ahead of me, the timing of the award is incredibly good.
"The North Harbour Club has given me a really fantastic opportunity to pursue my swimming career to the best of my abilities and afford the extras required to perform at world-class level," Ms Ingram says.
This year’s winners represent the cream of the Shore’s young crop of achievers, says club president Peter Wall.
Former Rangitoto College student Anna-Louise Dillon-Herzog won the Excellence in the Arts Award and a $10,000 grant.
The 21-year-old, who is studying dance in New York, first received an AIMES award in 2002.
The Excellence in Information Technology was jointly awarded to computer scientist Daniel Playne and astronomer Yvette Perrott who each received $10,000.
This is the third consecutive award for Mr Playne while Ms Perrott’s talent was recognised in the 2008 Hayes Knight Emerging Talents Awards.
Musicians Grayson Masefield and Amalia Hall were joint recipients of the Excellence in Music Award, both being given $10,000 each.
A pianist, Mr Masefield is studying in France as a pupil of Professor Frederic Deschamps, one of the best accordion teachers in the world.
Ms Hall is studying with 32 of the world’s most talented violin students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
The Excellence in Education Award went to qualified barrister and solicitor Adrienne Anderson who is looking at completing her masters in law at Harvard and Yale.
Shore community worker Cameron Calkoen received the North Shore City Council Service to the Community Award.
Cash grants
The potential of six young men and women from the North Shore was recognised as part of the North Harbour Club’s annual AIMES awards.
The awards went to pianist Jason Bae, triathlete Sophie Corbridge, clarinet player Ellen Deverall, scientist Jenna Gallie, scholar Arkesh Patel and karate athlete Christopher Rahardja.
They each received an unconditional grant of $4000 for their exceptional achievement in one of the award categories – the arts; information technology, innovation and science; performing arts, music; education; sport and community service.
For the second year, the North Shore’s largest accounting firm, Hayes Knight, sponsored the Emerging Talent Awards.
“These young people are on their way to the top in their chosen field and we are thrilled to be helping them on their way with a cash grant,” North Harbour club president Peter Wall says.
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DanceNOW Day 3: Addicted to Mahdahn
NEW YORK -- Day 3 of my DanceNOW [NYC] bender and I'm starting to feel like I might have binged on too much capital M -- Mahdahn Dahnce. I had more than a couple of eyes glazed over moments last night but being the junkie that I am, I'll probably be jonesing tonight when I take a break from the DN so I can catch Kazuma Motomura's show at Hunter College. And when I return to DN at Dance Theater Workshop, it'll be from inside the belly of the beast with a backstage/onstage pass for Saturday night…
…Hidden Arena Dance was overshadowed in its tribute to a deceased friend by its live band, Bobtown. The musicians were much more visually interesting to watch than anything happening center-stage. Amy Larimer brought some of the Dancemopolitan at Joe's Pub goofiness to the DTW stage with her solo rumination about being too shiny like her disco ball mother in "Swim." Cherylyn Lavagnino's "Snap Shots" (excerpt) was danced by Joshua Green and Joshua Palmer with great precision and facility. Misnomer Dance Theater ended the program with "Too Late Tulip," a rippling dance that held only a few of the consciously re-shaped bodies I expect from Chris Elam. However, Malcolm J. Low's "The House That Jack Built" would be my drug of choice. It is a liquid dream of supple and hypnotic movement. Anna-Louise Herzog, Mark Schmidt and an uncredited female dancer join Low in a sensually languid interweaving of duets. I want to watch the piece again, right now, and it makes me wish for a Roundup program at the end of the festival during which maybe 10 works from the 75 that will end up being shown could be gathered in one place and re-run for the audience member whose addiction issues don't include attending live dance concerts several days in a row. You know, a little 'Best of the Fest' -- you never know, crazier things have happened (like Modern Dance Musicals).
