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2 February, 2023
Kassidy Waters returns as a company dancer! She joined Bangarra in 2019 before taking leave in 2021.
Kassidy is a descendant of the Wanaruah People in the Hunter Valley, NSW and completed her studies at NAISDA Dance College before training with Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year in 2017.
Over the last two years, Kassidy has been extremely busy as an artistic collaborator and performer on numerous projects. She was worked predominantly with Janawi Dance Clan, where she choreographed and performed a part of the opening for the new Allianz Stadium, screen directed Janawi dancers for Lisa Reihana’s recent commission for the Art Gallery of NSW’s Sydney Modern, and co-choreographed with Peta Stachan, the new Janawi work, Garrigarang Badu, which will be performed later in 2023.
Kassidy has also been involved with several creative development projects including her own new piece, Kuruwarang: Long Time Since (Art House Wyong), and works in development with Vicki van Hout, Amy Flannery, and Sydney based Dance Makers Collective. She was also the rehearsal director for Emily Flannery’s children’s show at the Sydney Opera House, Bulnuruwahna.
Working with Bangarra alumni, Baden Hitchcock, Kassidy co-choreographed, directed and performed in a filmed segment of Georgina Kenyon’s education story about flying foxes. In September 2022, she was a dancer on the Uluru Statement from the Heart advertisement campaign, and a guest voice for the National Museum of Australia’s Feared and Revered: Feminine Power exhibition which is currently showing until August 2023.
Kassidy has recently completed her advanced training as a Pilates instructor and was an Action Researcher for Jasmine Gulash’ research into Indigenous Dramaturgy.
See Kassidy onstage in Dance Clan, 3 – 18 February in the Studio Theatre at Bangarra.