Jacqui Carroll | Artistic Director

Jacqui Carroll is uniquely placed within the Australian performance spectrum, and one of the very few international practitioners that have had significant careers as both Choreographer and Director. As choreographer her works cover the entire range from Post Modern (The John Cage songbooks) through Strip Shows and Opera, to full length classical ballets such as The Tempest, Scherherazade and Carmina Burana ( for 80 voice choir, 3 soloists and 100 piece orchestra).
Her dance style can be decribed as a combination of the organic strength derived from Martha Graham and the clear lines of Classical Ballet. In similar fashion to her mentor, Glen Tetley, this amalgamation of the extreme technical strands led to works of great sinuous, trenchant and archetypical impact.
As well she is the only dance teacher in Australia capable of taking masterclasses in the big Five: Classical, Graham, Horton, Limon/Humphrey, and Cunningham techniques.

In 1991 she first witnessed the training and aesthetic of Tadashi Suzuki, and was inspired to break away from pure dance to develop theatre works combining Text, Movement and Music.

Since 1993 she has created 14 works for Ozfrank:
The Romance of Orpheus: A Whirling Tale of Underground Love and Death,
Macbeth: Super Distilled and Simple ( Swiss, Croatia, Turkey, Czech, Mongolia, Nepal), Oedipus Rex: 2 versions: 1st Spinning Reduction, 2nd Grand Oratorio (Croatia), Salome: Oscar's Fear and Greed X Three(Japan) Heavy Metal Hamlet: Disaffected Black Sabbath Boy (Japan), Rashomon: This is not a Love Song of Relative Truth, Doll Seventeen: Epigrammatic Fantasy of Classic Ocker Text, Midsummer Night’s Romeos: 1st Non Linear 'Essayist' Carroll (Japan), Manga Ulysses: Popster, Funhouse Odyssey coprod with TAFE, Hamlet Stooged! Wayne's World Dudesworth (London, Wales and Chicago), VooMac: Sleepless Voodoo Witchcraft for Macbeth, To Have Done with the Judgement of God: A Short Waltz around Artaud's Proto-Butoh Radio Play, The Reckoning of Badengood:Everyman's Morality Hipped and Primped, (Japan), Up Jumped the Devil: Grotowski Guignol for Nick's Cave..
In the process she has transposed her unique choreographic voice to create a series of highly individual stage portraits with thick light, dense movement and sonorous vox.
Theatre of the three C's: Caravaggio: Hyper Real and Hyper Now!, Chiaroscuro: Light and Dark, Both for Good Measure, and Cornucopia: There's Plenty More Where That Came From.....


OTHER OZFRANK PEOPLE:


Current Company Members
John Nobbs
Caroline Dunphy
Kate Lee
Kristen Duffus
Glenn Taylor
James Anderson
Glenn Johnson
Benjamin Williams

Artistic Mentor
Tadashi Suzuki
Director: Japan Performing Arts Foundation (JPAF)
& the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT)

Artistic Collaborators
Florence Forrest
Peter Berkahn

Company Associates
Clair Berman Robinson
Jor'el Mitchell
Will Dickie
Amy Henschell
Ross Hobson
Chantal Hanraths

Professional Associates
Chancie Jessop
Robyn Graham
Anthony Shearsmith

International Associates
Jon Brokering (Japan)
Fran Barbe (London)
Tracy Shoemaker (Switzerland)
Antje Deidrich (UK)
Grzegorz Ziotkowski (Poland)
Satori Group (Seattle USA)