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TONY WESTWOOD - ALONG THE WAY
  • BEGINNINGS -GROWING UP IN MELBOURNE
  • PERFORMING CAREER - ADELAIDE and the AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATER
  • NEW YORK - LONDON 
  • KÖLN TANZ / FORUM  - THE BOX in Escher Strasse 
  • BONN / FAMILY - SIGGI,... MORITZ, LILITH, .. and ESTHER 

AS EXECUTIVE COACH ...   www.westwood-works.de

You can be assured, you are working with an experienced sparring partner, systemic, concentrated and goal-oriented, ... with depth and precision, ... provocative, but always open, honest and with a good portion of humour. Twenty years performing, directing and designing have shaped my

perception of what good communication is, ... and can achieve. This benefits me as coach, moderator and consultant in a wide range of tasks. 

 

As an appreciative companion, I support people and organisations in change and decision-making processes, in discovering unimagined resources,

in creating new perspectives in order to achieve clarity and develop optimal courses of action. In my work with individuals, teams and organisations,

I strive to leave behind a well-reflected, reliable and self-determined framework for future thoughts and actions. 

I consider myself an enabler and a giver. I am personally committed is to improve the quality of the lives of those I encounter, and exactly this will be

my measure.  I employ my talents, beliefs, intuition and diverse methods to catalyze, motivate and inspire positive change, to enhance personal development, through clarity of mission, roles, aspirations and goals for individuals and for organizations. Identifyingf unused potential, engaging

muse and creativity in the art of aligning human reason and human capabilities skillfully with those of organizations, strategies and technologies

in order to achieve genuine holistic solutions and best possible results.

BEGINNINGS - GROWING UP IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA    

Born in Carlton Melbourne, as first of six children to Vic and Shirley Westwood.

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1960 - WEST HEIDELBERG, MELBOURNE

Attended Bellfield Primary School and graduated from Heidelberg High in 1973. 

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PERFORMING CAREER 

 

1970–1974             

 

 

1974-1977     

 

1977-1978   

 

1978-1979   

 

 

1979-1983   

Australian Contemporary Dance Company – Melbourne

under the direction of Ron Bekker.

Australian Dance Theatre  - Adelaide Australia

under the direction of Jonathan Taylor.

Danced, choreographed and designed for Australian Dance Theatre

American Ballet Theatre -  New York Studied at the American Ballet Theatre.

Worked as a Freelance-Dancer, Choreographer and Designer.

Ballet Rambert – Sadlers Wells – London –

Work as a Freelance-Dancer, Choreographer and Designer

Tanz Forum der Oper der Stadt - Köln – 

under the Direction of Jochen Ullrich.

1974 STUDYING ART AND DANCING - 

                Begin studies at the Melbourne State Teachers College ( now Melbourne Uni ). 

1976 -     Founding member of the the Australian Contemporary Dance Company under the direction of Ron Bekker

1977 -     Graduation with Diplom Padagogue 

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Ron & Lucy Bekker

Graham Murphy

Leigh Warren 

Don Asker 

Lucy Bekker

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1976 - 1978  ADELAIDE AND THE   AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE

under the direction of Jonathan Taylor.   First international tour of South East Asia 

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Julia Blakie

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NEW YORK CITY 1978 - 1979  -  

as student of the New York City Ballet. Freelance Artist and designer. 

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New York City ... at home in my studio "Zachs Electric Company, a one story tin building in , in Laight street ... below Canal street. Without windows, only skylights. 

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1979 -  LONDON - KÖLN  and  - DER TANZ FORUM DER OPER DER STADT 

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THE BOX ... my factory in Escher Strasse Köln Nippes
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BONN ... FAMILY WESTWOOD  - MORITZ 
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FAMILY WESTWOOD  - LILITH
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AND  ESTHER

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