Author name: SunnyAl
Alison Shirley is a choreographer, dancer and photographic artist with performance experience across Melbourne and Ballarat. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in contemporary dance and photography in 1995 she has worked largely with community groups in collaboration on specific themes and topics like patient care, cancer, sleep and performative responses to poetry. In 2020 she returned to complete her Honours in dance at the Victorian College of the Arts, researching memory and history and how these are carried in our bodies. During Covid, she expanded her repertoire, creating short dance films. One of those films won Best Short About Pandemic Life at the Luminous Frames Film Festival in Denmark and Best Sound and Music at the Experimental Dance and Music Film Festival in Toronto and LA. Alison trains others in their movement journey, as a Level 4 APMA Pilates Practitioner and owner of Body Brilliance Pilates. She is well known and regarded in the Ballarat community as both a creative and a movement expert.
