- Jeanette Fabillia
Jeanette is a teacher, choreographer, cultural consultant, and performing artist, in Indigenous Contemporary dance, as well as a wife and mother of three children. Jeanette works to promote and maintain her cultural heritage of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Papua New Guinean and South East Asian origins, through a unique and innovative style of contemporary performance.
Jeanette trained at NAISDA, (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association), graduating with honours, She performed at the 1996 Atlanta Flag hand over ceremony; the Sing Sing tour with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter; the Centenary of Federation Opening ceremony (Sydney 2000); the opening of the ANZ Veterans Athletics 2001; and in addition, co choreographed the ‘Aboriginal Story’ for the 2001 Goodwill Games, and ‘The Shared Gift’ performance involving a cast of 100, for the 2003 International Rotary Convention. Jeanette has also received favourable reviews for her work as choreographer in the 2002 theatre production, “Black Chicks Talking” by Leah Purcell, and the Cherbourg Youth Theatre Project as Director of Dance.
Jeanette has performed and taught Indigenous contemporary dance locally, nationally and internationally through organizations like the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre, One Extra Dance Company, Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Theatre Company, Ausdance (Qld), Theatre of the Plants (Scotland), Descendance and the ASSPA communities in schools.
Jeanette’s Indigenous contemporary performance workshop reaches students who attend alternative schools including Wacol Youth Detention Centre, pre-school level through to university students including international visitors as guest lecturer recently for the Qld University of Technology (QUT), and ‘World’ dance unit. Jeanette is developing an education tool through her Certificate IV in Workplace and Training as well as utilising performance and storytelling to educate a wide range of audiences through both the NSW and QLD Art Galleries, reconnecting her audience with the Indigenous experience, allowing more understanding between Indigenous and non indigenous people.
