Marilyn Rowe to retire as director of the Australian Ballet School

Marilyn Rowe will retire as Director of the Australian Ballet School at the end of next year, ending an era in dance.
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Rowe’s life trajectory measures that of the School, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary as she retires.

Aged just 17, she was one of the Australian Ballet School’s first students before  She became a principal artist with the Australian Ballet, at the express wish of the founding artistic director of the Australian Ballet, Dame Peggy van Praagh, after a relatively short time as a student.

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