Raewyn Hill

{{Short description|New Zealand choreographer and dancer (born 1972)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox dancer | honorific_prefix = | name = Raewyn Hill | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1972}} | birth_place = Oamaru, New Zealand | death_date =  | death_place = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = New Zealand School of Dance | occupation = Dancer, choreographer, artistic director | years_active = | home_town = | height = | spouse = | partner = | children = | website =  | current_group = Co3 Contemporary Dance, Western Australia | former_groups = Dancenorth, Queensland, Australia | dances = | module = }} '''Raewyn Hill''' (born 1972) is a New Zealand choreographer and dancer now active in Australia.

==Career== Hill was born in Oamaru and entered the New Zealand School of Dance when she was fifteen, graduating in 1992. She has worked with Sue Healey and Garry Stewart's dance company Thwack. She performed as a dancer in various productions including ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' and the BBC's ''The Lost World''. Her last performance was the solo production ''We are gathered here today''. Hill retired from performing in 2006. She provided choreography for the TVNZ series ''Rude Awakenings'' in 2008 and also provided advice to the producers of the New Zealand's ''So You Think You Can Dance''. Hill has been a guest teacher and choreographer for Royal New Zealand Ballet, Footnote Dance, New Zealand School of Dance, Beijing Dance Academy, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Tasdance.In 2001, she formed Soapbox Productions, which toured New Zealand, performing eight full-length works. After she married dancer Richard Longbottom, it was renamed Raewyn Hill and Dancers. She established her own dance company ''New Zealand Dance Theatre''.<ref name="ewl">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0235b.htm |title=Hill, Raewyn |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia}}</ref>

Hill was artist in residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from 2007 to 2009. From August to October 2009, she took up a further artist in residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and in August 2010, another position at Baryshnikov Arts Center.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/raewyn-hill| title=Raewyn Hill| publisher=The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>

In 2010, she became artistic director for Dancenorth in North Queensland.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.tasdancearchive.com.au/hill-raewyn/| title=Raewyn Hill| publisher=Tasdance| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> In 2014, she became artistic director of the new Contemporary Dance Company of Western Australia.<ref name="ewl" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/art/wa-dance-scene-takes-a-big-step-ng-ya-378321 |title=WA dance scene takes a big step |newspaper=The West Australian |date=26 September 2014}}</ref>

In April 2020, Hill said about her work:<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.danceaustralia.com.au/artists/preview-dance-is-a-passion| title=Preview: 'Dance is a passion'| publisher=Dance Australia| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>{{Blockquote|text=I don’t consider it a passion: I consider it my life – my reason for existence– my reason for being. When I am in performance, dance is the settling of my “self”. I’m in harmony; I’m truthful; I am complete. Now, in my role as an artistic director, I have a deep sense of responsibility and desire to leverage my position in the community to empower, support and nurture our next generation of artists, be it through my choreographic practice, my pedagogy or my role as a director.}}

==Notable works== Hill's notable works include: * ''When love comes calling'' (2002)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0208/S00042/documentary-and-dance-in-when-love-comes-calling.htm| title=Documentary And Dance In When Love Comes Calling| date=26 August 2002| work=Scoop| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/reflections-on-love-lost-and-found/XM5T4OGBYLENW4T65LCLWXQPC4/| title= Reflections on love lost and found| work=The New Zealand Herald|date=23 September 2003| first=Bernadette| last=Rae| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> * ''Angels with dirty feet'' (2004)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/iangels-with-dirty-feeti-at-the-herald-theatre/TBNH2OUSHLTFR7FIRSLP53J6KQ/| title=Angels with dirty feet at the Herald Theatre| work=The New Zealand Herald| date=17 October 2004| first=Bernadette| last=Rae| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> * ''We are gathered here today'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/iwe-are-gathered-here-todayi-with-raewyn-hill-at-tapac/3BNQO5GVUM4ONTKSD4WFLICMEQ/| title=We are gathered here today with Raewyn Hill at Tapac| work=The New Zealand Herald| date=1 October 2006| first=Bernadette| last=Rae| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> * ''Mercy: A dance for the forgotten'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.tasdancearchive.com.au/mercy-a-dance-for-the-forgotten/| title=Mercy: a dance for the forgotten| publisher= Tasdance| date=2007| access-date=16 June 2021}}</ref> * ''The Cry'' (2010)<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.realtime.org.au/exorcising-addiction/| title=Exorcising addiction| journal=Realtime| issue=98|page=24|first=Bernadette|last=Ashley|date=9 August 2010|access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref> * ''Carnivale.4'' (2020)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://nzschoolofdance.ac.nz/event/free-broadcast-of-carnivale-4/| title=Free Broadcast of Carnivale.4| publisher=New Zealand School of Dance| date=18 April 2020| access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>

==Publications== * {{cite journal| url= https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2020.1740312 | title= Sustaining dancer wellbeing through independent professional dance careers| first1=Luke S.| last1=Hopper| first2=Peta| last2=Blevins|first3=Shona|last3=Erskine|first4=Danica|last4=Hendry|first5=Raewyn|last5=Hill|first6=Richard|last6=Longbottom|year=2020|journal= Theatre, Dance and Performance Training|volume=11|issue=4}}

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTuP1DSvvx8 Carnivale.4 by Raewyn Hill] video of performance by students at the New Zealand School of Dance, November 2019 Graduation Season * [https://co3.org.au/person/raewyn-hill/ Raewyn Hill] at Contemporary Dance Australia * [https://nzschoolofdance.ac.nz/portfolio-item/raewyn-hill/ Raewyn Hill] at the NZ School of Dance * [https://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/raewyn-hill Raewyn Hill] at The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi * [https://www.thebigidea.nz/work/enterprise-news/2009/jun/56956-raewyn-hill-new-dancenorth-artistic-director Raewyn Hill] at The Big Idea * [https://www.tasdancearchive.com.au/hill-raewyn/ Raewyn Hill] at Tasdance

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