New Indigenous dance college director has a vision
Australia’s national Indigenous dance college, NAISDA, has a new CEO artistic director— choreographer and dancer Kim Walker. Walker has a passion for dance and culture and is inspiring young Indigenous dancers.
“What attracted me to work at NAISDA was my experiences as a NAISDA student in the past, which encouraged the passion for dance that I inherited from my mother – dancer Margaret Walker AOM,” Walker says. “I want to give something back to NAISDA after all I had got from the college.”
“I have a passion for working with young people to awaken in them an understanding of what the arts can do for them … to inspire them.”
Walker has a vision for NAISDA as a place where younger Indigenous children can come from all around Australia to explore dance, culture and education.
Walker began his dancing career with the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre in 1978 and went onto develop his career as a dancer /choreographer with the Sydney Dance Company. Before joining NAISDA he was a freelance director and choreographer before becoming Artistic Director of the Flying Fruit Circus for ten years
NAISDA will be staging a photographic and audiovisual exhibition in Gosford, New South Wales, to celebrate the college’s history and its dancers. The exhibition will be held at the Gosford Regional Gallery from the 23 May.
