John meehan ballet biography
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John Meehan
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John F. Meehan
Australian born, John Meehan has been a member of the international dance world as performer, teacher, choreographer, adjudicator and artistic director for more than 50 years. Meehan studied at The Australian Ballet School, joined The Australian Ballet in and was promoted to Principal Dancer in He joined American Ballet Theatre as Principal Dancer in where he danced leading roles in all of the classics as well as contemporary works by many of the world’s leading choreographers.
Meehan was a frequent guest artist with the New York City Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada and has partnered many of the world’s great ballerinas including Dame Margot Fonteyn, Natalia Makarova, Merrill Ashley, Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Gregory, Eva Evdokimova, Karen Kain and the Australian ballet stars Marilyn Rowe and Marilyn Jones.
John began choreographing early in his career. His ballets entered the repertoire of The Australian Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Washington Ballet,
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John Meehan (dancer)
Australian ballet dancer and choreographer
For other people named John Meehan, see John Meehan (disambiguation).
John Meehan (born ) is an Australian ballet director, choreographer, professor, and retired ballet dancer. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane[1] and studied at the Australian Ballet School. Meehan joined the Australian Ballet in and was promoted to principal dancer in , creating roles in new works by Glen Tetley, John Butler, Garth Welch, Sir Robert Helpmann and Gillian Lynne as well as the role of Count Danilo in Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow. In he performed as Guest Artist with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) joining the company as Principal Dancer in the fall of that year. He also danced as guest artist with The Boston Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and the New York City Ballet.
While in Australia Meehan's teachers included Patricia MacDonald, Martin Rubinstein, Vera Volkova, Dame Margaret S