Daniel Jaber Email & Phone Number

Daniel was born in Nairne, in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, and is of Lebanese and Maori cultural heritage. His dance training began when he was just four years old and continued at the Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Ballet and the Adelaide College of the Arts. In 2003 he joined the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) as a trainee, under the direction of Garry Stewart and from 2004 as a company member.Daniel worked as a company dancer at the ADT for 16 years (2004-2020), during which time he toured world extensively performing in new and existing works by Garry Stewart. Jaber continues to regularly work with company as a guest performer, returning for the creation of new works and the touring of existing repertoire. As a freelancer, Daniel has performed with Balletlab, National Theatre Mannheim, Stadttheatre Freiburg, and a number of independent choreographers in Australia and Western Europe. Daniel created his first full-length work, Nought in 2013. The work was commissioned by ADT, premiered at the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide and was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre work and won numerous accolades in the 2013 Dance Australia Critics Circle Awards.In 2015 Daniel was appointed Creative Director of LW Dance Hub (now SA Dance Hub). In this time he concentrated largely on choreography, creating works for ADT, Expressions Dance Company, Houston Ballet II, Qantas, Dance Moms, Dubai Festival, Queensland University of Technology, Adelaide College of the Arts, Transit Dance and Architanz Tokyo. In addition, he restaged Garry Stewart’s repertoire on several tertiary institutions, universities and colleges throughout Australia and the USA.Daniel joined the New Zealand School of Dance as a full-time Contemporary Tutor from January 2020 to March 2021. He is currently residing in Australia.

Listed skills include Dance, Choreography, Contemporary Dance, Performing Arts, and 12 others.