Adjunct Professor
Cheryl Stock

Biography

Associate Professor Cheryl Stock (Dance) is currently Coordinator of the Doctorate of Creative Industries and a member of the College of Mentoring Supervisors. She lectures publishes in the fields of

• practice-led and creative arts research
• contemporary Australian and Asian dance
• interdisciplinary collaboration
• intercultural, interactive and site-specific performance

Cheryl served as Director of Post Graduate Studies of the Creative Industries Faculty in 2012, held a Faculty-wide  research training position 2007-2011, and was QUT's Head of Dance from 2000 until 2006.  Prior to that appointment she directed twenty cultural exchange programs in Asia, with twelve in Vietnam which resulted in her doctoral thesis on intercultural performance in Vietnam.

In 2003 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Australian Dance Awards for outstanding contributions to dance as a choreographer, director, writer and leader in tertiary dance education. Cheryl was founding Artistic Director of Dance North (1984-1995) and recipient of an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship (1994-1997).

Cheryl has served as National President of the Australian Dance Council (Ausdance), Chair of the Dance Board and Emerging Choreographers Fund, member of the Theatre Board, Interarts Board  for the Australia Council , as well as a member of the Arts Advisory Committee of the Queensland Government.

As an artist Cheryl has created over 50 dance and theatre works, with her most recent collaborative work for the Brisbane Festival, Accented Body, comprising an interactive performance installation across six Brisbane sites with distributed events in Seoul and London, working with artists and technology experts from Australia, UK, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

From 2007-2008, she was a Chief Investigator on the research project in "Dancing between Diversity and Consistency: Refining Assessment in Postgraduate Degrees in Dance and the Creative Arts", funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). In 2008, Cheryl curated and convened the World Dance Alliance Global Summit and in 2009 was appointed Secretary General of World Dance Alliance. She also serves on the editorial board of the following refereed dance journals: Brolga, Korean Society of Dance, Journal of Emerging Dance Scholars.  Cheryl has held positions at the Victorian College of the Arts and The Australian Ballet School, and guest taught nationally and internationally, most recently in 2012 at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) and UTAR (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman) in Malaysia.