Our Staff
QL2 Dance celebrates its wonderful team! Please read on and meet the team, a bunch of passionate people doing what they love, nurturing and inspiring the next generation of dance artists!
Ruth Osborne
artistic director
QL2 Dance Artistic Director Ruth Osborne pioneered youth dance practice in Australia: performing, teaching, choreographing, directing and collaborating. She established the Contemporary Dance Centre, taught at WAAPA, and was founding AD of Steps Youth Dance Company. She served on boards of Ausdance, WA Ballet, and WAAPA. She has developed unique programs in Canberra at the Australian Choreographic Centre, and now as Artistic Director of QL2 Dance. She established Quantum Leap youth dance ensemble, developing choreographic literacy in young dancers, and has presented youth dance in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Jamaica, and Scotland. She represented Australian youth dance at Dance and the Child International (Jamaica, Taiwan and Adelaide), and Youth Dance England’s 2010 conference. At the 2011 Australian Dance Awards, she won the Award for Services to Dance “For her superlative teaching and wide-ranging services to dance for over four decades; for an outstanding contribution to dance education and to the development of youth dance practice in Australia.” Ruth was Director of the 2012 and 2013 Australian Dance Awards. She won the ACT Critic’s Circle award in 2015 for Walking and Falling, and in 2017 took up a Churchill Fellowship.
amélie langevin
general manager
Amélie grew up in Canada in a small French speaking town, Chicoutimi. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montréal) with a Major in Contemporary Dance, she travelled extensively in South America, Europe and Asia before returning to Montréal to complete a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management. She worked as Manager at Studio Bizz, a dance studio in Montréal. In Australia, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and has worked at Radford College as Performing Arts Administrator and Teacher, Sunday Manager at the Old Bus Depot Markets and Administrator at Ausdance ACT and QL2 Dance. She is now General Manager at QL2 Dance. She is passionate about dance especially contact improvisation, outdoor adventures, healthy lifestyle, mountains and snow.
steve gow
Assistant to the artistic director, choreographer & teacher
Stephen Gow is a teacher and dancer trained in hip hop, contemporary and acrobatics. After multiple seasons dancing with the Quantum Leap Youth Ensemble, he went on to work with international and Australian artists including, Taylor Swift, Psy, Jason Derulo, Timomatic, Ricki Lee and more. Steve now lives in Canberra and works as teacher, choreographer and Assistant to the Artistic Director at QL2 Dance and teaches at Project Beats. He has collaborated with Nick Power to create Compartmentalised & Cypher which toured nationally and internationally. He is a member of QL2's company in residence Australian Dance Party and has collaborated with them to create work for Hyper Real (National Gallery of Australia), Water Tight, Powering the Dance, Moving To Zero, ENERGEIA and From the Vault.
natalie wade
administrator & Teacher
Natalie has been a gymnastic coach and Senior Activity Officer at PCYC (Police and Community Youth Club) in Goulburn for several years. She continues to work there on Fridays but has now moved to Canberra and works at QL2 Dance as Administrator and Teacher. Natalie also has extensive training in ballet and is currently completing a Diploma of Sport Development.
Alison plevey
choreographer, teacher & education officer(make a Move)
Alison Plevey is a WAAPA graduate, and award-winning choreographer and dance and physical artist based in Canberra. Her practice spans youth dance and theatre, education, cross-disciplinary collaborations, festival commissions, solo research and arts industry development in regional NSW and the ACT. She has created several critically acclaimed works for Enlighten, Art Not Apart and You are Here Festivals and Dance on the Edge. Alison is Co-Director of dance and physical theatre company Lingua Franca with Adam Deusien and Leader of Canberra company Australian Dance Party (QL2's company in residence), driven by her ongoing study of dance as a universal communicative medium and a powerful practice for humanity to experience, debate and celebrate. She aims to build the sustainability of professional dance in our political capital and legitimise the role of the arts in our contemporary context.
olivia fyfe
choreographer, teacher & social media
Olivia Fyfe grew up in Canberra, training at the Caberra Dance Development Centre and QL2. She is a WAAPA graduate. Olivia has performed professionally with: Fiona Malone, Cadi McCarthy and Company, Adelina Larsson, Jamie Winbank, Stella Electrica, PVI Collective, Stange Attractor, Cathy Young, Alison Plevey and Australian Dance Party. As a Canberra based artist, she performs as a freelance dancer. Olivia is a company member of Australian Dance Party (QL2's company in residence). She has collaborated with ADP to create Powering the Dance, Water Tight, TWO, Autonomous, Shake It, Nervous, ENERGEIA and From the Vault. She is a passionate dance teacher, working at QL2, Dance Development Centre & Lisa Clark Dance Centre. Olivia worked as Project Officer at Ausdance ACT, managing Youth Dance Festival & Ausdance ACT Open Classes. She is now our QL2 social media Queen.
Alana stenning
teacher & choreographer
Alana Stenning is a graduate of the AC Arts with a Bachelor of Creative Arts in Dance. In her third year she created her first full length work How ‘Bout Them Apples for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Before commencing university, Alana trained at QL2 Dance where she worked with many well-known choreographers and developed her own interest in choreography and dance film making. During her time at QL2 Alana toured and performed in Bangkok, London and Glasgow with a work created by James Batchelor. Since graduating, Alana has moved back to Canberra to work with the Australian Dance Party (Autonomous, In a flash, Water Tight, MOVING TO ZERO, ENERGEIA, Soul Defender and From the Vault). Alana created V (2018)and Great Woman Wolf Woman Bone Woman for Dance on the Edge and Escalate 2019. Alana continues her relationship with QL2 as a professional performer, teacher and choreographer.
ryan stone
teacher & choreographer
Ryan Stone is a QL2 Alumni. He recently completed his honours research at WAAPA. There he collaborated with and performed the works of Richard Cilli, Michael Whaites, Ori Flomin, Tobiah Booth-Remmers, Scott Ewen, Christine Gouzelis, Paul Blackman, James O’Hara, Balasz Busa, Isabella Stone and Bernadette Lewis. During his honours, he toured several of these works to Europe and the East Coast as a part of the LINK Dance Company. He also studied and performed in Co3’s WA Dance Maker’s season. In 2018 he was awarded the Feilman Foundation Pathways to Excellence Scholarship to participate in Maxine Doyle’s Masterclass workshop and performed in Perth’s Fringe Festival as a dancer in Syndicate, a new performance collective. Ryan is now an Australian Dance Party Member and Teacher at QL2 Dance. He received a Canberra Critic Circle Award for his performance in From the Vault in 2019.
ursula taylor
teacher
Ursula is in her fourth year at ANU completing a Physiotherapy Course. She is a QL2 Alumna and has performed in many Quantum Leap seasons, working with professional choreographers and touring the works in Australia and overseas. She was the recipient of a scholarship from SOULution yoga where she completed her yoga teacher training. She is passionate about the human body and health.