Associate Professor Cheryl Stock

Associate Professor Cheryl Stock currently holds a research position at QUT’s Creative Industries and teaches Faculty-wide at postgraduate level, coordinating the Faculty Research Methods and Project Design units.

She regularly publishes in the fields of

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

Cheryl served as QUT’s Head of Dance from 2000 until 2006, and prior to that appointment 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 member of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council as well as a member for 8 years 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 Brolga, Australia’s refereed dance journal.