Mara Glass – Choreographer
Mara Glass completed a Bachelor of Dance Performance with QUT in 2017, where she staged her first professional dance work, Are You Seeing Me? as part of QUT’s ENTER season. She then went on to present The Parting Glass as part of QL2’s On Course season in Canberra later that year. In 2019 Mara moved to Wollongong to accept an apprenticeship position with AUSTI. Dance & Physical Theatre. During her time with the company she choreographed My Battery is Low as part of AUSTI’s uNCOILEd season. Since then, she has staged four full length works as an independent artist in Wollongong: Joy Box, Ankle Deep Water, Let Them Be Messy, and The Every Woman. In 2023 Mara completed a Masters of Dance Research for Professional Practitioners through Rambert School, with a focus on how her work as a choreographer can spark change in the community. In 2024 Mara presented A Universe in Tiny Form as part of AUSTI’s uNCOILEd eXposed season at the IPAC. For 2025 she choreographed Sloprot and Things Our Mother Gave Us as part of Turnout and Counterparts respectively. At the start of this year she launched Glasshouse Dance Collective with the hope of being the change she wants to see in dance spaces.
