Since graduating from the Wellington Performing Arts Centre (now Whitireia Performance Centre) with a Diploma in Commercial Dance: Distinction, Virginia has performed in various choreographies and works, in Auckland, Wellington, Glasgow, and Melbourne. She continued her dance training at UNITEC pursuing a Bachelor in Performing Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance, honing her choreographic skills and creating work for Tempo Dance Festival.
Performance experience includes:
- Untitled Queer Commercial Dance Show, directed by Jeremy Haxton/Lost Cow Productions, including choreography by Virginia Kennard, Gryphon Theatre, February 2015
- BLOOM, choreographed by Marisol Vargas, performed with Jeremy Haxton for the closing day The Endless Possibilities of Portraiture, NZ Portrait Gallery, 2014
- Hallelujah Society, directed by Masha Kupriyenko. Pyramid Club, for the NZ Fringe Festival, 2014
- PARTY, Open Frame, improvisation group lead by Juliet Shelley, 2012-13
- Circular Persuasions, directed by Serene Lorimer and Elise Chan, for The Performance Arcade, Wellington waterfront, 2012
- Yes. No. Maybe?, choreographed and produced by the Wellington Freelance Dance Collective, BATS Theatre, for the NZ Fringe Festival, 2012
- Turbulence (a dance about the economy), directed by Keith Hennessy, performed for ImPulsTanz 2011, Halle G, Vienna, 2011
- On the Stage of the Present, directed by Tom Pritchard, The Arches, Glasgow 2011
- Lillian de Lace, Hootchy Kootchy Girls Burlesque, Auckland 2008
- Why am i here? I don’t believe we’ve met, directed by Cathryn Mazer, NZ Film Archive 2007
- Hurricanes Super 12/14 rugby cheerleader, 2005-7Serene
Photo credits:
- Serene Lorimer, for Circular Persuasions, The Performance Arcade, 2012 [featured image]
- Kristy McCormick Art and Imagery, for Untitled Queer Commercial Dance Show by Jeremy Haxton, 2015
- Cameron McMillan, for Yes. No. Maybe? by Alana Yee, 2012
- Ashley Church for BLOOM by Marisol Vargas, 2014
- Zoe Platt-Young, for Hallelujah Society by Mariya Kupriyenko, 2014
- Serene Lorimer, for Circular Persuasions, The Performance Arcade, 2012
- Kristy McCormick Art and Imagery, for Untitled Queer Commercial Dance Show by Jeremy Haxton, 2015
- Jeremy Brick, for PARTY by Juliet Shelley, 2012
- Robbie Sweeny, for Turbulence by Keith Hennessy, 2011
- Aidan Grealish, for Yes. No. Maybe? by Anna Flaherty, 2012
