Co-Founder of SDT and Artistic Director
Assistant Artistic Director
Ballet Master
Assistant Ballet Master
Resident Choreographer
Company Dancers

Sinasi Alak

 

Jeffrey's first principal role was as Franz in St. Leon and Marius Petipa's full-length classic, Coppelia. Other principal roles included, The Prince in The Nutcracker, Good Boy in Graduation Ball, Albrecht in Giselle, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Armand in La Traviata, Anna Karenina and The Red Shoes. Jeffrey has also danced in one-act masterworks by George Balanchine, Goh Choo San, Graham Lustig, Jean-Paul Comelin, Val Caniparoli, Stanton W elch, Thierry Malandain, Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, Boi Sakti, Marie-Claude Pietragalia, amongst many others.

In 2000, Jeffrey was awarded the National Arts Council's Young Artiste Award for Excellence In Dance. In 2003, being awarded an educational grant from the National Arts Council, Jeffrey took a sabbatical to complete his Master of Fine Arts at the Queensland University of Technology.

His first choreographic attempt, Tribal Rhythm, had its inaugural performance in 1996. This was followed by Elán and Façade in 1999 and Memoir in 2001. W ith the desire to further explore and experiment with his choreographic abilities, he later created Un Reve Curieux and Sojournic Serenade in 2003, Last Watch of the Night and a site-specific performance at the Old Government House, Brisbane in 2004. His recent accolades included staging his work at the New Zealand Ballet School in 2004 and an invitation for SDT to perform Façade in the Queensland Ballet Gala in 2005.

Upon his return to SDT, he was appointed the Resident Choreographer, a newly created post in the Company in 2005. Jeffrey's first choreographic output for SDT was Last W atch for Ballet Under the Stars 2004. Other works include Duet, Trio and The Little Mermaid with Ballet Master Paul De Masson in 2005, the hugely successful production of The Nutcracker in December 2005, and most recently, F.U.S.E. for the 2006 Singapore Arts Festival Gala Performance, QUEST, as well as Negro Y Blanco for SDT's Impressions season in May 2007, and Breath Of Love for Ballet Under The Stars 2007. His Negro Y Blanco has performed in the Shanghai International Arts Festival 2007 as part of a triple bill presented by SDT for the Singapore Season in China.