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Roz Hervey

Roz Hervey (1965 or 1966 – 8 November 2024) was an Australian dancer, choreographer, director and theatrical producer. She was known for roles as co-founder of and associate artist with Sydney dance-theatre company Force Majeure, as director of the Adelaide Fringe parade from 2013 until 2016, and finally, from around 2013, as creative director of Restless Dance Theatre in Adelaide, South Australia. She also worked with many other theatre and dance companies, as well as festivals and other events.

Roz Hervey was born in 1965 or 1966, and was a dance graduate of the Centre for the Performing Arts in Adelaide.

In March 1980, Hervey appeared in youth theatre production Filthy Children, which was presented as part of the Adelaide Festival.

Hervey worked as a dancer, choreographer, director, and producer.

In April 1987, Hervey performed in Waltz with the newly-formed theatre group The Sydney Front, a work composed by Sarah de Jong and directed by Nigel Kellaway and performed at the Performance Space in Redfern, Sydney.

She co-founded Force Majeure, along with Kate Champion and Geoff Cobham, in 2002. In that year she performed in one of their major works, created by Champion, called Same, same But Different, along with Nathan Page, Ben Winspear, and others. The work was performed at Sydney Festival, Brisbane Festival, Sydney Opera House, and the Melbourne Festival. She was associate director on Force Majeure's Never Did Me Any Harm, a collaboration with Sydney Theatre Company, which premiered at the Sydney Festival in 2012, played at the Adelaide Festival in the same year, and in 2016 toured to regional New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria. She worked at the company for over ten years as associate artist.

As a dancer, Hervey worked with many companies, including One Extra Company, The Sydney Front, Dancenorth, Theatre of Image, Sue Healey, Meryl Tankard Company, DV8, and Force Majeure, touring extensively with the groups in Australia and internationally.

As a choreographer, she worked for South Australian companies such as Brink Productions, Slingsby, Patch Theatre Company, and Theatre Republic. For Theatre Republic, she was movement choreographer on its inaugural production, LINES, written by British playwright Pamela Carter and presented at the Bakehouse Theatre in October–November 2018.

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