Australian choreographer and dancer Gareth Belling joined Queensland Ballet in 2002 and has since danced in works by François Klaus, Natalie Weir, Nils Christe, Timothy Brown, Paul Boyd and Young Soon Hue.

Gareth made his choreographic debut with Collusion Musical Arts in Evocations 2005. Since then he has created 16 works for Queensland Ballet. Gareth’s mainstage debut was Refraction, which premièred in Queensland Ballet’s ...with attitude, as part of the 2009 Brisbane Festival. He created and performed two solos with members of the Four Elements for the 2010 Tyalgum Festival of Music.

In 2011 Gareth was mentored by Nils Christe through JUMP, the Australia Council’s program for emerging artists. His participation in the Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers in July 2011 was co-funded by JUMP and an Arts Queensland Career Development Grant. Upon his return he created Transition Sequence for Queensland Ballet.

This year Gareth created two works for Expressions Dance Company’s LaunchPad, and will premiere a new work Scorched Earth in Brisbane Festival’s Dance Energy.

His new full-length work, Transient Beauty will  première on 26 October 2012 with Collusion Music in the Restrung Festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre.