Valerie Wilder

[Wolfe]

Well it looks like Valerie Wilder has landed on her feet. She is set to take over the top executive job at the Australian Ballet.  You can read about it here and here.

A FORMER dancer who trained with London's Royal Ballet was announced yesterday as the new executive director of the Australian Ballet.

Californian-born Valerie Wilder, who has been the executive director of the Boston Ballet in the US since 2002, was tempted away from a return to Toronto, where she spent almost 20 years with the National Ballet of Canada, to take up the Australian Ballet job. She will officially begin in late June.

Wilder fills the position vacated by Richard Evans in December. Evans left the ballet after five years to become the chief executive of the Sydney Opera House.