Bradley Chatfield shares his illustrious 30 year career

Celebrating over 30 years in the creative and performing arts industry (21 years as a Performing Artist and 10 years as a Rehearsal Director, teacher, educator, mentor and arts advisor), Bradley Chatfield is the most recent addition to the Transit Dance faculty.

Joining Transit Dance as Head of Contemporary in mid 2019, Bradley has brought with him a wealth of knowledge and experience that is already having an incredible effect our our young artists in training.

Learn more about our Pre Professional course in Contemporary dance here.

Bradley performing Some Rooms by Sydney Dance Company

Born in Mordialloc, Bradley is a descendant of the Kamilaroi people. Upon graduating from The Australian Ballet School, Bradley joined the Hong Kong Ballet. In 1991 he accepted a position with Sydney Dance Company (SDCo) under the direction of Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon, remaining with the company until 2009 and performing the full company repertoire to great acclaim.

Bradley toured extensively with SDCo, both in Australia and Internationally, including tours to the United States, Europe, China, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, New Zealand and South America.

During his career he has undertaken the restaging of many of Graeme Murphy’s works in New Zealand, Hong Kong and for the season of ‘MURPHY’ with The Australian Ballet.

Just when you thought he couldn’t get more impressive, in 2003 he toured in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats playing the lead dance role, Mr Mistoffelees!

Bradley joined Dance North as their Rehearsal Director in 2010 for all main stage works, as well as working with the Community & Education team, touring regionally, Nationally and Internationally. In 2010, he also travelled to New York to remount ‘Underland’ for Stephen Petronio’s company which was originally created on Chatfield and SDCo.

He is highly acclaimed in the dance industry being a recipient of numerous awards (Australian Dance Award, Green Room Award, MO Award) and in 2009 was named in Sydney Morning Herald’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Sydney.

We are so incredibly blessed to have Bradley directing our Pre Professional Contemporary course here at Transit Dance, and cannot wait to watch him guide our young artists to their long lasting careers.

Watch Bradley discuss his career timeline in the video below.