Stephanie Lake’s journey from dancer to leading Australian choreographer climaxes with Colossus, Manifesto and Sydney Dance Company’s The Universe Is Here

 When most future Australian dancers were in pre-ballet classes, Stephanie Lake was leaping around her family's basement wearing leotards, and roping her siblings into performances for their parents; when the choreographers who are now her peers were graduating to the barre and strapping on their first pointe shoes, she was ice-skating in the prairies of Canada, where she lived until the age of eight.

Even after the family moved to Launceston, Tasmania, it wasn't until Lake's mid-teens that she began taking dance classes, and it wasn't until 19 that she learnt any form of ballet technique.

By dance standards, this made her an extremely late bloomer — and in many ways, a square peg in a relatively round-hole discipline.

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