Rowe, Marilyn, 1946-

Marilyn Rowe was appointed director of the Australian Ballet School in 1999 and was the first graduate of the School to become its director. Prior to this appointment Rowe taught and coached at the School from 1984 and in 1990 was appointed its artistic consultant. In 1965 Rowe was invited by Peggy van Praagh to join the Australian Ballet and was promoted to principal artist in 1970. Marilyn and Kelvin Coe won a silver medal for the most outstanding couple at the Second International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 1973. She played leading roles in Glen Tetley's Gemini, Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow and Andre Prokovsky's Anna Karenina. In 1981 she was appointed associate director of the National Theatre Ballet School, Melbourne and in 1982, following a dancers' strike, was caretaker ballet director of the company while a search was made for a new artistic director. In 1983 she was deputy artistic director to Maina Gielgud. She directed the Australian Ballet School's Dancers Company from 1984 until 1990.