The posts on this website mostly document my published, journalistic writing about dance. Many reproduce the complete body text of my published writing. The process of re-reading and posting writing, without concern for deadlines and style guides, sometimes provides a welcome opportunity to make minor changes to body text. Please note that the post titles on this website do not reproduce more eye-catching headlines written by editors, but rather refer plainly to, for example, interviewees’ names or works being reviewed. At the request of Dance Europe, I have only reproduced excerpts of articles. Wherever my published work is not reproduced in a post, the cause of the delay is probably me; I intend to share all my published writing in due course.

In the Dance Studies section of the website, I provide only a brief description of and URL links to my academic achievements and work.

I am aware of some dead links to online publications on this website. I will create permanent records of surviving external webpages one day.

Dance Journalism

Luke has contributed journalistic articles to dance, literary, arts and lifestyle publications including Australian Book Review, Dance Australia, Dance Europe, DAPPER DAN, Springback Magazine, TANZweb, and Time Out Melbourne.

In 2015, Luke participated in the Aerowaves Europe Springback Academy mentorship programme for dance journalists, where he was one of ten writers selected from approximately 100 Europe-based applicants.

Dance Studies

From 2016 to 2020, Luke was a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University, Clayton, Australia. The degree was conferred in early 2021. Luke completed his MA Dance Studies in 2015 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Cologne, Germany.

He has presented research papers at Australian and international conferences. Luke’s published research papers appear in the World Dance Alliance’s Journal for Emerging Dance Scholarship, Runway – Australian Experimental Art, and Australasian Drama Studies Journal. 

Luke was a co-editor and chapter contributor to the German Dance Archives book project, Yvonne Georgi: Tagebuch und Dokumente zu Tanztourneen mit Harald Kreutzberg (1929–1931). Eine andere Recherche zu den Potentialen einer kritischen Nachlassforschung, published in September 2019 by Wienand Verlag.

Dance Performance

Following graduation from the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, Southbank, Australia, in 2006, Luke continued his dance training at the Ecole-Atelier Rudra-Béjart, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also had the opportunity to dance in the corps de ballet of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne.  From 2008 to 2013, Luke danced professionally with the Ballett Dortmund and Aalto Ballett Theater Essen, both in Germany, where he performed corps-de-ballet and soloist roles in choreographies including Rubies by George Balanchine, Rossini Cards and Cantata by Mauro Bigonzetti,  Sarabande by Benjamin Millepied, Second Detail by William Forsythe, Coppélia by Roland Petit, M/C and Carmen by Cayetano Soto, and Sleepers Chamber and Leonce und Lena by Christian Spuck. Luke assisted with role creations in several works by Ballett Dortmund’s artistic director, Xin Peng Wang, and was intermittently employed as rehearsal director at the Ballett Dortmund. Luke’s own choreographies have been performed by the Ballett Dortmund and the Ballett im Revier.