Mary Grotto Auer

Mary Grotto Auer is an accomplished ballet and character  teacher and has taught extensively with her own school  “Balmoral Balletto”.  Mary trained under Trixie Boss and Wendy Greenaway and later joined the “International Dance Theatre of Australia” better known as “Dance Concert”,  which was under the direction of Margaret Walker. 

Mary had notable teachers such as Borsov for Russian, Jumawan for Filipino and Cano for Mexican. She also staged productions and directed  the “Fogolar Furlan Balletto” group specialising in Italian Folkloric dance.  Mary took the group into the ‘Shell National Folkloric Festival’ under the direction of Guillemo Keys Arenas at the Sydney Opera House.  Mary danced with ‘Fiesta’ and later became a member of “Sydney International Dancers” which won the 1984 Adams Awards for outstanding achievement in International Dance.

Mary brings to International Summer School 2007 her character work and repertoire of Filipino, Italian, Hungarian and Russian styles for the Junior students.