Madison Cronin - Guest Choreographer
Madison is an ex-ballet dancer. She trained pre-professionally in Sydney at Tanya Pearson Academy and upon graduation moved to complete her training at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Netherlands.
Over the following two and a half years living in Holland she spent time with the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company and Netherlands Dance Theatre. Madi had the opportunity to work with and perform works by world renown choreographers in both classical and modern repertoire including Hans van Manen, Jiri Kylián, and Crystal Pite. She also performed leading roles in ballets such as Giselle and The Nutcracker.
One of Madi’s career highlights was premiering a new full length neo-classical ballet, Diamante by Katarina Wester, together with Julien Keulen (now with Swedish National Ballet) which was choreographed on them in 2017.
Madi returned home to New Zealand at the end of 2018 to pursue her other passions within the dance industry. She went on to complete a Master of Dance Studies at the University of Auckland, centered within choreographic research. She also fell in love with producing, and after multiple years of freelance producing for artists across Aoetearoa, Madi joined Foster Group Dance as Creative Producer in 2022, where she continues to work closely with Artistic Director Sarah Foster-Sproull on the company’s artistic growth and development. Madi is also a ballet teacher and a group fitness instructor. She is so grateful for all the incredible people she gets to meet working throughout the dance industry and beyond.