MARINA PLIATSIKAS
Robbie

Robina Beard has been a fixture of the Australian arts and entertainment industry for almost seven decades, with an international career spanning theatre, dance, comedy, and commercial television. At 84 years old, she still teaches dance classes three times a week, attends auditions and castings, and recently completed a solo cabaret show on Sydney's Oxford Street. She received a prestigious Order of Australia Medal in 2011 for ‘Services to the Theatre, particularly in Dance’. I was lucky enough to strike up a friendship with Robina back in 2015 over our shared love of the arts, and we still meet regularly to discuss our favourite live performances we’ve seen lately. I captured this portrait of her during a recent catchup at her home, where we shared coffees and fruit cake, and dug through her extensive collection of sequinned garments in her wardrobe.

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