Beth Shelton is a well known choreographer and community artist. She was a founding member of Danceworks dance company in 1983 and was co-artistic director from 1989-1991.

Beth's choreography has been seen across Australia and New Zealand in dance companies, theatre work and community performance projects. Works include One Meets Two Parts, Tide, and Common Touch for Danceworks, and Groundswell and Time Present for Tasdance. Large scale community performance projects include Going Dancing (1986), Wings of Summer (1990 & 1991), Waderbirds (1993) and Once Upon Your Birthday (1996). She has often worked with Tracks dance in Darwin, most recently on The Land, the Cross and the Lotus (1998).

Beth’s book Face to Face: Making Dance and Theatre in Community, co-written with Judi Fisher, was published by Spinifex Press in 2002. She is currently completing doctoral studies in counselling psychology at Swinburne University. Beth’s work combines her interests in psychology, dance and community.