Jane has a background in the performing arts and psychology. She has studied, performed, and taught dance and movement disciplines that develop from the premise that the body is a “psycho-physical-spiritual unity”. Her experience spans professional dance studios, tertiary and secondary educational institutions, and psychiatric hospital settings.
Living in New York City, she studied Ideo-kinesis with Andre Bernard, Body Mind Centring with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Kinetic Awareness with Elaine Summers, Voice with Bobbie Troika and Nora Dunfee, Acting with Olympia Dukakis and Ron Van Lieu, and the Alexander Technique with June Ekman, Marjorie Barstow, and Eva Karczag, among others. In 1979, she met Deborah Hay and was invited to become a founding member of The Deborah Hay Dance Company in 1980.
In 1984, Jane completed her MFA in Acting and Performance at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Upon returning to Australia in 1984, she lectured in Kinesiology and Kinetic Awareness at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in the School of Dance. She studied the Alexander Technique with Erika Whittaker and qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1989, trained by John Nicholls and Carolyn Nicholls.
Jane was a founding member of Dancehouse in 1992. She undertook an internship in Dance Movement Therapy at Princeton House, a unit of the Medical Centre at Princeton, New Jersey, under the supervision of Barbara Harrison in 1994. Her Dance Movement Therapy Diploma was completed under the direction of Dr. Marcia Leventhal in 2004 with the International Dance Therapy Institute of Australia (IDTIA).
In 2010, she earned a Master of Psychoanalytic Studies from the School of Psychology and Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Monash University. Currently, Jane works in private practice as a counselling psychologist, utilizing the Alexander Technique, Dance Movement Therapy, and movement re-integration modalities.