A touring choreographer’s guide to living like a local

by · Australian Financial Review

Jill DupleixFood writer
Oct 9, 2026 – 5.00am

Your first trip overseas?
As a dancer, you either love to travel or you’re in trouble, because touring will be part of your life. I grew up just outside Barcelona, but at 17, found myself in Rome, Budapest, Zagreb and Paris; places I would never have been able to go with my family.

Do you have a travel strategy?
When I am working in a new or different city, I have this fantasy that I am a local, commuting to work, getting lunch, dining out in the neighbourhood.

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Jill DupleixFood writerJill Dupleix is AFR Magazine's culinary editor.

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