Achievements and Awards
- Founding Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company
- Choreographer and solo dancer in the Theatre du Chene Noir (France), Senior Artist in the Avignon Opera Ballet (France), Guest Artist in the Queensland Ballet, Danced in The Australian Ballet, Soloist with the London Festival Ballet (now the English National Ballet),
- Performed alongside Margot Fonteyn, Sir Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
- Founded the European contemporary multi-media ensemble Muance
- Transitioned amateur North Queensland Ballet and Dance Society to professional status as North Queensland Ballet Company, now Dancenorth
- Developed the first Bachelor Degree in Dance in Queensland at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education (now the Queensland University of Technology)
- Expressions Dance Company, under Sietsma's Artistic Direction, was awarded a prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award (see Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards)
- Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia AM
- Awarded a Centenary Medal from the Australian Government for contribution to the Arts and Society
- Awarded a Churchill Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
- Awarded 3 ASEA (Australian Society for Education in the Arts) Awards for choreography
- Dean of Dance at the HKAPA - Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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“There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)