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STRUCTURAL
DEPENDENCY
BROOKE LEEDER & DANCERS
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BROOKE LEEDER & DANCERS
YANDILUP / NORTHBRIDGE
STATE THEATRE CENTRE REHEARSAL ROOM
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Wed 4 – Sun 7 Mar 8.45pm
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6 Welcome
8 Credits
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10 A Note from Brooke Leeder
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12 About Structural Dependency
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15 Brooke Leeder & Dancers
16 Creatives
23 Performers
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35 Perth Festival Partners
36 Perth Festival Donors
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Image: Jess Wyld
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Being part of the audience in a theatre
is always a magical experience, sharing
together these particular moments
created by artists for us. In the times
we are living in such experiences
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are even more precious after having
been denied us. Brooke and her
extraordinary team have created a
visceral and vital work of immersive
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intensity – the epitome of a live
experience, and one which we’re
thrilled to have as part of the 2021
Festival. Enjoy the show!
IAIN GRANDAGE
PERTH FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTORImage: Jess Wyld LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO AFTER THE SHOW? Stick around Perth Cultural Centre and enjoy City of Lights. Immerse yourself in the projections, catch some tunes at STC Courtyard Sessions, drop into a local bar for a post-show drink or treat yourself to a tasty bite at one of Northbridge’s many eateries.
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Choreographer Brooke Leeder
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Sound Designer & Composer
Louis Frere-Harvey
Lighting Designer
Nemo Gandossini-Poirier
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Dancers
April Vardy, Celina Hage, Lilly King,
Linton Aberle, May Greenberg,
Natassija Morrow, Nikki Tarling,
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Noah Jimmy, Scott Elstermann,
Scott Ewen, Tyrone Earl Lraé Robinson
Headshots
Hannah Laurent Photography
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Image: Matsu
A NOTE FROM
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BROOKE LEEDER
In 2018, I visited Taiwan and in
particular, the Longshan Temple.
In one single moment I felt a part
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of something I didn’t understand.
I was helped and welcomed into a
ceremony by a stranger.
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He saw me and, with no words,
showed me the custom and allowed
me into the tradition, allowed me
into the experience, a wordless open
invitation into the experience and
I followed.I could see the ceremony unfold before
me, it was simple and clear and yet, I
didn’t dare participate out of respect
for this place and these people.
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Within that one gesture, this man
invited me in, welcomed me to share
this moment with everyone within the
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temple. My heart swelled and eyes
filled, completely humbled to be a
part of something so sacred. I came
home and made the last sections of
Structural Dependency.
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This work is about people coming
together to share something special
with each other. Strangers entering
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a space and exiting with a shared
experience, distinctly their own, a
moment in time never to be repeated.
I am honoured to be a part of this
year’s unique and joyous Perth Festival.
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To Iain, Anna, Studsy, Jenna and
everyone at the Festival and the
State Theatre Centre, thank you all so
much. To the person who’s held my
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hand throughout these ever changing
times, Jessica Darlow, I thank you so
very much.CONTENTS
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Image: Matsu
ABOUT STRUCTURAL
DEPENDENCY
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Structural Dependency is a
contemporary dance work that is an
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immersive and participatory experience;
where movement, space, sound and
viewer each depend on each other,
all structurally relying on each other.
The most delicate of structures is you,
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our audience. To see the choreography
as a structure or system, to understand
through the repetition, much like
any ritual, to repeat and follow and
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be engaged. No interaction will be
sudden, yet a long drawn out visual
understanding of what is happening
around you, all set within the movement,
gestures and eye contact.
With long, repetitious choreography,
the setting up systems and patterns,
creating hypnotic, mesmerisingmovements that are decoded by the
audience, seeing the choreography
unfold and evolve before them, shifting
slightly and at times dramatically.
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Varying speeds and tempos, movement
ending and beginning, matched with
the proximity to performers, the ebb
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and flow to the work creates a tension
that is visceral and once the moments
pass, a sense of relief is, at times, quite
physical for the viewer.
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This piece merges a highly intimate
experience and the close proximity
of dancer and viewer with the highly
physical choreographic style, set within
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an unusual performance space.
After a time of feeling much isolation,
this performance creates a bond
between the performers and you the
audience, a unique moment in time
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shared between each of you.
Special thanks to Matthew Thorley, Tom
Müller and to the dancers in previous
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developments; Sarah Sim, Alex Abbot,
Bridget Flint, Mani Mae Gomes, Alina
Doyle and Mitch Aldridge.
Very special thanks to Lyn and Geoff
Leeder, and to all my family – this is
for you.
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DANCERS
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Brooke Leeder & Dancers are a small,
independent Perth-based company
of dancers and collaborators with an
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intent to take contemporary dance out
of the theatre and into unconventional
performance spaces. They want to
connect with audiences in new ways, to
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be at eye level, to play with proximity,
a sense of expanse and intimacy, set
within grand and unusual spaces. The
company has performed in the foyer of
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Crown Ballroom, to a car park and sea
container, to the B Shed in Fremantle,
with the stunning harbour and working
port as the backdrop.
Brooke Leeder & Dancers are a group of
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core creatives making new and exciting
contemporary dance works, with a drive
and rigour to work together on projects
around connection and significant
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live experiences, in more unique
performance spaces.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BIOGRAPHIES ARTIST STATEMENT CREDITS WELCOME CONTENTS
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BROOKE LEEDER
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Choreographer
Brooke is from Perth and a graduate
of the Victorian College of the Arts.
She has performed with Stephanie
Lake, Luke George, Phillip Adams
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Balletlab, Phillippa Clarke, Buzz Dance
Theatre, Company Complesso and
previously performed in Tenebrae et
Lux and Midsummer Night’s Dream
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(As You Like it) with Perth Festival in
2013 and 2014. She has also danced
with companies in Germany, London
and the Trisha Brown Dance Company
in New York. Her choreographic works
include Dancers Speak Volumes,
Mechanic, Unravel and three – the
experiment series from 2014 to 2017.Brooke has created new works for
Taipei’s Kandu International Arts
Festival in Taiwan, Co3 Australia,
Western Australian Academy of
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Performing Arts and John Curtin
College of the Arts. She founded
Brooke Leeder & Dancers in 2018 and
has since presented works in galleries,
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car parks and last year’s work RADAR
in the B Shed, Fremantle. Most
recently she was one of five artists
invited within the grand, new WA
Museum for their opening event
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and filmed an excerpt of Structural
Dependency, Structural, set within
the beautiful building.
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LOUIS FRERE-HARVEY
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Sound Designer
After completing studies at the
Western Australian Academy of
Performing Arts, Louis began his
career writing, performing and
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educating as a percussionist. After half
a decade touring as a DJ, producer
and performer under internationally
acclaimed Command Q, Louis began
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collaborating as a composer with
contemporary dance fusing movement
and electronic scores. After multiple
national and international residencies,
several full-length works presented
in Perth and awards such as Best
Dance Work (FRINGEWORLD 2020),
Louis is finding his niche in combininghis training in percussion, his passion
for electronic dance music and his
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understanding of movement, to create
energetically percussive compositions,
uncovering the origins of rhythm
within the body and its relationship to
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the music.
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NEMO GANDOSSINI-POIRIER
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Lighting Designer
Nemo has been surrounded by the
performing arts industry from a
young age, starting his career lighting
the Margaret River Circus Festival
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and over three years moving from
the Grand Chapiteau to then Head
of Technical Production. In 2017 he
established his production company,
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Complete Staging Events, supplying
equipment and lighting design for
Perth FRINGEWORLD, Noodle Palace
2017, Bonjour Perth Festival and
Perth Arena. Nemo has designed for
some of the top international music
performers around the world including
Flume, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Marsand The Reubens. He has staged
and designed for Brooke Leeder &
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Dancers for Structural Dependency
and RADAR, working with other local
choreographers such as Mitch Harvey
and Rob Tinning. In 2020 Nemo
became Technical Site Manager for
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FRINGEWORLD and designed the
opening and closing ceremonies for
the Woodford Folk Festival, featuring
Kate Miller-Heidke and Electric Fields.
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APRIL VARDY
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April moved to Perth in 2013 to
complete a Bachelor of Dance at
WAAPA and an Honours degree as
part of LINK Dance Company also at
WAAPA, graduating in November 2016.
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Since then she has choreographed and
performed as part of FRINGEWORLD
for the past three years, including being
a co-creator of the site-specific work
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In Cahoots, which was awarded WA
overall winner of the Dance & Physical
Theatre category. She also has
performed at PSAS with Brooke Leeder
& Dancers in Structural Dependency in
December 2018 and in May Greenberg’s
work Escapsim, which was part of the
SITU-8 program this year.CONTENTS
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CELINA HAGE
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Celina is part Australian, part Norwegian,
born and raised in the Barossa Valley,
South Australia. She began her tertiary
training at the Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts, graduating
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in 2017 before moving to Salzburg,
Austria in 2018 – 19 to study at the
Salzburg Experimental Academy of
Dance (SEAD). In 2020 she performed in
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Hofesh Shechter’s tHE bAD, as part of
the Perth Festival-commissioned work
Hofesh in the Yard, presented by STRUT
Dance. As a freelance artist Celina
has worked with choreographer Mitch
Harvey, Brooke Leeder & Dancers and
STRUT Dance Inc.CONTENTS
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LILLY KING
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Lilly King studied at the Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts, graduating
in 2017 with a Bachelor in Dance,
majoring in Ballet. Lilly has worked with
Brooke Leeder & Dancers in Structural
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Dependency 2018, RADAR 2019, and
Structural 2020 within the WA Museum
Boola Bardip. As an Independent, she
has performed for METAMORPHOSIS
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RESIDENCY LISBON 2018, Scott Ewen’s
Wasps At War within STRUT’s And Then
Some 2019, Scott Elstermann’s and Shona
Erskine’s BANG! BANG! 2019, Stephanie
Lake’s Colossus for Perth Festival 2020
and Sally Richardson’s Muse in Strut
Dance SITU-8 2020. This year Lilly was
awarded the Best Newcomer in Dance
Award 2019 in the WA Performing Arts
Awards for RADAR and BANG! BANG!.CONTENTS
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LINTON ABERLE
ARTIST STATEMENT
Linton is an independent contemporary
dance artist and teacher who graduated
from WAAPA in 2012. He holds
certifications in Countertechnique,
Vinyasa and Yin Yoga and is currently
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completing his diploma of Remedial
Massage Therapy. Linton has worked with
various local and national companies
and has performed in Perth Festival over
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several years. Notable performances in
Perth include Decadance (2016) and
One Flat Thing Reproduced (2017). He
joined Compagnie Thor in Brussels in
2018 for the touring of Anima Ardens
and We Are Woman. Most recently he
performed Rachel Ogle’s Precipice
in Perth and David Zambrano’s Age in
Brussels 2019.CONTENTS
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MAY GREENBERG
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May is a Jerusalem-born, Perth-based
dancer and choreographer. Since
graduating from WAAPA in 2014, May
has worked with various independent
companies and artists including Natalie
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Allen, Mitch Harvey and performed
STRUT’s remount of Ohad Naharin’s
Decadance. May has choreographed
her own works including How To
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Digest an Apple as part of InSitu 2018
and Escapism for Situ8 2020. May
has performed for Brooke Leeder &
Dancers in Structural Dependency 2018,
RADAR 2019 and Structural 2020 set
within the WA Museum Boola Bardip.CONTENTS
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NATASSIJA MORROW
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Natassija was born in Adelaide, South
Australia, and trained in classical
ballet before moving to Perth in 2017
to study at the Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts. During her
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studies she took part in a semester-
long international exchange at Taipei
National University of the Arts where
she focused on a variety of Eastern
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and modern techniques. In 2020 she
graduated from WAAPA with a Bachelor
of Arts (honours) and performed in
works choreographed by Stephanie
Lake, Rainer Behr, Michael Whaites,
Sue Peacock, Natalie Allen and Rachel
Arianne Ogle.CONTENTS
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NIKKI TARLING
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Nikki is a professional contemporary
dancer and Vinyasa Yoga teacher. A
WAAPA graduate, she began her career
working with Tasdance, rehearsing
Fragile Matter with Paul Blackman and
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Christine Gouzelis (Jukstapoz), where
she was nominated as ‘Dancer to
Watch’ in Dance Australia Magazine.
Nikki has performed in a number
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of independent works in Australia,
including Colossus and Multiply
by Stephanie Lake and Duplex by
Jack Riley presented in Florence as
part of Melbourne University’s First
Commissions campaign and in Hofesh
in the Yard at Perth Festival 2020.CONTENTS
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NOAH JIMMY
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Noah is a dancer and theatre maker
who grew up in Perth. He began dancing
at 10 years old and ever since has had
a desire to move. He has trained in
contemporary, ballet and flamenco
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for many years, having worked in
the independent dance and theatre
industries in Perth and India, including
with Sydney Dance Company Pre
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Professional, Brooke Leeder & Dancers
and Robert Tinning. Working with Fugue
Theatre Company he discovered a
love for theatre and how movement
may be used to tell story. Noah has
most recently embarked on a research
process at WAAPA, which combines his
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SCOTT ELSTERMANN
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Scott is the 2020 WA Young Achiever
of the Year (Arts and Culture). He is
the only Australian and youngest ever
recipient of the Pina Bausch Fellowship
for Dance and Choreography. Scott
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received the Palisade Award for Most
Outstanding Graduate of the Bachelor
of Arts Dance Course at WAAPA.
He has performed with the Merce
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Cunningham Trust, Lucy Guerin Inc,
Stephanie Lake Company, Natalie
Allen, Annette Carmichael, Shona
Erskine, Brooke Leeder & Dancers and
Alice Will Caroline. Scott won Best
performer Male and Best New Work
at the 2019 Performing Arts Awards
and was nominated for Outstanding
Achievement in Independent Dance
at the 2019 Australian Dance Awards.CONTENTS
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SCOTT EWEN
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Scott is an Australian contemporary
dancer, choreographer, movement
director and educator. He attained his
Bachelor of Arts (Dance) from WAAPA in
2010 and graduated with the Hawaiian
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Award for Most Outstanding Graduate.
Scott has since danced and toured
locally, nationally and internationally
with numerous companies, including
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Australian Dance Theatre, Expressions
Dance Company, ilDance (Sweden),
Buzz Dance Theatre and Tasdance, also
with Stephanie Lake, Gabrielle Nankivell,
Shaun Parker and Daniel Jaber. As a
choreographer, his works have been
presented in Australia, New Zealand,
Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.CONTENTS
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TYRONE EARL LRAÉ
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ROBINSON
Since graduating from WAPPA in
2011, Tyrone has been working as a
performance artist in Perth. Working in
contemporary and commercial dance,
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both nationally and internationally, he
has choreographed and performed for
companies and events such as STEPS
Youth Dance Company, Lucy Guerin Inc,
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Sydney Dance and many more. He has
taught at the K2 dance studios since
2013, teaching many different styles of
dance to people ranging in ages of 7 –
40+, and engaging with youth in dance
education around Perth. Most recently
Tyrone lived abroad as a company
member of Noism, Japan’s only full-
time contemporary dance company.PERTH FESTIVAL
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