Sydney Dance Company has welcomed five new dancers to the Company in 2024: Timmy Blankenship, Ngaere Jenkins, Ryan Pearson, Anika Boet and Tayla Gartner.
Blankenship was born on the Lands of the Arapaho Nation/Colorado in the US, and completed his early training in contemporary dance and choreography at Artistic Fusion in Thornton, Colorado and Dance Town in Miami, Florida. He continued his training at the prestigious University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance on scholarship, graduating with a BFA in 2023 where he performed works by William Forsythe, Jiřà Kylián, Merce Cunningham and Yin Yue.