Dancers

Kai Taberner

Originally from Sydney, Kai Taberner trained with the Valerie Jenkins Academy of Ballet and the NSW public schools dance ensembles. In 2021, Kai graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) from QUT in Brisbane. Kai has performed both nationally and internationally and made his choreographic debut at NIDA in 2019 with Axis Trajected. Using his multidisciplinary skills, Kai has performed for a range of companies in various styles, including Oblaat for Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance in Brisbane (2020), Leviathan with Circa Contemporary Circus (2020), The Australian Ballet premiere of The Creatures of Prometheus by Jayden Grogan (2021), Cirque Bon Bon at Brisbane Powerhouse (2021), and lndependance with Phluxus2Dance Collective (2020 and 2021). Kai joined Sydney Dance Company in 2022.

Mia

Thompson

Mia was born in Queensland and started her dance training at the age of four with the Yvonne Brittain Dance Academy. She went on to join Queensland Ballet’s Pre-Professional Year in 2010 where she performed alongside the Company in many productions. In 2011 Mia joined West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). After completing two years at WAAPA, Mia accepted a job with Queensland Ballet under the directorship of Li Cunxin. In 2016, Mia joined the Scottish Ballet and was promoted to First Artist in 2018. Her highlights include Crystal Pite’s Emergence, Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Le Baiser de la Fée (performed on the Royal Opera House stage) and the role of the Sugarplum Fairy in Peter Darrel’s The Nutcracker. Mia joined Sydney Dance Company in 2019.

Coco Wood

Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Coco started training at the Kerry Moore School of Ballet. In 2015 she was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Melbourne where she performed in many works, notably Tim Harbour’s contemporary work Romeo and Juliet and Jonathon Taylor’s Summer’s End. At the end of her schooling, Coco was accepted into third year of the Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. In 2020, Coco was accepted into Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year program, where she engaged in works by Holly Doyle, Jessica Goodfellow, Omer Backley-Astrachan and Rafael Bonachela. In 2021, Coco performed in Rhiannon Newton’s The Gift of a Warning for New Breed and joined Sydney Dance Company as a Trainee in 2022, supported by The Wales Family.

Chloe Young

Chloe graduated from Queensland National Ballet’s Advanced Diploma in Elite Performance in 2016. Chloe performed with Queensland National Ballet School as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, a soloist in Mulan, and Phyrgia in Spartacus, as well as a special guest at the Alana Haines Australian Awards (2017) and the Press Freedom Dinner (2017). In 2017, Chloe graduated from Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year and joined the Company as Trainee in 2018. Chloe’s first onstage performance with the Company was in Rafael Bonachela’s award winning works Frame Of Mind and Lux Tenebris during the Company’s South America Tour to Chile and Colombia in 2018. She has since performed in Rafael Bonachela’s Cinco, ab [intra] and Impermanence, as well as Gabrielle Nankivell’s Wildebeest, Antony Hamilton’s Forever and Ever and Melanie Lane’s WOOF