WHEN Daniel Riley was 13, his school-teacher father asked Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, then giving dance workshops at the Queanbeyan South Primary School where he taught, for advice about his son’s dancing. She suggested he start classes with the newly established Quantum Leap (now known as QL2) where, Riley says, he “found his people”.
From Quantum he was accepted into the dance program at the Queensland University of Technology, joined Bangarra and danced with the company for 12 years, where he also started to choreograph, creating the works Riley, Blak, Miyagan and Dark Emu. After leaving Bangarra in 2018, he moved to Melbourne to work with indigenous theatre company lbijerri, as well as Chunky Move, before taking up a position as dance lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts.
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