Byron Perry - Direction / Choreography

A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Byron has toured throughout Australia, Europe and America developing and performing roles with Douglas Wright, Leigh Warren, Nannette Hassall, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Paul Selwyn Norton, Lucy Guerin Inc, Phillip Adams (Ballet Lab), Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre), Kate Champion (Force Majeure), Antony Hamilton and Kate Denborough (Kage Physical Theatre). He is a multiple nominee for both the Greenroom and Australian Dance Awards and in 2005 he was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. In 2006 he recieved an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer and won Best Male Dancer at the Greenroom Awards for his years work.

His choreographic work includes Punctuated Equilibrium and The Hayflick Limit for Chunky Move, hest² for the Victorian College of the Arts, Breaks of Asia for The Studio at the Sydney Opera House, A Volume Problem for Tasdance and Goggle Box for which he was nominated for a Greenroom Award for Best Original Choreography. He has also choreographed and performed in various projects for television and music videos.

In 2008 Chunky Move commissioned Byron and Antony Hamilton to Direct and Choreograph a new full-length work I Like This as the first production as part of the Company's Next Move series.