company members

kynan hughes

Kynan graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts in Dance in 2000.

In 2001 he was the recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts’ Emerging Artist Fellowship with LWD. Kynan joined Dance North for 2002 and 2003 performing in works by Jane Pirani, Natalie Weir, Kylie Ball and Brian Lucas. While in Townsville he created two short works for the company - absent places and wildflowers. Kynan rejoined Leigh Warren and Dancers in 2004 for the Adelaide Fringe Festival production of Mixed Doubles.

Since then Kynan has performed in a range of new and old works, both in Australia and overseas with LWD. In 2006 Kynan also danced for Troy Mundy in his full length work Green D-men and performed in Gala Moody’s work for Dance Creation. He joined the Tasmanian Classical Ballet Company touring major and regional centers as a Principal Dancer with their season of The Nutcracker.