sidney saltner

Sidney is from the Wulli Wulli people of central Queensland. After graduating from the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association College in 1991 he joined The Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre and was appointed to the role of Assistant Artistic Director.

Sidney was invited to join Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1997 and performed major roles in all of the company's productions from 1997 - 2011. He featured in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Arts Festival and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Along with performances with Opera Australia and the 2012 Sydney Festival's I am Eora, he has undertaken extensive film and television work, including Billie's Holiday, Fish (the film) and various commercials.

He has been nominated for Best Male Dancer in both the Australian Dance Awards and the Deadly Awards (National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander, Music, Sport, Entertainment & Community Awards).

Sidney performed to critical acclaim in Bangarra's collaboration with The Australian Ballet, Gathering. This was Sidney's second collaboration with The Australian Ballet, he danced in Rites in Australia (1997) and in the tour of the production to the United States (1999), Paris and London (2008).

In 2010, he appeared as a guest artist in Classico Italiano in Milan, in a program of the world's foremost classical and contemporary dancers.

Sidney has performed and taught extensively throughout Australia and in Asia, North and South America, Europe, South Africa and the Pacific Islands.