Dancers

Born and raised in Mount Gambier, South Australia, Madeline Harms received her early training at Maryke Dance Academy before completing her high school education at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Melbourne. In 2012 she received her Bachelor of Dance at the Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and then went on to base herself in Europe for a further 10 years. Earlier in her career Madeline performed with Dantzaz Konpainia (Spain) with choreographers Itzik Galili and Jacopo Godani, and worked in the Netherlands as an independent dancer. In 2017, Madeline became a member of tanzmainz, the dance company of Staatstheater Mainz, Germany, under the direction of Honne Dohrmann. During this time she worked closely in creations with a variety of choreographers and toured extensively throughout Europe and abroad. Madeline joined Sydney Dance Company in 2023.

Luke Hayward

Luke was born in Alice Springs and received his early training at Central Dance Theatre and Alice Springs Gymnastics before moving to Sydney to train at Tanya Pearson’s Classical Coaching Academy and Studio Tibor. He then furthered his studies in Germany by completing a Bachelor of Dance at Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden. While there, Luke interned at Yuval Pick’s National Choreographic Center De Rillieux-la-Pape and Elena Tupyseva’s Balet Moskva. Upon graduating with Honours, he received the Ingrid-Biedenkopf-Stipendium and accepted a contract with Theater Balet Moskva in Moscow, where he joined their Ballet troupe and Contemporary troupe as a Soloist for the 2016/17 Season. Luke joined Sydney Dance Company in 2019 and has worked with an extensive array of choreographers including Rafael Bonachela, Gabrielle Nankivell, Melanie Lane, Gideon Obarzanek and Ohad Naharin.

Morgan Hurrell

Born and raised in Mudgee NSW, Morgan began her early training at age 2 and attended Dance Unlimited until 2019. Focusing on her passion for contemporary dance, at age 17 Morgan had numerous offers for full-time placements. She accepted an offer to attend National College of Dance in Newcastle where she completed her Diploma of Dance. In 2021 Morgan moved to Sydney to study an Advanced Diploma of Dance with Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year. She joined Sydney Dance Company as a Trainee at the end of 2021, supported by The Wales Family, and her first onstage performance with the Company was in Jacopo Grabar’s work Stereotipo for New Breed 2021.