Kyall Shanks

Kyall Shanks is a Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary dance artist. Kyall works to find a balance of performance, choreography, teaching, producing and directing work, and is passionate about using the skills from these three areas to increase the accessibility of dance through youth and community work. Since receiving their Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts, Kyall has danced for Tasdance, Antony Hamilton Projects, Chunky Move, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Opera Australia and The Delta Project. Kyall has engaged with community groups and schools in a number of capacities, examples of this being the 2017 Arts Centre Melbourne/Matthew Bourne Lord Of The Flies project, the 2019 Dance Massive work Simulcast, Stephanie Lake’s 2020 mass community work/film Multiply and Tamara Cubas's 'Multitud' as part of RISING.