Timmy Blankenship
Originally from the United States, Timmy completed his early training in contemporary performance and choreography at Artistic Fusion in Thornton, Colorado and Dance Town in Miami, Florida, performing works by Loni Landon, Dana Foglia, & Emma Portner. He continued his training at the prestigious University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance on scholarship, graduating with a BFA in 2023. There he performed works by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Merce Cunningham & Yin Yue.
Alongside performing, he premiered his choreography at Dance Town Miami’s annual contemporary gala of 2021, & he internationally debuted Intergenerational Traffic at the Trinity Laban School of Dance in London of February 2023 as a collaboration with composer Tom Bradbury and dancer Xavier Williams.
In August of 2023 he performed in the world premiere of Wanderers by Dimo Milev at the Nederland’s Dans Theatre Summer Intensive. Soon after Timmy moved to Sydney for his professional dance debut with Sydney Dance Company, performing in Riley Fitzgerald’s Everyb0dy’s G0t a B0mb and Tra Mi Dinh’s Somewhere between ten & fourteen as part of New Breed 2023.