Toby McKnight (he/him) is an emerging dance artist currently based in Melbourne/Naarm. Raised in Lutruwita/Tasmania, Toby was a member of Stompin Youth Dance company for over 7 years, performing in works by Alisdair Macindoe, James Batchelor, Adam Wheeler, Jack Zeising and Jenni Large for major Tasmanian arts festivals. He was a collaborator in Tasdance’s ‘Reactor’ for Mona Foma 2020, and in 2021 he danced on the Burnie foreshore at sunrise as a part of David mangenner Gough’s ‘mapali – Dawn Gathering’.
Since moving from Lutruwita, Toby has performed with QL2, been in two Yellowheel major works and performed in Tamara Cubas’ ‘Mutlitude’ as a part of RISING festival. With a passion for accessibility and availability of dance Toby is drawn to the communities dance creates and brings together. Toby is keen to further his practice professionally and explore how dance can respond to and shift the social-political landscape within which it sits.