Lloyd Newson

Australian dancer Lloyd Newson was born in 1957. Brought up in Albury,New South Wales,he graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1978 with a degree in social work and psychology but had long wanted to pursue a career in dance and joined the Impulse Dance Theatre,touring Australia with them as both a dancer and choreographer. After winning a scholarship he came to London in 1981 and five years later set up his company DV8 Physical Theatre, a project-based company with which he has subsequently toured internationally.