Dance Australia

IT TAKES TWO

EVERYONE expects identical twins to be similar… it’s in the name, right?

But West Australian Ballet demi-soloists Matthew and Oliver Edwardson have taken it a step further – they’ve had identical careers.

Born in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, the pair began dancing at age eight. “We started with tap dance,” says Matthew. “We were interested – well I was – in the old movies, and Fred Astaire really inspired us

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