HALF-GREEK, half-Maltese and growing up in Sydney with three very much older sisters, Dimitri Kleioris was “the baby who was always dancing” whenever there was music. He had also attended about 50 weddings by the time he was five, and somewhere in the family albums is a video of one in which, at age two, he danced all by himself on the dance floor all night, not wanting to engage with anyone, just perfectly happy to be moving to the music. “I would also cartwheel everywhere,” he adds, “including in shopping centres.”
When Kleioris was four, his mum put him into a local dance class near his home in Sydney, where he did jazz and hip-hop. “And I absolutely loved it.” One week later, his dad took him out because he was the only
