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WHEN Daniel Riley was 13, his school-teacher father asked Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, then giving dance workshops at the Queanbeyan South Primary School where he taught, for advice about his son’s dancing. She suggested he start classes with the newly established Quantum Leap (now known as QL2) where, Riley says, he “found his people”.

From Quantum he was accepted into the dance program at the Queensland University of Technology, joined Bangarra and danced with the company for

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