Chylie Cooper was born in Thailand and grew up in Adelaide studying ballet with Jaqueline Tucker, Christine Underdown and performing with the South Australian Children’s Ballet Company. Her further studies were undertaken in Perth at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , graduating with a Diploma of Dance. In 1996 she worked with Rex Reid at Dance Theatre Victoria, then danced with David Prudham’s Australian Dancers Company in Perth for its 1998/99 seasons and with West Australian Ballet. In 1999, Chylie joined Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide under the direction of Garry Stewart.
Chylie then moved to Sydney and joined Sydney Dance Company in 2000. She toured with the Company throughout Australia and to the United States, Mexico, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, China and the UK.
In 2011, Chylie joined MOD Dance Company for a season premiere at Star city. During the the past seven years Chylie has performed independently and taught in Sydney at Newtown High School of Performing Arts and Tutustudios. She is currently teaching at the Australian Dance Theatre.
Sydney Dance Company repertoire: Stephen Petronio’s Underland; Meryl Tankard’s INUK2; Graeme Murphy’s Mythologia, Berlin, Salome, Air and other invisible forces, Free Radicals, the role of Miss Evelyn Rose and “rue de Paris’ in Tivoli, Ellipse, Random Play, the Superstar in Shades of Gray, The Bathroom duo in Some Rooms, Grand, Hua Mulan, The Director’s Cut, Ever After Ever, (appearing in highlights from Air and other invisible forces, Ellipse and Berlin) and in the premiere of Short Stories. Rafael Bonachela’s 360o and we unfold and Aszure Barton’s Sid’s Waltzing Masquerade. Narelle Benjamin’s; Gossamer.
Other career credits: MOD Dance Company; Suite Synergy West Australian Ballet:
Coppelia; Australian Dance Theatre: Plastic Space, Bird Brain; David Prudham’s