Zachary Wilson (Ngati Kahu ki Whangaroa)
Zachary is a Māori-Australian performer who graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2020. Following this, he was a member of LINK Dance Company, completing the year with his Bachelor and Honours Degree.
Since graduating, Zachary has worked and performed across Australia with a multitude of companies and choreographers. Most notably, Zachary has worked with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in his work Manifest for the 2025 Perth Festival, performed in Crystal Pite’s Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue for the 2023 Perth Festival, and performed as a Guest Artist in Ophelia Young and Marigia Maggipinto’s remounting of Pina Bausch’s Tannhäuser Bacchanal for WAAPA.
He has been a company artist with Perth-based Co3 Contemporary Dance since 2022, performing in works such as Raewyn Hill’s Archives of Humanity (Perth Festival 2021), Architect of The Invisible (2023), and Carnivale.5 (Showcase WA in the Great Hall at Parliament House, Canberra), as well as a remount of Douglas Wright’s GLORIA (2022), and GATHERING.1 (2025) for the company’s ten year anniversary.
Zachary is also a principal artist with NT Dance Company, having performed in Gary Lang’s celebrated bi-cultural work Waŋa alongside traditional Yolŋu dancers and songmen, as well as touring with the company across Western, Northern, and Central Australia for Lang’s work The Other Side of Me.
Outside of dance, Zachary is an accomplished composer/music producer, with his works amassing over 2 million streams across all platforms, and most recently created the score for Silverbacking, choreographed by Justin Rutzou on the 2nd year dance students at WAAPA.
