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Arbori is music and dance, in equal measures nostalgic and innovative. Raised on a creative diet of Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Neil Young and Paul Simon, these men were model entertainers, romancers, vagabonds and his gatekeepers to jazz, folk and dance. With little concern for the high school social stigmas, his mother was smart enough to persistently enrol him in dance class while his father took him guitar shopping and shared all his favourite songs. Sadly Arbori’s dance life was repeatedly disappointing and with a heavy sigh he did what any 17-year-old ex-ballroom dancer would; he started a ska punk band – which, like all ska punk bands, ended. He went on to scramble his way through a degree in theology and a diploma in counselling, and got a job as a youth worker. Despite the rewards of his work, he felt like he had missed his calling. So at 25 he quit his job and went to train fulltime in performing arts being told “we don’t think you will ever be a dancer, but prove us