A member of the Sydney Dance Company
for just on 11 years now, Mercurio is soon to leave the familiar confines and branch out on his own.
First, though, comes Edgeing for the Sydney Dance Company, which premieres on May 27.
It is a work in which he has married contemporary dance with the in- line skating craze.
It is something Mercurio has wanted to do for a long time.
He fell in love with ice-skating a while ago and thought it would be great to bring the flowing movement of skating to the dance stage. Things haven't been flowing all that smoothly at rehearsals, though. Of the five dancers on skates he started out with, only one Mercurio has survived without injury.
16 May 1992