Jude Anderson is an award-winning live performance maker, and founder and Artistic Director of Punctum Inc. She has 30 years’ experience devising contemporary performance work in Australia, Europe, South America and South Africa as a director, producer, choreographer, live artist, writer, dramaturge, designer, and curator. A questioning of systems and audience engagement threads her practice, and her participatory works often speak to the application of evolutionary theory and speculative futures in our context of migration, displacement, and rapid climate change. She is the 2018 Australia Council Fellow for Experimental Arts Practice and recipient of the 2019 Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Experimental Performance.

Muriel Hillion-Toulcanon is a Réunionese/Australian artist based in Perth. Born and raised in La Réunion —a former French colony in the Indian Ocean—she embodies in her arts practice and research the complexities and subtleties of the Réunionese dance and music art form: Maloya. She is considered an expert in the customs and rituals of this performance form. Muriel recently completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She has devised works, choreographed and performed in South Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, and presented papers at international conferences. In 2021 she founded SALAMA – a Perth based Creole performance association and part of IOCA (the Indian Ocean Creole Artistry Inc.).

Deepa Mani is a performing and teaching artist with over 30 years’ experience in both classical Bharathanatyam and contemporary dance forms. An accomplished performer, she also owns and operates Chandralaya School of Dance. As one of the lead dancers with Tehreema Mitha Dance Company, Deepa performed in eminent productions including Metro DC Dance, Capitol Fringe and Alexandria Performing Arts. Deepa is a teaching artist at the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, with Regional Arts Victoria, and The Song Room. She serves on the Executive Board of Creative Women’s Circle, whose mission is to facilitate the connection and development of women in diverse industries.

Joshinder Chaggar is a Melbourne based dancer, choreographer, actor, teacher, writer and film-maker. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Deakin university, researching identity and interculturalism through dance. Joshinder spent ten years in Karachi, working in theatre, television and films, and taught at the National Academy of Performing Arts. Joshinder has participated in festivals including Edinburgh showcase 2017, Mapping Melbourne 2017, NAPA International theatre festival (Karachi), Karachi Biennale 2017, Kunstareal Fest 2017 (Munich), Emerge in Yarra (2018), India @Mindil 2019 (Darwin), and Dancing Between Two Worlds (2019). She is the recipient of a collaborative Green Room Award (2022), ‘Best Cabaret’, for the work “TakeBack”.

Michaela Ottone is a multidisciplinary artist, working predominantly in performance, choreography and photography. She completed her Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) at Deakin University, where she later completed her BA Creative Arts (Honours). Michaela has performed in her own work, plus those of choreographers such as Amrita Hepi, Deanne Butterworth, Olivia Millard and Sally Gardner. In 2021, Michaela was a 2021 Emerging Choreographer’s Program recipient at Dancehouse and was supported by Creative Victoria, Regional Arts Victoria, and Brimbank City Council for St. Alban Community Centre’s Room to Move artist residency. Her debut solo photography exhibition On Being featured in the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale Open Program. Born in Reunion Island from migrating parents from Madagascar, Carole Katz grew up with a love for ballroom dancing and French musicals. It’s only in Australia that she truly discovered and delved into La Réunion’s Maloya music and dance. She is now a singer, songwriter and dancer in SALAMA, a Perth-based flamboyant Maloya band. Lover of poetry and sunny rhythms, Carole is passionate about sharing the vibrant Creole music and dance in Australia and beyond.

Justin Marshall is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound producer who has worked extensively in contemporary sound art, popular, and world music. He is a core member of ARIA nominated Emma Donovan and The Putbacks and helped produce their last award-winning album at his studio, Ghost Recording Studio, in Castlemaine. His recent works include sound design for The Village Fire Garden with Uncle Ron Murray, “Kultur-All Makaan” 2021 (Castlemaine State Festival/Punctum), “Sound Capsule” and “Wayfinders” (Artplay 2021) and “Sonic Labyrinth” co-created with Aviva Endean and presented at the 2019 Castlemaine State Festival and 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival and was nominated for a Green Room Award (2020).

Morwenna Schenk has a degree in design and production from the Victorian College of the Arts. She is a freelance designer and project manager and has delivered projects across various creative industries in both creative and production roles for theatre, festivals, galleries, exhibitions, and television. Her practice includes design, illustration, drafting, technical documentation, construction, and production management. Morwenna has worked on a number of projects exploring perspectives on climate and ecology – most recently ‘Duty of Care’ for ACCA’s exhibition program ‘Who’s Afraid of Public Space?’ and ‘The Way-The Water-The-Walk’ with Punctum, presented at Castlemaine Art Museum. She is also a designer with Polyglot, and Production Manager for the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Thomas “Soup” Campbell is an award-winning Composer, Music Producer, Record Producer and Sound Engineer. Thomas has collaborated with arts organisations including Back-to-Back, Melbourne Recital Centre, Creative Victoria and Multicultural Arts Victoria. He produces music, creates sound designs and builds bespoke interactive systems for organisations and installation artists including Born In A Taxi, A Blanck Canvas and The Indirect Object. As a composer, performer and producer Thomas has been a core member of bands including The Cumbia Cosmonauts, Miso, Editor and Joelistics. Thomas has a long list of notable performances including festival appearances in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Russia and Switzerland.

Australian/Mauritian percussionist Jeremy Goinden is currently studying his MA in jazz performance at WAAPA. Descending from a family of professional musicians, he has performed and composed with Latin band – Candela, Gemma Farrel’s Quartet – ‘Split Kick’ and the Mauritian Kaspoz Band – ‘457’ led by Thierryno Gango.