Melanie Lane is a choreographer working between Naarm and Ngunnawal/Ngambri country. She works across visual arts, theatre, music and film. Her choreographic work interrogates physical and social realities to create surreal futures that are confounded, broken and reconfigured. Her artistic engagement moves between Europe, Indonesia and Australia, with her independent work touring internationally. Alongside commissions with Sydney Dance Company, ADC, DanceNorth, Chunky Move, Schauspiel Leipzig and HAU Berlin, her collaborations extend to artists; Clark, Adena Jacobs, Amos Gebhardt, Leyla Stevens , Monica Lim and Rianto. Melanie is Resident Artist at The Substation, 2015 resident director at Lucy Guerin Inc., Associate Artist at QL2 and is 2023/24 Choreographer in Residence at Chunky Move.

Jo Lloyd is a dance artist working with choreography as a social encounter, revealing behaviour over various durations and contexts. Jo has presented and performed her work in galleries and theatres nationally and internationally, including commissions for the New Zealand Dane Company, Tasdance and Chunky Move. Jo’s works include Bang Stop with musicians Jim White and Emmett Kelly for RISING, Handsome at The Substation, Death Role for the Bundanon Art Museum, Archive the archive for the NGA, DOUBLE DOUBLE created and performed with Deanne Butterworth, Tina Havelock Stevens and Evelyn Morris and OVERTURE, Arts House 2018 and Melbourne Festival 2019.

Cass Mortimer Eipper creates for both stage and film and has presented work throughout Australia, Europe, India and the U.S.A. He regularly produces video campaigns for Sydney Opera House, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre and has directed and choreographed dance films for Trey McIntyre Projects, Queensland Ballet, Australasian Dance Collective, Transit Dance Company and Ludwig. His awards include: The Helpmann Award — Most Outstanding Male Dancer; Global Short Film Awards Cannes — Best Dance Film; Lisbon Screen Dance Festival — Best International Director; Rome International Choreography Competition — Most Outstanding Performance.

Yolanda Lowatta is a Geidei woman from Iama Island in the Torres Strait and is also of Papua New Guinean and Fijian heritage. In 2016 Yolanda was awarded a Helpmann Award for Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre while dancing with Bangarra Dance Theatre. Before joining in 2015 as a recipient of the Russell Page Graduate Program, Yolanda danced with Ochre Contemporary Dance Company, Jannawi Dance Clan and Yt Dingo. Yolanda is now currently based on Ngunnawal Country working as an independent artist with Australian Dance Party and Melanie Lane among others.

Harrison Ritchie-Jones is an independent artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2014, and was awarded the Undergraduate Most Outstanding Creative Scholarship. In 2018 he was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer for Stephanie Lake’s “Pile of Bones”, and premiered his work “Shimmer of The Numinous” as part of Next Wave’s Kickstart program. He has worked with numerous artists and dance companies across Australia and is currently touring nationally and internationally with Stephanie Lake’s “Manifesto” and In August 2023 he will perform in Chunky Move’s new major work “4/4”.

Tony Yap, born in Malaysia, is an accomplished dancer, director, choreographer and visual artist. Tony was one of the principle performers with IRAA Theatre (1989 – 1996). He has made a commitment to the exploration and creation of an individual dance theatre language that is informed by psycho-physical research, Asian shamanistic trance dance, Butoh, Vocal extentions. Tony has received numerous nominations and awards including a Green Room Award for Best Male Dancer. He has been a leading figure in inter-cultural discourse and received Asialink residential grants to work in Indonesia in 2005, and 2008 and a Dance fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.

Prue Lang is a choreographer and performer who returned to Melbourne after 18 years working in Europe. Her practice focuses on rigorous choreographic innovation, conceptually driven aesthetics and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Following a transformative collaboration with William Forsythe at the Frankfurt Ballett and The Forsythe Company, she established herself as an independent choreographer presenting her work in international festivals, theatres and museums throughout the world including Theatre National de Chaillot (Paris), Festival Faits d’hiver (Paris), STUK (Belgium), Tanzplatform Deutschland, HAU (Berlin), Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf), Ars electronia (Linz), TATE Modern (London), Carriageworks, Dancehouse and Dance Massive, Australia. 

Mathieu Briand is a Melbourne-based artist born in Marseille, France. He works in various installation forms and media with computers, electronic music, robots, video technology and sculpture to explore systems of simulation. He creates diverse and highly innovative artworks, requiring active participation and engagement that invite the spectator into new zones of spatial and temporal perceptions. Briand has participated in international group and solo exhibitions in major museums including Centre Pompidou (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and TATE Modern Turbine Hall (London). His work has been presented in Australia at CCP, ACMI, Carriageworks and MONA.

Margie Medlin’s practice tracks in a linage of expanded cinema, her interdisciplinary projects explore interrelationships between movement, devised spaces, and media technologies. Throughout her practice, she has continued to experiment and forge new ground aesthetically, collaboratively, and technically. Margie’s installations demonstrate a commitment to experimentation and excellence. Her media artwork has been exhibited extensively including in India, the USA, Cuba, Australia, Germany, the UK, Japan, and Finland. As an educator Margie has mentored many young dance-makers in Australia and internationally. Margie was the director of Critical Path, centre for choreographic research in Sydney 2007-2015.

Deanne Butterworth is a performer and choreographer born in Boorloo/Perth and based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice is preoccupied with the investigation of movement and how it relates to the physical, emotional, and sonic space in which it is located. Throughout her almost 30 year career Deanne has worked with many notable choreographers and performed in and contributed to the work of prominent visual artists. Since 1994 her work has been situated in galleries, for film, theatre, museums and outdoors and has been nominated for multiple Green Room Awards. Her most recent full length work, “Slow Calm Drama” premiered at Dancehouse in 2021.

Angela Goh is an artist who works with dance and choreography. Her work is presented in contemporary art contexts and traditional performance spaces. Most recently Goh’s work has been performed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Sydney Opera House, the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, and a range of venues in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. She was awarded the Keir Choreographic Award in 2020, the Create NSW Performing Arts Fellowship in 2019-20, and the inaugural Sydney Dance Company Fellowship in 2020-21. Angela lives and works on Gadigal Land in Sydney, Australia.

Vernon Ah Kee (Marrugeku) designed the set and video content for the live dance performance of Guddir Gudirr. Now he returns to direct this screen adaptation. Vernon Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs and drawings form a critique of Australian popular culture from the perspective of the Aboriginal experience of contemporary life. He particularly explores the dichotomy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal societies and cultures. Ah Kee’s works respond to the history of the exoticised portraiture of ‘primitives’, and effectively reposition the Aboriginal in Australia, anchored in museum and scientific records to a contemporary people inhabiting real and current spaces and time. 

Dalisa Pigram (Marrugeku) is a Yawuru/Bardi woman born and raised in Broome, who has worked with Marrugeku since the first production Mimi and has been Co-Artistic Director since 2008. A co-devising performer on all Marrugeku’s productions, touring extensively overseas and throughout Australia. Dalisa’s solo work Gudirr Gudirr earned an Australian Dance Award (Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance 2014) and a Green Room Award (Best Female Performer 2014). In her community, Dalisa teaches the Yawuru Language at Cable Beach Primary School and is committed to the maintenance of Indigenous language and culture through arts and education.

Sarah Aiken is a Melbourne based teacher and choreographer from Bellingen NSW whose work investigates assemblage, authorship, scale and the self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object. An Australia Council artist in resident at HIAP, Helsinki, and a recipient of the Creators Fund and Performance Space Micro-fellowship, Sarah has an expanded choreographic practice and is developing new works for stage, screen and gallery. Her video works have been shown at the MCA, Arts House, Dromana Drive-In and The Substation. She is a recipient of the Chloe Munro Independent Artist Fellowship.