Kirk Page is a proud Munanjali man from South East QLD with ancestral lineage connecting to Yugambeh and the Bundjalung nation, Badu Island – Zenadth Kes, with Polish and German heritage from his matriarchal descendants. Kirk is an interdisciplinary performer extending his practice across the creative sector over the last two decades. He trained at NAISDA and has performed on main stages across the country and toured internationally as a dancer, actor, director and mentor in the arts. He began his professional career with Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1995 as a trainee and has continued on the path as a performer and a theatre maker since then. He is currently developing new works independently, collaborating with local artists, and is living on the unceded lands of the Bundjaulung in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.

“My artistic practice as a physical theatre performer, actor, dancer, singer, teacher has had me work in the professional industry - commercial and independent over the last 24 years. My practice has developed from the need to be employable, relevant and constantly evolving still. I am intrigued by the body and how it can tell story, its history and its future, as a movement based practitioner this project would have me extending on my physical skill set as an interpreter of ancestor and history.”

Born in Darkinjung country NSW, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal is a Javanese Australian dancer, choreographer, director and facilitator. Her work has been made and shared nationally and internationally. She has Australian Scottish Viking convict-settler heritage, kinship ties with Borobudur Temple 800AD and is a direct descendant of Yogyakarta’s first Sultan 1755, Kangjeng Hamengku Buwana. Leaving Angourie to pursue professional studies in classical ballet, modern dance, improvisation and somatic movement education in Sydney, Miami and New York city, and Indonesian dance in Java, propelled Jade into freelance work devising new performances with dance companies, choreographers, directors, artists, composers and music ensembles. Her interest in practice-led research and dance theory guided her in achieving a Master of Choreography with High Distinction from VCA at the University of Melbourne. Researching macro and micro implications of embodiment, cognition and communication in theatre, gallery, video and nature ecologies has supported the collaborative creation of new interdisciplinary performance works made during; international choreographic residencies, global inter-arts projects, youth dance company and tertiary dance choreographic commissions and intercultural exchanges in remote communities.

www.jadedewi.com

Wakka Wakka Kombumerri dancer / choreographer, has worked throughout Australia, Canada, UK, USA and Europe with Atamira, Sydney Dance Company, Stalker Theatre, Australasian Dance Collective, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Force Majeure, Erth, GUTS, Meryl Tankard, Martin del Amo, Victoria Hunt, Narelle Benjamin, Vicki Van Hout, Liesel Zink and Wesley Enoch.

Katina’s choreographic highlights include Mother’s Cry for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed 2018, movement direction for Sunshine Super Girl, the ABC TV series Cleverman 2 and the Walking into the Bigness (Malthouse). Katina presented her Independent solo work namu nunar at Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, Yonder Festival, Horizon Festival, Festival 2018 and Happy Hour as part of March Dance 2019.

Most recently Katina has received participation in the Australia Council for the Arts Future Leaders 2022 - 23 Program and is currently developing the contemporary dance project Preparing Ground with co-directors Marilyn Miller and Jasmin Sheppard produced by BlakDance.

Born and bred on Yaegl Country, Yamba NSW, of Australian and Filipino heritage, Janessa is a recognised and acclaimed contemporary dancer, choreographer and educator. From a strong classical training background with Adele Lewis, achieving Solo Seal while on scholarship at Queensland Dance School of Excellence, Janessa went on to graduate with a Diploma of Contemporary Dance from New Zealand School of Dance.

Over the last two decades Janessa has toured Australasia, the Pacific, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the world with New Zealand’s Black Grace, Artistic Director Neil Ieremia and Sydney Dance Company, Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela. In 2018 Janessa premiered her choreographic debut, TELOPEA at Carriageworks for the Sydney Dance Company New Breed Season receiving rave reviews.

Since living back on Yaegl Country Janessa has become a mother of two,  taught dance and choreographed locally, learned skills in Lomi lomi Hawaiian massage and also joined with Jade Tyas Tunggal creating a Youth Dance Program called Angourie Dance.

Robert Alejandro Tinning is an emerging Northern Rivers of NSW performer and choreographer whose practice is rooted in Afro-futurism and the exploration of diasporic identities. As a performer, he currently works for Australasian Dance Collective and Stephanie Lake Company in both Manifesto and The Chronicles (a work in development), with previous ties to companies and institutions including Tasdance, STRUT Dance WA, Shaun Parker & Company, and the wider independent arts scene in Australia and the East Coast of the USA.

Robert's choreographic work invites audiences into a world where movement and sensations become powerful abstractive narratives. His research has been supported by the Tanja Liedtke Studio Residency, Tasdance, Great Southern Dance, WA’s Department of Sport & Cultural Industries and AusDance NSW Innovative Dance Practice program.

Stuart danced in NYC for the Trisha Brown Dance Company spanning a period of 10 years. He holds an MFA in dance and choreography from Bennington College, and was guest faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College and Rutgers University.

Before moving to NYC, Stuart danced for Philip Adam’s BalletLab, Lucy Guerin, Antony Hamilton and Russell Dumas. 

Stuart has presented his own choreographic work in New York at the Centre for Performance Research, Gibney Dance Centre, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Cathy Weis’s Sundays on Broadway, Danspace Project, in Uruguay at Teatro Solis, and in Melbourne, Australia, at The SUBSTATION and Monash University's Museum of Modern Art. In 2021 Stuart Choreographed for the dance film TOKE directed by NONO for film.dance, produced by Jacob Jonas The Company. 

He is currently working with a small group of Neuro-diverse artists called Golden Thursdays, helping to produce and develop their own work.