Callum Mooney is an Australian artist that has been working in dance theatre. Callum has been performing and creating work through a multitude of fields, contemporary dance, theatre, physical theatre and street-dance / Hip Hop.

As a performer Callum has also worked with Chunky Move, Antony Hamilton, Dancenorth, Dream Dance Company, Caetlyn Watson, Sarah Boulter, Maxine Doyle, Stephen Tannos, Stephanie Lake, Lucas Jervies, Meryl Tankard, Cass Mortimer-Eipper, Charmene Yap, Legs on the Wall, Larissa McGowan, Projection Dance Company, Benjamin Hancock, Broad Encounters, Callum has also performed for Baker Boy at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

As a choreographer Callum has created four works, ‘Train of Thought,’ at Annandale Arts Centre, ‘The Artists Mind,’ performed at KABA Festival, Indonesia commissioned by STRUT Dance, and ‘The Flying Nun Festival by Brand X,’ ‘Cosmos’ commissioned by DirtyFeet, and ‘Jeppee Peppee’ in collaboration with Jess Goodfellow at ‘The Flying Nun Festival.’ As well creating a dance work on Austinmer Dance Theatre and Indefinite Dance Company. Callum has created smaller works for Indefinite Dance Company and the IYCP in Taiwan. Callum is also the 2024 recipient on the ‘Tanja Liedtke Fellowship’ in Berlin.

Callum has also worked closely as a movement director, choreographer and performer with musicians such as Keiynan Lonsdale, Macca 47, Second Idol and Friendless.

Dave Thomson (practising as Lost Few) is a Naarm/Melbourne Based Musician and Multi-Sensory artist who works across multiple mediums. Informed by his fine arts degree in sound and video art through RMIT University. Dave’s interdisciplinary approach looks at building visceral sensory experiences in sound, light, scent and vision. Working in spatiality, his work explores the intersection of natural and urban landscapes translated into physical and sonic installations. Recent works have focused on the individual’s relationship to physical space and how we respond to our surroundings, both social-cultural and natural, through immersive live performances and installations. Highlights include being the first Australian invited to Berlin’s centre of spatial practice MONOM to re-interpret his Album Between the Silence which led to the work being presented at The Substation and spatial sound performance ‘Unfuror’ as part of Melbourne Music Week.

Georgia Rudd is originally from New Plymouth, Aotearoa, Georgia trained at the New Zealand School of Dance. Currently freelancing in Naarm, Georgia is driven by an ongoing fascination with sensation and imagination and dance is a means to connect with her aliveness, people and her experience of the world. Prior to this she worked for Dancenorth Australia for six years with Kyle Page and Amber Haines, touring works nationally and internationally by many distinguished Australian artists, Melanie Lane, Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek, Jo Lloyd, Lee Serle, Alisdair MacIndoe to name a few. She has co- choreographed for the Naarm/Solo dance exchange and, three short works for Dancenorth’s annual Tomorrow Maker’s seasons.

Hugo Poulet is an artist focused on deep sensation, curating atmospheres that shift consciousness and ignite the imagination. He has performed with Sydney Dance Company in Ohad Naharin’s ‘Deca Dance’ and worked with choreographers Rafael Bonachela, James Vu Anh Pham, Omer Backley- Astrachan, Sue Healy, and Gabrielle Nankivell.

In 2023, Poulet performed in Caetlyn Watson’s Brisbane show ‘Drenched’. He uses movement to reach diverse audiences, with notable performances in Opera Australia’s ‘The Ring Cycle’, Australian Fashion Week, and ‘Connected: MCA Collection’.

Poulet is developing a unique approach to choreography, driven by his curiosity and interdisciplinary interests. He aims to evoke visceral feelings and create scenes that transcend cerebral activity. His accolades include the Hunter Youth Choreographic Award and the FORMS Sharp Short Dance Award. He has choreographed and produced the music for two full length works ‘2BC-N’ in 2023 and more recently ‘orbital’ for a season at PACT.

Erin O’Rourke is a Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary dancer, choreographer and researcher. Erin was awarded The Australian Ballet/Telstra Emerging Choreographer in 2022 for her dance film ‘yellow mellow’. In 2023, ‘yellow mellow’ was a part of Dancehouse’ Dance (Lens) Official Selection. Erin’s most recent choreographic credits include ‘object-shun’ for Melbourne Fringe Festival X Dancehouse and ‘when the water gets cold’ for Transit Dance, both concerned with depictions of women, in media and myth. Her performance work includes Alicia Frankovich’s Rich in World/Poor in World at NGV Australia as a part of Melbourne Now, Jenni Large’s Body Body Commodity in Mona Foma (Tasmania), and Harrison Hall, Sam McGIip and NAXS Future’s Body Crysis at ACMI for Now or Never Festival (Melbourne), Claire Marshall’s dance film Void, City Horses in Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, Liesel Zink’s Awesome at World Science Festival Brisbane, and Soundline at Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria).

Erin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) from QUT (Brisbane) and continued on to Honours Research at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), finishing with First Class Honours. Erin’s research focused on the multiplicity of the dancer as they dismantle and challenge their moving identity in working with numerous artists. She is invested in giving the dancer a voice, privileging the dancer’s value in and of itself.

Angelica Menta (Jel) is a contemporary artist based in Naarm, graduating from Ev and Bow in 2018 and Transit Dance in 2021. Her professional journey includes the remount of Stephanie Lake Company’s ‘Colossus’ at the Melbourne International Festival (2019). In 2022, Jel performed in CoExist Collective’s debut work, ‘In [The] Making,’ and later co-choreographed ‘Unapologetically, Me’, for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 2023, Jel performed ‘Opus’, choreographed by Jayden Hicks. Additionally, she was commissioned by CoExist Collective to co-choreograph ‘Layered Point’, with creative partner Jack Birdseye. Jack and Jel recently debuted their first duo work ‘VOYAGER #3’ at ‘Out of Bounds’ facilitated by Temperance Hall and Lucy Guerin Inc, with exciting plans for further development.

In 2021, she embarked on a secondment with Lucy Guerin and Stephanie Lake Company, followed by an extended secondment with Dancenorth in 2023. In February 2024, Jel received a bursary from Transit and spent 3 weeks participating in ‘Perth Moves’ festival at Strut Dance, learning from choreographers interstate and overseas. In May, Jel participated in Lucy Guerin’s ‘HOTBED’ 3 day intensive and looks forward to Antony Hamilton’s ‘Practice Lab’ in July to further develop her artistic palette, practice and passion in contemporary dance.

Conrad Hamill is a cellist, soundscape artist and composer. Originally from Western Victoria, Conrad studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Georg Pedersen. Since graduating in 2013, he has performed internationally across classical, commercial and contemporary genres.

In the last five years, he has explored taking his music outside of the concert hall and exploring interdisciplinary and collaborative practices with dancers, theatre makers, visual artists and with yoga and meditation. He presented his work to combine movement, music and mindfulness at TedXSydney 2020. Conrad holds cello yoga and meditation events regularly across Melbourne and Sydney and hosts concerts where audience members are able to sit, lay or move freely to experience the music.

As a commercial artist, Conrad has performed and recorded with artists including Rita Ora, Darren Criss, Michael Bublé, Gang of Youths, Kygo, Ministry of Sound, James Arthur, Jimmy Barnes, Guy Sebastian, Delta Goodrem, Pete Tong, Hans Zimmer and The DMAS and in venues including the Sydney Opera House and the State Theatre.

We would like to thank all of our sponsors with special mention to Gary Mooney. Thank you to previous dancers who helped develop this work, Neale Whittaker, Kristie Pike, Jayden Wall, Melissa Pham, Samantha Hines and Jessie Oshodi.