Claire Marshall is an Australian choreographer most known for her immersive contemporary dance projects, dance films, and choreography of music videos. A graduate of Queensland University of Technology – Bachelor of Arts (Dance), Claire has developed a strong choreographic voice, unique aesthetic and a passion for storytelling in her choreography. Her dance film Ward of State won an Australian Dance Award in 2015 in the film and new media category and was screened internationally in 2016. In addition to her creative practice, in 2019 Claire’s interest in narrative dance film led Claire to study a Master of Fine Arts (Dance) at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her recent dance film Shift was selected for the 48th Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Centre, New York where it won Best of Fest in the short film category in July 2020.

Darrin Verhagen is an Associate Professor in Digital Media (Sound) at RMIT University, a freelance sound designer, composer and installation artist. In theatre, he has worked with the MTC, STC, Malthouse, Queensland Theatre, Daniel Schlusser, Chamber Made Opera, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin Theatre Red Stitch, Theatreworks and Moira Finucane; In dance, he has worked with Chunky Move, Australian Dance Theatre, Sue Healey, Lucy Guerin, Expressions Dance Company, Michelle Heaven and Antony Hamilton;  As a founding member of the (((20hz))) collective, his installations have fused sound with light, felt vibration and motion simulators, and have been exhibited at Scienceworks, White Night, the National Gallery of Victoria, Experimenta and Geelong After Dark. During the pandemic, he worked on a series of remixes for the ACMI archives. His soundtracks have won various Green Room awards and his Shinjuku Thief score for the feature film, Boys in the Trees was nominated for best soundtrack by both AACTA and the Film Critics Circle. His most recent score was for the Stan series Invisible Boys. Darrin lectures in Sound Design and Soundtrack in the RMIT Digital Media program and is the director of the AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab where he researches the psychophysiology of multisensory experience. His current research is in enhanced audio in AgedCare, and his invention, “The TuneChair” won the Decoding Dementia award from Dementia Australia in 2019.