Caroline Ellis is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Her movement and creative practices are inspired by telling stories through movement, and connecting with people. She finished her studies at the VCA in 2019, graduating with a BFA and Honours in Dance, and has had the privilege of working with such choreographers as Sandra Parker, Lee Searle, Gideon Obarzanek and Lina Limosani. More recently she has performed in works created by Catherine Magill, Kathleen Skipp and Gulsen Ozer, and choreographed for AustenCon and Dancebourne Arts. From 2023-2024 Caroline spent time in the UK training with physical theatre companies including Frantic Assembly, Gecko Theatre and Temper Theatre. Her movement language is heavily influenced by Contact Improvisation, a practice she values for sense of community, collaboration, and investigation. In addition to her dance practices, Caroline studies dramatic combat and singing.

Jazmyn Carter is a dance artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is an alumni of youth dance company FLING Physical Theatre and graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Dance). Jazmyn has most recently performed in ‘Superposition’ (2024,2025), in Alisdair Macindoe’s ‘Plagiary’ (2024) for the Now or Never Festival, for Sandra Parker in ‘TEMPORARY HOLD’ (2023) presented at Temperance Hall, and Rhys Ryan’s ‘Sermon’ (2023). Jazmyn’s most recent choreographic work co-created with Gabriel Sinclair, ‘Superposition’ (2025) was presented at Canberra Theatre Centre’s Courtyard Studio for ‘The Independents’ program and at PACT for Sydney Fringe Festival. The 2024 iteration of ‘Superposition’ was nominated for the 2025 Green Room Awards for Outstanding Choreography, and Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards for Best Emerging Artist, and Best Dance and Physical Theatre.

Alec Katsourakis is a Greek-Australian, Naarm based dancer, choreographer, and dance-filmmaker, whose work blends dynamic movement, game design, play, and filmmaking. Based in Melbourne, Alec has collaborated with companies Stephanie Lake Company and House of Sand, as well as numerous independent choreographers. He leads InPlay Projects, a project-based dance company exploring the interplay of play, games, and live-cinema in dance-theatre and film. InPlay’s works have been showcased at festivals across (so-called) Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Alec’s practice thrives on collaboration and experimentation, playing with conventions of choreographic practice through interdisciplinary approaches.

Rachel Mackie is a dance artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance). Recent performance highlights include Sandra Parker’s SAFEHOLD (2024) and Temporary Hold (2023), Erin O’Rourke’s object-shun (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2023) and Jo Lloyd’s Collision (Junction Arts Festival 2022).Rachel is currently interested in working with improvisational modes, and increasing her ability to observe and direct the thinking of her dancing body. Her practice is supported with investigations of other embodied and somatic practices.

Hayley Roe is a dancer, creator, and teacher currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice is rooted in connection and observation, drawing on site-specific and somatic techniques to layer movement, information, and texture into a space. She has taken on a variety of creative and performative roles through cross-disciplinary collaborations spanning movement, theatre, music, and visual media. Her recent credits include Moments (2025), a music video by Ben Yusuf Quinn; Concrete Sleep (2024), a short dance film produced through the Youth Dance Makers Initiative; and Around the World in Eighty Days (2024), an original musical by 24 Carrot Productions.