Efren Pamilacan is an award-winning artist and curator working with street and club dance forms across contemporary performance. His practice is guided by community-led, process-driven, and culturally grounded approaches to new work. He is the founder of Melbourne’s long-running public street dance program City Sessions, inviting diverse dance communities into major public spaces. Efren has curated and contributed to projects across festivals, public space, and theatre, including Arts House, Fed Square, State Library Victoria, Dancehouse, Arts Centre Melbourne, On&On Festival, and Asia TOPA Festival. He is the Artistic Director of Cypher Culture, a not-for-profit organisation supporting street dance artists and communities across Australia and the Asia–Pacific.

Joshua Faleatua (Fale) is a dancer and filmmaker of New Zealand and Samoan descent. Joshua has performed and collaborated with renowned companies including Ta’alili, Chunky Move, Footnote New Zealand Dance, New Zealand Dance Company, Stephanie Lake Company, Movement Of The Human, Tino Sehgal. Fale’s training is grounded in Krump, Hip Hop, and contemporary dance.

Tyler Carney-Faleatua is an Australian dance artist who has been working professionally across Aotearoa, Australia and Europe for the past decade. She has collaborated with various artists, choreographers and companies including Luke Murphy (Attic Projects), Michael Keegan-Dolan (Teaċ Daṁsa), Marina Abramović, Ta’alili, New Zealand Dance Company, Footnote New Zealand Dance, Good Company Arts and Atamira Dance Company. Tyler draws from a background in contemporary dance, waving, and acting. Together, they are the co-directors of Threading Frames, where their work explores the intersection of dance, theatre, storytelling, and film, driven by their deep fascination with the human body as a vessel of expression. They are recipients of the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard Award (2024), and their work has been presented at festivals such as Schrit_tmacher Festival (NL), Cinedans FEST (NL), Auckland Arts Festival, Tempo Dance Festival, Pacific Dance Festival and Dance(lens) Film Festival Australia.

PJ is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne) with over 18 years of experience in the dance style of Popping. His creative practice spans choreography, freestyle/improvisation, performance, creative direction, and teaching—all grounded in a deep commitment to storytelling and authenticity. PJ’s work has been presented across major platforms and institutions, including RISING Melbourne, Mona Foma, Asia TOPA, the NGV Triennial, Dancehouse. He is also one of the founding members of the crew Metaphyicalgroove. Over the past decade, PJ has shifted his focus from dance competition toward choreography, conceptual performance in theatre, and multi-artisan collaborations. His goal has been to explore how Popping can function as a dynamic language for storytelling, worldbuilding, and contemporary reflection. He views Popping not just as a dance style, but also as a conglomerated movement philosophy capable of articulating complex emotional and societal themes through its illusion-based techniques. PJ has contributed to works that delve into subjects like mass migration, modern identity, and the blurred boundaries between nature and synthetic systems. His performances invite audiences into layered, often abstract explorations of the human experience that are both collective and deeply personal. Although now embedded in formal performance spaces, PJ’s foundation lies in the social environments of battles, cyphers, and club scenes. His training came not from traditional academies, but through community-led spaces where knowledge is lived, exchanged, and embodied. Today, he brings this lineage into contemporary contexts, refining key creative and social principles of freeform dance for studios, theatres, and institutional frameworks—while remaining firmly rooted in the irrepressible form of self-expression through freestyle/improvisation.

CONJAH is a creative force of ‘feeling’; bleeding beyond the traditional boundaries of physical performance and creating immersive worlds inhabited by compelling beings. CONJAH is a gathering point of friends, artists, world-builders, theatre-makers, dancers, designers and facilitators who co-create with each other and their communities to build multi-disciplinary theatre experiences. CONJAH’s work is in conversation with non-human phenomena, the body’s memory, cultural-mapping, resistance, reimagined futures and emotional rigour.