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, 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 Popping. His practice spans choreography, freestyle/improvisation, performance, creative direction, and teaching, all grounded in a strong commitment to storytelling and authenticity. His work has been presented at major platforms including RISING Melbourne, Mona Foma, Asia TOPA, NGV Triennial, and Dancehouse. He is also a founding member of the crew Metaphysicalgroove. Over the past decade, PJ has shifted from the competition scene into theatre, conceptual performance, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, exploring Popping as a dynamic language for worldbuilding and contemporary reflection. He views the form not only as a dance style, but as a movement philosophy capable of expressing complex emotional and social themes. Although now embedded in institutional and theatre contexts, PJ’s foundation lies in battles, cyphers, and club culture—community-led spaces where knowledge is exchanged and embodied. He continues to bring this lineage into contemporary performance, remaining deeply rooted in freestyle and the pursuit of honest, impactful storytelling.

Jurnma has been Breaking for over 15 years, with the cypher and battle being the main modes of participation. A nascent practice in the martial arts provided a reflective surface to view his movement practice more generally. He is now beginning to explore the extension and enfoldment of that continuity of spirit which animates the corporeal through the mode of performance.

Race is a dancer, performer, choreographer, and actor whose talent has taken her from the Philippines to stages around the world. She has worked across Dubai, Qatar, and Malaysia, serving as Dance Captain, Choreographer, and Associate Dance Director for major events including Expo 2020 Dubai, Redfest Dubai, Arabian Fashion Week, and the Qatar IAAF Opening Ceremony, among others. Now based in Melbourne, she teaches and choreographs for emerging young artists and has been part of Nikki Visaj Movement for over three years, delivering school incursions and cultural concerts. A passionate krumper and active battler, she proudly represents BurnCity Krump while continuing to support and uplift her community. Trained internationally in dance, acting, and singing, Race is a versatile artist skilled in Hip Hop, Street Dance, Jazz Funk, Musical Theatre, Choreography, and Philippine Cultural Dance.

Bek Coates is a Naarm-based (Melbourne, Australia) Chinese-Australian practitioner of hybrid movement and multi-disciplinary genres of dance. Influenced by hip hop, house and contemporary dance culture, she regularly emerges herself in community movement sessions and mobility training, to support her personal research in freestyle and choreographic exploration. Ultimately inspiring her artistic development and forming relational impacts with creatives through collaborative processes, Bek’s accumulated source of curiosity has become the atmosphere she breathes.

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.