Isabelle Beauverd is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Naarm/Melbourne. She has performed for Siobhan McKenna, Chunky Move, Sandra Parker, Victoria Chiu, Arts Fission, Emma Riches and Jack Riley. Upon graduating from The Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University in 2016, Isabelle received the Choreographic Development Fund Award. Her choreographic works include Bottom Line (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2016), Grapple (commissioned by Melbourne University, 2019) and Surge (awarded Best Dance, Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2019). Isabelle recently collaborated with Victoria Chiu for Virtual Crossings, a virtual reality project in collaboration with The University of Melbourne and Gilles Jobin Company in Geneva.

Benjamin Hurley is an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher who graduated from The Victorian College of the Arts in 2016. Originally from Alice Springs/Mparntwe, Benjamin is currently based in Melbourne/Naarm and his practice has been influenced by the companies and artists that he has worked with, including PhillipAdams/BalletLab, Arts Fission, Strange Fruit, Alice Will and Caroline, Isabelle Beauverd, Deanne Butterworth, Shelley Lasica, Emma Riches, Alessandro Sciarroni, Lee Serle and Victoria Chiu. Some performance credits include ‘EVER’ & ‘GLORY’ by Phillip Adams/BalletLab, ‘Slow Calm Drama’ by Deanne Butterworth, and ‘Set and Reset/Reset’ by Trisha Brown Dance Company. He has presented short works including ‘Dancing Conversations for Anna’ as part of the Out of Bounds Program facilitated by Temperance Hall and Lucy Guerin Inc., and ‘My Life Would Be Better If’ as part of the Exquisite Corps program facilitated by Phillip Adams and Luke George at Temperance Hall.

Emma Riches is a dance artist working in contemporary and experimental dance as a performer, choreographer and teacher. Based in Melbourne/Naarm, Emma is interested in the intersection of these three modes of engaging with dance and considers ways in which they can inform each other. Her choreographic work has been presented at Temperance Hall (Exquisite Corps, 2021), Dancehouse (Emerging Choreographers Program, 2020), The University of Melbourne (First Commissions Program, 2019), Melbourne Fringe Festival (Compass Program supported by Gandall Philanthropy, 2016/17), and LASALLE College of the Arts (M1 CONTACT Festival, Singapore, 2015). She has worked with artists including Benjamin Hurley and Luke Fryer, Jo Llyod, Siobhan McKenna, Alice Will Caroline, Phillip Adams and Matthew Bird, Victoria Hunt, Emily Johnson, Piaera Lauritz, Thomas Woodman, Shian Law, Polito, Deep Soulful Sweats, as well as Lucy Guerin Inc. and BalletLab. Emma is a graduate of The Victorian College of the Arts (BFA Dance, 2015).

Anika de Ruyter is a dance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, graduating in 2019. During her time at the VCA de Ruyter worked with various choreographers including Prue Lang, Sue Healey, Alisdair Macindoe and Larissa McGowan. Whilst studying de Ruyter performed in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Leap into the Modern exhibition, in a rework of Gertrude Bodenwieser’s Demon Machine by Dr Carol Brown. Upon graduation de Ruyter was awarded the Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship in Dance for excellence.

Robert Downie is a sound designer and record producer from Naarm/Melbourne. He specialises in audio editing for media such as film and tv, theatre and contemporary dance, and has production and engineering credits on over 60 records. He also plays in a bunch of bands, usually making cool sound effects.