Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Aotearoa, based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her practice considers the equally speculative and practical forces of dance practice, with sustaining interests in multiplicity, memory, time, and the influence of expanding digital technologies. In 2013, Rebecca co-founded participatory project Deep Soulful Sweats with Sarah Aiken. Their collaborative work investigates and subverts the roles of performance, considering complicity and commonality of audience and performer. Rebecca is informed by her work as a dancer and cross-disciplinary collaborator across an array of projects in galleries, theatres, and on-screen. She has worked with Jo Lloyd since 2010 and more recently Shelley Lasica and Lucy Guerin. This year she is the Resident Director of Lucy Guerin inc.
Aviva Endean is an artist dedicated to fostering a deep engagement with sound and music, with the hope that attentive listening can connect people with each other and their environment. Trained as a clarinettist, she now works as a composer, sound artist, performance-maker, curator and collaborator on interdisciplinary projects. Her solo music is released on Room40 (Australia), and SOFA (Norway) and has been presented at festivals in Australia, Europe and North America. She has been artist in residence at The Peggy Glanville Hicks house (Sydney), the Banff Centre (Canada), The Unconformity (Tasmania), OMI (New York) and she has worked as associate artist with The Australian Art Orchestra, Chamber Made, and as composer for Chunky Move (Token Armies, Rewards for the Tribe).
A graduate of VCA, Jenny Hector’s designs have been experienced nationally and internationally. Her lighting for Wilks, Dee and Cornelius’s RUNT, Fraught Outfit’s Exodus II, Prue Lang’s Stellar, and Sandra Parker’s Out of Light received Green Room nominations for best lighting and Jo Lloyd’s Overture, Jacob Boehme’s Blood on the Dance Floor and Jodee Mundy’s Imagined Touch received Green Room Awards for Best Production, which Jenny realised both the lighting and set designs for. Jenny is the recipient of two Green Room awards for Balletlab’s Miracle and Jenny Kemp’s Madeleine and the 2016 Award for Technical Achievement.
Romanie Harper is a designer from Naarm/Melbourne working across theatre, dance and experimental performance. Recent design credits include Nosferatu (Malthouse Theatre), 8/8/8:WORK (Rising Festival), Hercules (Arts House), The Cherry Orchard and Packer and Sons (Belvoir), What Am I Supposed to Do? and Equinox (Deep Souful Sweats), Australian Realness, Trustees, Good Muslim Boy, Little Emperors and Turbine (Malthouse Theatre), The Violent Outburst That Drew Me To You (MTC), Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!, We All Know What’s Happening and Never Trust A Creative City (Arts House), Contest and Moral Panic (Darebin Arts Speakeasy), Runt, This Is Eden, Resident Alien and Triumph (fortyfivedownstairs) and M+M (Daniel Schlusser Ensemble).
Lana Šprajcer is a dance artist and teacher who enjoys performing and experimenting in choreographic thinking and writing. Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Lana graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance and a BA in Comparative Literature. Since moving to Naarm in 2018, Lana had the pleasure of working with choreographer Shelley Lasica and other artists she conglomerated for If I Don’t Understand You (2019) and When I Am Not There (2022). Lana is also a cofounder of a collective of visual/dance artists based in Zagreb with whom she continues to collaborate.