Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher born in Aotearoa and based in Naarm. Her work ranges in scale and medium, including performance for theatres, galleries, and unconventional spaces, alongside participatory projects, community events, and films. She works through dance, utilising it’s equally speculative and practical qualities to, encourage reflection, sensory recalibration, connection and transformation.
Rebecca has presented work in Tempo Festival Auckland 2024, Nelson Arts Festival 2024, FRAME Biennale 2023, the Kier Choreographic Award 2016/2022, Front Beach Back Beach 2022, CONTACT HIGH, Gertrude Glasshouse 2021, Blindside Gallery 2021, Experimental Dance Week Auckland 2020, College Dance, La Biennale di Venezia 2018, Dance Massive Festival 2015/2017. Her long form collaboration with Sarah Aiken includes a suite of eco-horror works that consider complicity in the face of climate crisis. Since 2013 they have co-directed participatory dance project Deep Soulful Sweats.
Rebecca is influenced by her extensive history working as a performer with artists including Jo Lloyd, Lucy Guerin, Shelley Lasica, Adam Linder, Sandra Parker, Alicia Frankovich, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Lee Serle, Lilian Steiner. Alongside this, her teaching work is an integral part of her practice and feeds her enduring interest in how movement is embodied, transmitted, and cited. She was a 2015 DanceWEB scholar, Australia council Cité internationale des arts resident 2020, Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc 2023 and is a Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artists 2024 - 2026. rebeccajensen.xyz
Aviva Endean is a clarinettist, composer, and performance-maker dedicated to connecting people with each other and their environment through attentive listening. Her creative practice opens up possibilities for collaborations, transcending the traditional in favour of a dynamic artistry which embraces the unfamiliar. Whilst deeply steeped in music, her vision extends beyond her primary artform to expand ways in which sound can be experienced and understood, and to discover new forms of expression that reflect the here and now.
Aviva has developed a profile as a significant force in Australian contemporary music. Her solo music has been released on Room40 (Lawrence English) and SOFA music (Norway), with solo shows presented by Huddersfield Festival (UK), Music Meeting (NL), Sound of Stockholm (SE), DarkMOFO, MONA FOMA (TAS), and The Substation (Melbourne), as well as appearing as soloist with Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. She has been a collaborator with many of Australia’s leading organisations, including Australian Art Orchestra, Chamber Made, Chunky Move, Liquid Architecture and ELISION.
Her career has been supported by significant opportunities including the prestigious Freedman Fellowship (2015), being selected as the inaugural recipient of the ‘Pathfinder Music Leadership’ position with Australian Art Orchestra (2018-19), Associate Artist at Banff Centre in Canada (2019), resident composer at The Peggy Glanville Hicks home (2021). In 2023, she received the Creative Victoria Creators Fund to pursue a self-directed research project ‘Listening Bodies’. avivaendean.com