David Prakash is an Indian/Samoan dancer/dance maker who began his journey into the realm of street dance in 2012. During this time, he has explored multiple genres such as Popping, Hip Hop freestyle, House, and Krump.
In 2018, David co-founded 'Jam On Toast' with peer and close friend Oliver Le. JOT served as one of Naarms biggest community dance jams for people to come hang out and connect with new people.
David over the past 5 years has actively taught and facilitated classes across Naarm, Boorloo & Mparntwe. Honouring the lineage of Black American, LatinX & LGBTQI+ street dance pioneers, David aims to create spaces for curious minds to seek and find what it means to connect with one another in communal contexts.
Yiwen and Christine are E-1 and Christine. Our main practice is Punking/Waacking, which is a dance form born in the 1970s from the Black and Latino queer communities of Los Angeles. We are active in the Melbourne street dance scene and part of the BurnCityW_ack community. As a non-binary and female dancer duo, we draw from Punking/Waacking and contact improvisation to explore a different relationship, intimate bonds that exist beyond the romantic. Our piece examines the nuances, tensions, and depth of such relationships, challenging traditional relationship scripts and offering an embodied vision of deep connection outside the romantic norm.
Sannie Ek is a Chinese Malaysian creative based in Naarm/Melbourne whose practice sits at the intersection of street dance and creative technology. She began exploring freestyle dance in 2020 and has been curious ever since about how digital tools can transform artistic expression. With a background in technology and hands-on experience building AI machine models, Sannie explores the conversation between live coding and street dance, bridging the intersection between life and machines.
Ian Fasil is a creative media practitioner who specialises in creating video-based works and has participated in many different video-based projects such as the Funkadelics X Kaizen Creative Film Festival in 2024. Currently, he interns for the creative advertising agency Flying Art Studios and continues to hone his craft in video.
As a dancer, he currently practises Litefeet as a dance style by going to Litefeet jams on Thursdays. Additionally, he also involves himself within the Melbourne Street Dance Scene by participating in dance battles and going to other jams around the city. Doing so allows him to contribute back to the scene that has moulded him.