Texas Nixon-Kain and Niki Verrall have been dancing together since 2021. They have a shared interest in the interdisciplinary possibilities of choreography and the ways dance circulates, communicates, and is enacted across contexts. Together as collaborators, they are engaged in the varying purposes of the body in performance and how these understandings situate their practice within human experiences. Their collaborative work has been supported by Critical Path, Dance Base Yokohama (JP), Studio Kura (JP), Seventh Gallery, and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. As performers, Niki has worked with Ivey Wawn & Sarah Aiken, and Texas with Rebecca Jensen.
Christopher Gurusamy is a full-time professional Bharatanatyam artiste, based between Sydney, Australia and Chennai, India, He is regarded as one of the frontrunners of his generation having performed extensively within India and globally.
Born and raised in Perth, W.A, Christopher moved to India at the age of 18, and is the first Australian to study at the renowned dance and arts institution Kalakshetra. Christopher attended the college from 2005 to 2011 during the tenure of Leela Samson as Director, receiving a first-class post-graduate diploma in 2011.
As a highly popular soloist, Christopher performs annually in Chennai’s prestigious December Season and has been invited to speak and present his work at major conferences around the world. He has received widespread critical acclaim including the Narasimhachari Dance Award (Narada Gana Sabha, 2022), being named Best Dance of 2017 (New York Times), and was conferred the Kalavahini Fellowship for Choreography by leading dancer Malavika Sarukkai in 2018.
His latest Ananda - Dance of Joy has been staged in Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney and Dancehouses Season 2, Melbourne for which the work received a 4-star review in The Age Melbourne and been nominated for a Green Room award - Outstanding performer. Christopher's newest work 5 Arrows was presented by Utp in April 2025. He was the recipient of Australian Dance Theatres Expound Loft Residency - developing his new work Kalki with miles franklin award winning author Shankari Chandran
Geoffrey Watson is an artist whose practice is rooted in dance but frequently wanders into other disciplines and art forms like a stray cat looking for something to eat. His work is indebted to classical, religious, folk and experimental art traditions, twisting and distorting materials through handcrafted processes in order to create emotionally, devotionally infused relics.
Rachel Couslon (she/her) is an independent dance performer, maker and facilitator based in Naarm.
Rachel has performed in works by Stephanie Lake and Robin Fox (The Chronicles, Manifesto, A Giant Theremin), Alisdair Macindoe (Reference Material, Okay, Bye!), Alisdair Macindoe and Alison Curry (Progress Report), Antony Hamilton (Yung Lung, Nyx, Blood & Bone), Lucy Guerin (One Single Action), Melanie Lane (Phantasm, Arkadia, Death Peak), Rebecca Jensen and Sarah Aiken (Overworld) and Siobhan McKenna (Rhythmic Fictions).
Rachel and Harrison Ritchie-Jones (Slogtown) recently made site-specific dance film, I Move To Process My Feelings, which premiered this year at Dance Lens Festival. Rachel shares dance practice with youth companies, tertiary students, and independent artists. She works closely with Lucy Guerin, Daniel Riley, and Joel Bray as Rehearsal Director and Artistic Support. She collaborates with Deep Soulful Sweats on various en-mass projects. She completed her dance training at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and The Victorian College of the Arts.
Tra Mi Dinh is a choreographer and dance artist. She is the most recent recipient of the Keir Choreographic Award (2022) for her work The ___.
Her choreographic practice has been supported by Lucy Guerin Inc, Temperance Hall, Australian Dance Theatre, ReadyMade Works, Critical Path, March Dance, Ausdance NSW, Tasdance, and Sydney Fringe Festival.
As a dancer, Tra Mi has worked with artists and companies including Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move, Stephanie Lake Company, Dance Makers Collective, Joel Bray Dance, Michelle Heaven, Victoria Chiu, and more. In 2019 Tra Mi received a Green Room Award nomination for her performance in Lucy Guerin’s Make Your Own World.