Betwixt

Wanida is a creative director, choreographer and performance artist. In 2017 she founded Pink Matter, a company aimed at creating opportunities, highlighting powerful women in the community and creating conversation around the intersectionality of diversity in Australian media. 

Some of the projects Wanida has been involved with are: Performing in the ‘Commonwealth Games’ and the ‘Special Olympics’ as well as featuring in campaigns for Vice, Absolut Vodka, Fox Sports & Universal Store. Wanida is a proud woman of colour that is successfully working in multiple fields of street/commercial dance.

Often judging events, teaching workshops and producing work, she’s highly active in the dance community with 3 sold out independent productions under her belt. She continues to strive to inspire, mentor and be a pillar of representation.

Huda Fadlelmawla (also known as Huda The Goddess) is nationally recognised poet who won the QLD state poetry champ title in both 2020 & 2021. She is also the current Australian poetry slam champ.

Huda is also the owner of ‘The Vault Qld’ which is an association aimed at providing cultural competency workshops for schools and business to help provide a cultural safe space for African Australians. Huda is an educator, an artist and writer. She is also part of the dance community.

A member of the bang universe a krump family and also a part of the freestyle scene. She is currently working on her first book and putting together productions to showcase poetry and its application with other art forms. As proud black woman her goal is to educate people on how her racial identity impacts her art and daily interactions.

Amy is a movement artist and choreographer who specialises in street dance. Working across physical and digital spaces, her practice explores the intersections of cultural nuance and storytelling through experimental street-style and contemporary frameworks. Amy has turned the heads of iconic brands like Nike, Cartier and Calvin Klein and recently developed an AI dance app in collaboration with Google.

Credits aside, Amy loves dance for its holistic benefits, she has co-written and facilitated programs for at-risk youth, dementia sufferers, refugee girls and the everyday person. Through this work Amy has partnered with organisations like Headspace and Participate Australia.

Joshua Taliani is a First Nations (Bidjara, Kullali, Wakka Wakka) Italian Artist and Performer. As an established choreographer and dancer, he has trained under many different artists in multiple genres in performing arts, from classical to Street Dance.

Joshua’s performance experience consists of representing Australia in the World Hip-Hop Championships multiple times as well as various other competitions in the US with dance company, Academy Of Brothers. 

He has also appeared on Australia’s Got Talent with his dance crew which placed in the top three leading to big stage performance opportunities and music videos with well-known Australian artists.

Joshua is now focusing on building upon the queer dance scene specifically within the queer POC in the wider Brisbane community being the Father of the leading Ballroom house in Brisbane – ‘House of Alexander’.

Through the art of the ballroom scene, vogueing and raising awareness of this platform for queer people of colour, Joshua sets to inspire and mentor people of his community to feel worthy in themselves as well as create spaces and art work as well as functions/events to merge a stronger growth within our queer POC community from first nations to all round.

Jazi is a self-taught dancer who found his passion for the arts later in his life around the age of 20 years old. He is a household name in the QLD freestyle scene and is an integral member of the infamous Golden Coastline and also BANG fam. 

Starting with freestyle/hip hop and krump, eventually exploring other areas in dance, he has taken out numerous competitions in the past few years. Jazi has also been teaching dance consistently around QLD and has performed in numerous video projects and live shows. 

His most memorable work was headlining Commonwealth Games Festival (SuperSonicShapeShiftersofAWE), also performing multiple times at Splendour in the Grass with the same company, OneWay Theatre Company (Elements Collective), and was featured in last years Mad Dance Festival in Golden Coastline’s Peach Papaya.

 Teaching weekly, hosting sessions on the Gold Coast, and emceeing a number of battles, Jazi loves to share his knowledge through regular classes and interactions, continuing to help contribute to the growth of the community between Gold Coast and Brisban

Christine is a Queensland-based creative who has worked as a lighting designer for the past decade. In 2019 she was presented with the inaugural Emerging Female Leader Award at the Matilda Awards Ceremony, and has Bachelor degrees in Technical Production and Drama from QUT.

Recent credits include: The Sopranos (Opera Queensland); Ishmael (Dead Puppet Society); Caesar (La Boite Theatre Company); Rising (Playlab); Boyle & Waters in LEOTARD (Debase Productions); Dirty Laundry (The Good Room); Conviction / Elektra/Orestes / The Bull, The Moon and The Coronet of Stars (Hive Collective); Rovers (Belloo Creative); and Sound of a Finished Kiss (Now Look Here Theatre Company).

Her work with Hive Collective on The Bull, The Moon and The Coronet of Stars earned a nomination in 2022 for best lighting design at the Matilda Awards.

Christine also spends much of her time working as the lighting designer and production/ technical manager for Counterpilot, the award-winning collective of transmedia performance artists responsible for: IMB: Institute of Light; Avoidable Perils; Truthmachine; Statum; Crunch Time; and Spectate.

Christine has also worked closely with a number of lighting designers in an associate or assistant capacity, including Lee Curan; David Walters; Ben Hughes; Jason Glenwright; Glen Hughes; and Matt Scott.