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Tom Pritchard is a Creative Producer based in Meanjin, Brisbane. Specialising in movement-based forms, his practice seeks to enable new work creation to expand artistic practice and elevate today’s crucial stories.

He’s worked for BlakDance, Lucy Guerin Inc and Circa alongside independent projects. Tom is an alumnus of Creative Australia’s Arts Leaders Program, and PAC Australia’s Tour Producer Program.

Lisa Wilson is an award-winning artist with an international career as director, choreographer, producer, performer, educator and mentor. Her body of work moves across genres having created for theatre companies, large-scale instillation work, intermedia performances, opera, major company commissions and full- length independent work.

Lisa’s work has been nominated in numerous critics’ choice awards, and finalist/awarded at The Helpmann Awards, the Matilda Awards and the Australian Dance awards. Her works have toured nationally in Australia to critical acclaim and showcased at national performing arts markets. As a choreographer Lisa has been awarded numerous fellowships, grants and residencies both in Australia and internationally.

In 2021 Lisa’s vision launched Studio1 – a new creative arts space, which houses

Artists – Events – Community in a micro-arts precinct, in Meanjin|Brisbane. Studio1 is a choreographic hub, supporting the day-to-day practice and on-going development of Independent Dance and Physical Theatre.

www.lisawilson.com.au

www.studio1.org.au

Liesel Zink is an award-winning choreographer of Ukrainian and German descent interested in collective bodies as a tool for social change. She has developed and presented work around Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe. Liesel’s practice explores the intersection of contemporary dance and community engagement often seeing her create performances in public-space and use her creative process as a means for artistic, cultural and intergenerational exchange.

Liesel was awarded the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance for project The Stance (presented 10 cities world-wide between 2015-2019). Other Independent projects include Us And All Of This 2023 (Arts Centre Melbourne, Geelong Arts Centre and Bunjil Place), The Future Is… (Museum of Brisbane 2023), Daruvaty (Bleach Festival 2022), Our New (IMA Gallery 2020) and We and the Uncertain (Ukraine 2019). Liesel is currently an Associate Artist for Force Majeure, a board member of Theatre Network Australia and more broadly, a dramaturge, facilitator and producer.

Nerida Matthaei is an award-winning choreographer, performer and the Artistic Director of Phluxus2 Dance Collective. The underlying pulse of her work comes from an ingrained passion for contemporary choreographic practice as a beautifully planned anarchy of mind-body collaboration. Driven by challenging socio-political orthodoxy and breaking conventions through physical performance, she is a much sought-after collaborator across the dance and performance sectors internationally.

She is extremely generous with her skills and time, not only collaborating and leading arts projects around the world, but investing in grassroots programs benefiting the local independent and community sectors and sitting on boards such as Ausdance Queensland. Nerida has recently returned from a tour to Melbourne with her work Angel Monster, creating a new work Bottari with South Korean company Sadari Movement Lab and guest choreographer for Polytoxic’s latest creation Dangerous Goods.

With a 25-year national and international portfolio, Bridget is a multi-faceted choreographic artist working in directorial, collaborative, performance, producing/curation, facilitation and mentoring roles, as well as in self-organisation and on artist-led initiatives. Bridget creates and collaborates on dance, theatre, interdisciplinary, moving-image, film, digital and participatory works.

Selected recent credits include: Choreographer & Performer on the Ukrainian hybrid documentary ‘Iron Butterflies’ (2023 Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival official selection), Choreographic/Movement & Rehearsal Director with Belarus Free Theatre on works ‘Trash Cuisine’, ‘Burning Doors’, ‘Trustees’, ‘Counting Sheep: Staging A Revolution’ and more, Co-Director of the multi-modal project ‘They Gather’, Co-Artistic Director of ‘On The Hour: Dance Kahanyan’ a UK/Pakistan collaboration, developing an adaptation of Amy Voris’s ‘perch’, Movement Collaborator on Laura van Tatenhove’s ‘Holding The Horizon’ and Associate Director & Curator of ‘Sufi In The City’. 

With Joseph Lau, Bridget is Co-Director of Project Auske, www.projectauske.com

www.bridgetfiske.com

Bella Hood is an accomplished performer, choreographer, and teaching artist. She attained her BFA Honours in Dance Performance from Queensland University of Technology in 2017. With an extensive dance background, including collaborations with choreographers like Natalie Weir and Stephanie Lake, she has explored independent choreography through various residencies and showcases across Queensland. Bella’s artistic journey intertwines with her holistic wellness approach, as a trained yoga teacher, nutrition consultant, and Zenthai Shiatsu therapist.

Her artistic expression mirrors her deep connection to humanity, nature, and spirituality, advocating for harmony within individuals and communities. Career highlights include international tours with Australasian Dance Collective across Asia and regional Australia and co-founding kin, a contemporary dance company on the Sunshine Coast. Through her work, Bella celebrates the enduring strength of the feminine spirit and delves into themes of self-discovery and empowerment through movement.

Asher is an interdisciplinary contemporary movement artist with a diverse background across many creative outlets. After finishing a BFA (Dance Performance) in 2013 Asher has worked as an independent contemporary dancer for companies and artists including STRUT dance, Ochre, SPRUNG!!, Phluxus2 Dance Collective, Broad Encounters, Prying Eye, Russall Beattie Presents, the Ironing Maidens, Voiiid Collective, Gareth Belling, Lisa Wilson, Courtney Scheu and Melissa Lanham. Asher also works professionally in the fields of dance theatre, acting, aerials, adagio acrobatics, Samba, Latin dance, burlesque,living statues, costume creation and performance art.

Through her own art she intends to build connection between people, generate appreciation for other species and the environment and inspire lifestyle changes toward a more sustainable, connected and wholesome way of living. Asher is also an environmental educator and Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist.