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William McBride is a writer, performer and dramaturg working across mediums of theatre, contemporary performance and live-art. Beyond his work with Odd Body, his cross-disciplinary performance practice incorporates live-art ("Deliverance," Berlin, 2012); installation ("andy samberg feet," It's That Sometimes You Move Too Loud, Edmund Pearce Gallery); performance (Slown, Smallened and Son; Secretive Dance Team); and dramaturgy (She Said Productions; Playwriting Australia). |
Kerensa Diball is a performance maker, performer who works largely with space, design, objects and the human body. Exploring form, visual language and aesthetic; her work investigates the sharing of and connections between personal histories and broader social and political contexts. This year, Kerensa is co-facilitating and devising Neighbours, a community engaged, site based project to be premiered at Big West Festival 2015, design collaborator for Saltwater, presented at Theatreworks and Brisbane Festival, in residence at Metro Arts with Devils on Horseback on What Was Left by Victoria Carless. |
Adva Weinstein is a theatre-maker, performer, teacher and dramaturg. Her performance works, most of which have been presented in festivals and venues in Israel, are original collaboratively devised performances that cross genres and styles. In them, she interrogates imposed constructed binaries of self-other/real-imaginary/art-life, in search for an aesthetic of in-between and at-the-same-time. She is currently completing a practice-led-research Ph.D at V.C.A. on Odd Body's nascent collaborative practice. |
Maggie Brown is a performance maker, performer and visual artist who works across media with video installation, live performance and text. She accumulates, lists and diarises the everyday, valuing the incidental and overlooked to explore failed expectations, and our attempts to be valued and fit in (Anything but Ordinary, C3; I’ll like you if you’ll like me, BUS Projects; 9 ways to hold on, Yarra Sculpture Gallery). In May she is co-facilitating Gippsland local artists to create contemporary walking tours (Can you see what I see). |
Toni Main is a theatre director/performance maker with a focus on creating new work in collaboration with artists and makers from multiple disciplines. After graduating, she has been creating with Oddbody, dancing with Blink Dance Theatre, and developing her solo works. Toni has 10 years experience working with young people as Artistic Director (Tantrum Theatre (Newcastle) & SYTE (Adelaide)) creating a multitude of performances, including verbatim performance Grounded (Tantrum/atyp 2012) with playwright Alana Valentine, that won 2 AWGIES. |
Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez is a performer/ performance-maker preoccupied with site, locational identity and how culture-specific or universal performance really is. She is co-facilitating and devising Neighbours as part of Big West Festival 2015, a lead artist on Platform Youth Theatre's Singapore Suitcase Project, and associate artist-producer at A is for Atlas. A physical theatre performer, she has trained in the Suzuki Method and Viewpoints with Zen Zen Zo. She is also an arts administrator (National Arts Council Singapore, Regional Arts Victoria, Back To Back Theatre).
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