Grant Moxom

Jonathan Gurton

Lisa Mumford

Lucy Watson

Maria White

Mayu Iwasaki

Noni Cowan

Sam Duncan

Sean Serpa

Wilna Fourie

Lead Artists

Julie Vulcan is a performer and interdisciplinary artist, working across many platforms since 1988. She is a UNSW College of Fine Arts graduate and between 1988-97 she exhibited her video/sound installations in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, represented by the 4th and 7thAustralian International Video Festivals, ARX 3 and Experimenta. Since 1993 she has worked more directly in physical theatre and performance. Between 1993 and 2001 she co-devised and performed physical theatre spectacle, including the ‘Godmakers’, ‘Burn’ and ‘Ablaze’with Icarus Performance Troupe touring nationally and internationally. From 1995 she performed and co-devised work with all-girl performance group Frumpus, appearing in ‘Crazed’ at The Adelaide Fringe and at the Performance Space Sydney in 2004. She performed in ERTH’s Sydney Festival commission ‘Balconies’ and devised and performed ‘B(b)UG’ at the Performance Space, 2003. She has participated in Time_Place_Space, a two-week hybrid performance laboratory in 2001 and 2004. Since 2002 she has been a core member of the ensemble Unreasonable Adults touring works ‘End of Romance’, ‘Gift/Back’ and ‘The Last to see them Alive’ nationally and Internationally. She has performed in Pacitti Company’s (UK) ‘Finale’, presented at Spill Fest London 2007 and Liveworks Sydney 2008. Since 2003 Julie has been developing and performing a series of short works and has an on-going research based practice that also incorporates work sites on the net. Recent activities include: ‘All that Remained’ - A month in the country residency, Albury, 2008. ‘Trawl’ - This is the Time live event at the Bakery, Perth, 2008. Bundanon Artist residency 2009, ‘The power of constraint’ trilogy 2009 and ‘Un/Disclosed’ a two year web based performance project 2008/9.

Cat Jones is a performer, writer, media maker, curator, producer and all round creatrix. She has worked as an artist and performer over the last twenty years independently on works with and for Blast Theory, Experimenta, The League of Imaginary Scientists, PVI Collective, The Party Line and artists Mel Ramos, Rhys Turner, Jason Sweeney, Lucinda Clutterbuck, Lucy HG, Barbara Clare Totterdell and many, many others.  Her solo works have been presented by One Extra Dance in Queer Bits 99 & 00, That Elusive Thrill’s Trading Desire and Erotica, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Divine Divas (Edinburgh).  Original works include The Sweetest Switch Bitch and her Mobile Messaging Unit in The League of Imaginary Scientists’ Conversation Contraption; and catgURL, an ongoing body of work including a live, interactive, multi-media performance event constructing and deconstructing subcultural identities in a virtual world (see VJ Theory book. www.vjtheory.net/art/ah-ha.htm), developed with a team of artists through Performance Space and Playworks.  Her film and tv credits include Constellations (stop motion), Wednesday 2.45 (short), The Mormon Conquest (short), The Last Paperboy (short), Fat Cow Motel (tv episode). Cat has a BA - Drama, Acting from QUT Academy of the Arts and her extensive professional development includes residencies at The Kitchen (NY), Troika Ranch Dance Theatre (NY) and Time_Place_Space_1 (Wagga Wagga) working with many international artists.  She has been awarded numerous grants to develop projects and further her skills as an artist and curator.  Cat was co-director of Electrofringe, an international festival of experimental, electronic art and culture (2006 and 2007), co-founded the group as a company and was Chair from 2008-2010.  Along the way she has worked for City of Sydney, Australia Council, Arts NSW, Sydney Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Traverse Theatre (UK) and many others in all areas of event and arts management. Cat is Artistic Director of PACT centre for emerging artists.

Tutors

Chris Ryan - movement
Christopher Ryan has consistently informed his thirty-year career in the performing arts with an investigation of corporality and embodiment. He specialises in ‘physical infrastructure’, a language and performance approach that crosses several disciplines with ease; from dance to classical and modern texts, self-devised ensemble work to film and video, performer training, directing, dramaturgy and artistic consultancy.He was a founding member of The Sydney Front and has also worked with One Extra Dance Company, Sidetrack Performance Group, Kicking & Screaming Theatre and collaborated extensively with filmmaker/photographer Stephen Cummins (1960-1994). Chris was Artistic Director of PACT Theatre from 1997-1999. He has an ongoing artistic relationship with My Darling Patricia and has worked on Politely Savage, The Night Garden and recently Africa. A founding member of Version 1.0, he has performed in The Second Last Supper, CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) and From A Distance as well as dramaturgy on Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue and This Kind of Ruckus (2009/10). Ryan is currently Creative Researcher for the Creative Arts Faculty, University of Wollongong directing Hamlet-machine (2010), Angels In America [Part II] & Pre-Paradise/Sorry Now (2009), Everyone and No One & Antigone & Creon (2008), Oedipus Wrecks & What Was Wood Became Alive (2007) The Trickle Down Effect (2006).

Sophie Martin - voice
Sophie Martin is an Actor, Singer and Voice Artist and has just completed her training as a Voice Movement Therapist. Currently based in Sydney, she teaches voice at Wollongong University and in the University of Southern Queensland Theatre Department in Toowoomba, as well as running numerous workshops all over Australia. Her work centres on finding emotional connections and resonance as well as creating flexibility and colour within the voice. Sophie completed a Bachelor of Theatre Arts in 2001 at the University of Southern Queensland where she won the Theatre Arts Award. Her professional performance credits include “I May Fly” a one woman show, “The Greatest Show on Earth” with the Queensland Music Festival, “The Little Dragon” and “Strange Soup” with the LATT Children’s Theatre in Korea, Athena in “Voiceprint” with Mark Zadro and the Symphony, “Vietnam – A loss of Innocence” and “Like Hay before the Mower” with Troubadour Theatre, “The Bathroom Diaries” with @play entertainment, and ‘Aargh the Musical” with the Maritime Museum. During her training she performed Puck in “A Midsummer Nights Dream”, Diane in “Blackrock”, Sarah Rudd in “On our Selection” and most memorably Freda the Diva in “Aesops Fables”. Sophie holds individual and group sessions at the Radiance Centre in Neutral Bay and the Music Practice in Surry Hills, and is also a vocal coach for professional actors and singers in Sydney and abroad, and teaches at the Bondi Pavilion Community Cultural Centre.