Zoë Bastin is an artist. Her expanded choreographic practice considers exhibition, installation, publication and performance as part of the same political project - the reorganisation of societal structures that limit bodies.

In 2021 she completed a PhD at RMIT, University. Bastin has previously exhibited & performed at the Villa Lena Foundazione, Chunky Move, Bus Projects, Dancehouse, Midsumma Festival, Felt Space, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Seventh Gallery, Testing Grounds, BLINDSIDE, Bloc Projects, KINGS Artist Run, MADA Gallery at Monash University, Project Space at RMIT University & The Substation.

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Deepa P Mani is a Naarm / Melbourne- based Performing & Teaching artist with over 30 years’ experience in both Classical Bharathanatyam & Contemporary styles. An accomplished performer, dance theatre producer and owner of Chandralaya School of Dance, she believes passionately in the power of traditional dance to connect people with their heritage, sense of self and inner creativity. Aside from being Artistic Director, Deepa is also a Teaching Artist at the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Regional Arts Victoria & The Song Room. Born in Chennai, Deepa is a lifelong student of the ancient artform of Bharathanatyam.  She has lived – and danced - in India, the United States and now Australia, forging community through her advocacy for dance as a pathway to wellbeing.

Throughout 2022 your hosts engaged in Dancehouse’s Emerging Choreographers Program (ECP). This live artist talk from the 2022 ECP "take over" season, TAKE 22  introduces artists Derrick Duan, Shyama Sasidharan and Jacqui Maida.

ECP is a year-long capacity building and professional development initiative offering young choreographers from diverse cultural and training backgrounds support to develop the skills required for ongoing self-sustaining artistic enquiry, including the concrete tools needed for creating and administering their work.

Hayley Does is an emerging contemporary dance artist based in Naarm (Melbourne)/Wadawarrung Country (Surf Coast). A Victorian College of the Arts (dance) graduate, Does' choreographic practice harnesses duration and repetition through live multi-medium improvisational collaborations to investigate the body's relationship to places we inhabit. They explore presentation and documentation of 'regenerative performance' drawing from somatic techniques such as Feldenkrais and Alexander. Does has completed further study through UAL in Creative Coding with Damien Borowick and as a performer has worked with artists such as Arno Shuitemaker, Zoe Bastin, Parralel Park and Kari McInneny-Mcrae. 

Shelley O’Meara is a Melbourne based video artist, animator and dancer. Having recently completed their Honours degree in Animation at the VCA, Shelley’s work combines dance, projected animation and intricate video layering techniques to develop highly immersive works on and off the screen. Concerned with power, autonomy and the politicisation of bodies, movement is Shelley’s primary storytelling tool. In 2019 they began training in contemporary dance to broaden their understanding of dynamic movement and embodiment. Shelley is a core member of interdisciplinary collective Root Synthesis and moonlights as a performer with site specific theatre group Gold Satino.

Priya Srinivasan has a dual career as an artist and scholar committed to questions of decolonisation and interdisciplinary postcolonial feminist performance.  Her work brings together live bodily performance with visual art, interactive multimedia and digital technology to think about archives of the body, migration, and female labour. Her work has also been presented in diverse settings such as universities, museums, galleries and theatres internationally.  She is the co-Artistic Director of Sangam: Performing Arts Festival of South Asia and Diaspora which she founded in 2019.

What is Fickle Juice? The first episode of our first podcast.  Chelsea and Erin in a casual, meandering conversation about where they're at in their artistic career, what they've achieved this year and what might come out of Fickle Juice.