Raghav Handa 

Raghav Handa is an Australian choreographer and performer of Indian heritage with training in modern and Indigenous contemporary dance. Blending Kathak principles with contemporary movement, speed and precision, to create multifaceted, engaging explorations of modern Australian cultural identity.  His work is highly physical and theatrical, incorporating diverse artistic media. Over the past eight years, their productions—TUKRE, MENS REA, FOLLY & TIME, DAWN, Follies of God and TWO—have been performed across Australia and internationally. He has introduced Indian audiences to contemporary dance and Australians to India’s cultural diversity. Handa has collaborated with leading choreographers and performed at Sydney Festival, Asia TOPA and Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. Their work has been acclaimed in Sydney Morning Herald, Real Time, Indian Link, and DANCE Australia Magazine.

Amrita Hepi

Amrita Hepi is an award-winning First Nations choreographer and dancer from Bundjalung (Aus) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. Her mission as an artist is to push the barriers of intersectionality and make work that garners multiple access points through allegories.

An artist with a broad following and reach, her work has taken various forms (film, performance, sculpture, text, lecture, paticipatory installation) but always begins from working with the body as a point of archive, memory and resistance.

Nick Power

Nick Power is an Australian B*boy and choreographer whose work merges hip hop culture with contemporary performance. His projects span from remote Aboriginal communities to major international dance festivals. His recent work, Deejay X Dancer, premiered at Sydney Opera House, and Two Crews featured hip hop groups from Sydney and Paris. Between Tiny Cities toured globally and was nominated for Green Room & Australian Dance awards. A recipient of the 2018 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, Nick was also founding Artistic Director of Platform Hip Hop Festival (2008–2012), Australia’s largest hip hop festival.

BEAT Entertainment

Sampai Tak Sampai

Jumaadi and Michael Toisuta

Sampai, Tak Sampai (arrive, not arrive) by Michael Toisuta and Jumaadi is a performance exploring migration, inspired by the Javanese tradition of boyongan, where entire communities relocate with their belongings. Blending Jumaadi’s visual imagery with Michael’s intricate soundscape, the work draws from the sonic landscapes of mosques and marketplaces and features Padalungan music with Suwandi Widianto. Using drawing, shadow-making, and projection, Jumaadi navigates a shifting environment, while Michael shapes the sound design, integrating movement, and visual design into an immersive, multi-sensory experience.. Dramaturg Ruth Little supports the development of their performance language, integrating sound, movement, and visual design into an immersive, multi-sensory experience.

LEGENDS (Of The Golden Arches)

Joe Lui & Merlynn Tong

A powerful and deeply personal examination of the Asian cultural experience and the enduring power of friendship. It showcases the hard-to-articulate blue-collar religiosity that doesn’t exist in Australia and challenges the notion of Chinese culture as sacred.

Two old besties, Merlynn and Joe, find themselves in the midst of a traditional Chinese funeral for their grandfathers in Australia. As they spend the night in vigil, performing the traditional rites of mourning families, they clash over the preservation of culture and tradition.