Viviane Frehner // Founding Artistic Director
Viviane was born in Switzerland and graduated from the Amsterdam Art School in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in contemporary dance. After dancing for many years in Nanine Linning's Dance Company in Germany and freelancing throughout Europe, she migrated to the Northern Rivers, NSW Australia, in 2014. Frehner has been dancing, choreographing, teaching and directing numerous dance projects, amongst others things, for Bleach* Festival, The Commonwealth Games Festival 2018, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane and Crack Theatre Festival. Frehner's short dance film GOGI premiered in 2017 and continues to be screened at film festivals nationally and internationally. Frehner has recently relocated to Valla Beach, NSW 2020.
Alicia Min Harvie // Founding Artistic Director
Alicia Min Harvie is an emerging independent dancer and performance maker based on the Gold Coast. Harvie spent her first Bachelor investigating Theological interaction of Arts and Contemporary Culture and her second training in Dance Performance at the Adelaide College of the Arts (AC Arts). Since graduating, Harvie has been making works that blend performance, art and environmental restoration. Harvie creates experiences that are site-sympathetic and that bring the audience into the same playing space as the performers. The signature element of her work is blending subversive humor in created scenarios that open new perspectives towards the environment. Harvies desire's to design projects that are trans-formative and absorbing.
Ashleigh White // Founding Artistic Director
Ashleigh White is a director, choreographer and performer who is interested in creating site-specific dance works that engage new audiences in places familiar to them by collaborating with artists across different disciplines. Ashleigh received her Bachelor of Arts from WAAPA in 2012. Ashleigh has worked predominantly independently and also with Everybody NOW, Tammy Zarb and Co, The Flash Collective, Phluxus2 Dance Collective, Kate Shearer, All the Queens Men and Travers Ross. Ashleigh recently choreographed and performed a work called Social Fabric in STRUT Dance’s, sold out season, Situ-8 at the State Theatre Centre of WA. Ashleigh completed a SEED Residency with Talitha Maslin on a new work called SIREN and created a short dance film called Point Street which will be shown as a apart of STRUT Dance’s Shortcuts Season. Ashleigh is passionate about developing a methodology for creating site-specific works and furthering her artistic practice of dancing on the beach.
Kimberley McIntyre // Collaborator
Works: 1/15 Ross Street 2017 and You Don’t Know Jack + Kitty 2020.
Guy Webster // Collaborator
Works: Quiet by Nature 2018, You Don’t Know Jack + Kitty 2019, Lufthaus 2019-current and Follow the Bias 2021.
Mimi Dennett // Collaborator
Works: Quiet by Nature 2018, Iris 2019 and SIREN 2021.
Alicia De La Fuente // Collaborator
Works: You Don’t Know Jack + Kitty 2020.
Talitha Maslin // Collaborator
Works: SIREN 2021.
Tammy Zarb // Collaborator
Works: Quiet by Nature 2018, Iris 2019 and Inside Out 2019.