TOM DAVIES is a graduate of The National Theatre Drama School 2000. He trained in Capoeira 1998-2001 at The National Institute of Circus Arts 2000 and in Butoh with Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare 2000-03. He studied Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne 1998- 2003 and acting with Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris 2004. He has participated in the performance laboratories Dream Regime 2004 led by Gekkidan Kaitaisha and Space for Ideas 2002 led by Johnathon Burrows, Meryl Tankard and Lloyd Newson. He has performed in Melbourne Theatre Company's Metamorphoses 2003, Melbourne International Festival´s In-Compatibility 2003, Arena Theatre Company's Australian Marriage Act 2002, La Mama`s Moonbabies 2002 and Horse Girl vs Captain Brap 2001, Dancehouse's Flying the Shadow 2001, and Australian Shakespeare Company's Wind in the Willows 2001. He joined De Quincey Co as a performer in 2005 having previously trained with Tess de Quincey in Body Weather. His first productions with the company are FIVE, a series of solo productions in June and then Dictionary of Atmospheres in the riverbed in Alice Springs for the Alice Desert Festival in September 2005.

PETER FRASER is based in Melbourne and works as a librarian, performer and cartoonist. His performance work is based primarily on a delight in exploring, and intensively observing, body states and orientations. Using two main methodologies of Improvisation and Bodyweather (techniques deriving from Min Tanaka & Mai-Juku Performance Co), a focus on inner and outer physical states and also their relationship to the experience of time/speed aims to capture and show immediate realities.

Performing in numerous productions since 1992, Peter has worked with choreographers Tess de Quincey, Stuart Lynch, Anzu Furukawa and Philippe Gaulier. He has trained with Yumi UmiUmare (Dai Rakuda Kan), Sho Takeuchi (Sankai Juku); Al Wunder (improvisation); theatre director Andrea Furness, Greg Dyson (Suzuki and other techniques), Deborah Hay, Margaret Cameron, Barry Laing and vocalist Linda Wise (Roy Hart School).

KRISTINA HARRISON holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honours in Performance Studies from the University of Sydney 1999. She was a performer with PACT Theatre 1997-1999 and besides performing and presenting the character Miss Tina on the Triple J Breakfast Show she has been involved in a range of community events and organisations. She was a founding member of Radio station Radio Dex 96.9FM, curated computer music and experimental sound works for radio station 2SER FM 107.3 and was a coordinator of Tropfest Film Festival 2000.

Kristina joined De Quincey Co as a core dance-performer in 2000 and has worked in different productions and arts laboratories produced by the company in Sydney, the Central Desert and Kolkata, India. Kristina has shown a series of solo pieces and is also working on collaborations with other interdisciplinary artists which have included works for Perth's Big Day Out and the Summer Surprise Festival 2002, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with Australian street theatre company Circus Solarus. Besides her work as a performer in the De Quincey Co, Kristina teaches drama and movement.

VICTORIA HUNT is a dance-performer with a background in photomedia. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in photography, from Griffith University 1997 and has over the past ten years exhibited her photographic work inter/nationally, including Brisbane, New Zealand, Germany, Japan and China.

Victoria has been a member of deQco's core ensemble since 2000 and has been involved in the development of the company work since then, comprising 19 productions and 3 Triple Alice interdisciplinary arts laboratories in Alice Springs 1999-2001. In 2003 she was senior dancer and co-leader in a 3-month deQco residency and exchange with Indian artists entitled EMBRACE in Kolkata, which involved a series of workshops and 2 major performances in Kolkata followed by 3 performances in Australia. Concurrent to the work with deQco, Victoria has performed with choreographer Lee Pemberton at The Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra and Bega 2001/02 and in Desert Rain by UK multimedia performance group Blast Theory at Artspace in Sydney 2002. In 2003, her residency at the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton, New Zealand with new media artist Sarah Waterson and filmmaker Michael Schiavello explored concepts of cross-cultural communication and post-colonial identity. She continued this research in 2004 through her collaboration with artist-mentor Barbara Campbell and performance-maker Brian Fuata in a residency and durational performance installation Travelling Light at Performance Space as part of the Pacific Wave Festival 2004. In 2005 she was awarded a Critical Path Residency at the Drill in collaboration with performer Alexandra Harrison (Legs on the Wall).

LINDA LUKE holds a degree in BA in Communications, University of Technology - Sydney (1998). She has been working in theatre and dance-performance since 1997 and joined deQco in 2004 performing in embrace: Changing State and shiver bits at Performance Space and sssh... at Sydney Opera House. She has a wide variety of experience as a performer and dramaturg for festivals and events in Australia and abroad, working as a performer with Sense of Place Physical Theatre Co in Melbourne in 2003 & 2005, with Dubai Children's Festival, United Arab Emirates in 2002 and with Circus Solaris 2002-2005 in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. She was director and performer for Artists Overboard and co-director for Comedy of the Fly for the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2003 and was dramaturg for Sunglasses for Oedipus and A Smile Like Sudden Sunshine at VCA - School of Drama in 2002. In 2000 she worked as choreographer and assistant director to Giorgos Binaris for A Midsummer Nights Dream with the Municipal Regional Theatre of Northern Aegean, Greece. From 1998 - 2000 she was a performer with Culture Lab, a cultural research / theatre laboratory and ensemble based in Sydney under the directio of Willem Brugman.