TOM DAVIES is a graduate of The National Theatre Drama School (2000) and studied Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne (1998- 2003) and acting at Ecole Philippe Gaulier (2004). He trained in Capoeira (1998-2001), circus training at The National Institute of Circus Arts (2000), in Butoh with Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare (2000-03) and in Bodyweather with Tess de Quincey since 2001. He participated in the performance laboratories Dream Regime led by Gekkidan Kaitaisha in 2004, and Space for Ideas led by Johnathon Burrows, Meryl Tankard and Lloyd Newson in 2002. Most recently he has performed in The Bones Love Gringo by Lady Muck 2008, Hotel Obsino at La Mama in 2007, The Memory Priest at Big West Festival 2007, in 4.48 Psychosis by Red Stitch 2007 and in Bruises by Lupa Arts 2007. Tom performed with De Quincey Co in FIVE Short Solos at Performance Space in 2005 and in Dictionary of Atmospheres in the riverbed in Alice Springs for the Alice Desert Festival 2005. He performed in Melbourne Theatre Company's Metamorphoses 2003, In-Compatibility by Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap as part of Melbourne International Festival 2003, Australian Marriage Act by Arena Theatre Company 2002, in La Mama`s Moonbabies 2002 and Horse Girl vs Captain Brap 2001, in Flying the Shadow at Dancehouse 2001 and in Wind in the Willows by Australian Shakespeare Company 2001.

 

PETER FRASER has worked with Tess de Quincey since 1990 and has been a longstanding member of the De Quincey Co ensemble. His performances span the city and the desert from Square of Infinity in Lake Mungo in 1992 to Triple Alice Laboratories 1999-2001 in the Central Desert and more recently in FIVE Short Solos at Performance Space in 2005, Dictionary of Atmospheres in Alice Springs in 2005, Impro-Lab: TRANSPARENCIES at Sydney Opera House in 2006 and then in Melbourne at fortyfivedownstairs in 2007. He has worked extensively with the Body Weather practice and has most recently studied with Min Tanaka in Japan in 2007. In 2007 he completed a Solo Residency Program at VUT and in August 2008 his new solo work Tarkovsky's Horse will be presented at Dancehouse as part of Two Solos with Linda Luke which will then tour interstate to Campelltown Arts Centre and to Performance Space at CarriageWorks. Other works in 2007-2008 included The Little Con with Paul Romano at Dancehouse, Musicircus directed by Tony Yap for Melbourne Arts Festival, Man in the Moon a development by Barry Laing and Baris dance at Monash University. Peter has also worked and performed with choreographers/directors Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam), Barry Laing, Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap, Peter Snow, Stuart Lynch as well as with filmmaker Ben Speth and video/installation artists Bashir Baraki and Julia White.

 

VICTORIA HUNT is an Australian-born artist of mixed descent, Ngati Tarawhai, Rongowhaakata Maori, English and Irish. Victoria has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Griffith University (1997) and has exhibited her photo-media work in Brisbane, Aotearoa NZ, Germany, Japan and China. Victoria has worked as a dance performer with Tess de Quincey since 1999 and is a founding dancer of De Quincey Co's Bodyweather ensemble. She has been involved in the development of company work, which has comprised more than 20 productions and residencies, nationally and internationally since 2000 and studied Bodyweather with Min Tanaka in Japan 2007.

Victoria is currently completing the creative development of a new hybrid solo work titled Copper Promises, supported by Performance Space’s Residency Program and by the Dance Board and InterArts Office of the Australia Council 2007-09. This builds on her work as a dancer with Mau Dance Company in Auckland, Vienna, Brussels, London 2006/07/08; a 2005 professional skills development and mentorship with Maori Bodyweather practitioner Charles Koroneho; her 2004 collaboration with Barbara Campbell and Brian Fuata to create durational performance installation Travelling Light at Performance Space, Pacific Wave Festival about Indigenous artefacts in collections; as well as a 2003 residency at WINTEC in Hamilton, Aotearoa NZ. These experiences have been formative in investigating concepts of Maori creativity that are situational and bound to the cultural conditions that reflect contemporary Indigenous politics. Victoria has been awarded a Critical Path choreographic research residency in 2009.

 

LINDA LUKE holds a degree in BA in Communications, University of Technology - Sydney (1998) and has worked in theatre and dance-performance since 1997. Linda joined De Quincey Co in 2004 and recent productions include Triptych, Performance Space at Carriageworks (2008), Five Short Solos, Performance Space (2005) and Dictionary of Atmospheres, Alice Springs Festival (2005). In 2007 Linda was awarded an Asialink residency to study Bodyweather with Min Tanaka in Japan and since 2006 she has been integral to developing and sustaining the De Quincey Co’s ongoing training program for Bodyweather dancers and the performance/dance community in Sydney. In 2007 Linda was funded to develop her new solo work entitled Borderlines, which in 2008, (in conjunction with Peter Fraser’s new solo Tarkovsky’s Horse) toured to Melbourne, Sydney and Campbelltown with support from Australia Council. Linda also performed in choreographer Samantha Chester's creative development Monster Forming (2008). Recently, she received a 2009 Critical Path Fellowship to begin research for a new solo work entitled Thirteen, a project investigating homeless youth. Linda has had a wide variety of experience as a performer, dramaturge and co-director for performances and events in Sydney, Melbourne, as well as in United Arab Emirates and Greece.