Collaborators
Evie Logan
Collaborator/Dancer
Evie is a dancer, performer and artist centered in multidisciplinary work. Based in Tamaki Makaurau, she performs in theaters, live events, festivals and on-screen. Currently, her practice, Articulate My Form explores the weaving together of improvised movement and documentation of movement through installation.
Kate Littlejohn
Collaborator/Dancer
Kate has been dancing for 12 years now. She has a degree from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Dance Studies and expecting to graduate with her Masters of Dance Studies this year. She has been dancing at Enbeat Dance Academy for 2 years and has been part of a K-pop crew called ‘Elit-is’. Her stage name 'Littlejohn' is a way of showing how proud she is to be a Littlejohn, and paying homage to her family who have shown their endless support.
CARLA HARRE
Collaborator/Dancer
Carla is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Since graduating university at Unitec, majoring in contemporary dance, she has created her own collective with Jess Crompton, Jawline Dance co. Together they choreographed and produced ‘The Monotone Era’ (2021). Which had a nearly sold out 5 night season at Basement theater. Carla is currently working on a new show with Jawline Co - ‘The Way of the Few' (2023) She is enjoying both choreographing for her collective and collaborating and dancing with her freelance community. Carla is interested in the beauty of subtlety and fluid movements. Highlighting the human body and the intracises of movement. She enjoys creating a clear movement aesthetic that leaves the audience satisfied and moved. She wants to give the audience a taste of a storyline and theme but leave the conclusions to them.
DEBORAH FLETCHER
Collaborator/Dancer
Deborah is a freelance dance artist and creative producer based in Tāmaki. She enjoys variety in her practice, and exploring new ways of being and moving. She is excited by the plurality of multidisciplinary work. Deborah likes working collaboratively, and she has loved being part of Cityscapes, dancing and creating with her friends.
Emma Broad
Facilitator/Choreographer
Emma Broad is a Kai Tahu choreographer, dancer and arts administrator. She is a graduate of The University of Auckland Dance Studies Honours Programme where she had a number of opportunities to choreograph and perform, most signficantly creating a duet that toured to Singapore, Myanmar and China. Since graduating she has mainly been focusing on performance and arts administration but is looking forward to delving back into the world of choreography.
Alexandra Lamm
Collaborator/Dancer
Auckland based dancer, Alex, was originally born in the United States and has been dancing for over 17 years. She has trained in a variety of styles over the years dancing in both concert and competitive settings. With Bachelor degrees in both Dance and Exercise Science, Alex strives to bring the two together. She is a physically active dancer who is curious on how to blend athleticism and art in different styles of dance to tell stories and make meaningful statements. Alex is commercially and classically educated in jazz, ballet (classical and contemporary), modern, and street styles under the instruction of many teachers and top choreographers over the course of her training. She finds musicality and rhythms important in choreographing and performing. Alex is passionate about combining the strength and the power of movement with the delicacy and beauty of art.
Zoe White
Collaborator/Dancer
Zoe (she/they) is a freelance dance artist, tutor and choreographer/creative based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Having trained overseas at Rambert School and receiving a BA(Hons) in Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Zoe then went on to complete training at the Sydney Dance Company's Pre-Professional Year. Since graduating, dance has brought Zoe home to hand on her experiences through teaching and coaching students throughout Auckland, and begin her career as a performing artist and creative. Highlights include receiving the North Harbour Club AIMES Arts and Supreme Award, performing in PhD candidate Yin-Chi Lee's multidisciplinary work This Room is an Island, interpreting Tino Sehgal's Yet Untitled at the Auckland Art Gallery, and working with the Ballet Collective Aotearoa and New Zealand Dance Company. Zoe is excited to see where her journey leads her next.
JOANNA COOK
Collaborator/Dancer
Joanna Cook is a dance artist, researcher and multimodal choreographer based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). She has worked and collaborated internationally with dance makers such as Jason Winters (JWCT), Rafael Bonachela (SDC), Erica Sobol, Danielle Ohn (KCDC), Yamit Kalef (Cullberg, Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, Jiiri Kylian, and Itzik Galili), Iran Sharabi, Eyal Dadon, Oded Graff, Andy and Diane Noble (Noble Motion), Nina Fajdiga (Flying Low/ Passing Through) and Chisato Ohno (Batsheva). Locally, Joanna collaborated with Emma Cosgrave and Abi Jones (Tempo), Amber Liberte (Akl-Babel, The Basement Theatre), Deborah Fletcher (fields of collar bones), Alys Longley (Humattering), Janaina Moraes (Balloon Anatomy) and DancePlant Collective (Structure).
Joanna is a PhD Candidate at the University of Auckland exploring the possibilities of Multimodality as (feminist) Choreographic Practice. She holds an MA Dance Studies with first class honours and a PGDip Dance Studies with distinction. Her work explores transdisciplinary materialities, pedagogies of care and feminist practices of ‘undoing-ness’ through imagination, repair, and care. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Dance Studies Program at the Waipapa Taumata Rau (University of Auckland).
CELIA HEXT
Collaborator/Dancer
Celia Hext is a fire-cracker dance artist and a versatile, charismatic and enchanting performer and choreographer. She has recently finished a 6 week season of Tino Sehgal's Yet Untitled (2013) at Auckland Art Gallery. She was cast in Footnote Dance Company's A Floor, Some Thoughts and Us and Sarah Foster Sproull's Double Goer and Chrysalis supported by New York Center for Ballet and the Arts and the Oxford Alternative Orchestra. Celia frequently collaborates with Kristian Larson across various sound and movement improvisation projects and has choreographed/performed sold out seasons of Puffy Sob in collaboration with Jawline Dance Co., both independently and at Auckland Fringe 2022. Other collaborations include Joanna Cook's Expanding Flesh which premiered at Carriage Works in Sydney, Australia; Dance Pant Collective's Body of Earth; Oli Mathieson's Divine Estate for Performance Arcade 2022, and she was recently selected to present a short dance work at Blank Kanvas 2022. Celia was the recipient of the Summer Choreographic Research Scholarship 2021 by the University of Auckland, was Company 605’s scholarship recipient in Vancouver, 2019 and has been a finalist at HHI World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas. She is also an active member of Auckland's Contact Improvisation community.