Josh Hogan works as a percussionist, composer and producer across a range of new performance media. In addition to a range of freelance projects, he is the founder and artistic director of the percussion group Taal Naan, and a member of the groups Nova Ensemble, Pi and Tetrafide. As part of his residency at the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad, he will engage in intensive study of Konnakol (South Indian vocal percussion), and seek exposure to a range of northern and southern Indian rhythmic and dance forms, as well as record and produce an album of material under his solo moniker Rusty Joe, featuring local Ahmedabad musicians.

Supported by The WA Department of Culture and The Australia India Council.  

Martyn Coutts and Willoh S. Weiland form the live art collaboration, Deadpan. Their work is an ongoing research-based practice that utilises multi-media, rage and nonsense to challenge the definition of performative artworks. Deadpan has shown work at Electro fringe (Newcastle) and the national live art symposium 'this is the time this is the record of the time' (Perth), and have an ongoing mentorship with Scott Rankin, the artistic director of Big hART. Deadpan will be resident at the LAB in Beijing where they will explore different performative contexts to develop works that address the existence of a social responsibility to care for strangers.

Supported by The Australia Council.

Andrew Hale, a graduate from École Jacques Lecoq, and Renée McIntosh, a graduate of West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, formed Happy Dagger Theatre to explore the essence of theatre and its necessity for audiences in a world of blockbuster entertainment. Receiving four Equity Guild Award nominations and recipient of a 2006 Blue Room Award, their style is actor-driven, economical and physical with a reputation for vigorous collaboration and controversy.  Their residency with Instant Café Theatre in Kuala Lumpur will expose them to other collaborative approaches and working methods especially with regards to traditional physical storytelling, comedy and instant creation from constant chaos.

Supported by Australia Malaysia Institute and The Australia Council. 

Theatre director, animateur and performer, Anna Loewendahl is Co-director of TransVision Arts, an organisation dedicated to social change through performance. Loewendahl has worked with YSpace aerial dance, social theatre in Zimbabwe, and teaches dance to youth at risk. She directs and performs Play at Being, investigating philosophical questions through multimedia performance. Loewendahl’s residency at Paper Moon signifies a temporary departure from an arts and theatre practice that uses a relatively fixed set of tools and strategies, to an opportunity to engage in Yogyakarta’s unique culture, exchanging creative ideas that challenge her existing theatre-making praxis.

Supported by The Australia Indonesia Institute and The Australia Council.

Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn are composers, performers and sound designers, with a long-term collaborative practice. Curiosity about sound and artistic expression inspires them to seek partnerships in dance, theatre, installation and film. They combine their artistic and academic expression in directing the megaphone project – an installation concerned with intimate listening in public spaces. Recent collaborations with the tony yap company (tyc) include creating scores with The Necessary Stage, Singapore and Theatre Nottle, Korea. In 2008 they worked on a sonification of data with the Garvan Institute for Medical Research. They will explore distributed networking concepts to map a sonic landscape across Hokkaido, and initiate a connection between Future University in Hokkaido and Griffith University, Queensland.

Supported by The Australia Council. 

Cellist Katherine Philp graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium in 2008. She performs in a wide range of classical chamber music and orchestral settings as well as crossing over to collaborative world music and improvisation projects. Through improvisation, composing and arranging she explores how western musical mediums can be manipulated and crafted to work successfully with Tibetan folk and classical music. Philp will undertake a residency at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala, India. There she will build on her knowledge of Tibetan classical and folk music traditions through collaborating with local musicians and assisting with the research and documentation program at TIPA.

Supported by Arts Queensland and The Australia Council. 

A director and dramaturge based in Melbourne, Kate Sulan is Artistic Director of Rawcus, an award-winning theatre company of performers with and without disabilities. Her work draws on dance, theatre and visual art disciplines and has been described as “a moving assertion of humanity with a wicked sense of humour”. Sulan has worked with companies including Back to Back Theatre, Stuck Pig Squealing, The Women’s Circus, Next Wave Festival and Malthouse Theatre. Her residency with the Darpana Academy in Ahmedabad will allow opportunities for creative dialogue, experimentation, reflection, and the seeding of new works.

Supported by Arts Victoria and The Australia Council.

Since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, composer and digital media artist Leah Barclay has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and India. She has studied with a range of international artists and been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the inaugural Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Scholarship. In residence at Art Centre Nabi, in Seoul, Barclay will draw on experience gained from working on projects that span film and theatre, interactive installations, live electronics and multi-platform production, to create a series of hybrid intercultural performances that can be diffused via broadband networks.

Supported by Arts Queensland and The Australia Council. 

Lachlan Skipworth is a Sydney-based composer, originally from Perth. He has studied composition with Roger Smalley and Anne Boyd, and spent two and a half years in Japan learning shakuhachi with Kakizakai Kaoru and revered master Yokoyama Katsuya. Skipworth was a featured composer and guest conductor at the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival in Sydney where master performers premiered two of his works. His residency will be in Tokyo, hosted by “Aura-J”, an ensemble of traditional Japanese instruments directed by Minoru Miki. He will work with members of the ensemble to produce new works for this exciting combination of instruments.

Supported by Arts NSW and The Australia Council.