A graduate of W.A.A.P.A, Kay has worked professionally as a performer and choreographer in theatre, film, television, corporate theatre and street theatre for the last 25 years.

Kay was awarded the prestigious Robert Helpmann Scholarship in 2004 and in 2013 she was awarded the prestigious national Ausdance Peggy Van Praagh Fellowship for established artist.

Between 2007- 2012 Kay devoted her career to the development of Sydney’s emerging dance sector. She was Artistic Director of 2 youth companies pulse8 (2007+2008) and youMove (2009 – 2012).

In the wake of resigning from youMove and the company folding Kay has been prolific, re-investing in her practice by working across several sectors and in a variety of lead directorial and management roles, as well continuing her choreographic and performance development. Since 2013 Kay has produced two new solo works (100th Monkey, AN HOUR WITH KAY Old 505 Theatre Freshworks), several performance projects with disability service provider Sunnyfield (Momentum AGNSW, The Many Me’s Rockdale Council, Transformational Stare Fest), Guest choreographer (Vivid Festival, Sydney Fringe Festival Platform Shots, Catalyst national dance residency, Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year), artist residencies (Dance Sites, Readymade Moving Ideas Solo Residency, Sydney University Centre for Performance Studies, Q Lab Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre) and working with young people (lead artist for Extraordinary/ Ordinary, a video art project through Campbelltown Arts Centre and special needs students of Mater Dei High School, Flannofest The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre annual youth arts festival).

She hit the ground running in 2016 letting her alter ego Bike welcome in the New Year at the Short and Sweet Cabaret Festival with guest M.C-ing role and a solo performance in that got her a place in the festival grand finals. She is also working with the emerging artists at Sydney Dance Company’s Pre Professional Year and peer mentoring Margot Politis in her new work Forest Unyielding.

Kay will be returning to work with the Sydney Street Choir, to make a new work Blue Skies, and creating a movement piece for the guest choir at the gala of Short and Sweet Voices.

David is an artist who enjoys working with the community to give them opportunity to direct and bring meaning to his art. Past projects have included Teena’s Bathtime at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Eau Wet Dogge at West Space Gallery and Melbourne Fashion week. He recently helped Casula Powerhouse celebrate their 21^st birthday, curating a night of performance, workshops and food for Party Party Party. In 2013 he was the recipient of The Blake Prize’s John Coburn Emerging Artist Award and curated a comprehensive survey of Western Sydney in a special edition of Das Superpaper under a mentorship with C3 West coordinator Anne Loxley. In 2012 David collaborated with Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams at Rydalmere Public School for the Artist in Schools Residency. His work has appeared in Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Penrith Regional Gallery, Performance Space, Museum of Australia, Tiny Stadiums Festival, Artspace, Australian Experimental Art Foundation and Hazlehurst Regional Gallery. In 2015 he co-directed Motion Pictures: A Festival of New Cinema with Kate Blackmore (Powerhouse Youth Theatre, Fairfield). He recently curated Party Party Party in celebration of the  21^st birthday of Casula Powerhouse Art Centre.

Photographer: Alex Wisser

Diane Busuttil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in dance from the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She has since performed all over the world with a diverse range of artistic groups in the capacity of dancer, actor, acrobat, teacher, choreographer, producer and director.

After being the recipient of a scholarship from the DAAD Germany and completing her post graduate studies at The International Women’s University in Hannover, Germany in 2000, Busuttil began working with choreographers Be van Vark, Ami Garmon, Marco Berrettini, Jan Fabre, Post Theatre and Meg Stuart in Berlin. She was a founding member of Constanza Macras and the Dorky Park Ensemble whom she worked with for eight years touring dance theatre works throughout the world.

Busuttil was commissioned by several International Theatre directors and collaborated and performed in Canada with Theatre Junction. She choreographed Cheap Blood, an opera/musical theatre version of “Carrie” by Steven King at the Sophiensaele Berlin. Busuttil co-created Salting the Tail in Oslo, Norway and performed and choreographed Intrigo Internationale, a contemporary opera at Radiale System Berlin, as well as performing in Good Little Soldier with Australian group, The Farm. A highlight of her performance experience was working with renowned Argentine theatre director Rodrigo Garcia.

Her award winning short films have screened at over fifty International film festivals. In 2014, Fresh Fruit, her latest short, was the recipient of a Taste Award in LA, Hollywood, and Curdled, a short dance film, was nominated for an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Film/New Media.

She is currently partaking in a Higher Degree Research Masters at Macquarie University, Sydney, focusing on the somatic connection between dance/movement and camera work, investigating areas such as Independent and experimental cinema and cinematic subjectivity. Her latest short film, commissioned by ABC, will be screened in April 2017. 

Imogen is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Sydney. In 2009, she joined youMove Company, and has had the opportunity to work with Australian choreographers, Kay Armstrong, Emma Saunders, Anton, Tony Osborne, Ian Colless and Sarah Vyne-Vassallo. Following her desire to create hybrid art with the interactive media program, Isadora, Imogen held an artist residency with Eramboo Artist Environment from 2009 to 2012. In 2010, her multimedia work Tyche appeared in the Sydney Fringe Festival. In 2012, she toured nationally as the new media artist on Vicki Van Hout’s critically acclaimed production Briwyant. In 2013, she collaborated as both a performer and media artist for The Living Room Theatre’s premiere of Michelle St Anne’s award winning theatre work, I Love Todd Sampson.

In 2014, Imogen presented ĭn-dwĕl′ for Dance Meets Music and created a public interactive sound installation, entitled play, as the inaugural recipient of the Enliven Pittwater Artist in Residence. This year, she collaborated as composer and media artist for Cloé Fournier’s full-length work, Dining [Uns]-Table and undertook a Curated Residency at QL2 to develop her work WiTNESS.  Most recently, she appeared in Victoria Hunt’s multi-disciplinary work Tangi Wai, as part of LIVEWORKS 2015, Performance Space’s Festival of Experimental Art.

Gordo is a bucket drummer from Sydney who studied drumming at the Tokyo School of Music. After two years of dedicated study and practice, performing on the streets of Tokyo to earn his living Gordo returned to Australia to take up street performing full time. He plays drums on regular dulux buckets, busking across Sydney, using the knowledge and skills learnt whilst overseas.

As a result of his bucket drumming he has had the opportunity to work on many different artistic projects with many talented people across the world. He currently runs his own Youtube channel, performs in a number of independent Sydney bands and has featured in performances for ad campaigns, business launches and corporate events.