Becky Hilton
Becky is a dancer/choreographer who will work with communities in developing movement-focussed activities. She teaches extensively for schools, community organisations, companies, and festivals worldwide.

A VCA graduate, she performed with Dance Exchange and DanceWorks before moving to New York in 1987. She has performed and toured extensively with the Stephen Petronio Company (1987 – 1995), featured in the work of many international artists including Michael Clark and Tere O'Connor, and was a founding member of the Lucy Guerin Dance Company. Her choreography has been presented in Australia, USA, and Europe.

Note: Becky is a passionate Western Bulldogs supporter who lives locally and retained her Bulldogs membership whilst living overseas.

Emile Zile
Emile is a media artist who works with video, performance and installation. He was an emerging CCD Artist in Residents at Footscray Arts in 2005 where he facilitated workshops in new media and music technology for the Workshop Program.

He has recently returned to Australia from attendances at the Viper and Impakt multimedia festivals in Switzerland and The Netherlands (funded by an Australia Council Run_Way grant). An Honours graduate in Media Arts at RMIT University, his work has appeared in many festivals including Next Wave, What Is Music, Electrofringe, Melbourne Fashion Festival, and Noise. He is also in demand as a VJ, and has worked with performers such as Terre Thaemlitz and B(if)tek.

Martyn Coutts
Martyn is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts in Animateuring. For the past 7 years, Martyn performed, taught, devised and toured with Hobart’s is theatre ltd (previously Salamanca Theatre Company). His work with is theatre included devising shows for five statewide tours of Tasmania and performing at the Bluebird International Children’s Festival in Seoul, Korea.

In 2003, he was commissioned by the Works Festival to direct ‘Container: Passport to Happiness’, a collaboration with members of Hobart’s new African Community. In 2005, he was the video artist and co-devisor for the remount of this project for Tasmania’s international arts festival, Ten Days on the Island. He has travelled to Berlin to attend Transmediale International Media Festival (with support from the Australia Council’s New Media Arts Board), co-devised and performed the installation ‘Loading Zone’ for the 2004 Next Wave Festival, and recently finished  working with Stompin Youth Dance Company as dramaturg for their last work ‘Citizen’.

Later this year, he will be undertake artist residencies for Culture Lab (Melbourne), Performance Space (Sydney) and Taipei International Artist Village (Taiwan).

Tamsin Sharp
Tamsin has created numerous award-winning short dramas, music videos and documentaries. She has worked as a video artist for various performance projects and often produces work collaboratively with communities. Alongside her work as a film and video artist, she has worked in areas such as project coordination and communications for a range of nationally-renowned arts organisations including Carclew Youth Arts Centre, the Comeout Festival, Adelaide Festival for the Arts, and youth theatre organisation SCRAYP – Youth Arts With An Edge.

In 2004 Tamsin completed a residency in Seattle through the Australia Council that involved working on a large-scale public video CCD project. Tamsin enjoys working collaboratively on quality screen based projects - both large and small in scale.  Her key aim is to create work that can impact positively on the lives of the people she collaborates with, as well as on the people who view her films.