Artist Profiles

Rebecca Conroy
Rebecca is an interdisciplinary performance writer, single mother, critical thinker and sometime liturgical dancer. She recently completed a doctorate (thank god!) at the University of Newcastle in Indonesian contemporary performance documenting the work of little known community theatre and educational arts practices throughout Java and Sumatra. In 2005 and 2006 Rebecca was co-director of Gang Festival which brought together more than 16 artist run spaces in Sydney and Indonesia for a festival and creative exchange program. In 2004, Rebecca directed a multimedia theatre and film production with 20 factory workers and 5 Australian arts workers over a period of three months in an awful slum suburb of Jakarta. Since initiating Bill and George Bek has been focussed on returning to her practice of writing and devising for live performance.

Hosanna Heinrich
Hosanna is a performing artist and 2007 Australian Tango champion with specialist training in Argentine Tango. She has spent the last five years studying Tango in Australia and Argentina, and has been teaching in Sydney for over two years. Hosanna’s performance work synthesize the traditional elements of tango with physical theatre, aerial work and character development. Such works have been included in The Great Escape (2005/06) and Peats Ridge Festivals (2005/06). She is co-founder of the Sydney based duo The Embrace, who performed at The Studio, Opera House in two Global Beats productions, including ‘Waiting For Guinness’, together with their album launch at the Factory theatre April 2007, and on the opening night of Gang Festival (2006), and in a variety of underground venues in Sydney. She has performed with ‘Trente y Quatro Punaladas’ at the Basement and in the tango stage show, ‘One Night in Buenos Aires’, and was recently specialist trainer and choreographer for Dancing With The Stars. Hosanna has just returned from Argentina where she represented Australia in the World Tango Championships. Recently Hosanna took part in Underbelly a ten day residency at Carriageworks as part of the Pork Collective. During this time she created a short dance film UNDR, a collaboration between The Embrace and Soma-CG.

Rhoda Lazo
Rhoda Lazo is a writer, visual artist and multimedia producer with 8 years of experience managing digital projects. Originally from LA, she was inspired to make a home in Sydney in 2004 after traveling the world. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles and decided to combine a love of art, writing and the creative use of technology and moved into the digital media world. Rhoda has won several awards for her visual art in the US, including a full scholarship from Otis and Parsons. In Sydney, she has participated in two group artistic exhibitions, was commissioned by a digital media company for a large wall painting and is currently working on a solo show. As a producer, she has worked for companies such as Disney, Dreamworks and in Sydney has been responsible for Sydney Festival's overall digital solutions in 2006. She is currently working at Digital Eskimo, a design agency dedicated to creating innovative sustainable solutions for environmentally and socially minded organisations using Considered Design methods.

Clare Perkins
Clare Perkins is a visual artist and installer, qualified rigger and rope access specialist. After completing her Honours Degree in Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University in WA she devised an artist in residence and private art tutoring program in schools and community centres in WA. She had her first solo show in 1997 (‘Monument’, Moores Building, WA). Clare moved to Sydney in 2005 and since 2006 has worked as an installer at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In the past two years Clare has combined this work with her rigging expertise for a range of performance events and festivals. Including, The Great Escape (2006, 2007), Redhanded Projects, Gang Festival, and the Biennale of Sydney 2006.

Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor is a film maker and video designer and has a background in graphic art working freelance for a range of companies in Sydney. His involvement in film making began in 2002 when he produced content for broadcast on for Community Television station Channel 31 with Actively Radical TV. In 2003 Mark produced his first documentary “La Lucienaga” about street kids in Argentina following extended travels through Latin America. Mark has been instrumental to the establishment and running of The Screening Room at its original premises in Chippendale and in 2005 he launched Sydney’s first ever Latin American Film Festival which premiered in two locations in Sydney in February 2006. Mark has designed video content for ‘live performance at the Studio Opera House, Woodford Festival, The Great Escape and Metroscreen,

Associated Artists
Holly Chalmers - http://www.hollychalmers.com
Adam Norton - http://www.adamnorton.net
SOMA CG - http://www.soma-cg.com