Stephanie Petersen

Australian dancer Stephanie Petersen, has been a member of the American Ballet Theatre, HET National Ballet and The Australian Ballet. Notable performances include the principal role of "Myrta" queen of the Wilis in American Ballet Theaters’ Giselle, Jerome Robbins’ “Afternoon of a Faun” and Christopher Wheeldon’s “After The Rain” with The Australian Ballet.
In 2009 Stephanie was a guest artist with Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses, performing principal roles in “Commedia” and “Fool’s Paradise” and in that same year she became the youngest ever winner of The Australian Telstra Ballet Dancer of the Year award and people’s choice award.
Stephanie won the Gold Medal at the 10th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition in Tokyo (2005) and upon graduating from The Australian Ballet School performed Odette/Odile in Swan Lake.

Nicole Corea

Chimene Steele-Prior

Originally from Darkinjung Country, Chimene has worked as a performer with an array of independent artists and companies. Most recently, Chimene performed in Project Animo’s inaugural season in 2022 in works by Alice Topp, Cass Mortimer-Eipper, Izzac Thomas and in solo work In Real Life by Kristina Chan. Chimene joined Australasian Dance Collective in 2023 for Lucie in the sky, by Amy Hollingsworth and in 2024, she was engaged to perform Future Cargo by Requardt and Rosenberg (UK) throughout the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Chimene worked extensively with Opera Australia between 2011-2021, touring throughout Australia and China. Chimene’s choreographic work has been presented at the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Lawler Theatre, Dancehouse, Melbourne Fringe Festival Hub and the Winter in Banyule Festival. Her solo work INFORMATION II was nominated for a Green Room Award for Concept and Realisation in 2015. Recently, Chimene has been exploring larger scale choreographies on students at Transit Dance, NICA, and Albert Park College. Chimene is a Certified Counter Technique Teacher and is passionate about facilitating dancers’ connection to joy and trust in their own bodies.

Nicole Corea is a Juilliard graduate (BFA 2000) who has spent 25 years building a highly accomplished career in New York City and abroad as a dancer, choreographer, educator and rehearsal director. She has performed with some of the most prestigious dance companies and choreographers in NYC, including Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Ballet Hispanico, Elisa Monte, Ballet Memphis, Vladimir Varnava, and numerous productions at the Metropolitan Opera.  She has travelled across the globe as a guest teacher for master classes, workshops, conventions and lectures in countries including the USA, Rwanda, Japan and across Europe. Nicole has also acted as répétiteur and rehearsal assistant for Lar Lubovitch, Elisa Monte, and numerous independent choreographers, setting work in tertiary institutions, pre-professional organisations and companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, UC Irvine and Marymount Manhattan College and the Steps Repertory Ensemble.  She has created her choreographic works in festivals and companies in the U.S., including Ballet Memphis, Ballet Hispanico ChoreLab series and the Ubumuntu Arts Festival in Kigali, Rwanda. In Australia, Nicole has worked in creative residency with choreographer Xanthe Geeves to create an original work to be performed by the Australian Ballet and taught classes for the Australasian Dance Collective, Transit Dance, Lucy Guerin and Queensland College of Dance.  Most recently, she performed in the Metropolitan Opera's productions of "Onegin" and "Tannhauser",  served as a guest choreographer for the Victorian College of the Arts, guest instructor for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the Joffrey Ballet NYC and the Dance International Program at the Jikei Colleges in Japan. Nicole is currently an Associate Lecturer in Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts BFA programme, a freelance choreographer and a coach to pre-professional and professional dancers throughout Melbourne.  She continues to work in the U.S. with the Joffrey Ballet School and as a co-founder and choreographer of the NIJAD Dance Artists, based in NYC. 

Molly Haringsma

Molly is a multidisciplinary contemporary dance artist from Melbourne/Naarm. A graduate of the Brent Street School of the Performing Arts in Sydney, with a Diploma in Elite Performance, specialising in Classical Contemporary dance under the guidance of Jessica Hesketh. During her time at Brent Street, she had the opportunity to perform graduation works by renowned choreographers such as Cass Mortimer-Eipper, Neale Whittaker, and Jessica Hesketh. Immersing herself in the contemporary dance scene across Australia, Molly has performed as an independent artist in various events, including Sydney Fringe and commissions for the Central Coast Council. Her diverse performance background spans live immersive productions, musical theatre, and, in 2022, a season at the Sydney Opera House as part of the French cabaret L'Hotel, directed by Craig Ilott. In 2023, Molly returned to Melbourne, where she joined the Transit Dance Company for their regional tour of OPUS by Jayden Hicks. She also participated in a creation season, performing works by Chimene Steele-Prior, Paul Malek, and Prue Lang. Molly continues to freelance throughout Melbourne while also traveling across Australia and internationally to pursue invaluable secondment opportunities. She engages with choreographers and dancers from diverse backgrounds, who continue to inspire her dance practice.

Jessica Thompson

Jessica trained at the Australian Ballet School and holds an Advanced Diploma of Dance (2003). She has danced as a company artist with The Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company, touring extensively throughout Australia, Europe, the UK, the USA, South America and New Zealand. In 2011 she was awarded an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant to undertake artistic development in Europe and India. Her performance repertoire is vast and includes works by George Balanchine, Rudolph Nureyev, Krzysztof Pastor, Kenneth McMillan, Stanton Welsh, Rafael Bonachela, Graeme Murphy, Stephanie Lake, Alexander Ekman, Gideon Obarzanek, Lee Serle, Gabrielle Nankivell, Alice Topp and Jacopo Godani. In 2023 she performed as a guest artist with The Australian Ballet as part of their 60th birthday celebration seasons in Melbourne and Sydney. She also collaborated Yuiko Masukawa in creation and performance of her work “Yugen” for Frame festival in Melbourne. She is committed to honesty and sustainability in her relationship to environment, community and history through the expressive capacity the body and approaches dancing as medium for embodied presence offering endless possibilities for intimacy, freedom and human connection.