DIRECTOR & PERFORMER

Conor is an acrobat, performer, maker and director. He has 14 years of professional performance experience and has lived and toured around the world with some of the biggest names in circus. A graduate of  the Circus Space, London (now the National Centre for Circus Arts), he has worked with Cirque Éloize, Cirque du Soleil, Circa, Circus Oz and The 7 Fingers, performing in numerous theatres and festivals in 29 countries across 6 continents. In 2021 he co-founded ROOKE, Tasmania’s leading contemporary circus company and is now both directing and performing for ROOKE. Conor has a keen interest in the intersection between circus, dance and theatre, and how the forms can blend and combine to bring us together and share the human experience.

PERFORMER

Cecilia is an Australian interdisciplinary artist grown from Argentinian roots. Based on the lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people, movement is my principal artistic language and my work exists in the realms of dance, theatre, circus and photography. 

Beginning in circus, Cecilia trained at Warehouse Circus and the National Institute of Circus Arts as an aerialist and acrobat. In 2016, I joined the ensemble at Circa Contemporary Circus where I created circus works and toured the world for five years, performing in notable venues and festivals in New York, Paris, Guadalajara and beyond. 

Since 2021, my performance practice has shifted to incorporate much more dance and physical theatre. In 2023, I premiered my first solo show Break, a collaboration with dance and physical theatre company The Farm and co-commissioned by Metro Arts and Home of The Arts. Nominated for two Matilda Awards, Break was my first work to combine dance, autobiographical theatre, and circus.

​Cecilia was a recipient of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2022) and a Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowship (2024) to further my training in dance, theatre and improvisation with Europe’s leaders in the craft. I continues to tour globally with companies such as The Farm, A Good Catch, Casus Creations and ROOKE, as well as create my own work. 

I also regularly photograph the performing arts and undertake personal projects in the fields of art and documentary photography. 

PERFORMER

I love group and pair acro, hand balancing, acro or acro-dance and lots more. 

I am short and like to laugh. 

I love circus that makes me think differently. 

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Ryan is an audio engineer, production manager and technical director from Brisbane, currently based in Hobart. He has worked extensively in Australia and around the globe presenting works to over a million people across 22 countries in musical theatre, circus, drama theatre, live music and major sporting events, with companies including Circa, Disney and Ed Sheeran.

Ryan is currently the Product Manager of PV4 for RWS Global. PV4 is a next-generation content management, distribution and playback platform used for events such as Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

TECHNICIAN

CHOREOGRAPHER

Jenni is an independent dancer, teacher, and award-winning choreographer/director based in Lutruwita. Driven by the personal, political and transformative forces of embodiment, Jenni’s multi-limbed practice centers care and radical play. Her choreographic work seeks to subvert relational narratives, analyze socio-politics that impact women and playfully expose modern assumptions of stigmatized subjects. Heavily influenced by aesthetic and cinematic tropes, Jenni aims to balance experimentation, risk and entertainment value within her work.

As a dancer she has collaborated and performed extensively throughout metropolitan, regional and remote Australia as well as Europe, UK, NZ, Americas, Japan and Singapore with artists and companies including; Dancenorth, Tasdance, Legs On The Wall, GUTS Dance, SA Opera/Leigh Warren and Ashleigh Musk. 

She has presented her choreographic work both as an independent artist and through commissions Australia-wide at festivals and institutions including; Mona Foma, Ten Days On The Island, Ohm Festival Brisbane Powerhouse, Dancehouse, Carriage Works, Desert Festival, ADT:Raw, Sound + Fury,  Sydney Dance Company, WAAPA, Stompin, Australasian Dance Collective and Tasdance. In 2022 Jenni won the people’s choice award for her Keir Choreographic work and was honored to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship. Recently, she participated in an Asia Link Singapore Arts Now exchange, performed in the UK and EU in THAW (Legs On The Wall) and premiered her newest independent work ‘Wet Hard Long’ at Dancehouse in Naarm/Melbourne which recently received a Green Room Nomination for outstanding visual design. 

PRODUCER

Justin became the Executive Producer at ROOKE in 2025. He has previously worked as a producer, curator, programmer, tour manager, festival director, and arts manager across the world.

Stage Manager: Caper and Crow, Sydney Opera House, La Boite Theatre Company, Polytoxic, Queensland Ballet, Flipside Circus, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Out of The Box, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, State Library of Queensland, The Brides of Frank and Kooemba Jdarra. Production Manager, Brisbane Powerhouse, Polytoxic, Strut & Fret Production House and Underbelly (UK).

Producer: Restaged Histories Project, FRINGE WORLD Festival, Artrage (WA, Creative Producer), Wynnum Fringe Festival, RE//Perth, RASWA, Marcia Hines’ Still Shining, Brisbane Queer Film Festival (Co-Director).

CREATOR & PERFORMER

Freyja Wild is a life-long contemporary circus artist. She has toured the world with some of the biggest names in the business, subtly subverting gender roles and embodying feminine strength. You can still see echoes of her style and innovation in hula hooping and group acrobatics throughout the circus sector.

Freyja is a founding member, and the Artistic Director and CEO of ROOKE, Tasmania's leading contemporary circus company. She cares deeply about community and creating meaningful, stable work for circus artists as they move away from full-time touring to settle down. In 2024, Freyja received the honour of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in recognition of her contributions to the circus sector.

COMPOSER

Louis combines his training in percussion, his passion for electronic dance music and his understanding of movement, to create energetically percussive compositions, uncovering the origins of rhythm within the body and its relationship to the music.

Following a decade of touring Aus, NZ and North America as a DJ under internationally acclaimed Command Q, Louis began working as a freelance composer, collaborating across the mediums of dance and theatre.

Louis has collaborated with multiple award winning companies, directors and independent Choreographers, such as Queensland Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Australasian Dance Collective, Scott Elstermann & Venice Biennale, Brooke Leeder & PERTH FESTIVAL, The Last Great Hunt, Izzac Carroll & Project Animo, STOMPIN & Ten Days on the Island, Sally Richardson & NICA, and Mitchell Harvey Company.

Louis was the recipient of Minderoo Foundation’s inaugural Artist Fund 2021, as well as involvement in STRUT Dance’s SEED residency and SITU-8 programs, TasDance’s AIR with Robert Tinning, and was awarded a 2022 Performing Arts WA award for 'Best Composition 2022’.