Kate is recognised as one of Australia's foremost directors of physical performance. She is an award winning creator of multi disciplinary works which cross the mediums of film, television and live performance. She graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Kate Denborough co-founded KAGE in 1996 with Gerard van Dyck. As the Artistic Director of KAGE she has devised, directed and/or performed in all of the Company's works including: Contamination (Next Wave Festival 1998), No (Under)standing Anytime, (Next Wave Festival 2000), Nowhere Man (Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003), Al Fresco (Melbourne 2006 Cultural Festival for the Commonwealth Games), and Headlock (The Malthouse 2006). Many of these have won industry awards and national and international recognition. The awards include the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Dance, a Green Room Award for Female Emerging Artist in Dance and joint winner of the Eva Czajor memorial Award, which salutes women directors. She has also worked with companies such as Chunky Move, ADT and compagnie par.b.leux (Montreal). In 2003, she was choreographer- in-residence at Dance Box, Osaka, and in 2005, she was the artistic director of a company of six young Australian performers resident at World Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan. She is developing a new work for KAGE entitled Appetite for presentation at the Melbourne Festival in 2008. She directed Frank Woodley's new solo show Possessed which will tour nationally in 2008 and to the UK in 2009 and recently choreographed Pink Lines for Tasdance.

Gerard is a dancer, actor, choreographer who has carved out his own unique style of performance. He graduated from the School of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1994. Since Gerard co-founded KAGE with Kate Denborough in 1997, he has performed in all of KAGE’s award winning ensemble work: Headlock (2006), INK (2006), Nowhere Man (2003), Underground (2003), No (Under)Standing Anytime (2000), Contamination (1998). Gerard premiered his solo work The Collapsible Man in 2001 and won two major Fringe Festival Awards. It was presented in Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003 and the Sydney Opera House in 2004. He has also performed independently of KAGE and has travelled extensively over the world with companies such as BalletLab, Polyglot and Jim Hughes, Arena Theatre Company, desoxy Theatre, Nat Cursio, Victorian State Opera, Brett Daffy and Sandra Parker. He choreographed and appeared in Sarah Blasko’s Planet New Year video clip. He has been commissioned by several independent artists to create solos and direct works on them. In 2006 Gerard joined the Dance Panel of the Green Room Award Association. Gerard is currently a lecturer at the VCA, and is the owner/operator of a creperie in Melbourne’s GPO.

Jennifer has 20 years experience as a manager, producer and consultant in the performing arts industry and is considered one of Australia's most accomplished senior producers. As well as being KAGE's Producer, she is currently the Director of Keep Breathing - an arts management, production, project management and consulting company she established in 2002.

She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Theatre/Media) from Charles Sturt University and a Master of Theatre Studies (Distinction) from the University of New South Wales. From 2006-2008 she was the recipient of one of only four 'Supporting Independent Producers' grants awarded nationally by the Australia Council for the Arts. She is currently a member of the Arts Advisory Board for the City of Melbourne.

As a producer Jennifer has been fortunate to work with a wide range of creative artists, of all artistic disciplines, to manage, produce, promote and tour contemporary performance works, divergent media, web-based documentary works, festivals and events, as well as industry development and outreach and education programs. Jennifer has a particular interest in contemporary performance and has pursued this interest in her roles as Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company, Chunky Move, and more recently, for the genre-defying performance company KAGE, with whom she produced the multi-award-winning show Headlock.

Having managed numerous national and international tours; participated in several national and international performing arts markets; and worked with a wide range of national and international agents, presenters and producers, Jennifer has been asked to facilitate numerous industry seminars, (including the 2006 and 2008 Australian Performing Arts Markets), on The Business of International Touring.

From 2003-2008 Jennifer worked with the Australia Council to design and manage Dance Down Under and Australian Performance Now - a multi-year market development strategy aimed at developing a North American market for Australian contemporary dance, circus, physical theatre and outdoor performance. In this capacity Jennifer was required to liaise with a wide range of industry stakeholders - from artists and presenters to government agencies and cultural organisations. As part of this project she initiated the highly successful Dance Down Under 'Ambassadors' and 'Exposure Tours' programs, which fostered the exchange of knowledge and networks between Australian artists and US presenters.

In 2007, on behalf of the Australia Council, Jennifer managed the Australia Festival - a month-long multi-arts festival of contemporary Australian work presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. She is currently working with the City of Melbourne to produce Melbourne OUTside the square - a cultural celebration of Melbourne's LGBQIT culture and community which iwll be presented in Copenhagen July 2009.

Belinda has recently been appointed to the position of Administrative Coordinator for KAGE (2 days/wk) after working as the Assistant Producer for the Company since February 2006. She has also been appointed to the role of Giving Manager for Back to Back Theatre (3 days/wk). Prior to this, Belinda worked as the Assistant Producer at Keep Breathing from September 2005. Established by Jennifer Barry and based in Melbourne, Keep Breathing is an independent production company specialising in producing and touring contemporary performance. The company also provided project management and strategic consulting services for the cultural sector and managed the Australian presence at the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference in New York from 2003 - 2008. Belinda’s work with Keep Breathing incorporated a number of premiere productions and tours for artists and companies such as: KAGE, Thomas & Wells, Tony Barry Enterprises, Meow Meow, Ros Warby and Ross Mueller. Other projects included: the upcoming premiere presentation of Appetite – a new dance-theatre work by KAGE, and the development of 18 October 1977 (Ways to Change the World) – a new music-theatre work by David Chesworth, Tony MacGregor and Bagryana Popov. Prior to joining Keep Breathing, Belinda worked as a freelance actor and workshop leader. She holds a Bachelor of Drama Studies (1st class Honours) from the University of Adelaide.

Fleur has over 20 years experience in arts administration, specialising in financial management and bookkeeping over the past six years. She is responsible for overseeing financial data processing and compliance for non profit and profit making clients including: Theatreworks Ltd, Linden Gallery, Figures are Us Pty Ltd, Multicultural Arts Victoria, CSG Pty Ltd (computer software company), Keep Breathing Pty Ltd and Kage Physical Theatre Association Inc. She has a comprehensive practical knowledge of bookkeeping software programs, (Quickbooks and MYOB), and skills in budgeting, audit preparation and reconciliation, BAS returns and other legal and financial reporting requirements.

Catherine Jones is Associate Producer and Business Manager for Malthouse Theatre. Prior to joining the Malthouse she was the General Manager of Arena Theatre Company. Catherine joined Arena from the 2001 Queensland Biennial Festival of Music, where as a Producer she was responsible for producing a diverse range of events across the statewide festival. She has worked in project and arts management across a variety of disciplines and festivals including the Melbourne Festival, Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood, Edinburgh's Hogmanay, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Brisbane Biennial. Catherine spent over three years as Artistic Coordinator at the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC). Before joining QTC she lived in Edinburgh working in the marketing department at the Traverse Theatre as Assistant Marketing Manager.

Paul Summers has been working in the performing arts area for two decades. After studying performance at Deakin University, he worked with Backpack Theatre and The Woolly Jumpers. He moved to administration with Back to Back Theatre prior to becoming Dance Works General Manager in 1993. In 1999 he joined Bluebottle, administering the company and offering auspice services to independent artists. He was President of Ausdance Victoria for 5 years to the end of 2003 and is now National Vice President for Ausdance.

Peter Clarke is a writer, broadcaster, journalist and moderator. As a broadcaster, he worked for the ABC for over thirty years with interruptions for education and other projects. He pioneered the national program Offspring (now Life Matters) and national talkback in Australia. He specialised in discussion-based radio with lively panels, outside broadcasts and, more recently, radio arts journalism. Until April 2005, he reported for, co-produced and presented the weekly Sunday arts program on ABC Local Radio in Melbourne and across Victoria. Alongside radio, Peter has worked in film, television and theatre. He completed the full-time course at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 1981 majoring in production and direction. As a side specialisation, he trained and later worked in underwater cinematography. For the Australian Children's Television Foundation, he researched and wrote the philosophy and objectives document for the 12 million dollar early childhood series Lift Off. He then lead the creative team which developed the initial formats, characters and approaches for the series, co-wrote puppet segments and produced 26 short animations (Munch Kids) as part of the eclectic Lift Off content. Currently, he is completing a masters in creative media at RMIT University, writing on the arts, including a book on creativity through the eyes of professional artists of all kinds, and writing a novel for young adults.

Rachel is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and has been working in the arts industry for sixteen years. Prior to her recent appointment as Director of Performing Arts of Sydney Opera House she spent the last decade as General Manager of Company B at Belvoir St Theatre. She has also worked with the Australian Ballet, Handspan Theatre and Magpie Theatre. Rachel has served on a number of arts industry boards, including as Deputy Chair of the Theatre Board of the Australia Council, and as a Trustee of the Sydney Opera House. In 1998 she was awarded the Nugget Coombs Award for Arts Administration in the Young Manager category.

Crusader Hillis was appointed Director of Gasworks Arts Park in January 2006. Crusader has over 20 years experience in the arts and business, and was previously with Melbourne International Arts Festival as Marketing and Communications Manager. His experience before this includes a wide-ranging career in arts event programming, publishing, writing, editing, bookselling, business and production management. His fiction and non-fiction has been published in diverse publications, here and overseas. He co-owns the successful bookshop, Hares and Hyenas. Over the past 15 years, he has curated more than 200 spoken word and performance events in Melbourne and Sydney. He was co-founder of Melbourne Queer Film Festival, co-directing two festivals; was for two years a member of the programming committee of Melbourne Writers' Festival; and served as a board member for the Victorian Writers Centre. He is currently also a Board member for Arts Access Victoria.

Lisa is a qualified CPA with over 21 years commercial experience across a variety of industries including professional services, ITandT, manufacturing and resources in Australia, USA and NZ. In August 2004 Lisa founded Hamilton Shaw Consulting, a boutique consultancy located in Melbourne which facilitates and provides advice in technology-related activities to clients offering a range of strategic financial services.

Anthony Strahan is a Barrister with Latham Chambers. He has been a Member of Counsel of the Victorian Bar and the High Court of Australia since 2003 Previously he was an Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Solicitor with Minter Ellison Lawyers and Research Assistant to Professor Sally Walker, Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law at University of Melbourne. His areas of practice include Common Law, Commercial Law, Torts, Defamation, Contempt, Media, Suppression of Publication, Obscenity, Administrative Law and Judicial Review, Trade Practices, Regulatory (especially broadcasting), ADR/Mediation and Arbitration. He has had several papers published about freedom of speech and is a member of several professional legal organisations. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1997 with Bachelor of Law (Honours).