Norhaizad Adam is a dance artist from Singapore. He performs and choreographs for unconventional community spaces, galleries and theatres. Central to his Malay dance practice is considering the performativity of the everyday gestures and accessing tradition as a form of toolkit for living in contemporary times and the imagined future. His works talk about labour, morality and behaviourism in Malay culture. Currently, he is the Artistic Director of P7:1SMA(Prisma), a dance performance company that hopes to radically shift the perspective of Malay identity and dance through innovative performance experiences. He is an associate artist of Dance Nucleus. In 2021, he received the National Art Council’s Young Artist Award.

Sarah Aiken is an artist, performer and choreographer based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work investigates assemblage, authorship, scale and self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object and connecting tangibly with audiences, to consider performance as a site for empathy & exchange.

Make Your Life Count premiered at Arts House, Melbourne in 2022 (Platform Arts 23, PICA Perth 25 and Sydney Dance Company 24, with video presentations at Federation Square, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, MCA, and Frame Biennial of Dance). The work won an Australian Greenroom Award for Best Visual Design.

Other works include Spanning (Soft Centre X Chunky Move 2024), Body Corp (CONTACT HIGH Gertrude Contemporary 2024), Demake/Demaster (STRUT 2022), Piece for pieces (PIECES LGI/The Substation 2019), What Am I Supposed To Do? (Arts Centre Melbourne 2019) and SARAHAIKEN (Keir Choreographic Award 2016).

Sarah is co-director of Deep Soulful Sweats, working with Rebecca Jensen for 10 years across the world, inviting audiences into cathartic and thoughtful performative experiences.

Sarah was artist in residence at Helsinki International Artists Program, Dancenorth, and Centre for Projection Art. She is a grateful recipient of the Creators Fund, and the Chloe Munro Fellowship.