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Rodney has been dancing professionally since 1995, and has been recognised with a variety of industry awards including: the Attitude Artistic Achievement Award (2016) and the Arts Access Aotearoa Artistic Achievement Award (2017).
Duncan, a talented actor and our resident drummer, started with Touch Compass in 2011.
Alisha joined Touch Compass in 2002. Her talents have been recognised with an AIMES award (2011), to study aerial dance in the UK, and the TV One Attitude Artistic Achievement Award (2013).
Julie graduated from UNITEC, with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance, in 2003and has been busy busy ever since ...
Lusi is a founding member of Touch Compass. She is the star of the 2014 DanceBox short film “Mr and Mrs Jones”.
Sierra has been performing with Touch Compass since the start of 2016 and, as well as dance, works as a support tutor for our youth and community classes. Sierra is also working on her own project, called the #thedoalittledanceproject.
Alfdaniels Mabingo holds a Ph.D. in Dance Studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in the U.S. Born and raised in his native village, Mbuukiro, in central Uganda, he has taught dance courses at Makerere University, Uganda; the University of Auckland, New Zealand; New York University, the U.S.; and Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica.
Helene came to New Zealand 10 years ago to work as a vet. After realising that life had more to offer, she decided to study Contemporary Dance at Unitec.
Emilia hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was a Professional Dancer mainly in contemporary dance for fourteen years.
After graduating from Unitec in 2009 with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts majoring in Contemporary Dance, Samantha began to fly.