We facilitate mentoring and development opportunities for emerging artists especially those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to get involved in the Australian arts and performing arts industries. We help emerging culturally diverse background arts practitioners that need expert assistance, by guiding them with strategy development, artistic career planning and play realising onstage.
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Have helped more than 80+ emerging artists and crew get involved in performing arts on the stage
Some of them:
Daphne Xie
Daphne Xie, an emerging artist with Theatre and performance background, who also has have experience with piano, Latin dance, violin, yoga, k-pop, drawing and singing.
Watch Now! Dive into an extraordinary Mother’s Day performance by Daphne Xie! She brings a mesmerizing blend of artistry to the stage. Catch her versatile talent in action!
But that’s not all! Stay tuned for an exclusive interview with Daphne, go to https://www.facebook.com/crossencountersau and see more details.
Alaxy Fan
Alaxy is a happy and optimistic person who dreams of being an opera singer. She mainly allocated herself to opera singing, guitar, ukulele, piano, kpop dancing, colouring, and even songwriting.
Alaxy is very excited to be part of the Cross Encounters Performing Arts family and looks forward to seeing everyone at future events！
Under the mentor’s guidance in Cross Encounters, Alaxy is going to bring her first showcase to the audience soon this year.
2022 resident artist showcase premiere – LIVE IN CONCERT
Noah Zhao Wang. Noah is a director and actor long active in physical theatre area in China and has toured domestically and internationally with his group before.
Noah is committed to innovation and experimental drama, on the way to explore the training methods of physical theatre, theatre drama form with training methods of French Jacques Lecoq and Chinese opera culture and martial arts, to explore a set of suitable for the young actor China long performance training methods physical theatre, launched the “left”, “head”. He has participated in a range of prestige festivals including Festival d’Avignon, Edinburgh Festival and the Wuzhen Theatre Festival. He moved Melbourne and settled down here a year ago.
In the common pursuit of artistic excellence and innovation, Noah joined Cross Encounters’ family. He will present us with the first ever professional physical theatre with Chinese background.
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We are constantly offering opportunities to emerging artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and continue to support their careers. If you’re an artist/creator who identifies as culturally diverse and would like to apply a position in our artist residency program or seek for support in your creative process please email: crossencounters01@gmail.com. We’re more than happy to keep in touch with you.
