14th & 15th April — Tegan Jeffrey-Rushton

16th & 17th April — Peta Anderson

Tegan Jeffrey-Rushton (14th & 15th April)

Tegan Jeffrey-Rushton is a Sydney-based movement artist and choreographer whose practice is a tapestry of her multi-genre dance background, with a focus on athleticism, storytelling, and play. Through movement, she strives to make the invisible visible -thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas - while exploring the balance between human/pedestrian movement and extreme physicality or abstraction.

Tegan recently directed and choreographed her work OVERTURE, which premiered to a sold-out season at Adelaide Fringe and was awarded “Best in Dance” for 2025, followed by a sold-out season in Sydney for the IDEA Festival 2025. As a performer, Tegan’s credits include Opera Australia’s Carmen on Cockatoo Island, Stephanie Lake Company’s COLOSSUS, XYZ by Holly Finch x Wellesley Auckland, and music videos with artists such as The Veronicas, Guy Sebastian, and Nick Broadhurst. She has also featured in commercial and campaign work for brands including Drew Barrymore x Wanderlust, Reebok, Pepsi, and Samsung.

Tegan has choreographed music videos and short films for L-Flora and the Zela Margossian Quintet x Nowness Asia, and worked as an assistant choreographer for Shannon Burns (Orlando, Belvoir St Theatre), Sarah Boulter (Dancing With The Stars, Australia), and Jillian Meyers (Arena Dance Convention). She has also participated as a guest artist for multiple seasons of Jillians program Q and A in Tokyo, which has greatly influenced her practice.

Driven by connection and collaboration, Tegan is committed to creating work that is accessible and engaging to people from all walks of life, while continually striving to expand and evolve her practice.

Peta Anderson (16th & 17th April)

Peta is one of Australia’s leading Tap dancers and is taking the world by storm by combining her knowledge in both Irish and Tap dance styles to create unique rhythms found within her love of both percussive forms of dance.

Peta started dancing at the age of 3 in Sydney, where she attended the McDonald College of the Arts. After finishing high school, she went on to complete a diploma in performing arts at “Dance World Studios” in Melbourne. Peta went on to tour with “The Rhythms of Ireland” around Australia and New Zealand straight after finishing her diploma, which led her to perform with “Dance of Desire” in China.

Peta then appeared on Ireland’s “RTE” TV program “Dance off” where she was chosen to perform as principal dancer and played the part of “Aisling” in the show “Noctu”, which then went on to perform in New York on Broadway, gaining 2 Drama Desk Award nominations. Peta then went on to perform in Riverdance between 2011 and 2015, travelling all over the world, including Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Europe, UK and China, as part of their 20th Anniversary tours. Whilst being a part of Riverdance, she also starred in their brand new production “Heartbeat of Home” as part of the original cast performing in Ireland, China and Canada.

Peta was also a part of an arena tour of the UK, performing in Ant & Dec's “Saturday Night Takeaway on tour”, dancing with the likes of Blue, Ashley Roberts, Peter Andre, and Westlife.

When Peta returned to Sydney, she was cast in the role of “Lola” in the Kermond creative production of “Spiegle’esque” which has been performed all around Australia.

Peta now resides in Sydney, where she was the choreographer and producer of the brand new show called “Eireborne” which pays tribute to everything Ireland has brought to the world in both music and dance. "Eireborne" has just finished its 4th tour with great success and has had numerous sold-out shows, including The State Theatre in Sydney, with the future looking very bright. Peta is so honoured that the first show she has helped create has become international, as “Eireborne” performed residencies in both Zurich, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany in 2019.

Peta also performed on "The Voice" as the featured drummer for James Arthur, as well as his film clip for his hit song "You Deserve Better”, and as a featured singer behind “Conrad Sewell”.

Peta has a growing reputation as a choreographer. She recently choreographed the “Bulgari” launch in Sydney and is also the choreographer of a Brand new show featuring “The Drummer Queens” directed and created by both Nigel Turner-Carroll and Joe Accaria.

Peta is recognised worldwide as a "Capezio" athlete and was named in the top 30 most inspirational athletes of 2017 to recognise 130 years of the "Capezio" brand. In 2018, she also became an ambassador for “O’mara sprung floors” which is based in Michigan, USA.

Most recently, Peta was on the faculty of the "Australian Tap Festival" and the "London Tap Intensive" in 2018 and in early 2019, she was on the faculty at the “UK Tap Festival” in Manchester.

Peta is a cofounder and choreographer of the Australian tap company which performed their show "The Tap Affect" in 2021.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse