CONJAH

Together, CONJAH draw from the future-mythos of their collective genealogies of transformation, presenting collaboration-led works that are immersive, story-driven, other-worldly and emotionally rigorous. Through facilitation, CONJAH are focused on holding restorative, warm and galvanising sharing spaces. If a creative practice is a map, then CONJAH are located at the collision of multiple visions.

CONJAH’S evolving practice lives within Tagata Moana Future-Mythos; “the physicality of the beyond-physical-body, the twisting of story and the unravelling of visions as memory”. CONJAH develop and present work within and beyond the medium of Dance in Contemporary Theatre. CONJAH is predominately informed by and trained within Street-Born Dance, Physical Theatre, Release Technique, Poetry, Vocal work and Digital Work, nick-naming their approach to their collective practice as ‘Oceanic Terror-Fi’.

Jahra and Ooshcon have presented their own works, performed as dancers and collaborators and facilitated workshops in festivals and venues across Aotearoa, Australia, Turtle Island (U.S.A), Canada, Guahan (Guam), China, Taiwan and Fiji. Through CONJAH, Jahra and ooshcon bring forth the depths of their extensive solo-body-work to build into each other’s worlds, enabling them to do the same with the collaborators and kin-ships they work within. CONJAH have a strong ethos of working deeply and safely with their collaborators, ensuring that artists have their creative agency within the process. CONJAH are the 2022 NZ Arts Foundation Springboard Award winners and are in research development for their full-length work ‘I Pull Our Body Out of a Dead Animal’.