Tess de Quincey Tess de Quincey is a choreographer and dancer who has worked extensively in Europe, Japan and Australia as a performer, teacher and director. Based in Japan from 1985 until 1991, she was a dancer with Min Tanaka and his Mai-Juku Performance Co for 6 years which has provided the strongest influence on her ongoing performance work - based in the BODY WEATHER philosophy and methodology founded by Min and his company. From 1988 her solo productions have toured extensively in Europe and Australia and in 2000 she formed her performance network DQC - DE QUINCEY CO. She is director of the TRIPLE ALICE Forum & Laboratories which brings together cross-cultural interdisciplinary practices of artists, scientists and thinkers in relation to the Central Desert of Australia - www.triplealice.net. Her performance teaching and work in different terrains - from city to desert - around the world has engendered a series of works concerned with 'inhabitation' and the 'nature of place'. Her main emphasis is on intercultural, site-specifi and durational works. www.bodyweather.net