Josie is a freelance choreographer and performer based in Ōtautahi. A graduate of Unitec’s Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Contemporary Dance), her work has been presented across Aotearoa and internationally, including Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa, Performance Art Week Aotearoa, The Performance Arcade and Asia Tree New Wave Festival. Josie frequently collaborates with her partner, Kosta Bogoievski, creating imaginative projects that span spaces, styles and communities. She has held residencies in South Korea, India and Aotearoa, and has performed with a wide range of acclaimed artists. Josie brings curiosity, generosity and adventurous thinking to every creative space she enters.
Kosta is a dance artist based in Ōtautahi, creating work that blends physical exploration, curiosity, and connection. He frequently collaborates with his partner, Josie Archer, as “Josie and Kosta,” making independent and commissioned works across a wide range of spaces and styles since graduating from Unitec in 2014. Kosta’s creative practice is shaped by many influences—contemporary dance, choreography, writing, reading, his mixed-heritage upbringing, street dance, skating, day-and-night dreaming, drawing, sewing, karaoke, and everyday movement. He brings a thoughtful, playful approach to his work and invites others to explore movement in ways that feel grounded, expressive, and uniquely their own.
Jenny is a multidisciplinary circus and visual artist specialising in aerial choreography, act development, and aerial equipment design.
Over the past 24 years, Jenny has worked across contemporary circus, live performance, opera, and film, both internationally and throughout Aotearoa. Her career includes working as a movement artist with Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, touring internationally with Cavalia, and creating and performing with Zurich-based contemporary circus company Rigolo.
Jenny is currently in her fifth year as Aerial Director for the World of WearableArt (WOW) and a core artistic member of Movement of the Human (MOTH). She is also a costume designer and textile artist, with recent projects including Twelfth Night at The Court Theatre, as well as costume work for several international film productions over the past decade.
Now based back home, Jenny is passionate about sharing the world of circus with others and supporting the next generation of movement artists.
