Deep lover of all forms of movement, freelancing artist, Madeleine Backen lives and creates in Sydney, on Gadigal land. Madeleine's initial contemporary dance training began during her time at Austi Dance and Physical Theatre where she had the opportunity to work with a wide range of diverse, primarily European based choreographer's. In the last five years of Madeleine's life as an emerging artist and maker she has performed nationally and internationally with companies and project based groups including Stalker Theatre, Dance Makers Collective, Proper Motion, DirtyFeet and FORM Dance Projects. More recently Madeleine participated in the annual Implustanz ALTAS choreographic program held in Vienna, Austria, allowing her the opportunity to begin deepening her own choreographic interests and ever-evolving dance practice.