Jess Minas is an Adelaide based artist working in dance, theatre, puppetry, and film. Minas danced in Anifex’s award winning stop motion animation titled “The Better Angels” (2019). In 2020, Minas began working as a puppeteer for Windmill Theatre Company and HVK Productions on their Australian tour of Bluey’s Big Play, directed by Rosemary Myers. Minas worked as Movement Director on Lachlan Barnett’s ActNow Theatre MakeSpace Residency (2021) whilst also puppeteering on Windmill Pictures production of Beep and Mort, supported by the ABC. Most recently Minas worked as a dancer/ collaborator on Projekt Moxie directed by Lina Limosani and Daniel Jaber (2022), as well as Dance Launchpad a dance double bill directed by Tobiah Booth-Remmers and Amanda Phillips, produced by The Mill Adelaide (2022). Minas’s choreographic/directorial achievements include Salute (2020) as part of Rip Drag and Ruminate in the Adelaide Fringe Festival, winning Best Dance Show at the Adelaide Fringe Awards (2020), as well as two movement-based short films, Snail Mail (2020) and Depart 222 (2022).