Founder + CEO
Diane Busuttil
Founder
Diane Busuttil
Diane Busuttil is a dance artist, educator, and filmmaker whose work is recognised in Australia and internationally. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance from The University of Western Sydney, and a Masters Research Degree from Macquarie University, Sydney. She has worked as an independent curator, choreographer, and performer for many years throughout Australia, Europe, and Asia. In 2000, after studying BODY at the International Women’s University in Germany, she relocated to Berlin and toured major dance and theatre festivals in Germany, Asia, USA, and Europe with various leading dance and theatre companies. In Australia, she has collaborated with Rosalind Crisp, Igneous Inc, Circus Monoxide, and The Farm. She believes in supporting the arts and their importance to cultural life and community, as well as inspiring creativity and a more expansive sense of what our lives can be.
Since founding Creative Caring in 2019, a movement-based organisation focused on improving physical and mental health for seniors through dance and theatre techniques. She has worked extensively in aged care, hospital dementia units, and cultural institutions including the Sydney Opera House. As a movement specialist, she supports bodies with cognitive and physical challenges, creating programs for both performance contexts and movement development. Her practice is grounded in somatic techniques, yoga, and improvisation, with a strong focus on silence, listening, and the practice of care, which is fully integrated into her creative movement sessions.
Diane conducts Spring for Seniors, a dance theatre workshop program for over 55s, at the Sydney Opera House monthly for over two years. The program has recently been doubled due to popular demand, proving that older bodies need movement and joy in their lives.
Since 2022, she has been working on collaborative, socially engaged projects with The CAD Factory. Diane is on the steering committee for the Create Health Quality Framework.
Meet the Creative Caring Team
Creative Caring comprises a group of dynamic artists and practitioners specialising in dance, theatre, music and visual art. They bring healthy aging to your aged care, hospital, dementia support and community events.
Ryuichi Fujimura
Ryuichi is an independent dance artist based in Sydney. Over the last fifteen years, he has collaborated with both emerging and established artists/companies in various dance, theatre, opera, site-specific performance and film projects including Xavier le Roy, Mel O’callaghan, Vicki Van Hout, Jim Sharman, Kate Sherman, Force Majeure, De Quincey Co, La Fura dels Baus and Clockfire Theatre Company. Ryuichi has also performed for companies such as La Fura dels Baus, Force Majeure, Sydney Dance Company and Opera Australia. In 2013, he began creating his own choreographic work, culminating in the critically acclaimed HERE NOW trilogy. HERE NOW has toured internationally to Finland (2017), Taiwan (2018), and South Korea (2023), and nationally to Canberra (2022), Melbourne (2023 and 24) and Adelaide (2025).
In recent years, he has expanded his practice to encompass interdisciplinary collaborations with artists from diverse fields, including Mel O’Callaghan, WeiZen Ho, Laura Turner, Alicia Frankovich, Hamed Sadeghi, and Justene Williams. He is currently developing Finishing Touch (working title), a solo dance memoir in collaboration with Sarah Chase, a Canadian choreographer.
Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown is a freelance composer, sound designer, director, producer and radio presenter who works across several artistic and cultural fields and disciplines and has more than thirty years of professional experience in the international arena.
He works extensively across Australia and tours annually to Europe with a range of solo and collaborative projects. Brown creates ambient music and contemporary jazz but has been known to experiment with a range of musical forms, including polka, blues, punk, pop, hip-hop and soul. Recently, his focus has been on durational music using minimal electronics and a variety of saxophones as the primary sound sources.
He studied composition with Andrew Ford, Andrew Shultze and Jonathon Harvery, flute with Prue Page, and later at the Royal College of Music, London. He works extensively across Australia and tours annually to Europe with a range of solo and collaborative projects.
He is the Artistic Director of the Sydney Improvisers Composers Kollektiv Orchestra and is currently lecturing in Improvisation/Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, previously lecturing at RMIT, where he was also course coordinator of Performance Studies.
Eliane Morel
Eliane Morel is a Sydney-based singer, actor, writer, producer and storyteller. She is a graduate of the Canberra School of Music (Opera) UNSW (Theatre Studies), and NIDA (Playwriting), speaks French fluently and Italian at a conversational level, and is a principal mezzo-soprano with Opera Bites, Sydney's 'favourite boutique opera company'.
She has toured schools all over Australia as a Theatre in Education performer, and began her work in Aged Care residencies as an occasional opera singer, then spent two years with the Arts Health Institute as a 'Humour Therapist', specialising in working with people with dementia.
She has written several plays, including The Cabbage Patch Kid (Griffin Theatre), There was no Frog (The Performance Space), and solo shows An Evening with Madam Long (The Performance Space) and Ba Ngoai (4A Theatre). Her cabarets, Disenchanted and Carmen: the Cabaret, (devised and performed with Daryl Wallis), have toured Australia and been nominated for and won several awards. She played multiple roles in composer Joanna Weinberg's musicals La Luna and The Millers Point Songbook, and is currently writing and producing a new musical with Joanna, and Merran Hughes, Dangerous When Wet, about the lives of Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, Australia's first female Olympic champions.
Nicolas Witte
Nicolas was born and raised in Switzerland. Graduating from the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in 1994. Nicolas has been a professional performer and teacher ever since, working in Europe
and throughout the world. He has visited Australia regularly over the last 15 years, as his 13-
year-old son and ex-partner are Australian. He is now living permanently in Sydney.
After leaving Lecoq, Nicolas joined the international mask-theatre company Familie Flöz,
with whom he has appeared in several productions including, most notably, “Hotel Paradiso”. He has performed this hugely popular show over 700 times in 29 different countries, including a sold-out season at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015.
His other career, working with children, young people and adults as an educator and clown,
also began after graduating from Lecoq. During his more than 20 years as a clown doctor in hospitals, Nicolas has developed a unique insight into education and entertainment. He also created and designed the interactive show ‘The Little Orchestra of the Senses’ in 2010, performed for children with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. This highly
successful show is still on tour in Switzerland today.
He is currently teaching physical theatre/comedy, clowning and improvisation at ATYP, NIDA
Open and at the Actors Centre Australia.
Soledad Cordeaux
Soledad Cordeaux began her performance journey as a young actor with ATYP (Australian Theatre for Young People), training from the ages of 13 to 18. She went on to study for five years in the physical theatre discipline at L’École Lecoq, and has since developed a multifaceted career as a juggler, stilt-walker, clown artist, and storyteller.
Music and singing have always been central to her practice, both as a performer and teacher. Soledad currently leads children’s choirs, performs as a cabaret artist with The Chimbley Bruvvers, and co-hosts the much-loved Scallywag Showtunes program on Eastside Radio alongside Eliane Morel.
Most recently, Soledad has brought her passion for theatre, drama, and community connection to Creative Caring, where she co-facilitates sessions with her long-time collaborator, Eliane Morel.
Jerico Mandybur
Jerico Mandybur is a professionally registered Arts Therapist (AThR). Drawing on a person-centred, trauma-informed, and neuroaffirming approach, she creates gentle and collaborative spaces where people can explore their inner worlds through creativity, curiosity, and reflection.
Jerico has facilitated individual and group arts therapy across aged care, disability, hospital, and community settings, supporting people from diverse backgrounds to reconnect with their stories, strengths, and possibilities. Her practice is informed by expressive arts inquiry, somatic awareness, Gestalt approaches, and parts work, with a deep respect for each person's lived experience, culture, and unique ways of making meaning.
Jerico is also a registered mindfulness teacher with the Meditation Association of Australia and alongside her clinical work, is a published author and creativity coach. She has facilitated public workshops for organisations like Sydney Opera House's All About Women Festival, the Galeries, and more.