So you want my arts job: Street Dancer/Street Dance Festival Director

Alice ‘Arisse’ Tauv uses her skills, passion and platform to champion street dance.
Street dancer and street dance festival director, Alice ‘Arisse’ Tauv. A young Asian woman with short black hair bending her arms in a dance move with the text ‘So you want my arts job?’

From studying civil engineering to pursuing her passion in street dance, Alice ‘Arisse’ Tauv is the co-founder and director of Australia’s largest annual street dance festival, Destructive Steps.

Tauv sees street dance as a powerful art form that brings community together and she has dedicated over 13 years to learn the craft, including six years of teaching it and spreading the joy to others.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_