Dance
Aimee Smith is a Perth-based dancer and choreographer with a focus on developing arts practice for social change.
Ausdance ( the Australian Dance Council) is Australia's professional dance advocacy organisation for dancers, choreographers, directors and educators. Ausdance provides a dance information network through services based in national, state and territory offices.
Australia's Strange Fruit is a Melbourne-based performing arts company that produces and performs a remarkable style of work that fuses theatre, dance and circus, using a unique elevated medium.
The Australian Ballet is one of Australia’s flagship arts companies, and one of the busiest ballet companies in the world.
Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) dancers train in several physical disciplines and have been producing consistently great repertoire in dance and dance theatre since they formed in Adelaide in 1965.
Bangarra Dance Theatre is one of Australia’s most unique and innovative dance companies, and also one of the youngest and oldest of Australia's dance companies. Its living traditions go back at least 40 000 years but it also reflects the lives and attitudes of Indigenous peoples today.
Brian Lucas has developed a national reputation for his solo physical performance pieces, with a history of producing provocative, powerful and intelligent works which fully utilise his considerable skills in theatre and dance, while seamlessly merging the elements of both forms.
Buzz Dance Theatre is Australia's only professional dance theatre company dedicated to creating programs for children and young people. Founded in 1985, Buzz is nationally recognised for its contribution to the arts and education.
Founded by artistic directo Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has been the state of Victoria's major contemporary dance company since 1998. Chunky Move's work constantly seeks to redefine contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture.
Choreographer Clare Dyson created Company Clare Dyson with her brother, lighting designer Mark Dyson in 1998. Since then they have been developing innovative performance work, exploring artform boundaries, art theory and audience experience.
Described as ‘athletic, raw and with an edge of the unexpected’ Dancenorth is Queensland’s leading contemporary dance company.
Innovation, originality and energy have been the trademark of Expressions Dance Company since its debut in 1985. Founded under the Artistic Direction of Maggi Sietsma AM, Expressions is acclaimed for its compelling dance theatre.
Founding member of Circus Oz, The Australian Performing Group, Dancehouse and Company In Space, Hellen Sky has achieved international recognition for her innovative choreography and direction.
Choreographer, dancer, new media artist and programmer John McCormick has been interested in the possibility of dance transcending geographic and physical boundaries using emerging technology for over twenty years.
Julie-Anne Long is an award winning independent dance artist based in Sydney. Since the mid 1980s she has performed and choreographed on a wide range of projects, with companies such as One Extra, Open City, Theatre of Image, Legs on the Wall, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Bell Shakespeare Company and Dance Works.
KAGE makes radical works of contemporary physical performance. Visually stunning, arresting, provocative, humorous and humane, KAGE uses honesty and imagination to continually explore and redefine what performance can be.
Leigh Warren and Dancers repertoire largely comprises works by Leigh and includes some pieces originally choreographed for Australian Dance Theatre. As well as performing frequently in Adelaide and touring nationally, the company maintains an extensive overseas touring program.
One of Australia's leading choreographers, Lucy Guerin and company are known for unique movement, performed by a group of outstanding dancers. Based in Melbourne, Lucy Guerin Inc. is committed to developing new works which tour both nationally and internationally.
Renowned and award-winning director/choreographer Meryl Tankard began her career as a dancer with the Australian Ballet. She later moved to Europe to join Pina Bausch’s Wuppertaler Tanztheater where she performed as soloist for 10 years.
Queensland Ballet’s hallmarks are the youthful energy of its 24 dancers, its commitment to technical excellence, and its highly varied program.
Restless Dance Company works with young people aged 15-26 years, with and without disabilities, to create inspiring dance theatre and workshop programs.
Ros Warby is cited as one of Australia’s leading dancer-choreographers. She has been making solo dance since 1990 and is internationally recognised for her unique performance work.
Sally Chance is pioneering community and cultural development possibilities of developing dance for babies and very young children in Australia
Shaun Parker has worked as a choreographer, dancer and counter-tenor over the last fifteen years with Meryl Tankard at ADT, Kate Champion, Chunky Move, Sydney Theatre Company, Compagnie ALIAS (Switzerland), and Sasha Waltz (Berlin).
As a nationally and internationally recognised company, Stalker’s explorations into explosive physical theatre and hybrid art processes have placed them at the leading edge of Australian contemporary performance practice.
One of Australia's premier youth arts companies, Stompin Youth Dance Co. has been celebrating the talents of young performers in high profile site-specific performance events since its inception in 1992.
Based in Darwin, Tracks' vision is to give voice to Territory culture through dance and performing arts. Tracks has a local and national reputation for producing quality dance events that bring together professional, community and cultural dance in large-scale performances.
Wendy Morrow is a recognised senior dance artist both nationally and internationally in the area of new dance. With a career spanning over 27 years Wendy currently explores the development a framework to develop mid-career dancers and establish creative laboratories for research into performance and media work.
1
