Dance
Explore the different organisations below to learn more about current dance industry trends and areas of development. The Career Development team recommends that you sign up for mailing lists where possible for access to the latest news, events and work opportunities.
Venues
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC) works with artists, communities and partners to develop and present new work that tells relevant stories, challenge perceptions and share diverse perspectives.
Carriageworks is one of Australia’s most significant creative industry hubs, renowned for its dynamic cultural events, performances, and exhibitions.
Bankstown Art Centre
Bankstown Arts Centre (BAC) is a vibrant contemporary multi-arts organisation that advocates for diverse and accessible art.
Performance Space is the crucible for risk-taking artists. Emerging 40 years ago in response to artists’ articulated desire to explore and investigate new forms of art, Performance Space has consistently identified, nurtured and presented new directions in contemporary practice.
The Sydney Opera House is the symbol of modern Australia, the nation’s leading tourism destination, one of the world’s busiest performing arts centres, and a community meeting place that belongs to all Australians.
Dance Organisations and Choreographic Centres
Critical Path
Australia’s leading centre for choreographic research and development.
Dance Makers Collective
DMC is a vital force in the independent dance sector in NSW. It is our democratic structure, expansive network and our commitment to shared practice that sets us apart.
Dirty Feet
DirtyFeet cultivates creativity among emerging contemporary dance artists with and without disability.
FORM Dance Projects
FORM Dance is the leading producer and presenter of Australian independent contemporary dance in Western Sydney.
ReadyMade Works is the artist-led home for independent dance in Sydney—run by artists, for artists.
Dancehouse (in Melbourne)
Dancehouse is Australia’s only presenting and producing house dedicated solely to the year-round presentation of dance by and with independent dance artists and communities.
STRUT (in Perth)
A local, national and global network of dynamic dance artists whose work reflects and contributes to our understanding of the world and celebrates dance as a driver of human connection.
Blakdance (in Brisbane)
BlakDance producers provide high quality artistic, strategic, administrative, operational and financial project management directly to professional Australian First Nations contemporary dance choreographers, artists and emerging companies through our commissioning, producing and tour coordination services.
Professional Dance Companies
New South Wales
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is a company of professional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers.
Force Majeure is one of Australia’s leading producers of movement-based theatre. We are a catalyst for profound, body-led storytelling that moves audiences to see, feel and connect with the world in unexpected ways.
Marrugeku pursues powerful new forms of cultural knowledge and the survival, preservation and growth of Indigenous story, dance and language through the making of new intercultural performance work.
Shaun Parker & Company
Dance company renowned for their integration of stimulating choreographic forms, arresting musical scores and theatrical invention.
Sue Healey is a critically acclaimed artist working in the fields of performance, installation and film.
Sydney Dance Company
Australia’s leading contemporary dance company, training for aspiring dancers.
Legs on the Wall
Legs On The Wall shares vital contemporary stories through spectacularly daring public art.
Victoria
Australia’s national ballet company, inspiring and delighting audiences since 1962.
Creates bold, visually striking and genre defying dance works that experiment with merging the body with other forms, exploring new ideas and materials and responding to different spaces and contexts.
A multi-award-winning contemporary dance company based in Melbourne, known for a gutsy, original choreographic style and striking visual aesthetic.
An Australian dance company dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance.
Queensland
Recognised as one of Australia’s leading performing arts companies, Dancenorth Australia balances a dynamic regional presence with a commitment to creating compelling contemporary dance that tours the globe.
Australasian Dance Collective (ADC)
Formerly known as Expressions Dance Company, ADC is a significant cultural resource and a leading provider of dance performance and sector development.
South Australia
Australian Dance Theatre
Australian Dance Theatre is the country’s oldest contemporary dance company, and has been creating exceptional contemporary dance and performing it across the country and around the world since 1965.
Western Australia
Co3 Contemporary Dance Australia
Co3 (pron. Koh-three) produces contemporary dance, delivered by national and international leaders, at the forefront of Australian art.
Tasmania
TASDANCE fuses outstanding dance artists with innovative artists from other disciplines to create multifaceted contemporary dance.
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