Past Programs

Day is currently engaged in choreographic processes that emerge primarily through the act of dancing. He is developing dances of materiality, composed with experimental practices and somatic technologies that deal with the body as a series of vibrant surfaces and...

PLEASE NOTE THAT WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ANY QUERIES, PLEASE CONTACT AUSDANCE NSW. Beyond the Training is an annual series of skills sharing and professional development workshops aimed at exploring beyond the technique of dance classes. The series supports the...

SESSION 1: Sat 4 – Sun 5 April & Sat 11 – Sun 12 April, 10am-4pm. SESSION 2: Sun 22, Sat 28, Sun 29 November & Sun 6 December, 10am-4pm. Participation by invitation A practice-based workshop led by Vicki Van Hout for early career Indigenous dancers and...

“It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless—abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a...

Award-winning Indian choreographer Hemabharathy Palani will join Lucky Lartey, Sydney-based dancer and choreographer, in a one-week creative exchange. Hemabharathy Palani. Photo: Arvind Sridhar  

A space for choreographers and dancers coming from diverse backgrounds to work with 2 choreographers with different approaches to developing a contemporary cultural practice. In the mornings, Hemabharathy Palani will teach contemporary dance, particularly the...

We welcome Soo Hyun Hwang to be part of our Research Room residency. (More information to come) Soo-Hyun Hwang was born and raised in Seoul, Korea and is finding new methods of choreography languages based her long-time experiences as a dancer. pursuing research and...

In this interdisciplinary lab dance-makers and scientists will exchange creative thinking processes to develop shared experiments. The lab will be designed to enable the greatest possibility for unexpected collaborations and avenues of enquiry, and each participant...

Open nationally to professional choreographers, dancers. Writing Dancing is a group of dance writers and makers who have been meeting in Sydney since 2010 to explore approaches to writing towards, about, around and alongside dancing. Facilitated by members of the...

Open to Australian choreographers and dancers.  A fantastic surprise addition to our 2015 Facilitated program, American dancer Riley Watts, a member of the Forsythe Company since 2010 will lead a workshop over two mornings at The Drill Hall. Riley Watts is a dancer,...

Hybrid-performance artist Kate McIntosh will engage in a two week research/development process toward the creation of her new work, exploring the visualisation of sound through movement. Kate has invited Angela Goh and Lizzie Thomson to witness and partner in the...

"During my time in residence at the research room I intend continue my research of repetition, with a particular concentration on how repetition might reveal plural meanings from a singular body or action. During a recent residency at Bundanon I came across the...

UNSW | 27 JUL – 9 AUG DRILL HALL | 24–30 AUG Elizabeth will explore the dance potentials for an eighty-year old body thus extending her practice as a choreographer and performer. Always interested in the power of expressive dance she will explore what an older...

Branch Nebula’s research project will take place over two part-time weeks offsite asa series of interventions in skate parks. They will collaborate with artists who habitually probe the urban landscape: street-style artists, skaters, BMXers, and parkourists, together...

Ivey will be attempting to better understand her practice by attending to ongoing research questions in regards to hierarchy, spectatorship, subject and the nature of event, as well as through analysis of an ongoing project, Adventure Dances: Summoning Sensation. She...

Drill Hall | 4-10 MAY UNSW | 13-26 JULY In response to the creative interactions and somatic work Narelle has been studying through her Australia Council Fellowship with Alice Cummins and Adrian Winkworth, she will work in the studio to develop deeper explorations for...

Open nationally to professional choreographers, dancers. This workshop proposes approaches, methods, games and scores that Martin developed while making the solo and the group version of Animal Dances. How do we, urban animals of the 21st century, relate to animals...

Anya will be researching the impact of office lifestyle on the body. The same body once predominately used to hunt, gather and mate. She will specifically investigate the impact on the bodies of women in the office. We have often seen images of primal man in the...

Vicki will collaborate with renowned choreographer Martin del Amo, to develop a solo practice under the title ‘The Community in One Body’. Vicki will explore the cultural premise of community ownership of cultural expression, i.e. dance, song and story. This topic...

Siegmar will offer dramaturgical advice to Responsive Program residents and our Associate Artist in individual sessions. “I propose to work on the relation between the language we use when we talk about work, the artistic expression itself and the discourse around it....

"I had an absolutely amazing time last week, being able to think, read, write, move, meet and engage with amazing and brilliant Australian artists and scholars in a beautiful setting". For this research residency, Chloé will be working in collaboration with Australian...

Fully DIPPED is an Investigate/Extend residency that will rekindle a research spark ignited during Dean’s Australia Council Fellowship (2011-2012). Dean will investigate the potential to evolve what was a twenty-hour durational score of evolving embodiments beyond...

10AM–11AM Responsive Program residents only 11AM–4PM Open nationally to professional choreographers, dancers and interdisciplinary artists. Submit your EOI at below. Every Day a Thing proposes to develop a practice of co-working and co-thinking between artists....

From a concise movement vocabulary of ten steps, Patricia Wood will work with Rhiannon Newton and Cleo Mees to explore notions of stillness and repetition. They will utilise simple choreographic devices to dissect and ascertain: how does the performer and the audience...

RESEARCH ROOM | 27 JAN – 1 FEB, 1–12 JUN UNSW | 6–19 APR DRILL HALL | 20 APR – 1 MAY TANGI (tears) explores the transformative qualities of light, water, incantations and embodiment to enunciate the rare and precious nature of culturally significant objects, suspended...

Peter will explore the manifold forces of sexuality, gender and power as they unfold in choreographic research. The exploration will culminate in a showing with other dancers, musicians and performers at the Drill Hall on January 24, 2015. The work will...

During the Critical Path residency, Técha Noble will be experimenting with extending the body via costume prosthesis, puppetry and anthropomorphic figurations and transforming these physical extensions to see how they can be engendered with sound. She will be working...

The 2015 FACETS program provided me with unparalleled levels of support from 10 international mentors spanning a number of artistic areas in the development of Long Walk to show as part of the Attakkalari India Biennial 2015. I also had the opportunity to work...