Ausdance ACT celebrates and promotes dance in all its forms every year during Australian Dance Week and is proud to host the largest program in Australia. Experience a diverse dance community offering performances, workshops, and activities for all ages with a range of free classes and events.
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a theme of What Do You Dream?, Ausdance ACT presents Youth Dance Festival, an exciting mix of live dance performance made by secondary schools from all over Canberra and regions for three nights at the Canberra Theatre Centre from 6 to 8 November 2024. In drawing inspiration for the […]
Ausdance ACT Australian Dance Week turns the spotlight on our incredible local dance scene, with an extraordinary range of events right across our region. This is the time to get out and try a new dance experience, see a show, take a class, and celebrate dance. Many of the events are FREE, check out our […]
Is there anybody out there… or are we the aliens? Youth Dance Festival 2025 blasts off with the theme ‘Life on Mars’, as students from across the region take to the Canberra Theatre stage for an electrifying night of creativity, movement, and imagination. Don’t miss this non-competitive celebration of dance, passion, and storytelling – created […]
Ausdance ACT’s Australian Dance Week opens on International Dance Day and has grown into the biggest offering in Australia! Our calendar is chockers with over 20 invitations to dance all over the ACT and region. Young, old, mixed ability, professional, pre-professional and anyone who loves to dance or has always wanted to try. There are […]
A powerful solo performance born on Menang Noongar Country, DJILBA: A Moment in Time captures the energy of seasonal change. Created by Floeur Alder and Virginia Ward, this evocative work weaves dance, poetry and imagery in celebration of Djilba — the time of renewal and transformation. Inspired by WA’s Rainbow Coast and guided by Menang […]
Dancer Floeur Alder, daughter of ballet luminaries Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder survives a brutal attack. While physical wounds heal, trauma stirs turbulent past memories, sparking a deeply personal quest to find her place in the dance world. Critics describe the 2025 documentary as a "poetic and unflinching portrait" of dancer Floeur Alder's resilience Dance […]