2026 Australian Dance Week: Calendar
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 workshops and classes along with performances for those who like to watch and dance on the inside. Ballet, contemporary, folk, hip-hop, dance fit, inclusive dance, dance for wellbeing, improvised dance....
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Let's DANCE, Canberra!
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Ausdance ACT Networking Morning Tea: Australian Dance Week
Inclusion is easier than you think - don't turn away students, thinking you need specialist training or a separate class. ACT’s popular networking morning tea returns for Australian Dance Week, featuring special guest speaker Shannon Kolak, Chief Executive Officer of ACT Down Syndrome & Intellectual Disability.
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Inclusion can look different from one studio to another—there is no single “right” way to welcome dancers with disability. Shannon will explore what inclusion in dance means, giving practical advice to studios and teachers.
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Dance studios, teachers, independent artists, administrators, Ausdance members—everyone is invited to join this open discussion.
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Wednesday 6th May, 10.30am Gorman Arts Centre
This event is free to attend though RSVPs are essential for catering purposes to act@ausdance.org.au
Dance Sector Survey for new National Cultural Policy
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Australia’s National Cultural Policy is about to be reviewed, giving us the opportunity to influence what comes next. Please fill out this short survey as your responses will inform the Federal Submission Ausdance National are doing on behalf of the dance sector for the new National Cultural Policy, Revive 2.0.
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This is very important, as dance featured minimally in the last version and we need to have a stronger bolder voice.
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Our deadline for response to this survey is 8th May.​