Australian Dance Week Calendar of Events
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We are excited to share with you our 2025 Australian Dance Week calendar!
Australian Dance Week provides the opportunity for us to turn the spotlight on our incredible local dance scene and we are very proud that Ausdance ACT hosts the largest Australian Dance Week program in Australia. Our 2025 calendar is our biggest yet!
Experience a tasting plate of performances, workshops, and activities for all ages with a range of free classes and events.
The variety of events is quite extraordinary and highlights the strength of dance, both professional and community, in Canberra and surrounds.
Plan your week here with our calendar and check for updates on our website and social media and immerse yourself in dance!
Australian Dance Week Morning Tea
Our popular networking morning tea is back during Australian Dance Week.​ With special guest speaker ACT Public Advocate and Children and Young People Commissioner, Ms Jodie Griffiths-Cook.
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From 1 August 2024, amendments to the Human Rights Commission Act 2005 make it mandatory for all organisations that provide services for children and young people to commence implementing the ACT Child Safe Standards Scheme. Jodie and her team have been resourced to support organisations to implement the Scheme and will talk with us about what this might look like for organisations and businesses like yours. If you have any questions or ideas about what might be useful for you, Jodie and her team would be pleased to hear from you on the day or whenever you might like to contact them.
We do hope you can join us.
Safe Dance® Practice - Online Professional Development Course
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Stay ahead of Safe Dance® practices in the ever-evolving dance landscape! Enrol today for the Safe Dance® Practice - Online Professional Development Course.
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This course draws from the Safe Dance® practice recommendations, developed from over 30 years of rigorous research by the Ausdance network into dancer injury prevention, wellbeing, and health.
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Topics include:
~ What is Safe Dance?
~ Anatomy basics and injury prevention
~ Safe physical environments
~ Supervision and monitoring of children
~ Working with seniors and elders
~ Legal obligations​​
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Become an advocate for safe dance practices and teaching methodologies and help ensure dancers enjoy sustainable and thriving careers!
The Stellar Company Stars in 3D
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Stars in 3D takes audiences on a 3-dimensional trip through dance, space and time. Featuring world first simulations of the universe, Stars in 3D is an exquisite experience of immersive beauty founded in extraordinary science featuring the Chamaeleon Collective with special guests Hilal Dance Australia.
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The 30th of April show will have a pre-show talk Dancing in the Universe led by Dr Brad Tucker and Professor Susan Scott. They will discuss all things Universal in our universe and the way the stars and planets dance through time.
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​Presented by The Stellar Company and Chamaeleon Collective, Canberra's first inclusive dance company, supported by Ausdance ACT through artsACT and Inspiring Australia for Australian Dance Week.
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Ausdance Submission
The national Ausdance network has made a landmark submission for Dance to the National Office for Child Safety in response to its Child Safety Annual Reporting Framework consultation paper.
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The national Ausdance network has championed ‘Safe Dance’ since 1990. Currently, improving safety in dance environments, particularly for children, is a key priority for the network.
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The National Office for Child Safety’s proposed child safety annual reporting framework aims to encourage and support organisations through capability building to implement good practice child safety policies and processes to embed cultures that prioritise the best interests of all children.
Dance Film Workshop for Schools with Peng Hsiao-yin (Grace) Dancecology Taiwan
We are delighted to present this special workshop specifically for schools with the incredible Peng Hsiao-yin (Grace) from Dancecology Taiwan during 2025 Australian Dance Week.
Self-Portrait of Dance Film
In this workshop, participants will learn how to film an original and creative self-portrait video in the form of dance film: the power of using body language and cinematic skills to express yourself. Through the creative process, Peng Hsiao-yin, will guide the participants to design or choreograph movements and gesture to express themselves, and film the choreography with professional filming techniques.