Erindale Theatre
Saturday 28 October 2023
One show only
Duration 1 hour 20 minutes
The Training Ground presents a selection of group, solo, duet and trio dance works, as well as a few student-devised works, showcasing the strength of the company’s dancers, their studio and their achievements in 2023. Hurry – tickets are very limited.
The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre
18–20 May 2023
This is a triple bill created by choreographers Alice Lee Holland (Townsville), Kyall Shanks (Melbourne) and Lordfai Navinda Pachimsawat (Bangkok) working with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne, Assistant to the Artistic Director Stephen Gow and the Quantum Leap ensemble.
Continue Reading“QL2 Dance: the Quantum Leap ensemble – Communicate”
Canberra Theatre Centre
Saturday 29 April 2023
James Batchelor: Shortcuts to Familiar Places at 3pm
Liz Lea: RED at 5pm
Shortcuts to Familiar Places is a personal exploration of memory and history inscribed on the body using film and live performance.
RED is a soul-baring story of one woman’s journey through illness and recovery, with an eye to the future.
Weekends until April 2023
10.30am to 3pm
Departing from and returning to National Museum Wharf, Lawson Crescent, Acton
Performers: Yolande Lowatta, Levente Szabo/Douglas Stone, Liam Budge, Stefanie Lekkas
Australian Dance Party is a Canberra based company with a particular interest in site-specific works. ADP aims to bring together dance and other arts, people and place.
Unhinged
Erindale Theatre
28-29 July 2023
Training Ground directors Suzy Piani and Bonnie Neate have just opened their new studio in Phillip and are working towards the company’s third major dance theatre production, Unhinged.
Saturday, 11 March 2023
8.00pm – approx 9.30pm
This event spotlights Canberra’s underground art and activism through site-responsive stories, in celebration of International Women’s Day and World Pride.
Belconnen Arts Centre
7pm, December 2 and 3 2022
To celebrate the power of inclusion and imperative for excellence we are aligning with International Day of People with Disability to launch The Stellar Company, a new and inclusive voice in community arts in the ACT.
Canberra College, 2 Launceston St Phillip ACT
Friday 14 October 2022 at 6pm
Saturday 15 October 2022 at 3pm and 6pm
Each year, QL2 Dance in Canberra runs a development and performance project for younger dancers, referred to affectionately as the Chaos project.
Folk Dance Canberra Hall
114 Maitland Street, Hackett ACT
Friday, 23 September, 7.30pm – 9pm
Experience wild rhythms, exotic melodies and bold singing, blending ancient traditions with modern musical idioms. Canberra duo, Alister Price (accordionist) and Desi Gancheva (singer), perform Balkan music and leading dances that everyone can join in.
Erindale Theatre
Sunday 19 June 2022
At 5pm and 8pm
Performed by the program’s full cast of 250+ dancers, aged 9 years to adult, the production features 52 dance pieces, exciting lighting and visual components and action-packed commercial hip-hop choreography.
Continue Reading“Fresh Funk, Tuggeranong Arts Centre– The Glass Slipper”
The Playhouse – Canberra Theatre Centre
26 to 28 May 2022
7pm + Sat 2pm
QL2 presents a triple bill – Terra Firma – 3 works exploring the diverse ways we perceive our changing world.
2-6 March, 2022
Various venues and online
Professional and community dance artists present workshops, performances, talks, forums and film showings in this year’s festival with 10 world premieres, eight national premieres and three established works at the National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Gorman House, QL2 Dance and Canberra Theatre Centre.
Continue Reading“The BOLD Festival”
Online during February 2022 and later at Belconnen Arts Centre and Tuggeranong Arts Centre (COVID dependent)
The ACT is one of the first Australian jurisdictions to provide Dance for Wellbeing programs, catering for seniors and for people with Parkinson’s, Dementia, and other physical and neurological conditions. The ZWSR program aims to help participants keep their bodies and brains active and healthy, regardless of mobility, skill or age.
Continue Reading“ZEST Dance for Well Being Classes resume”
Belconnen and Tuggeranong Arts Centres
Ongoing, 10 week terms, parallel to the ACT School Terms
ZEST classes are designed for adults who want to keep their body and brain active and healthy, regardless of their mobility, skill or age. This program is managed and conducted by Philip Piggin, Jan Ingall, Debora di Centa and Jacqui Simmonds.
19 and 20 November 2021
Online only
Due to a variety of COVID circumstances, this year’ s Youth Dance Festival will be presented virtually.
