The Q, Queanbeyan NSW
6, 7 August 2026 at 7.30pm
8 August at 2pm & 7.30pm
Diamond is an exploration of ageing, resilience, and the complexity of womanhood. Blending contemporary dance, song, cabaret, and a touch of burlesque, this one-woman show invites audiences into a world of humour, glamour, and heartfelt transformation.
2 to 6 April 2026
Exhibition Park in Canberra
In 1967, a group of university students with a $100 budget launched a weekend of songs, stories and dance in a Melbourne college hall. Since then, the National Folk Festival has become one of Australia’s most enduring cultural events – an annual celebration of diversity, belonging, and exploration of what folk culture means in Australia.
The audio interviews below were recorded at or before the Festival.
Erindale Theatre, Wanniassa ACT
25 and 26 July 2025 at 7pm
A contemporary, full length dance performance by Canberra’s premier pre-professional level dance training program, The Fold is set in a dystopian future not too difficult to envisage. The work blends live performance with cinematic elements and complex digital animations.
8 to 10 March 2024
Various venues in the ACT and online
BOLD24 is a bite size movement held in Canberra with a series of events celebrating International Women’s Day 2024.
Continue Reading“The Bold Festival 2024 – she Bites“
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.
