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Ausdance ACT

Locality: Braddon, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6188 4250

Address: E-Block, Gorman Arts Centre Ainslie Avenue 2612 Braddon, ACT, Australia

Website: http://ausdanceact.org.au/

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24.01.2022 Yikes! Its been a year since GENERATION NEXT, the 35th Youth Dance Festival at the Canberra Theatre, 11th-13th September 2019! Thanks to Sidestage Production Services - WATCH the VIDEOs on our website https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/ and find out how you can still get a copies.

24.01.2022 Professional opportunity at Belconnen Arts Centre!

24.01.2022 This morning from ACT Government.

24.01.2022 Ausdance ACT is so delighted to partner with CDT so that this performance opportunity - in a new work, IN THE SPIRIT - is accessible to everyone interested and able :-). More details in CDTs post below .

23.01.2022 This weekend is looking HOT ...to trot! Tickets are still available for the Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm & 4pm shows of QL2 Dance Inc (Canberra, Australia) Hot to Trot. Don't miss this showcase of choreographic talent by the Quantum Leapers. Limited tickets available due to COVID restrictions. Book now: t) 6247 3103 e) [email protected]... Image by Art Atelier Photography

23.01.2022 Hi ACT based dance people Please read the message at the link below and please follow ACT Health advice about travel out of and into the ACT. https://mailchi.mp//2018-cbr-sport-awards-nominations-open Remember that, in the ACT, dance activities are regulated by the Public Health Directions as a category of non-professional organised sporting activity. Please be in touch with us by messenger or email ([email protected]) if you have any questions or concerns!

23.01.2022 Our friends at Belco Arts who deliver DANCE FOR WELLBEING advise that the program will commence the week of 10 August and continue for 8 weeks. Philip Piggin, Belco Arts Programs Officer advises that people interested in DfW check in to the website for all details and to see Belco Arts COVIDSafe protocols too. Please contact Belco Arts if you have any questions and NOTE they are now requiring you to book in for the full term to ensure class sizes are carefully monitored. https://www.belcoarts.com.au/dance-for-wellbeing/

22.01.2022 The dancers at the Canberra Dance Theatre - CDT created a work called Gesture & Stance responding to the sculptures by James Rogers at the Drill Hall Gallery. You can view their fabulous work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSR3Q6A7XU&t=1s

22.01.2022 Registrations are now open for the second panel discussion of the national series 'Cack Conversations' produced by Alstonville Dance Studio in partnership with Accessible Arts and Ausdance NSW - My Same, Your Difference: Disability Ability and the Body. The panel will discuss the process of making the film Your Different/My Same featuring Adelaide-based disabled dance artists, Matt Shilcock and Josh Twee. This panel also welcomes our own Director Dr Cathy Adamek who will intr...oduce the context of this collaboration, a project called Dance.Focus which was designed for choreographers to challenge, resonate and engage with screen dance. The webinar will have live captioning and will be Auslan interpreted. Registrations: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F-twClVlRIaHkbyHfXOocQ #AlstoneDanceStudio #Ausdance #AccessibleArts #TalkingDanceAndDisability

22.01.2022 Belco Arts innovative and much-treasured Dance for Wellbeing program is seeking your votes in the 'Dreams For a Better World' competition for a grant, to support the programs for people in aged and residential care :-)! Please visit and vote!

21.01.2022 Last performances of ADPs perambulating outdoor dance theatre work TOMORROW at Lake Tuggers. Details below the video . And enjoy the video!

21.01.2022 Canberras own Australian Dance Party is launching their second series of Move To Zero dance videos. The launch is this Thursday 24 September at noon! At the Palace Cinemas! Free! booking details below!

21.01.2022 Yikes! It's been a year since GENERATION NEXT, the 35th Youth Dance Festival at the Canberra Theatre, 11th-13th September 2019! Thanks to Sidestage Production Services - WATCH the VIDEOs on our website https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/ and find out how you can still get a copies.

21.01.2022 If you have not seen this opportunity for **FREE** covid-19 safety training before now, then please check out - https://www.act.gov.au//businesses-getting-trained-to-figh Other local Canberra businesses and venues are taking advantage of this **FREE** COVID-19 Infection Control training. ... Everyone in Canberras dance community wants to be COVID safe so we can care for everyones health, stay open and keep people employed. Read more at the link .

21.01.2022 Hi everyone - As we're sure you know from news, yesterday there were big announcements from the Commonwealth Government about JobKeeper and JobSeeker from October 2020. Ausdance ACT will summarise available information and provide links to government sites today at the COVID 19 SUPPORT tab, under Covid 19 Info. SHORT STORY - support will continue past end of September through to end March 2021 for JK and the end December for JS (with hints that it might go longer), but amounts are going down.

20.01.2022 The Commonwealth Parliament Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts is conducting an inquiry into Australias creative and cultural industries and institutions. This survey is worth completing because its a chance to express your experiences and you can also argue for those who cant be heard. This survey will take around 10-15 minutes and is due by Thursday 22nd October, 2020.... https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Stateoftheartssurvey

20.01.2022 Canberra's own Australian Dance Party is launching their second series of Move To Zero dance videos. The launch is this Thursday 24 September at noon! At the Palace Cinemas! Free! booking details below!

20.01.2022 Tomorrow 13 September! At 3pm and 4pm. At the National Portrait Gallery, in honour of the 13th Anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Wonderful performers, including Ausdance ACT Board member Canberra independent dancer and dance teacher, Emma Laverty. Go to Fb pages of Liz Lea and of ACT Independent Dance Artists for more details!

18.01.2022 Ausdance ACT's Covid-19 Small Grants Fund is open for applications. This fund has been established to provide inclusive one-off financial assistance to local dancers, both emerging and established (including dance students aged 15 to 22) experiencing negative impacts on their dance activities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ausdance ACT is able to offer this opportunity due to support from the ACT Government through artsACT and on account of a refocusing of funding for dance artists' development and engagement during Covid times. For more information and to apply visit https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/ausdance-act-small-grants-fu

18.01.2022 Hi all! More news from artsACT about success for independent dance and movement artists who applied for Covid-19 HOMEFRONT grants :-). CONGRATULATIONS to - ASHLEE BYE - dance artist and educator with a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts and a background in youth dance (QL2) - for her application for Stay at Home Dance, teaching and collaboration online (grant of $10,000) and to DR ELIZABETH CAMERON DALMAN, Ausdance life member and doyenne of the art ...form, Director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre and Mirramu Dance Company, for Dance-in-Nature: Preparing a book, video-tutorial and workshop (grant of $10,000), and to JAKE SILVESTR0, amazing physical movement artist and much-appreciated tutor from time to time in Ausdance ACTs programs for Research, development and training in physical theatre (grant of $10,000). More details of the HOMEFRONT program and all 125 grant recipients here: https://www.arts.act.gov.au/fund/current-funding-recipients See more

18.01.2022 This evening we are thinking of everyone in Victoria, especially dance people and our colleagues in Ausdance Victoria. What a hard slog for everyone! Such patience and hard work is being required to get these recent outbreaks under control. Please look after yourselves. Things will surely improve!

17.01.2022 It is super-wonderful to see the broad and diverse dance sector of Canberra and surrounds, get busy again and be back to holding classes, doing performances and making dance works for Canberra - all in a totally Covid-19 safe way! Joy! If you have performances or classes you would like to tell Ausdance ACT about - PLEASE send us an email at [email protected], so we can let others know :-)! TODAY we are passing on some terrific news from the contemporary dance makers an...d performers at Australian Dance Party. Party Whip Olivia Fyfe tells us - "We would love to include ACT and surrounding region dancers in our next exciting performance The Nelken Line. In connection with our Lake March performances, we will be linking to world famous director, Pina Bauschs The Nelken Line currently being performed, videoed and shared online by citizens across the globe, uniting communities through the covid-19 pandemic." This is an opportunity for Canberras wonderful dance community to join in :-). Olivia says: "The more the merrier!" How do you join in? 1. Learn the choreography online here: https://vimeo.com/219686975 2. Register for a Join The Nelken Line ticket to participate in the videoing on Sunday 16th August at Lake Burley Griffin at 12:30pm REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-nelken-line-tickets-112

17.01.2022 Canberra's professional dance artists have been busy whilst in lock-down, bringing their work to audiences, virtually. From this Wednesday you have the opportunity to enjoy RED - by 2017 Canberra Artist of the Year Liz Lea - as part of the CTC@Home season. In The Canberra Times, when the work premiered in March 2018, renowned dance reviewer Michelle Potter praised RED as "a remarkable dance work" - https://www.canberratimes.com.au//liz-leas-red-at-ql2-the/.... YOU can see RED from THIS WEDNESDAY 15 July at 7pm streaming from the Canberra Theatre Centre website. Click and scroll to 'Canberra's Best Talent, Home Delivered' - and enjoy! https://canberratheatrecentre.com.au/show/ctc-at-home/.

16.01.2022 Tomorrow! Saturday, the 21st of November, Project Beats Dance Studio crews and dancers will be performing for the public. They will be busking in efforts to raise money for Canberra's own and first Street Dance Festival which is scheduled to happen in January 2021. Get along and show some love, they will busking from 11am-1pm in the heart of Garema Place.... #projectbeats #pb #streetdance #cbrdance #cbrdancers

16.01.2022 Don't miss the wonderful opportunity to dance in IN THE SPIRIT - Canberra Dance Theatre - CDT's new community performance work, on and around Fiona Hooton's straw Ziggurat in Contour 556 Festival. All are welcome! SIGN UP? Please contact Jacqui ([email protected]) for further information and to put your name on the cast list REHEARSALs: ... **Thursdays - In the studio: 12.30-2.00pm on 17th, 24th September & 1st, 8th October. Led by Philip Piggin. ->On site: 1.00-2.30pm on 15th, 22nd October **Saturdays - In the studio: 3.00-4.30pm on 12th, 19th, 26th September & 3rd October. Led by Jacqui ->On site: 3.30-5.00pm on 10th October Come to either Thursdays OR Saturdays. Altogether on site: Saturday 17th October, 3.30-5.30pm Final rehearsal: This will be either Friday 23 at 5.00pm or Saturday 24 October at 10.00am. IN THE SPIRIT is presented in partnership with with Ausdance ACT, supported by the ACT Government through artsACT. Performance: Saturday 24 October, 3.15 & 3.45pm (and standby for Sun 25th if need reschedule because of the weather)

16.01.2022 A busy day on the Covid-19 public health front. NOTE that the ACT Government has paused the commencement of Stage 3 Recovery. The situation will be risk assessed by the ACT Chief Medical Officer in 2 weeks. In the meantime - stay with your Stage 2.2 compliance. More details at our website https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/ with a link to a copy of the letter from the ACT Government.

16.01.2022 Hi everyone - As were sure you know from news, yesterday there were big announcements from the Commonwealth Government about JobKeeper and JobSeeker from October 2020. Ausdance ACT will summarise available information and provide links to government sites today at the COVID 19 SUPPORT tab, under Covid 19 Info. SHORT STORY - support will continue past end of September through to end March 2021 for JK and the end December for JS (with hints that it might go longer), but amounts are going down.

15.01.2022 Hi everyone - as you will know, we are sure, the ACT Government has had to introduce controls on travelling and travellers in response to the Covid-19 situation in Victoria. We have updated our website https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/ and there are links there to further ACT Government information for you. Please particularly note the ACT Government Public Health advice for people entering the ACT from Victoria https://www.covid19.act.gov.au//public-health-advice-for-p. Stay healthy!

15.01.2022 Hi all! We have been posting COVID-safe messages for dance on a regular basis on our Instagram page. Many thanks to our Vice President for designing them to support the ACT dance community through COVID-safe recovery!

15.01.2022 Hi everyone We are guessing that, by now, you wonderful people in the ACT dance sector are well and truly across the details of Stage 3, Step 3.1 Covid Recovery. If you need a refresher please go to the What you can do page of the ACT Government and click through Changes to restrictions to both - Community Sport and Swimming (which still covers dance) and - also to Entertainment, Live Performance, arts and cultural activities. ... Please NOTE that you need to clearly display occupancy allowance at the entrance to a space/venue you are using as well as display additional signs with area occupancy for separate individual spaces. Happy dancing and stay safe :-). https://www.covid19.act.gov.au/what-you-can-do See more

15.01.2022 Celebrate International Day of People with Disability (iDay) online with the National Museum of Australia on Thursday 3rd December from 11am-1pm. Presented by vocalist/songwriter Ruth O'Brien and choreographer Liz Lea, live dance performances and a selection of short films from around Australia will be streamed from the Museum’s Gandel Atrium. Special Guest Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Ben Gauntlett. Suitable for people of all abilities, with Auslan interpretati...on and live captioning. The National Museum of Australia is a proud supporter of International Day of People with Disability. View live from the Museum's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlmelQASJaY&feature=youtu.be

13.01.2022 Spotlight on ACT Australian Dance Award nominee! Nominated in the category for 2019 AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN YOUTH DANCE - QL2 Dance Inc (Canberra, Australia) QL2 Youth Dance for Filling the Space, an exceptionally mature performance that explored dimensions of space and its potent significance to the world of dance physically, emotionally, and architecturally.... Choreographers: Ruth Osborne, James Batchelor and Eliza Sanders. Composers: Adam Ventoura & Morgan Hickinbotham Lighting Designer: Mark Dyson Film: Wildbear Entertainment Photo: Lorna Sim The Australian Dance Awards online ceremony will be held on Tuesday 8 December at 7.30 pm AEST https://bit.ly/2TFGJpH #ausdance #australiandanceawards #australiandance

13.01.2022 Starting in a minute!

12.01.2022 The dancers at the Canberra Dance Theatre - CDT created a work called 'Gesture & Stance' responding to the sculptures by James Rogers at the Drill Hall Gallery. You can view their fabulous work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSR3Q6A7XU&t=1s

12.01.2022 This week. But always.

11.01.2022 Today the office received a reminder by email of an opportunity being provided by Theatre Network Australia to provide urgent financial support for professional performers, including dancers. Go here for details - https://www.tna.org.au/extending-eligibility-to-1000-x-100/.... The website states that "ELIGIBILITY INCLUDES: artists, teaching artists / coaches, directors, dramaturges, writers and lighting, set, costume, video and sound designers working in theatre, dance, circus and physical theatre, magic, theatre for / by / with young people, hybrid and interdisciplinary live art, puppetry, spoken word, comedy, cabaret, experimental art, contemporary performance and / or community-engaged practice that includes live performance." If you are suffering financial hardship, this would be worth reading about to see if you qualify.

10.01.2022 DANCE RITES - A CELEBRATION OF FIRST NATIONS DANCE CONTINUES TONIGHT As a result of nationwide measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the community, the 2020 festival will be presented as a digital event, broadcast for free on Sydney Opera House’s digital channels. Traditional, Episode 2 online from 8pm AEDT. Witness the powerful coming together of traditional customs, language and contemporary culture with First Nations dancers from around Australia.... Dance groups: New Mapoon Dance Group, Mornington Island Dancers, Jannawi Dance Clan, Wangga Lirriga Dancers, Dyiraamalang, Karajarri, Brolga Dance Academy, Wangan & Jagalingou, Dunghutti dhariiyn duriayi (Dunghutti Figtree dancers), South Australian Indigenous Dance Collective and Iwiri, Injinoo Dance Troupe, Luurnpa Dancers (Kingfisher), Gawura (Whale) and Nunukul Yuggera Aboriginal Dance Company. Find out more about Dance Rites: https://soh.online/dance_rites #danceritesdigital #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOC #NAIDOCWeek2020 #sydneyoperahouse

09.01.2022 The Vault is a project of Ausdance National, curated by Liz Lea. Dive in to the collection and enjoy being reminded or discovering works and performances you have missed! What a lovely way to celebrate dance .

08.01.2022 Dont miss the wonderful opportunity to dance in IN THE SPIRIT - Canberra Dance Theatre - CDTs new community performance work, on and around Fiona Hootons straw Ziggurat in Contour 556 Festival. All are welcome! SIGN UP? Please contact Jacqui ([email protected]) for further information and to put your name on the cast list REHEARSALs: ... **Thursdays - In the studio: 12.30-2.00pm on 17th, 24th September & 1st, 8th October. Led by Philip Piggin. ->On site: 1.00-2.30pm on 15th, 22nd October **Saturdays - In the studio: 3.00-4.30pm on 12th, 19th, 26th September & 3rd October. Led by Jacqui ->On site: 3.30-5.00pm on 10th October Come to either Thursdays OR Saturdays. Altogether on site: Saturday 17th October, 3.30-5.30pm Final rehearsal: This will be either Friday 23 at 5.00pm or Saturday 24 October at 10.00am. IN THE SPIRIT is presented in partnership with with Ausdance ACT, supported by the ACT Government through artsACT. Performance: Saturday 24 October, 3.15 & 3.45pm (and standby for Sun 25th if need reschedule because of the weather)

08.01.2022 More news about dance performances for you to attend! OUTSIDE!! More joy!! 5pm and 6pm this SATURDAY 29 August - TAP KIX - @canberrafair - Foodie Fair, co-hosted with @experience.eats. Also - @JSIDE_dancecrew performing a new set theyve made for the event.... See them OUTSIDE @canberracollege Performing Arts Theatre. The 6pm performance will also be *** live-streamed***, as will be the indoors fashion event! Canberra Fair FB Event has more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1254033801596001 Apart from ***DANCING*** there will be local foodie trucks, live band, games and much more. ***THANKS to a dozen or so local arts and culture businesses, including Bom Funk Dance Studio and Sidestage Production Services, for lighting up our covid-ey lives with this!*** And it is great to know that the organisers will have QR covid tracing in place around the event, spacing markers in smaller areas, along with people checking crowd numbers and distancing. Canberra you really are figuring out how to manage safely and stay active and engaged, living with the covid normal...!

08.01.2022 IMPORTANT ! For people holding EVENTS (including those involving less than 100 people) there is a new ***Covid Safe Event Protocol** to pay attention to. Go here - https://www.covid19.act.gov.au//act-covid-safe-event-proto. Ausdance ACT also has received this afternoon an email about Covid Safe Events, from ACT Sport and Recreation which we have copied into our website at the Covid recovery tab: https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/covid-recovery-roadmap

07.01.2022 Last performances of ADP's perambulating outdoor dance theatre work TOMORROW at Lake Tuggers. Details below the video . And enjoy the video!

07.01.2022 The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications has published a new program to support the arts and entertainment sectors. Our understanding is that you can apply whether or not you have received funding from artsACT or from the Australia Council. Applications open from 31 August - 31 May 2021 Link: https://www.arts.gov.au/funding-and-support/rise-fund

07.01.2022 Some beautiful images by Art Atelier Photography from last weekend's performance of Canberra Dance Theatre - CDT's In the Spirit presented in partnership with Ausdance ACT and Contour 556. In the Spirit featured 16 members of CDT’s GOLD and REVEL performance groups, directed by Jacqui Simmonds and Philip Piggin with original music by Teresa Wojcik. The work was inspired by the life of Marion Mahony Griffin and her contribution to the design of Canberra her irrepressible nat...ure and indomitable spirit. The work explores themes of relationships: between nature and the built environment; between the woman and her more famous husband; between ideals for a better world sacrificed in grabs for power. In the Spirit was performed on and around Fiona Hooton’s sculpture, Ziggurat, a straw bale construction located on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin, as part of the Contour 556 2020 Festival, Canberra’s Public Art Biennial. #cbrarts #cbrdance #contour556

05.01.2022 OPPORTUNITY for GRANT support to HELP with mental wellbeing at this time -> COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Innovation Grants :-). The ACT Government is seeking applications from organisations, groups and individuals that have outside the box, innovative, creative and effective ideas to support the mental health and wellbeing of the community. Successful applications will give focus to the new and emerging mental health and wellbeing needs of the community in relatio...n to the impacts of COVID-19. ***Applications close midday Friday 17 July 2020.*** For more information, including accessing the application form and funding guidelines, please visit the ACT MHWIGPs grant website. https://www.health.act.gov.au//mental-he/mental-health-and See more

05.01.2022 Hi all - 2 things for you today, about Covid-19 protection. First - on Friday 17 July the ACT Government advised that, from 12 noon that day, some limited changes to Step 2.2 restrictions relating to the sport and hospitality sectors will take effect, including Full-contact ....dance ...with a Covid Safety Plan in place. To check if your Plan complies - see the ACT Government Guidelines at the link below, and notice the specific mention of dance classes as businesses... or undertakings that are required to have a Plan. https://www.covid19.act.gov.au//CV_Safety-Plan-Guidelines_ SECONDLY - PLEASE note the need to self-isolate if a person has been to Covid-19 hot spots in Victoria and NSW, including in Batemans Bay. The ABC News is reporting today as follows - "Canberrans who visited the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club last week will be required to self-isolate from midday. ACT Chief Health Officer Kerryn Coleman said .... patrons and staff who were at the club on Monday July 13, Wednesday, 15, Thursday 16 or Friday July 17, must immediately self-isolate for a fortnight, regardless of symptoms, and contact the COVID-19 helpline. "We think its probably the biggest risk to Canberra of us importing a case that we have," she said. Please make sure that students, teachers, parents and others who have been in hotspots know that they must stay home and NOT come to class.

05.01.2022 ABC Canberra Radio Tues 2 Sept at 2:10PM!

04.01.2022 Canberras professional dance artists have been busy whilst in lock-down, bringing their work to audiences, virtually. From this Wednesday you have the opportunity to enjoy RED - by 2017 Canberra Artist of the Year Liz Lea - as part of the CTC@Home season. In The Canberra Times, when the work premiered in March 2018, renowned dance reviewer Michelle Potter praised RED as "a remarkable dance work" - https://www.canberratimes.com.au//liz-leas-red-at-ql2-the/.... YOU can see RED from THIS WEDNESDAY 15 July at 7pm streaming from the Canberra Theatre Centre website. Click and scroll to Canberras Best Talent, Home Delivered - and enjoy! https://canberratheatrecentre.com.au/show/ctc-at-home/.

04.01.2022 Australian Dance Party is performing tomorrow OUTSIDE by Lake Gininderra! So much dancing being performed for us in Canberra! Joy!

04.01.2022 If you are an independent dance artist, or group of artists, or a not -for-profit dance organisation with work you would like to develop but you need some GRANT funding support to do that - there is help at hand! artsACT has 2 funding rounds open at the moment. They are - **2020 Arts Activities $5-$50k Round 2 - ... Submissions close 5:00PM 31 July 2020 - just over 2 weeks from now. **2020 Arts Activities Up to $5k Submissions are open until midnight 31 December 2020. More information about both opportunities is here: https://www.arts.act.gov.au/funding/arts-activities-funding Need help with writing a grant application? Watch this recording of Ainslie+Gormans Artists Toolkit Grant Writing Q&A with Adelaide Rief https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=709706573200040&ref=search OR Contact Adelaide directly to talk through your ideas - [email protected] or on 6182 0000. There is also this Toolkit sessions upcoming on Thursday 16th July at 6pm, hosted by Meridian and Anslie+Gorman https://www.facebook.com/events/407773840129570/ Imagine, Dare, Plan, Discuss, Write, Submit...Create :-)!

02.01.2022 Belco Arts innovative and much-treasured Dance for Wellbeing program is seeking your votes in the Dreams For a Better World competition for a grant, to support the programs for people in aged and residential care :-)! Please visit and vote!

02.01.2022 We are pleased to announce the first recipient of our Small Grants Fund, local multidisciplinary artist, Jake Silvestro. Jake will be using the funds towards production costs for the development of his first solo show, 'December'. Combining visual art and circus, December presents a fictional future that is fast becoming our realistic present. Exploring themes of loss and isolation, and the consequences of Australia’s bushfires, Silvestro looks for hope amid a scene of ash an...d rubble. Speaking to the resilience of a country hit hard during the ongoing climate crisis, this enthralling new work prompts reflection on our actions and aspirations for an uncertain future. Jake Silvestro has spent the last decade working for the biggest names in Australian Circus (Circus OZ, CIRCA, Casus, Company 2 and more). His acrobatic endeavours have taken him from Bogota to Berlin and now in 2020 he is back in Australia with his first solo work. Diving back into his independent practice, Jake is working to bring a new style of circus to Australian stages that prioritises sincerity, honesty and narrative exploration. Ausdance ACT's Small Grants Fund has been established to provide inclusive one-off financial assistance to local dancers, both emerging and established experiencing negative impacts on their dance activities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. For more information or to apply visit https://www.ausdanceact.org.au/ausdance-act-small-grants-fu

02.01.2022 Interconnect - join Liz Lea, Apsaras Arts, Vanaja Dasika, Ira Patkar, Debora di Centa and Rainbow as they perform a homage to dance, design, the body and connections in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Presented as part of DESIGN Canberra. Two showings, Saturday 21 November at 2:30pm and 4:30pm Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres https://designcanberrafestival.com.au/event/interconnect/

01.01.2022 Last Chance to hear these wise tips before the deadline for current Arts Activities $5-50k round closes at 5pm Friday 31 July 2020

01.01.2022 Hi all! Your Ausdance ACT Pres is attending the online (via Zoom) free pre-election Arts Forum 2020 Sept 9th at 12.30pm-1.30pm via Zoom. More details - **The Minister for the Arts, Mr Gordon Ramsay MLA, Ms Vicki Dunne MLA, and the Greens Ms Jo Clay have all agreed to speak. After responses, there will be a short time for questions from the floor. The session will finish promptly at 1.30pm. Ms Alex Sloan AM will facilitate the Forum. **If you would like to attend, registe...r by emailing [email protected] . In registering please use Registration for election forum in the subject line, and leave your name, art form and email address. **Send questions in advance to the Childers Group by Friday 4 September. **If you would like Ausdance to ask a question for you, please email us at [email protected]. **A Zoom link will be sent to registered participants. See more here - https://www.childersgroup.com.au/call-out-to-the-act-arts-/ See more

01.01.2022 Choreographers - apply!

01.01.2022 The 11.15am performance of Lake March is booked out but you can watch the FREE performance of Pina Bauschs The Nelken Line at 12.30 today, at the NGA Sculpture Garden, alongside Lake Burley Griffin. You need to register, for Covid-19 gathering safety reasons. Its easy to do - see details below -