Our campaign will help build awareness about the benefits of co creative dance for young people, working towards professional presentation in a leading Australian arts centre

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Ausdance ACT is the peak body for dance in the ACT, led by Executive Director Dr Cathy Adamek. We deliver accessible, diverse programs across genres, engaging dance makers, educators, studios, performers, and participants. A member-based not-for-profit charity, we contribute to federal advocacy through Ausdance National and are funded by artsACT.

Support the next chapter of Notes of Self as it tours internationally, connecting audiences of all ages through movement, imagination and shared discovery.

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James Batchelor and Collaborators are a creative team led by choreographer James Batchelor, working between Australia and Europe. Across performance, research and education, they create ambitious choreographic encounters shaped by attention, imagination and movement. Their practice explores how dance connects people, histories and ideas, with a particular focus on intergenerational exchange and transmission.

ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration. Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange.

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Liz Lea is an award winning internationally recognised dance artist, choreographer and producer. Over three decades she has created and presented groundbreaking, accessible dance theatre. She lives and works on Ngunnawal land, directs the BOLD and DANscienCE Festival and The Stellar Company and works as an Audio Describer in Australia and the UK.

Help keep artists employed, visible, and thriving in Canberra. Every dollar powers the future of the arts in the ACT.

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Based on Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australian Dance Party (ADP) is the ACT’s flagship professional contemporary dance company and its largest employer of professional dance artists. Celebrating a decade of bold, socially responsive creation, ADP energises public space, sparks civic dialogue, and drives the regional dance ecosystem. As the primary organisation in the ACT offering viable professional careers in contemporary dance, ADP retains local talent, nurtures emerging national voices, and creates vital return pathways and professional development for established artists.

Our 2026 AusArt Day is produces by five young artists who are each creating short clips based on their lived experience of Quantum Leap programs.

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Quantum Leap Australia is a contemporary dance company dedicated to the artistic development of young people through the collaborative, curious and rigorous creation of original work.