Strut Dance Competitors

Dance changes you. More than simply witnessing something beautiful, or engaging with culture, to experience dance is to be positively altered. From performances at the Joyce Theatre in New York, to the Grand in Shanghai, the Stanislavsky in Moscow and the Sydney Opera House at home, Sydney Dance Company has proven that there are no passive observers in a contemporary dance audience. The reward of truly moving audiences, and the raw pride of sharing Australian art with the world has driven our ensemble of 16 dancers, led by Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, to become one of the world’s strongest forces in contemporary dance. Alongside Bonachela’s original works, our programs have featured guest choreographers like Jacopo Godani, Alexander Ekman, Gideon Obarzanek and Cheng Tsung-Lung as well as collaborations with the Sydney Festival, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, David Jones and composers Bryce Dessner, Nick Wales, 48nord and Ezio Bosso. Sydney Dance Company has a broad community beyond the practice and performance of our lead dancers. We believe in the universality of dance, and with the largest public dance class program in Australia, we help over 80,000 people a year connect with the grace, strength and creativity that lives within all of us. Our nation-wide education program offers a strategic curriculum targeting primary and secondary students through to career focused study for pre-professional dancers and university graduates.

Masters of the credible incredible. Setting the standard for the spectacular. WE ARE NICA. We make the extraordinary world of circus arts a professional reality with world-class training, innovation, research, and development. It’s through these tools that NICA creates truly extraordinary, industry-elite artists. NICA is an internationally renowned Centre of Excellence based in Melbourne, Australia. We are a proud member of the Arts8 Organisations. Currently flying under the flag of Melbourne’s Swinburne University, we provide tertiary-level, innovative education, training, performance, research, leadership and talent to the local, national and global circus arts industry. At NICA, we utilise our world-leading credentials to unlock and bolster pathways to the extraordinary. We’re an authority on the awe-inspiring and set the standard for the spectacular through our seamless blend of accredited training and exceptional talent.