Australian Dance Companies

• Queensland Ballet
• Queensland Ballet is a vibrant and creative company which presents a varied repertoire of dance works. One of only three full-time professional ballet companies in Australia, Queensland Ballet is a showpiece of the State’s arts culture.
  
• The Australian Ballet.
• The Australian Ballet is Australia's national ballet company, performing works from the classical repertoire as well as contemporary works and commissions, throughout Australia and internationally. This site includes information and news about seasons, subscriptions, the company, supporters, education and media.
  
• Australian Dance Theatre
• Australian Dance Theatre is the pre-eminent contemporary dance company in Australia and has been producing consistently extraordinary new dance since it was formed in Adelaide in 1965.
• Bangarra Dance Theatre
• Bangarra Dance Theatre is one of Australia's most unique and innovative dance companies. Blending traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture with international contemporary dance, Bangarra creates a uniquely Australian dance language.
  
• West Australian Ballet
• West Australian Ballet has developed an impressive reputation for superior classical and contemporary ballet and contemporary dance of the highest level.
  
• Sydney Dance Company
• Sydney Dance Company is Australia's premier contemporary dance company and one of the country's most original and vibrant arts organisations.
  
• Buzz Dance Theatre
• Buzz Dance Theatre is Australia's premier dance theatre company for children and young people. Nationally awarded as a leader in our field, we make performances and lead workshops that are designed specifically to foster creativity in all its shapes and forms.
  
• Chunky Move
• Founded by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance.
  
• Expressions Dance Company
• INNOVATION, ORIGINALITY and ENERGY are the trademarks of Expressions Dance Company, Queensland's leading contemporary dance company.
  
• Force Majeure
• Force Majeure makes work that communicates clearly and inventively on contemporary life; breaking down boundaries between art forms using highly skilled physicality as the creative conduit and philosophical meeting point.
  
• Leigh Warren & Dancers
• Leigh Warren & Dancers - high energy, award winning dance company
  
• Restless Dance Theatre
• The company was co-founded by Sally Chance and Tania Rose in 1991 following the MOC Connections project organised through Carclew Youth Arts Centre. Restless began as a project of Carclew Youth Arts Centre and remained housed at Carclew until 1995. The company was incorporated in 1996 and changed its name to Restless Dance Theatre in 2008
  
• Tasdance
• Tasdance, a Launceston-based dance company, has built a national reputation for strength, diversity, innovation and presentation of contemporary Australian work both around Tasmania and on interstate and international tours.
  
• Tracks
• Tracks is the premier performing arts company of the Northern Territory. It is known for its innovative, large-scale outdoor performances that bring together participants from diverse cultures and artistic disciplines.
  
• Balletlab
• BalletLab is regarded as one of
  the most inventive choreographic visionary companies working in Australia’s today. Artistic Director Phillip Adams has created a significant body of artistic works that are highly sophisticated, physically idiosyncratic and aesthetically unique. His choreography has positioned BalletLab as a unique creative force amongst contemporary dance companies worldwide.
  
• Company in Space
• Company in Space is based in Melbourne, founded by co directors John Mc Cormick and Hellen Sky, The company has consistently pioneered applications of new technology to movement. The provocative works create dialogues between our visual, aural and kinetic perceptions, and exist in a number of media; live performance installations, video and interactive virtual spaces, accessed from anywhere in the world. These include ISDN telematic performance, interactive Web TV and VRML worlds. Their work has gained international recognition, and been in a range of international festivals bridging the arenas of new media art and performance.
  
• desoxy Theatre
• desoxy Theatre is a project based theatre company based in Melbourne, Australia founded by Teresa Blake and Daniel Witton with the aim of creating original works for performance.
  
  Since 1990, desoxy projects have included large scale works at major festivals, film and video, short pieces and independent seasons that have brought public and critical acclaim.
  
  desoxy Theatre has performed at the Sydney Festival, The National Festival of Australian Theatre, Canberra, Melbourne International Festival and Adelaide Festivals, and toured productions internationally to Japan, Spain, Venezuela, Italy, Korea, England Ireland Scotland, The Netherlands, Austria and Belgium.
  
  The style of performance that the company continues to develop draws on a diversity of disciplines and experience in both classical and contemporary art forms.
  
  desoxy continues to collaborate with a wide variety of artists committed to creating stimulating and varied works of performance.
  
• Igneous
• igneous is an australian company co-directed by James Cunningham and Suzon Fuks, producing performance, video and photography
  
• Legs On The Wall
• Legs on the Wall transforms the power and intimacy of theatre into spectacular outdoor performances of extraordinary physical strength and skill - always challenging the boundaries between circus, theatre and dance and our understanding of the world in which we live.
  
• Raw Dance Company
• The idea of what Raw Dance Company could become started on Tuesday 21st April 1998 and has grown from a group of 5 tap dancers called Raw Metal into a worldwide dance company with 80 administration, dancers and teachers from Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Asia and Europe.
  Raw Dance Company is owned and headed-up by Andrew Fee and Jess Chambers who shape the company's artistic and strategic direction. Andrew and Jess have worked extremely hard to provide employment and career opportunities for professional dancers as well as establishing a worldwide network of clients to continue the development of dance locally, nationally and internationally.