Your studies combine full-time training with an appropriate complementary study program to ensure you’re fully equipped for a career spanning local, national and global horizons. As expected, the training is intensive but rewarding, with strong foundations that, while including ballet, focus on contemporary and future-focused dance, including screen dance and student-led choreography. Industry increasingly favours early career dancers with high-level creative and technical skills. This course aims for both.

You’ll progress to refine your technique and performance skills with performance opportunities in industry-relevant settings. You’ll develop skills in portfolio and showreel preparation, applying for funding, collaborative networking, personal development, performance psychology and health management. Later in your degree you’ll engage with practising professional dance artists and have opportunities for performance showcases, secondments and tours tailoring your course to your career aspirations through your electives.

Graduates work throughout Australia and internationally in major professional dance companies, dance education organisations, musicals, circus, cabaret, burlesque, commercial environments and as independent artists. Many graduates achieve outstanding recognition as performers and choreographers throughout their careers.

They follow careers in Expressions Dance Company, Queensland Ballet, Co3 Contemporary Dance Company, Moulin Rouge, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Edsquad—Queensland Ballet Education Department, Makeshift Collective, Stompin Dance Company, Prying Eye, Opera Comics Pentru Copii, FAST Festival, DIY Festival, GOMA, Circus OZ, Ausdance, Education Departments, TRIPTIK, Collusion, and many other leading national and international dance companies, institutions, independent collectives and private dance schools.

Possible careers

• Choreographer
• Dancer
• Independent dance artist