The Dancers are Dancing intensive is back for 2026!
After a knockout launch in 2025, the week-long dance extravaganza is doubling up - this time it’ll happen twice, running over two weeks so that more dancers can dance together.
Week 1 — Monday 20 - Friday 24 July
Week 2 — Monday 27 - Friday 31 July
Apply here by Tuesday 26th May!
More info on the intensive below!
Dancers are Dancing is a five-day intensive for dancers looking to expand their practice and deepen their evolving body of knowledge. Across the program, participants will engage with a spectrum of movement languages, choreographic approaches, and somatic practices—each shared through the unique brains and bodies of five of Naarm’s most compelling independent artists.
Curated by Tra Mi Dinh, Dancers are Dancing is a professional development opportunity for dancers to engage in rigorous exchange, curiosity, and growth. It offers dancers a chance to consciously drop into a considered expansion and exploration of artistic practice in an intensive environment designed to challenge and inspire. Each artist will lead a full-day workshop, sharing their distinct creative practice with the cohort. Guided by the facilitators, participants will deepen and broaden their understanding of specific movement languages/ideas while building connection and community with fellow movers. This intensive is tailored for committed dance artists: those with an ongoing movement practice, professionals, emerging professionals, and tertiary-level students (or equivalent experience).
At its core, this series is driven by a desire to nurture and sustain the electric momentum that emerges when dancers share and learn together. Invigorate your dance practice with some of Australia’s best.
Places are limited due to capacity restrictions - this is so we can ensure there’s room to move safely in the space, as well as curating a focused learning environment that prioritizes the artists and participants ability to absorb knowledge and information meaningfully.
Apply here by Tuesday 26th May!
The Dancers Are Dancing Series (monthly edition) was born out of a desire to create free training opportunities as a response to the challenge of investing in consistent development of practice for emerging and professional artists amongst community.
On the first Thursday of every month come and enjoy a free masterclass where you’ll practice/learn/explore different movement languages and ideologies alongside a bunch of other dance artists/dance nerds.
Each session will have a focus that alternates between two streams:
- Repertoire - the artist shares repertoire/specific movement scores from their body of work. Offering a rare moment to experience the movement language/world of a work
- Practice - the artist leads a session concentrating on their current obsession/practice. This might be their principal (yet ever evolving) movement practice, research for a new work, or a new path of enquiry
Registration is necessary as capacity is limited. The link to register will be shared here and on Instagram, opening 2 weeks prior to each class. Register here
Martin Hansen will lead May’s session on Thursday 7th May.
Stay up to date with upcoming artist announcements and dates by checking this page or following @tramidinh_ on Instagram
This monthly edition is an off-shoot from the recent Dancers are Dancing week-long intensive.
Hosted at Temperance Hall from July 7 - 11, emerging and professional dance artists gathered to experience a range of specific movement languages, choreographic methodologies, and somatic practice through the lens/brains/bodies of five of Naarm’s most exciting independent artists.
Over five days, each artist hosted a full day workshop, sharing their distinct artistic practice with the cohort. This years incredible line up of Australian dance artists included Melanie Lane, Lee Serle, Amber McCartney, Kimball Wong, and Harrison Ritchie-Jones.
Curated by Tra Mi Dinh, the intensive’s intention was to nurture and sustain the exhilarating energy that builds when dancers share and learn together. Independently run, with a focus on deepening practice amongst peers the intensive provides a space to concentrate on the expansion and development of each dancer/artist/person.
Held in the depth of Naarm’s winter, the intensive offers an ‘at home’ version of the European summer workshop experience, without the travel.
The Dancers are Dancing Series is an opportunity for dancers to expand their movement practice and enrich their growing body of knowledge.