Neilson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney.20 September 2024. This year celebrates 10 years of DirtyFeet’s proudly Out of the Studio program, with 2024 bringing audiences a triple bill program, once again presenting, and supporting, emerging artists. All artists featured shared new diverse works that displayed each of their unique voices and backgrounds. Performances were […]

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In its fourth iteration, March Dance is shaping up to be the premier dance festival in NSW, an annual celebration of independent dance and creativity. It has gone to great lengths to give us the most immersive, educational and unique offering for 2022. It is a wonderfully exciting program, a beautiful chance to re-inspire, re-invigorate and […]

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For the last seven years, Sydney-based independent company DirtyFeet has been opening up the world of contemporary dance. Since 2012, its (dis)ability workshop series, The Right Foot, has enrolled participants from across the ability spectrum. Run annually, this five-session program brings the dance class and the thrill of performance to those affected by physical and […]

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In a city that seemingly presents many barriers for emerging independent choreographers, DirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio season continues to be the only funded opportunity for choreographers to present their work. Now, in its sixth season, DirtyFeet is bringing its successful Out of the Studio season to a new venue for 2019, the East Sydney […]

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March 2019 sees the first of a brand new dance festival in Sydney, March Dance. Created to shine the spotlight on independent dance and celebrate the dynamic ongoing work of dance artists and organisations here in the City of Sydney. “There has been a feeling of a gap in Sydney with dance for a long […]

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You would be hard pressed to find an independent contemporary dancer in Sydney who hasn’t had a brush with DirtyFeet. What was started by seven dancers who gathered in a basketball court to take class, DirtyFeet is celebrating 10 years as a company providing opportunities for independent dancers and impacting the community. Now with a […]

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By Leigh Schanfein Last year at this time, I was offered a pretty sweet deal: go to Sydney, where housing and various other expenses would be covered, work with a colleague whose unique movement style I found truly intriguing, create and perform a new work with a group of pre-selected enthusiastic and experienced dancers, and […]

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