BlakDance is a national industry organisation for First Nations
contemporary dancers and choreographers.

 

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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 2025-2030

BlakDance is proud to stand alongside our sister organisations in launching the First Nations Performing Arts Workforce Development Framework 2025–2030.

DOWNLOAD FRAMEWORK HERE

Together, our companies represent a range of First Peoples’ Performing Arts disciplines, art forms and expertise. Offering a First Nations-led vision for real change – for us, by us. 

FIRST NATIONS CREATIVE PATHWAYS PROGRAM

The BlakDance First Nations Creative Pathways Program is a free 9-month professional development opportunity, including an immersive career experience from 29 September - 3 October 2025.

Whether you’re passionate about producing, stage management, creative project management, or arts leadership, this program is designed for you.

Expressions of Interest close on 24 August 2025.

PREPARING GROUND

What the world calls climate change, First Peoples call colonisation.


Preparing Ground, co-directed by Marilyn Miller, Jasmin Sheppard and Katina Olsen, is a powerful new dance work that speaks through movement and language - carrying the weight of history and the fire of resistance. Projections reveal a landscape both sacred and stolen, while sound and movement entwine to evoke a deep connection to Country. Audiences are invited to consider, what does it mean to belong to a land that remembers?

QUEENSLAND PREMIERE

5–7 September 2025 | Brisbane Festival & QPAC, Cremorne Theatre

THE OTHER SIDE OF ME AT DANCEX

After the Western and Central Australian 2024 tour of Gary Lang’s The Other Side of Me, we are thrilled to be bringing it to The Australian Ballet’s DanceX: A festival of dance!

15–19 October 2025 | Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne

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We are proud to stand alongside our sister organisations in launching the First Nations Performing Arts Workforce Development Framework 2025–2030. Together, our companies represent a range of First Peoples’ Performing Arts disciplines, a
Welcome Mitch to the BlakDance team! Mitchell J Nalingu Harrison-Currie proud First Nations man with deep connections to the Mununjali, Bundjalung, and Gunggari peoples. His roots span Beaudesert, Fingal Heads (NSW), and Mitchell, Queensland. His ro
Are you an emerging First Nations Creative aged 18+ wanting to break into the Performing Arts industry? The BlakDance First Nations Creative Pathways Program is a free 9-month professional development opportunity, including an immersive career exper
Thrilled to be joining the lineup for The Australian Ballet’s DanceX: A festival of dance! “To stand alongside the nation’s leading dance voices in DanceX is a powerful moment, not just for me as a Larrakia artist, but for the sto
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BlakDance is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled Project Manager (part-time) ready for an immediate start to support the First Nations Creative Pathways Program — a 9-month initiative developing emerging First Nations creatives and arts
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