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Dance
We prepare you for the demands and challenges of a professional career in dance. We work with highly motivated, disciplined and creative people who are interested in shaping the future of dance.
Study Dance at VCA
Our program emphasises artistry, performance, choreographic practice and research. We foster creativity and innovation along with critical analysis of dance practice.
As an undergraduate you will be trained in an intensive, collaborative, studio-based learning environment in key areas of classical and contemporary dance, choreography and performance. At graduate level you will specialise in choreography or in dance research with a practical focus.
Specialist lecturers, guest lecturers, visiting choreographers and associations with a range of professional dance companies keep students in contact with the wider dance and performing arts sector.
Dance courses
Physicality, movement, embodiment, presence – call it what you will – are such critical parts of any performance based practice. What you are physically involved in, how and why you are invested in it, where, when and how it is shared with others are vital components of constructing the vehicle for expressing your ideas.
Helen HerbertsonSenior Lecturer in Dance
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Social Bodies
Monday 23 Sep 2019 - Wednesday 25 Sep 2019
The culmination of a year-long, practice-based research by Honours student Caroline Ellis, Social Bodies explores the narrative potential of contact improvisation. Influenced by substantial theoretical research, the project investigates how the complex spatial interactions of bodies moving with a sp...
New Works: First and Second Year Dance
Wednesday 30 Oct 2019 at 7:30pm
An evening of contemporary dance featuring new works by Michelle Heaven, Prue Lang, Jo Lloyd and Anna Smith.
Presented by: Dance and Production
New Works: First and Second Year Dance
Saturday 2 Nov 2019 at 2:00pm
An evening of contemporary dance featuring new works by Michelle Heaven, Prue Lang, Jo Lloyd and Anna Smith.
Presented by: Dance and Production
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In Pictures: Folio Live
Over five evenings in November, Interactive Composition students from the University of Melbourne took over Grant Street Theatre with collaborative sound and media works which incorporating …
VCA Dance – on board with the Travelling Dance Studio in Berlin
Some 22 VCA Dance students recently took part in the annual Travelling Dance Studio program in France and Germany, honing their knowledge and skills in ways …
Four decades of VCA Dance artists and where they are now
As the VCA Dance 40th Anniversary Celebration (10 June) approaches, we ask some former students about their memories of the Victorian College of the Arts, and what they’ve …