IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Our new dance studio at Harbour View Plaza is now complete however due to the company’s rehearsal schedule it will not be available for hiring until Monday 2nd September. If you need more information during this time please call (08) 8941 1410.

We are looking forward to sharing the new facility with you later in the year.

In 2018, Tracks Dance is celebrating 30 years of the Grey Panther's dance troupe. To do so we have created a 2018 calendar with memorable photos over the past thirty years.

A unique Northern Territory dance troupe, with participants predominantly over the age of 60. The Grey Panthers are ‘successful’, ‘productive’, ‘healthy’ and ‘positive’ role models for active ageing and life long learning. The group sets high expectations for themselves and constantly rise above them, enjoying their lives and living them to the fullest. Anything but flighty, this amazing group show us what happens when you commit to long term extended relationships and links into your community.

Tracks has a long term relationship with the Grey Panthers, begun in 1988 and continuing to the present. The Grey Panthers have made a major contribution to the company’s body of work. They explore what it means to part of the Aging Australian population and the role of the elder in contemporary Northern Territory Life.

Join us at our Annual Tracks Fun-raiser @ Deckchair Cinema, 8th October 2017 to purchase your very own copy of the 2018 Calendar or contact us at the Tracks Office.

Read more about The Grey Panthers.

Congratulations and a warm welcome to the 2017 Choreographic Program participants! This wonderful group of individuals has already begun workshop sessions, showing plenty of energy, curiosity, teamwork and creativity. We are excited to watch them explore new ideas and ways of moving, and make many choreographic discoveries over the course of the program. 

Welcome to Anokai Lancaster, Cassandra Wallace, Haylen Duncan, Kira Witte, Virginia Spicer-Harden, Sheila Rose and Tara Schmidt.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to support these seven emerging choreographic voices! A public showing of their work will be held on November 18-19.

Are you interested in being part of the Tracks Choreographic Program in 2018?
Entry to the program is by application. Contact Tracks if you’d like to know more about the Choreographic Program 2018 and we will keep you up to date on application deadlines.

In September of this year, Tim got to visit fLiNG Physical Theatre in Bega NSW.

In a one-week residency, Tim worked alongside and mentored Rob McCredie, Flings Co Artistic Director in design development and experimentation. The residency was supported through Regional Arts Fund.

"Rob and I meet each other at a friends (Nick Power) wedding several years back. We clicked straight away talking passionately about our love of working with fabric and dance. Rob throughout his dance training often found himself sitting behind a sewing machine making amazing patch work quilts, I entered the dance world as a visual artist know for my work in fabric. It's been great for us to come together professionally, to not only create a wild and whimsical fabric creation but to also share notes about work in regional Australia” Tim Newth - Tracks Artistic Co Director.

In October of 2017 Frankie Snowdon and Madeleine Krenek from Alice Springs arrived at Tracks for a week of mentorship. They had been successful in gaining a Strategic Arts Grant from Arts NT for Independent Producers/ Curators. With the aim of creating a Strategic Business Plan for themselves many hours were spent working through the how and whys of setting up their own dance company in Alice Springs.

Frankie and Madeleine have a broad and inclusive vision for dance in Alice Springs, from a community participatory level to an experimental contemporary dance practice. Over the past few years their collaborative work has gone from strength to strength, building strong connections and audiences within the community, seen particularly in their annual schools project Alice Can Dance and the successful premiere of The Perception Experiment this year at the Araluen Centre, which brought together a team of local, Territory, and interstate artists.

“It is really exciting seeing the rising of the next generation of Territory artists. David and I are proud to be mentoring Frankie and Madeleine in the early stages of this venture. It has been a healthy process for us all reflecting on the knowledge we have built up over the past three decades. With David and I choosing to be Artistic Co Directors, having a strong belief in collaboration and wanting to create a significant regional Australian company with rich community relationships there was much for us to talk about.”  Tim Newth - Artistic Co Director

"This was a rare opportunity for me to be present and involved in the process of imagining and breathing life into a new NT-based dance organisation. Having collaborated with Frankie and Maddy on their project The Perception Experiment, I already had a sense of their creative drive and passion but this residency showed me a new side to their artistic partnership - their willingness to dive in and tackle the difficult topics like legal matters, strategic planning and funding; the scope and breadth of their vision for dance practice in Alice Springs; and their thirst to learn and grow alongside an organisation for dance investigation, creation and exchange that they are not only dreaming up but also doing the hard yakka to make happen." Kelly Beneforti - Dance Animateur