In 2025, Tracks set out on a new experimental model for Artistic Leadership, engaging five artists of various disciplines and backgrounds to lead the company into its future.

Tracks has a long history of collaboration beginning as a multi-artform collective. From 1999- 2023 it was led by Co-artistic Directors Tim Newth and David McMicken, who brought together a skill set of dance, theatre, music, visual arts and design, and writing. During this era, they also worked with many artists from diverse ages, cultural backgrounds and artistic skill sets.

We operate to ‘Give a Voice to Territory Culture’, to develop contemporary cultural expressions through the movement arts. Dance was chosen as the primary cultural vehicle because it was not based in one language and allowed work to be created across cultures and genres.

As an artistically led company, we find ourselves sitting very comfortably in the cultural space rather than the artform space. This allows us to look deeply at place, the people there, and the vitality of our living culture, enriched by traditional and contemporary life.

As far as place goes, we locate ourselves and our work primarily in Darwin, with South East Asia to our north, and the central deserts to our south.

In short, we:

• Create original works that are embedded in our community and respect the diversity found there
• Develop work that encourages our community to be actively involved in the contemporary expressions of identity and place
• Explore how, in culture, dance sits with other forms of expression such as music, design, and storytelling.
• Always work towards excellence in the movement arts with artists of traditional, Western and non-Western training in a professional context, as well as further developing artistic / cultural exchanges with First Nations communities and cultural workers.
• Facilitate the development of dance and cultural activity through learning programs, community engagement and participatory events.

So you can see, Tracks has always been a collaborative, multi-artform contemporary performing arts company.