Frequently Asked Questions
- New to dance?
- About the School of Arts, Dancenorth’s venue
- Where is Dancenorth located?
- Where can I park?
- Is there wheelchair access?
- Is the Dancenorth venue available for hire?
- Supporting the Dance Industry
- Dancenorth Dancers, Guests, Secondments and Classes
- Work Experience and Artistic Ventures
- Marketing Campaigns and Collateral
- Embrace the extraordinary and get involved
- About the Dancenorth Website
- Financial support
Varying levels of financial sponsorship are available, from supporting the company’s core operations to contributing to Dancenorth’s educational programs to supporting our individual dancers. - In-kind support
Dancenorth utilise many services in the production and touring of our shows and are always seeking in-kind support from media outlets, freight companies, hotels, marketing collateral design, equipment and technical companies, printing companies. - Leveraging sponsorship with joint marketing/promotion strategies
- Alignment with Dancenorth’s rapidly growing and innovative reputation
- Complementary tickets and production programs
- Invitations to all Dancenorth functions, open rehearsals and networking opportunities
- Corporate hospitality and networking opportunities during show seasons
- Venue hire opportunities for corporate events
- Crediting on all marketing collateral: printed and online.
- Website links and credit
- Dance product testing and sampling
- Promotional displays
- Financial support
New to dance?
Dancenorth create, produce and perform new Australian contemporary dance theatre shows for the enjoyment of local, national and international audiences. Under the directorship of Gavin Webber, he creates shows that have a unique highly physical style and these can incorporate the use of film and live music.
What can I expect if I am new to dance-theatre
People who come to experience our shows enjoy and appreciate the athleticism and calibre of our dancing ensemble in addition to being taken on a journey told through movement.
The difference between contemporary dance and other forms of dance is that the meaning behind each show is totally personal and subjective - in that, it can be anything you want it to be. A great example of this is our latest show, Remember Me, which explored the human journey of life using dance, live music, film and theatre. Audience members were moved by different parts of the show and applied their own, individual experiences about what they were seeing.
Subsequently, experiencing a Dancenorth show isn’t about ‘getting it’ and there definately aren’t any pop quizzes afterwards. It is all about enjoying the power of dance and live performance.
How do I buy tickets and where do I collect them?
Tickets for all Dancenorth shows at our venue in Townsville are available online via our safe and secure ‘Book Now’ system and over the phone. Tickets for touring shows are available from the respective venue.
Tickets can be collected one week prior to the performance, or via the box office. The Dancenorth box office is located just inside the foyer and opens one hour prior to the performance time.
What happens if I am late? Is there a seating allocation?
Over twenty staff, including dancers, production staff, directors and guest performers, are involved in all Dancenorth shows. Subsequently, shows do commence at the nominated performance time. If you are running late, the usher will be able to assist you to your seats at a break in the performance to minimise disruption to other patrons.
There is no seating allocation to Dancenorth shows, but there are also no ‘bad seats’ either. With stadium-style seating and a capacity of just under 200 people, you need not be concerned with being the first into the performance space or lining up at the theatre door for twenty minutes prior to the performance time etc. When you arrive to our shows in Townsville, we have a fully functioning bar which is manned by FAME volunteers to ensure that you can relax from the moment you enter our venue. Furthermore, we encourage patrons to stay behind after the performance for drinks with our creative team, including our dancers.
About the School of Arts, Dancenorth’s venue
Dancenorth is located in the School of Arts building in the Townsville CBD, QLD on the corner of Stanley and Walker Streets. To view the location of our venue using Google Maps, please click here
There is ample on-street parking available surrounding the venue on both Walker and Stanley streets. Performance times are scheduled after business hours so there is always sufficient parking for our patrons.
There is wheelchair and lift access to the venue, with the lift to the left of the main entrance beside the steps at the Gazebo side of the building on Stanley Street. Wheelchair access is located via a sliding door entrance to the right of the foyer entrance.
Please let us know when you book your tickets if yourself or someone in your party are confined to a wheelchair so that we are able to reserve a seat at the front of the theatre.
Is the Dancenorth venue available for hire?
Dancenorth’s venue is available for hire subject to availability. Information about hiring the School of Arts for your next function, arts class or party is available
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Supporting the Dance Industry
What sponsorship opportunities exist to support the future of Dancenorth?
Dancenorth are always seeking support from like-minded businesses and organisations to jointly build the future of the Australian dance industry.
Dancenorth seeks sponsors who wish to become involved with the Company, with three tiers of sponsorship available:
In return, Dancenorth thanks its sponsors with benefits that can include those listed below. Sponsorship is seen as a partnership to build the future of the dance and arts industry in regional Queensland and Australia wide and subsequently related benefits are focused as required according to each sponsor’s needs.
For further information on taking the next step in boosting the profile of your innovative business and take advantage of Dancenorth’s growing profile as Australia’s fastest growing dance company, please click here.
I want to donate to Dancenorth, how can I do this?
Dancenorth warmly welcome the generous support of the public, businesses and organisations. Donations can be made publicly or anonymously with donors electing where the funds are directed, whether it be towards Dancenorth’s educational programs, building maintenance and upgrading and/or Dancenorth shows.
Further information about Dancenorth’s philanthropy programs can be found here or by contacting our Philanthropy Manager, Jodie Connor on +61 7 47722549 or via jodie@dancenorth.com.au
Dancenorth Dancers, Guests and Secondments
How can I become part of the Dancenorth ensemble? Do you hold auditions?
Dancenorth currently employ five dancers as part of our full-time ensemble who are employed on a year to year contract basis. We also employ guest dancers on a project by project basis. We do not have an audition process.
Dancenorth operate with a spirit of collaboration, with all of our dancers having creative input into the company’s shows and subsequently, Dancenorth dancers are personally selected by our Artistic Director Gavin Webber. However, we do encourage people interested in becoming a dancer with our company in any capacity to send a short CV and a recent video of your performances to us to the attention of the Artistic Director. Our contact and mailing information can be found here, although material cannot be returned and so we recommend that you do not send originals.
How do you select your guest artists and/or designers?
Dancenorth are always open to ideas from guest artists and designers who would like to work with us. We are always willing to delve into a multitude of art forms to take our productions to new levels of innovation; whether that be through the composition of music, creation of art and/or costumes, photography or any other art form. We encourage artists to send through a short CV and relevant resources (videos, slides, photos, other materials etc) to the attention of the Artistic Director. Our contact and mailing information can be found here, although material cannot be returned and so we recommend that you do not send originals.
I am a tertiary dance student, how can I undertake a secondment with Dancenorth?
Dancenorth accepts secondments from throughout Australia and the world. Our secondment program is always expanding, as a result of the kind support of our sponsors, with some secondment dancers offered contracts to dance with the company on the next project. For further information on Dancenorth’s secondment program, please contact Dancenorth’s Rehearsal Director Michelle Ryan via michelle@dancenorth.com.au.
What workshops do Dancenorth offer to the public or schools?
Dancenorth offer two levels of workshops, nicknamed ‘Sweatshops’, to groups and schools.
Taught by Dancenorth’s Artistic Director Gavin Webber and/or the Dancenorth ensemble dancers, further information can be found here or by contacting Dancenorth’s Rehearsal Director Michelle Ryan via michelle@dancenorth.com.au
Work Experience and Artistic Ventures
We welcome high school and tertiary students from local high schools and Universities to expand your educational horizon and take advantage of Dancenorth being on your doorstep. We regularly need the assistance of event managers, fashion/costume designers, visual and new media artists, administrators, accountants, technical assistants and are happy to take on work experience students to learn from our depth in arts management and technical production expertise. To this end, we are also keen to explore proposals to undertake joint artistic ventures and to have community groups use our space for any creative pursuit which our venue allows, where possible.
For further information or to discuss your ideas, please contact Dancenorth on +61 7 47722549 or via info@dancenorth.com.au
Marketing Campaigns and Collateral
Who does Dancenorth’s website?
Dancenorth’s website is maintained by the Marketing Manager, with further developments completed by various agencies. We are always keen to explore possibilities to allow upcoming web designers access to design something new and innovative for our website.
For further information, please contact Bri Steele, Dancenorth’s Marketing Manager via bri@dancenorth.com.au
Who does Dancenorth’s photography? How can I take production shots?
Dancenorth’s photography is done by Dancenorth’s Artistic Director and local photographers who have an eye for detail and a flair for capturing creative images. Photographic opportunities are available in the dress rehearsal phases of our shows and for shots of audience members pre and post performances. Photographers interested in working with Dancenorth to take advantage of getting different and specialist action/dance shots, which can be used for your folios, should send a short CV and a selection of images to Dancenorth’s Marketing Manager, Bri Steele via bri@dancenorth.com.au
Dancenorth Press Releases and Marketing Information
Dancenorth distribute press releases via email only unless specific requests are received for press releases to be sent via post. Press releases are distributed to various media outlets and detail further associated media opportunities.
Requests to join Dancenorth’s marketing and press release distribution lists can be made to Dancenorth’s Marketing Manager Bri Steele via bri@dancenorth.com.au
Embrace the extraordinary and get involved
Dancenorth is a not-for-profit company and like many arts organisations in Australia and internationally, we rely heavily on the work of volunteers to assist us in getting our shows onto the stage - whether that be through administration, production or front of house staffing.
If you live in or near Townsville and are interested in embracing the extraordinary and becoming part of Australia’s fastest growing dance company, please contact Karin via karin@dancenorth.com.au or on 47722549.
About Dancenorth’s Website
The Trading Room is a password protected area which contains high resolution image gallery, media call calendar, technical specifications for productions and media releases. Passwords to access the area can be obtained by contacting Dancenorth’s General Manager Joanne Fisher via joanne@dancenorth.com.au. For ease of processing please provide your name, contact number and company in your initial email. This information, like all other information provided to the company, will not be sold to third parties and will be used in-confidence by only Dancenorth administration staff where deemed appropriate by the company.
For further information about Dancenorth’s marketing, please click here.
Sneaky Peek is an innovative website which delves into the development of new contemporary dance-theatre shows to a level not previously seen within the Australian dance industry. Whilst always undergoing development, please continue to check into the site for further changes and updates.