In 2024, Dancehouse saw 32,000 artists, hirers andaudience members pass through our doors.
It's an enormous number for our humble House.
But when you think about it, so many people visit Dancehouse over a year.
Maybe they showed the first draft of their screendance film at our Dance (Lens) Scratch Night? Or visited Sue Healey's ON VIEW: ICONS installation.
Or shared reflection in one of the 24 sharings of shorts works in Out of Bounds in May?
They could have venerated international icons like Melati Suryodarmo's performance lectures at Asia TOPA, or Oona Doherty's Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus?
Or recently caught the new works of local choreographers like Amelia Jean O'Leary, Prue Lang, Gabriella Imrichova, MaggZ, or Chloe Chignell and Amina Szecsödy.
Did they read some of the incredible written reflections of Performance Review Online?
Or caught a sharing from resident artists like Tim Darbyshire, Joshua Faleatua, Michelle Heaven, or Norhaizad Adam.
Perhaps they're just here every week for Dancehousing on Monday night as part of the CI Jam, or the Naarm Ballroom session, or seeing what On The Table is up to.
Or celebrated Dancehouse artists like Sandra Parker, Jenni Large, Christopher Gurusamy, Ashleigh Musk or Weave Movement Theatre at this years' Green Room Awards.
Were they one of our 252 members utilising discounted space for their own rehearsals, classes, and workshops. Or utilising any of the 3,400 hour of in-kind space we gifted to dance artists and communities.
Or were they a dance educator attending an in-person or virtual class with Inspire.
It all adds up.
If you do have capacity, please consider a donation​ to Dancehouse's EOFY appeal.
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If you’d like to get a better sense of the range of incredible independent dance artists and communities that Dancehouse supports, check out this short visual guide of our year-round programs.
PHOTO: Dancehousing: Altogether (2023). Photo by Nam Chops.
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