Sydney Dance Company offers a variety of advanced short courses aimed to extend the knowledge and skills of those with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary dance.
Winter Professional Intensive
Dates Thursday 5 June – Monday 9 June 2025
Ages 18+
Fee $625
Location Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Road, Dawes Point 2000
Applications Open
Sydney Dance Company’s five day Professional Intensive is designed to extend your training, spark your creativity and challenge you as an artist, providing an opportunity for professional and early-career dance artists to learn from Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Team and industry leading artists.
The Professional Intensive is an application-based program. Tertiary dance students, graduates and professional dancers with a high level of ballet or contemporary dance training aged 18+ are encouraged to apply for this invaluable opportunity with Australia’s leading contemporary dance company.
The five-days will include contemporary technique classes in a variety of styles and methodologies, improvisation tasks, and a creative development and the opportunity to learn Sydney Dance Company repertoire which will culminate in an informal sharing session. The aim of the program, held in the iconic Wharf studios, is to leave you feeling creatively motivated and inspired as an artist.
Both Australian and international applicants are welcome to apply. Sydney Dance Company is unable to assist international dancers with visa processes, however no study visa is required to participate in the Professional Intensive.
If you have further questions please contact Sydney Dance Company’s Learning Manager, Justine Turner: justinet@sydneydancecompany.com or 02 9258 4843.
Subscribe to our e-news to receive information about future programs.
Youth Intensive
Youth Intensive
Youth Intensive has been designed to challenge, extend and develop the technical, creative and artistic skills of intermediate-advanced dancers aged 15-18 years.
Take classes in technique, improvisation, creative development and learn Sydney Dance Company repertoire while dancing by the harbour at Sydney Dance Company’s iconic studios. Youth Intensive dancers will be encouraged to extend their technique and explore their own creativity that will culminate with an informal studio showing for family and friends.
Places in the Youth Intensive are open to dancers aged 15-18 years of age who are at an intermediate to advanced level of training in ballet or contemporary dance and are by application only.
Subscribe to our e-news to receive information about future intensives.

If you have further questions please contact Sydney Dance Company’s Learning Manager, Justine Turner: justinet@sydneydancecompany.com or 02 9258 4843.
Winter Professional Intensive
Dates Thursday 5 June – Monday 9 June 2025
Ages 18+
Fee $625
Location Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Road, Dawes Point 2000
Applications Open
Sydney Dance Company’s five day Professional Intensive is designed to extend your training, spark your creativity and challenge you as an artist, providing an opportunity for professional and early-career dance artists to learn from Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Team and industry leading artists.
The Professional Intensive is an application-based program. Tertiary dance students, graduates and professional dancers with a high level of ballet or contemporary dance training aged 18+ are encouraged to apply for this invaluable opportunity with Australia’s leading contemporary dance company.
The five-days will include contemporary technique classes in a variety of styles and methodologies, improvisation tasks, and a creative development and the opportunity to learn Sydney Dance Company repertoire which will culminate in an informal sharing session. The aim of the program, held in the iconic Wharf studios, is to leave you feeling creatively motivated and inspired as an artist.
Both Australian and international applicants are welcome to apply. Sydney Dance Company is unable to assist international dancers with visa processes, however no study visa is required to participate in the Professional Intensive.
If you have further questions please contact Sydney Dance Company’s Learning Manager, Justine Turner: justinet@sydneydancecompany.com or 02 9258 4843.
Subscribe to our e-news to receive information about future programs.
Youth Intensive
Youth Intensive
Youth Intensive has been designed to challenge, extend and develop the technical, creative and artistic skills of intermediate-advanced dancers aged 15-18 years.
Take classes in technique, improvisation, creative development and learn Sydney Dance Company repertoire while dancing by the harbour at Sydney Dance Company’s iconic studios. Youth Intensive dancers will be encouraged to extend their technique and explore their own creativity that will culminate with an informal studio showing for family and friends.
Places in the Youth Intensive are open to dancers aged 15-18 years of age who are at an intermediate to advanced level of training in ballet or contemporary dance and are by application only.
Subscribe to our e-news to receive information about future intensives.

If you have further questions please contact Sydney Dance Company’s Learning Manager, Justine Turner: justinet@sydneydancecompany.com or 02 9258 4843.
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