AUSTI Company Classes 2025

AUSTI. Dance and Physical Theatre company class are open for intermediate - advanced level dancers. Classes are run by the director, Michelle Maxwell, former company artists and highly experienced guest teachers. Classes run intermittently throughout the year depending on the company’s performance and rehearsal schedule. 

COST:

1.5 hour classes = $15

2 hour workshop/classes = $20

4 hour workshop/classes = $40                                                                                                                                                     

All proceeds go towards supporting AUSTI. Dance and Physical Theatre's annual programs. We thank you kindly for your support!

Please see upcoming classes/workshops below:

APRIL 2025:

CONTEMPORARY with NATALIE CUNZOLO

• Friday 4 April, 10.00 - 11.30am Coalcliff Community Hall | 270 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Coalcliff

Growing up in the Illawarra, Natalie is a dance artist and educator trained broadly across styles. As a former company member of AUSTI, she has worked closely alongside national and international choreographers, toured performance seasons locally and interstate, and was provided her first choreographic opportunity staging a work as part of uNCOILEd eXposed. Since her time with AUSTI, she has enjoyed working on Sydney based professional projects, most recently on performance installations with choreographer Lucky Lartey, and furthering her work within youth dance as a Sydney Dance Company Teaching Artist, Arts Unit tutor and Royal Academy of Dance registered teacher.

CONTEMPORARY with Francesca Gozdek

• Saturday 12 April, 10.00 - 11.30am Coalcliff Community Hall | 270 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Coalcliff

Francesca is an Italian interdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, and the founder of Interchange Dance Project in Sydney. With a career that spans Europe and Australia, Francesca explores movement through physical theatre, dynamic floorwork, yoga, rollerdance and improvisation, always seeking to deepen the connection between body and expression. She lectures in contemporary dance at AMPA, teaches at various private colleges, and shares her approach through workshops across Sydney. She performed immersive dance theatre for several years with Twisted Element in productions like Ritual, Opus, and Awakening. She performed at festivals such as the Fringe Festival, March Dance, and Sydney Winter Solstice Festival.

(Company Class image by Children of the Revolution Photography)