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:

JUNE 2025:

CONTEMPORARY with AMBER MCCARTNEY

Thursday 26 June, 12.00 - 2.00pm Coalcliff Community Hall | 270 Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Coalcliff

Amber McCartney is a Naarm/Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer. Her practice incorporates prosthetics, mask-making, film and practical special effects to create new augmented bodies. Amber has worked extensively with Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc. and is a creative associate of Tasdance. Amber was commissioned by Sydney Dance Company to create ‘leech’ for New Breed 24. She received the John Truscott Artists Award for her solo Tiny Infinite Deaths, performed in RISING 2023, originally commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc and The Substation. In 2023 Amber premiered her solo Baby Girl, commissioned by Tasdance, for MONA FOMA. In 2022 she was honoured to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship from Lucy Guerin Inc. She won a Green Room Award for Best Performer in Prue Lang’s Project F and was a finalist for Telstra Emerging Choreographer Award. Her film Tiny Passenger was screened in dance(lens), Dancehouse. In 2020 Amber was a recipient of Chunky Move’s Solitude 1 and created her film Softtrap for the 2021 Activators program. Softtrap for the 2021 Activators program.

(Company Class image by Children of the Revolution Photography)

AUSTI Company Classes 2025

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THUR `26 JUN: Comtemporary with Amber McCartney ticket

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