Immerse Lab with Pat Hayes Cavanagh

Beyond the Body explores how we can stretch the limitations of the human form. In imagining a new body, we are able to find new pathways and extend our understanding of ourselves.

This lab will include improvisation, partner work, and choreographic tasks. Please be advised this lab may also include themes adjacent to body horror.

Friday 5 December, 4:30-7:30pm

QL2 Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

Pat Hayes Cavanagh

Patricia Hayes Cavanagh is an alumna of QL2. After graduating in 2018, she went on to study dance full-time at Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year where they worked with choreographers including Leah Marojevic, Vicki Van Hout, Holly Doyle, Omer Backley-Astrachan, and Rafael Bonachela.

Returning home to Canberra in 2021, Pat became the inaugural QL2 and Australian Dance Party intern which allowed her to work in rehearsal assistant roles as well as performing and teaching roles between both QL2 and ADP. Pat choreographed for QL2’s Chaos projects Big Little Things (2022) and Yummy! (2023), creating 3 short works over the two projects. In 2024, Pat was the Assistant to the Artistic Director for QL2’s Subject to Change (2024), working as the Assistant to Artistic Director with Artistic Director Ruth Osborne OAM for her final project at the helm of QL2.

As a performer, Pat has performed professionally with Australian Dance Party since 2021, performing in a-love-dance (2021), Canberra Critic’s Choice awards winning LESS (2022), Escape from Plastika (2022/2024), Hillscape (2023), and Clothing the Loop (2025). Pat loves to work with site as a true exploration of the world in which we live and dance. They continue to work in ADP in marketing alongside performing.

In 2023, Pat began working with Liz Lea and the Chamaeleon Collective as a performer and support to the dancers who live with intellectual disabilities. Pat wholeheartedly believes in art and dance that is accessible to all, and that creation has no boundaries.