YOUTH DANCE FESTIVAL 2025
28 & 29 October
Canberra Theatre Centre
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Theme:
LIFE ON MARS
Is there anybody out there?
Or are we the monstrous aliens!
Youth Dance Festival encourages a student-led approach to dance making, choreography, theatre and film making and provides a shared artistic experience and professional mentoring.
Canberra Theatre Centre is the home of Ausdance ACT's Youth Dance Festival. We warmly acknowledge their continued support and ongoing partnership in providing a professional setting for generations of young performers.​
PRE-ORDER YDF 2025 Videos Now!
Videos will be uploaded and accessible via streaming on our website by the 4th of November.
Payments taken through PayPal & debit/credit card on our website (no PayPal account required)
TO STREAM YOUR VIDEO FROM 4th NOVEMBER, YOU WILL NEED TO LOG IN TO THIS WEBSITE
USING THE SAME EMAIL & PASSWORD USED TO MAKE THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE.
Youth Dance Festival 2025
MENTORS
2025
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YDF 2024 Video Streaming/Downloading
Note: to access the video you need to log into the Ausdance ACT website using the same email and password you used originally to make the purchase.
YOUTH DANCE FESTIVAL 2024
WHAT DO YOU DREAM?
​​​​​​​​​​​​Last year we celebrated Youth Dance Festivals' 40th Anniversary with a theme of What Do You Dream?, this resulted in an exciting mix of live dance performance made by secondary schools from all over Canberra and regions for three nights at the Canberra Theatre Centre from 6 to 8 November 2024.​
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For this special occasion we had YDF alumni and star teachers and choreographers: KG from Passion & Purpose, Caroline Wall from Fresh Funk and Francis Owusu from Kulture Break working together to make an opening piece. These artists dreamed of a life full of dance and music, fulfilled through their lives as performers, choreographers and now mentors and teachers of the next generation.
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BREAD AND CIRCUSES 2023
TRANSIENCE & PERMANENCE
2022
DIGITAL DYSTOPIA UTOPIA 2021
GENERATION NEXT 2019
MAKE YOUR MARK 2018
RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW 2017
