Acknowledging the depth of experience and creative information already at our disposal is where it begins. Add in some multi-layered experiments with perception, a little animal instinct and a whole lot of imagination and there you have it, the embodied performer in full-flight.

“Exhibitionist” is an Improvisation based class focused on the idea and physical manifestation of seeing and allowing oneself to be seen. The class winds its way from visualization through open dancing to a small piece of set material attacked in the spirit of improvisation. All it takes is guts - guts, instinct and finely tuned physical awareness.

Restless Dance Theatre present Dance Styles From Around The World, a series of exciting workshops in movement and dance for young people aged between 15 – 26, with and without a disability.

Make new friends whilst trying new dance styles in a safe and creative environment where your ideas become dance. It’s really fun and gets you fit. No experience is necessary just the desire to take part.

Led by highly experienced and motivating tutors with and without a disability, in an accessible space, Restless Central workshops are one and a half hours of imaginative fun.

Workshops begin in May 2011 on Tuesday nights 5.30 – 7.00pm at The Restless Studio in Sturt St Adelaide SA 5000 (enter off Arthur St). Costs are $6 per session

For more information or to book, email Kirsty or telephone (08) 82128495. Bookings are essential.

Where can your memories take you?

Where can your imagination take you?

And where do you belong?

This new work by the Youth Ensemble celebrates the coming of age of Restless, now 20 years old.

Inspired by the dancers’ memories and aspirations of both real and imagined places, Take Me There uses startling video technology and a pumping original score to reveal what happens when we can really go to the places we’ve always dreamed about.

Poignant, hilarious and engaging, it not only transports the performers but the audience as well into a world where there is freedom to be wherever you want, whenever you want. The results are exhilarating and astounding.

Where would you go?

Beauty – a sumptuous new work by the Restless Dance Theatre touring company

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the priportion.” Sir Francis Bacon

Beauty takes classical ideas of beauty in visual art and music, flipping, remixing and responding to them to create sumptuous, subversive, delightful and disturbing dance theatre, this new dance theatre performance features five female dancers.

Together with a baroque inspired soundscape and striking design, Beauty creates stunning yet strange images that are sure to provoke.

“Beauty rolls on like an intensely romantic panorama of women attempting being the ‘ideal’ when it’s clear false expectations, the emotional lie of expectation is just too much to manage their diversity. Beauty is Ingrid Voorendt’s tenth production for Restless Dance Theatre. It is also her most deeply, gently profound."

David O’Brien

Contact Restless Dance Theatre for further info: 08 8212 8495

Next of Kin features an intergenerational cast - from 6 to 60 year-olds - composed of the Restless Youth Ensemble and their family members, directed by Philip Channells. In yet another ambitious undertaking, the dance performance piece explores the family unit and its complex effect on kin relationships, personal decisions and individual responsibilities.

Listen to Radio National in conversation with Restless Dance Theatre here.

For bookings and further information Restless Dance: 8212 8495. Visa and Mastercard accepted

Stan Won’t Dance Theatre Company makes performance work that forces us to ask questions about ourselves and the world in which we live. Our workshops will focus on themes and issues that directly affect the lives of its participants in 21st century contemporary society.

The true integration of movement and spoken word is one of the key aims of Stan Won’t Dance. This Masterclass offers an insight into the company’s creative and devising processes, done through a careful layering of physical exploration - discovering and examining different ways to devise specific movement material.

Elements of text are then introduced and looked at in isolation. This will either take the form of starting with text from the company’s shows, and creating work around that, or if applicable, supporting the participants toward writing their own text to use as performance material.

Ph: (08) 82128495 or email

           STAN WONT DANCE Co-artistic director Rob Tannion is one of the UK's most influential physical theatre practitioners. Alongside his work with Stan Won't Dance, Rob has maintained an influential profile. In 2005/6 he was Associate Choreographer for the origin al stage version of Lord of the Rings, which premiered in Toronto in March 2006 and won a 2006 Dora Maver Moore Award for Choreography.

As a performer, collaborations have included projects with Austrian cross-media artist Klaus Obermaier, DV8 Physical Theatre 1995-2000 (Enter Achilles, Bound to Please, The Happiest Day of My Life, The Cost of Living), Complicité 2002-04 (Noise of Time, Strange Poetry) and Russell Maliphant Company 1998 and 2001 (Critical Mass).           

Restless Dance Theatre presents a new series of ten workshops for disabled or non disabled people who are interested in dance. No experience necessary. For bookings and further information call (08) 8212 8495.

Parents/carers and their children can experinece creative expression together in these dynamic sessions. These are music and movement workshops featuring live music by Heather Frahn. The workshops are run by Kat Worth.

For bookings and further information call: Kirsty Martinsen on 8212 8495 (Wed-Fri) or by email: kirsty@restlessdance.org