Dance Hub | Sydney Fringe Festival

In 2025, the Dance Hub expands to a four-day program, bringing leading contemporary and experimental dance artists to the Neilson Studio, an intimate space in the heart of the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct.

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Move FM
Running Time: 60 minutes
Rating: PG
Warnings: tbc.

For You to Know and Me to Find Out
Running Time: 45 minutes
Rating: PG
Warnings: Strobe Lighting & Content related to pregnancy and motherhood.

RAW TOUCH
Running Time: 30 minutes
Rating: G
Warnings: tbc.

The Land of Her // Bruce
Running Time: 60 minutes
Rating: G
Warnings: tbc.

An eclectic assortment of contemporary dance by Sydney’s most exciting Emerging Artists and Makers.

Future Makers is thrilled to share with audiences their freshest ideas in Move FM, a collection of short dance works co-created and performed by the next generation of leading contemporary dance makers and performers in Sydney.

Created by a hivemind of curious and explorative movers and shakers, this series of short works promises to flex a breadth of choreographic muscles, bend the form of contemporary dance, and stretch current ideas into a night of evocative experimental dance.

Future Makers is Dance Makers Collective’s emerging artist dance company. Established in 2019, Future Makers provides a platform for aspiring emerging dancers and choreographers to work with professional artists in an inclusive and challenging environment, where they can develop their skills and work collectively towards public presentation outcomes.

Full Price:
$36.50

Concession:
$26.50
Ticketholders must have a valid concession card – such as student cards, pension cards and low-income health card.

Deadly Tix:
$26.50
Affordable Tickets for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations communities.

Winner of “Best in Fringe” and described as a “masterclass in expressive movement and humour”, Liv Tennet explores the intersection of motherhood and art in her captivating dance-theatre solo work.

Winner of “Best in Fringe”, “Sydney Fringe Tour Ready Award” and “Adelaide Fringe Tour Ready Award” at NZ Fringe Festival 2025, seasoned performer Liv Tennet (800 Words, Kiri and Lou, Double Parked) brings her solo show For You to Know and Me to Find Out to Australia for the first time.

With a soundtrack as eclectic as her toddler’s palate, and displaying a wide range of dance genres, Liv draws on her own experience of simultaneously trying to keep a small human alive, whilst also keeping her own artistic identity alive. This show will have you crying one moment and laughing the next as we get a glimpse of the joyous, maddening, exhausting and ultimately fortifying experience of being a “cool mom”.

Jokes. She’s lost her cool.

Tbh she’s dropped so many things she’s scared of picking them back up.

Full Price:
$37.50

Student:
$28.50

Concession:
$31.00
Ticketholders must have a valid concession card – such as student cards, pension cards and low-income health card.

Deadly Tix:
$30.50
Affordable Tickets for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations communities.

Content warnings:
Strobe Lighting

Things to note:
Content related to pregnancy and motherhood.

Creator/Performer:
Liv Tennet

Dramaturg:
Barnie Duncan

Lighting Design:
Luuk Heijnen

Poster Design:
Pinky Fang/Aaron Iusitini

Music Supervision:
Tom Broome

Marketing Assist:
Michelle Blundell

RAW TOUCH  is a highly sentimental portrayal of how physical touch can create emotional responses through the form of contemporary dance.

Through combining multiple dance aspects such as acrobatics, abstract partnering and high intensity movement, the theme of physical touch and the following emotional responses will be shown through the bodies of 7 spectacular dancers.

Recently under development with choreographer Joseph Ipsaro-Passione, a Perth-based contemporary artist and recent graduate of Sydney Dance Company’s Pre Professional Year. Ipsaro-Passione has worked with an amazing team of 2 other Perth based dancers as well as 4 Sydney based dancers to create this idea that can be conveyed to the audience through the bodies of the dancers.

Full Price:
$33.50

Deadly Tix:
$27.50
Affordable Tickets for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations communities.

World Premiere

Choreographer:
Joseph Ipsaro-Passione

Cast:
Santi Barker, Elloise Erikson, Kayla Hawkins, Joseph Ipsaro-Passione, Gavin Mills, Madison Pattrick, Hannah Roberts

Music Design:
Emma Crawford

Step into a double bill of intimate, physically charged duets that unpack the complexities of female friendship and the unspoken codes of Australian masculinity.

The Land of Her // Bruce is a compelling contemporary dance double bill that dives deep into the complexities of human connection through two powerful duets. In The Land of Her, two women move through moments of tension, tenderness, conflict, and care—capturing the ever-shifting terrain of female friendship. Their bodies speak in silences, glances, and bursts of physicality, reflecting the deep emotional undercurrents that often go unspoken.

In contrast, Bruce throws us into a world of playful aggression, roughness, and vulnerability as two men navigate the physical rituals of male bonding. Performed in the round, the audience is drawn close into a space where mateship and masculinity are expressed through challenge, support, and unguarded moments of intimacy. With echoes of the Australian ‘larrikin spirit’, Bruce unpacks the coded ways men relate to each other—where strength often masks tenderness.

Presented together, these works create a powerful counterpoint—two sides of the same coin—that invites audiences to reflect on how we connect, communicate, and care for one another. Through athletic, emotionally resonant performance, the double bill offers a raw, honest, and at times playful take on gendered relationships in all their complexity.

Whether you’re drawn to fierce female dynamics or fascinated by the contradictions of masculinity, this is an evening of dance that invites you in, challenges your perceptions, and leaves you thinking long after the final bow.

Full Price:
$28.50

Deadly Tix:
$23.50
Affordable Tickets for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations communities.

World Premiere

The Neilson Studio is Sydney Dance Company’s newest performance and theatre space located at our refurbished Wharf Studios at the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct.

There are many options for getting to Sydney Dance Company’s Wharf Studios:

Sydney Dance Company Wharf Studios
Wharf 4/5, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point
NSW 2000

Public Transport
Public transport is the best way to get to the Wharf. You can arrive by metro, train, bus or ferry. The Wharf is a short 8 minute walk from Barangaroo Metro or a 15 minute walk from Circular Quay and Wynyard train stations.

Bus services
The 324 and 325 buses run from the CBD to Dawes Point, with stops just outside our Wharf Studios. Visit the Transport for NSW website for more information.

Parking at The Wharf
While on-street metered parking is available in Walsh Bay, we recommend parking at the following parking station located nearby:
● Bond One​, 26 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
● Barangaroo Point, entry via Hickson Road
● Barangaroo Reserve, 5 Towns Place, Barangaroo