Origins Dance Company by Transit Dance is keeping the artistic spirit alive by embracing the current social distancing restrictions and turning what would have been their live performance season into a virtual theatre experience for all to enjoy.
Read MoreThis year the Transit Dance community decided to celebrate Valentines Day a little differently…
We asked our students to write a love letter to themselves to help promote a message of positive thinking and self appreciation. Filmed and edited by Creative Director Chris Curran, and featuring a selection of students from our PreProfessional, Foundation & Academy courses, this video is such a beautiful reflection of the supportive and inclusive community we are so lucky to share at Transit.
Read MoreIt's the start of the year, and the start of a brand new journey for our 2020 Origins Dance Company.
Founded in 2015 by Paul Malek, this exciting performance based youth company provides developing young artists 12 to 25 years old with professional level performance experience, and exposure through multiple full scale performance seasons each year.
To celebrate the continued successes of this leading youth dance company we have decided to deep dive on five of our most memorable Origins Dance Company productions of all time.
Read MoreOrigins Dance Company is looking for passionate and dedicated young artists to join its ranks in 2020. Created for advanced dancers between the ages of 12 and 25 years old who have a passion for contemporary dance, Origins Dance Company aims to provide young artists with access to leading choreographers & mentors, whilst providing professional level performance experience and training.
Read MoreTransit Dance & Theatre De La Danse are proud to be teaming up to offer two unique performance opportunities in 2020 for Bayside dancers looking for an altrenative to competition dance.
Origins Dance Company Bayside is an exciting performance based company that provides developing young artists with professional level performance experience, and exposure to leading Contemporary dance choreographers & artists.
Read MoreTickets for our first international collaboration, Borderline, are now on sale!
Borderline is an international youth dance collaboration between Origins Dance Company (AUS) and the National Youth Dance Company of Scotland (UK).
Read MoreTransit Dance was so grateful to travel down to Latrobe Performing Arts Centre in January to create a new contemporary dance work on 22 regional dancers titled "Hometown". This was an initiative created by Jayden Hicks and Kathleen Roberts, to travel the ethos and creative process of Transit Dance Faculty down to Traralgon to work with members of the local community.
Read MoreJoin Origins Dance Company Director, Jayden Hicks in this complimentary 2 hour contemporary dance masterclass. Jayden will share his love of technique, creative processes, speak on the vision of ODC and our exciting plans for 2019. This workshop is open to any past, present or future Origins dancer wanting to find out more about Origins Dance Company and will also serve as a audition to join our 2019 company.
Read MoreOrigins Dance Company is thrilled to be collaborating with international youth dance company, YDance. Young Artists will be travelling from Scotland and making a new work in collaboration with Jayden and YDance Artistic Director, Anna Kenrick. Dancers will commence creation of the work from their respective countries via a “pen pal” system. They will share insight into the creative process of Origins Dance Company and Transit Dance, give tasks to company dancers to complete in their company rehearsals and engage in dialogue about the new work.
Read MoreAs our fourth year of operation for approaches, we felt it was time for us to revise and reinvigorate our Origins programs with some exciting new changes to our course structure and even our fees.
But one of the biggest developments is that as of 2018 Jayden Hicks will be joining Transit Dance in a full time capacity as the Director of Origins Extension Program and Artistic Director of Origins Dance Company.
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