Space Time Studio Residency

Studio Residencies provide local independent dance artists with access to development time in Tracks space, and mentorship from the Tracks staff during Wet Season (Nov- Feb), with a Sharing at the conclusion. If you’re a local, independent dance or movement artist, and you're looking for opportunities to develop your practice in a self led environment, then this opportunity is for you.  

Tracks offers subsidised studio space and time to Northern Territory movement artists to investigate and develop their ideas.

Up to 5 proposals are supported annually. Our focus is on independent dance practitioners and emerging artists.

We offer two modes of residencies:

‘Blue Sky Research' for open-ended creative practice  (Up to 21 hours. Cost: $200)

‘Creative Development’ for developing a new project idea (Up to 42 hours. Cost: $300)

If the residency's cost creates a barrier, please reach out to discuss a scholarship. No one turned away for lack of funds.

2024/5 Residents

Molly O'Hagen

"My residency consists of the workshopping of a new commercial/contemporary dance work, with elements of physical theatre. This work is inspired by the climate I have experienced moving to Darwin from New Zealand, inspired by the heat, the sunsets, the rain and the landscape. I want to explore how the climate impacts our movement and emotions and relationships. Physically, I hope to challenge myself to workshop movement in partners, and I hope to achieve a substantial base to build my Fringe show from."

Venaska Cheliah

"I am looking to explore the season in our life currently as we venture into ending and starting significant decades in our life. Exploring our feminine awakening and what it means to return to familiar movements or starting anew. What it means to move and connect with ourselves and another being. The fear to move, the weight of self-judgement and expectation, but also the willingness to push past it and embracing the feeling. Conversations around weathering storms, staying grounded. Learning what movement is or means through choreographic tasks."

Jules Gabor

As an emerging creative producer and dancer, my goal is to use the residency to help explore ways we can use contemporary, hip-hop and K-Pop styles of dance to bring young people together through a film project and/or festival outcome (Darwin Fringe or self-produced event) to share with local and national audiences. The time in the residency will be used to develop choreography and support other performers through the process of creating dances and working towards an outcome.

Tracks 2026

Staff: Artistic Director: David McMicken. Artistic Leadership Team: Rachael Wallis, James Mangohig, Jenelle Saunders, Alyson Evans. Company Director: Sean Pardy. Production Manager: Duane Preston.  Dance Animateur: Kelly Beneforti (On parental leave). Administrator: Jocelyn Tribe. Bookkeeper: It Figures. Auditors: AMW Audit
 

Committee Members: Chairperson: David Taylor. Treasurer: Glenn Bernardin. Ordinary Members: Andrea Wicking, Anna Lindsay, Claudia Lee, Lachlan Peattie, Max Stretton, Rachael Wallis, Sarah Rennie, Venaska Cheliah. Ex-Officio: David McMicken, Sean Pardy