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Buzz Dance Theatre is Australia’s premier dance theatre company for children and young people. Nationally awarded as a leader in our field, we make performances and lead workshops that are designed specifically to foster creativity in all its shapes and forms.

With artistic excellence at our core, the company’s creative teams use contemporary dance, music, theatre, design and technology to capture the imagination of children and young people. We invite them to explore, create and play, not only as audience members but also as collaborators.

Founded in 1985, Buzz Dance Theatre is at the forefront of arts education strategies and cultural expression everywhere, from the undercover area at Sawyers Valley Primary School to sell-out seasons at the Sydney Opera House.

The annual program involves around 20,000 children, young people, their teachers, families and communities. Buzz tours nationally, as well as internationally, having traveled to South Africa and Korea in previous years. In 2007 the company embarked on a national tour of the highly successful ‘Rabbit’ starting in regional Western Australia, traveling to and performing in New South Wales and Victoria, including a two-week sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House!

NEW NEWS!

Buzz at APAM 2008

Representatives from Buzz joined forces with Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre to form a collective known as 'WA Mining the Future' to represent the amazing work of the four youth-focussed Companies at the Australian Performing Arts Market in Adelaide in February.
www.miningthefuturewa.com.au

Look out 2008, here we come!

Buzz Dance Theatre is proud to launch the 2008 program, now featured on the website.

Please take the time to explore what's on offer, with fabulous new workshop programs for children and young people, and presenting 'Cinderella Dressed in Yella' at the Subiaco Arts Centre.

Future Moves Summary Report: Creating a thriving contemporary dance sector in WA

Buzz has been involved in a research and consultation process with the subsidised small to medium contemporary dance sector as part of the Contemporary Dance Model Development (CDMD) project. From June to September 2007 over 90 individuals contributed to the project, with the findings summarized in the attached document.

Future Moves Summary Report 2007 (PDF 164kb)