The Saturday Night Social

The Saturday Night Social is a community engagement project involving workshops with dancers, culminating in a community event involving a live local band.

A “spin-off” of DMC’s immersive dance hall meets dance theatre performance The Rivoli, The Saturday Night Social is a low-footprint, fully immersive dance event bringing together a live band, highly skilled dance facilitators, and the local community to dance together.

This project emerges at a time when social cohesion is at its lowest on record, as an antidote to depressed levels of connectivity impacted by cost-of-living pressure and cultural divison in a post-COVID world. DMC have developed this project specifically to aide in bringing people together, from different backgrounds and generations, to spark joy and foster community-building, what better way to do that than a social dance?!

ABOUT  THE COMPANY

Dance Makers Collective is Western Sydney’s professional dance company and the only collective-led dance company in Australia. Established in 2012, the company comprises nine professional dance makers who have worked for major dance and theatre companies from around Australia, touring major productions internationally. Together, Dance Makers Collective create exciting contemporary dance works with “imagination, thoughtfulness and even a sense of humour” (Jill Sykes, Sydney Morning Herald). Their touring production, Dads, was shortlisted for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance at the Australian Dance Awards.

DMC’s mission is to build dance communities, and the work we create focuses on bridging gaps between contemporary dance, social dance, community and storytelling through deeply moving dance experiences. DMC is committed to developing appreciation for dance by making dance accessible to as many people as possible, we make shows, run workshops and regular programs, skills development and training for children, adults, preprofessional and professional artists and senior members of our community.