Finucane & Smith's Dance Halls 2022 across Australia is supported by the Queensland Government.
2—24 Sep
Brisbane Festival and the Queensland Government present
Dance Halls
Watch your community shine!
Dance Halls celebrates the beauty of our community under twinkling lights, velvet drapes…and disco fever! It's a whole-of community performance like no other.
Lead by the unstoppable creators of world famous variety, Finucane & Smith who have played to 600,000 fans in 18 countries, combining entertainment with community driven practice.
Global talent. Irresistible music. Festoons and fan-dancing. Torch songs and hot moves.
Come along and watch, or get involved 🕺
- Be in a performance — details here.
- Come to a creative workshop — details here.
- Attend a free performance to watch your community shine - register below.
By Finucane and Smith
Creator and Producer Finucane and Smith Unlimited
Lead Artist Sherwood Uniting Church Hall Yani Mills
Lead Artist Ahepa Hall Jessie Lloyd
Lead Artist Old Inala Hall Rekon Youth Foundation
Lead Artist Forest Lake Uniting Church Hall Casus Creations
Lead Artist YMCA Cannon Hill Community Centre Elements Collective
Lead Artist SunPAC Yenenesh
Lead Artist Communify Queensland Spring Hill Hall Sophiaan Subhan and Ehud Joseph
Lead Artist Stafford Community Place Neridah Waters
Dance Halls is proudly supported by the Queensland Government.
This project is supported through the Giving Program by Carolyn Vincent – Ubuntu Foundation.
Image by Tear It Up.
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#Stretch those legs
Other ways to get involved 💃
Attend a workshop
Learn how to bust a move, walk a tightrope or make music.
Be a performer
Workshoppers are invited to join in (or wing it if you're a seasoned pro).
#Artists
Finucane & Smith
Volcanic live artist, magic realist and creator Moira Finucane together with award-winning playwright Patrick White and director Jackie Smith, continue to set critics raving and keep festival audiences, around the world, in raptures.
Neridah Waters
Known for her work with Lala Parlour and The Escapists, Neridah's choreographed large-scale projects for Queensland Music Festival and QPAC. Recently, she directed the Flipside Circus show at HOTA's Scoop Festival.
Yenenesh Nigusse
Yenenesh Nigusse, is well known as a passionate exponent of dance – not just African styles, but also Latin, hip-hop, and contemporary genres.
Jessie Lloyd
Jessie Lloyd is a Songkeeper. An Australia Aboriginal singer, social historian and cultural practitioner of Indigenous song and founder of her award-winning Mission Songs Project.
Yani Mills
Yani is a lifelong singer/performer/musician since 1988, who has sung everything ranging from Jazz, Blues, Funk, Soul, Bluegrass, World music styles such as Sanskrit Kirtan and musical theatre and outdoor theatrical roving acts.
Sophiaan Subhan
An academic in the discourses around language, culture and identity, Sophiaan’s works focus on the experiences of the marginalised and minoritised. On the side, Sophiaan is the uber glamorous, multi-award winning pro-feminist PoC disco-queen, Chinta Woo.
Ehud Joseph
Ehud has made a name for himself by working across a wide range of fashion sectors in London, Paris and New Zealand. He is a lecturer at TAFE Queensland and is also carrying out a PhD at QUT fashion department.
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