Major Dance Companies
Those dance companies funded by the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council and from state arts agencies are:
- Ballet companies
- The Australian Ballet
- The Queensland Ballet
- The West Australian Ballet
- Contemporary dance companies
- Australian Dance Theatre (Garry Stewart)
- BalletLab (Phillip Adams)
- Bangarra Dance Theatre (Stephen Page)
- Chunky Move
- Company In Space
- Dancenorth
- Descendance
- Expressions Dance Company
- Force Majeure (Kate Champion)
- Lucy Guerin Inc
- Mirramu Dance Company
- Phunktional
- Sydney Dance Company
- TasDance
- Youth dance companies
- QL2 Centre for Youth Dance
- Extensions Youth Dance Company
- Urban Ignition Youth Dance Company
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