Mature Program
The Mature Program facilitates a range of movement practices, fosters a sense of community, promotes healthy living and positive ageing. Our tailored program invigorates and inspires, developing your physical and creative skills in a welcoming, inclusive, and stimulating environment.
The benefits of dance on your physical and mental health are well-documented, and at ADC you will be encouraged to reconnect with your body, challenge yourself, and explore the power of your creativity.
We invite you to connect with yourself, your physicality and your community with our Mature Classes and Mature Intensive. Designed for anyone who has an interest in moving their bodies, joyously. No previous dance experience is necessary.
#2026 Mature Workshop Series
The Embodied Expressive Edge
A 4-day experiential workshop for adults aged 50+, where creativity meets contemplative practice and somatic movement.
How do we stay alive to possibility, keep our minds sharp and our emotions steady? Research in neuroscience and contemplative science points to a surprising answer: the way we move, pay attention and create.
Choreographers and dancers have long understood the benefits of sensation-aware movement. Now, research from the University of Pittsburgh suggests that regular, mindful movement can effectively reverse age-related shrinkage of the hippocampus — the brain region that plays an important role in our spatial memory and creative thinking.
In this workshop series we will explore somatic awareness, contemplative practices and how these can open us to new ways of approaching creativity in dance.
Schedule
Session One / Tuesday 20 October
— 9:30am - 12:30pm | Workshop with Jaime Redfern
Session Two / Thursday 22 October
— 9:30am - 10:30am | Gaga with Courtney Scheu
— 10:30am - 12:30pm | Workshop with Jaime Redfern
Session Three / Tuesday 27 October
— 9:30am - 12:30pm | Workshop with Jaime Redfern
Session Four / Thursday 29 October
— 9:30am - 10:30am | Gaga with Courtney Scheu
— 10:30am - 12:30pm | Workshop with Jaime Redfern
Time
9.30am — 12.30pm daily
Location
Tuesdays — JWAC Level 3 Multipurpose Room (3.04)
Thursdays — JWAC Level 3 Dance Studio (3.02)
Cost
$200
Register#Classes
ADC Mature Classes are for anyone who has an interest in moving their bodies joyously. No previous dance experience is necessary.
Classes begin on Saturday, 24th January 2026.
ADC Mature Classes are for anyone who has an interest in moving their bodies joyously. No previous dance experience is necessary.
The tailored offerings invigorate and inspire, developing your physical and creative skills in a welcoming, inclusive, and stimulating environment.
The benefits of dance on your physical and mental health are well-documented. At ADC, you will be encouraged to reconnect with your body, challenge yourself, and explore the power of your creativity.
Once you have purchased a class pass, ADC will be in touch to chat through your first class.
Time
Saturdays
12.30-1.45pm
Location
ADC Studio, Judith Wright Arts Centre
Experience
No prior dance experience required
Cost
$20 Single | $90 for 5 classes | $160 for 10 classes
Enrol nowNeed more information?
Feel free to contact the ADC offices by phone on 07 3257 4222
Or by email here#Mature Intensive
ADC Mature Intensive is a two-day intensive for anyone who has an interest in moving their bodies joyously.
Join us for an immersive dance experience at our 2026 Mature Intensive. This is the perfect introduction to ADC’s Mature program and an opportunity for you to work collectively with a group of likeminded people in an encouraging and supportive setting.
The program includes specialised workshops allowing you to explore and develop creative skills and body/mind connection. Each session will be facilitated by an industry professional and will provide opportunities for you to explore movement, collaboration and expression.
Dates
Sunday 22 March & Sunday 19 April
Our Mature Intensive is delivered over two Sundays, featuring two workshops per day for a total of four sessions.
Location
ADC Studio, Judith Wright Arts Centre
Experience
No prior dance experience required
Cost
$200
Registrations
Register NowNeed more information?
Feel free to contact the ADC offices by phone on 07 3256 4222
Or by email here#Mature Ensemble
Aimed at those 50-plus, this program facilitates a range of movement practices, fosters a sense of community, promotes healthy living and positive ageing.
Our tailored program invigorates and inspires, developing your physical and creative skills in a welcoming, inclusive, and stimulating environment.
The benefits of dance on your physical and mental health are well-documented, and at ADC you will be encouraged to reconnect with your body, challenge yourself, and explore the power of your creativity.
ADC’s Mature Ensemble Program is a 13-week immersive experience that opens possibilities for movement and expression. You will work with industry professionals in a creative develop period that will result in a performance outcome. A collective of people who are driven by creativity, collaboration, and empowerment.
We acknowledge the First Nations people as the Traditional Owners of Meanjin (Brisbane).
Australasian Dance Collective acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their deep connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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