News

What a month it has been! It’s been a special month here at ReadyMade Works and for dance more generally! We are very proud to have had so many artists, audiences, dancers and teachers in the space for March Dance. Thank you to everyone who engaged with and supported our programs, Happy Hour, Constant Relay and Independent Dance Classes. The feeling of community and enthusiasm for making and sharing dance gave

  Join us for Happy Hour! Join us this weekend for our first edition of Happy Hour for 2019. Featuring three new short-works from Katina Olsen, Murasaki Penguin and Ryuichi Fujimura, we are thrilled to be kicking off March Dance and celebrating Mardi Gras with work from these remarkable Sydney-based dance artists. Happy Hour has become an important stage for local choreographers to showcase their new creations a

From the Caretakers It’s been a big start to 2019 here at ReadyMade Works! We, Patricia Wood, Adelina Larsson and Rhiannon Newton, are delighted to be the new caretakers of the studio. We are very honoured to be taking on this roll and hope to continue the incredible work of founder, Sam Chester, in creating a home for independent dance in Sydney. We look forward to working with the community of regular hirers, dance

From our Chair… It’s a big end of the year for us all at ReadyMade, and we have lots of exciting news to share with you. After six years leading our organisation, we farewell our founding director Sam Chester at the end of 2018. An absolute star supporter of artist-run spaces in Sydney for nearly 14 years. Sam is exceptional—a champion for artists especially dance, with a head for turning a brilliant idea into

After five and a half years with our founder Samantha Chester at the helm of ReadyMade Works, the last year with co-director Julie-Anne Long, we are looking for new director(s) to take the organisation into 2019 and beyond. We are so proud of what ReadyMade has achieved in this time, and applaud the enormous contribution that Sam and Julie-Anne have made to supporting independent dance in Sydney. ReadyMade is a speci

With much sadness we say goodbye to the wonder that is Patricia Wood who is leaving her post as Studio Manager at RMW. She is heading off into the world to undertake a residency in Paris, to work with Tasdance later in the year and be the amazing artist and dancer that she is. From all of us at RMW we would like to thank her for her time, energy, passion for the studio and her enormous contribution in making the stud

A brand new program from ReadyMade to support the independent dance community… DanceLIFE sessions 2018 DanceLIFE Sessions comes from the necessity to experiment and devise resilient work practices and tactical approaches, for working as artists in Australia in an ever-changing cultural environment. The focus is on work processes and the complex relationships between artists and their everyday lives. Supported b

Happy Hour April 2018 was a hoot! ReadyMade’s new co-director Julie-Anne Long, invited five renowned artists who have a rich and extensive history as part of the Sydney performance scene — Martin del Amo, Anton, Nikki Heywood, Tony Osborne and Kathy Cogill. The artists all relished the opportunity to present their new performance pieces. A delightful evening all round with full houses both nights and great to see so

ROSALIND CRISP 2 & 4-DAY WORKSHOPS @ ReadyMade Studio Ultimo, Sydney. For over thirty years Rosalind Crisp has been dancing from and with the materiality of her body — the heavy weights that are continually present (gravity, flesh, breath, contents) and the ephemerals (imagination, attention and how things are constantly changing). WORKSHOP 1: July 7 & 8, 2018 plunging into the vast vat of bodily materials /