The Company comprises a group of professional neurodivergent and disabled dancers who form the core cast of Restless Dance Theatre’s artistic program. Working alongside dancers, choreographers and creatives from Australia and internationally, they collaborate to create original contemporary dance works informed by their lived experience, artistry and unique perspectives.

Larissa McGowan leads Restless Dance Theatre’s Professional Company Training Program, a long-term, high-level training initiative designed to support our company dancers to continuously grow, strengthen and extend their professional practice.

Delivered across three days each week, the program focuses on technique, composition, strength and conditioning, improvisation, co-creation and multi-skilled development. Training is tailored to individual goals while fostering a consistent and sustainable approach to professional dance practice.

The program supports dancers to build physical strength, improve wellbeing, expand their artistry and develop the skills needed to sustain long-term careers in the industry. Through disciplined and collaborative training, dancers are challenged to extend their physicality, refine their technique and deepen their creative practice, while also supporting confidence, resilience and overall health through regular movement and creative connection.

At the heart of the program is a commitment to creating genuine professional pathways for disabled artists, ensuring dancers are supported to work at a high technical and artistic level within a sustainable, inclusive and supportive environment.

“The unique dancers have created works that invite audiences to appreciate the talents of all who have contributed to it and enable audiences to view disability arts practice through a new lens.”  – Virginia Hyam