07/06/2026
That’s a wrap on Canberra Dance Festival for 2026, and what a weekend it was! We’re certainly entering another golden era with our groups showing their excellent technique and dedication to their training, bringing to life their teacher’s visions and working together as a team with slick precision.
🥇14/u Classical
🥈Any Age Classical
🥈Any Age Production
🥈10/u Classical
🥈10/u Contemporary
💜 Incredible performances in all other sections we are just so proud of.
If you saw our ‘Hamilton’ piece - yes that was our students singing to a recording of themselves, not lip-syncing to an alternative recording. We’re so lucky to have the capacity and the expertise in our staff to pull off a piece like that. The track of the students signing gives them a huge boost to be able to confidently vocalise live in tricky theatre spaces without mics, which is incredibly daunting and hard to do.
Also, we want to get out in front of the rumour mill and publicly acknowledge that yes, sadly one of our groups was disqualified today. It came about as a parent filmed their dancer on the tv in the foyer - an unfortunate mistake that came from a place of love and pride of the daughter and her friends. We support CDF’s decision to disqualify us, and are using this experience to remind our students and parents to focus on the performance and not the score, as the students danced that piece superbly.
On another note - to the studio that did film our Be Our Guest piece, we’re glad you enjoyed it so much. We agree that it’s pretty great!
We couldn’t be prouder of every LCDC student that danced in our groups. The growth in our dancers in the last 12 months has been phenomenal, and we’re confident parents saw that on stage this weekend.
🎶We're goin' up, up, up.
It's our moment
You know together we're glowing
Gonna be, gonna be goldеn🎶
