Queensland Academies Creative Industries

QACI (Queensland Academies Creative Industries) is a selective-entry state high school for highly capable students in Years 10 - 12. As part of the Queensland Department of Education Outreach program a limited opportunity for Year 7 & 8 dance students is available to participate in an ACARA curriculum based workshop on Friday 7 August, 4pm (Term 3 Week 4) at QACI. The $20 workshop includes dinner and two tickets (student and parent) to attend the Step Right Up! Dance Showcase taking place on Friday 7 August, 6:30pm. There is limited availability for this workshop and bookings are essential. Students are invited to engage in a contemporary dance workshop exploring compositional skills, facilitated and led by Phluxus2Dance Collective Artist, Jacob Watton. Jacob Watton is a Queensland-based choreographer, performer, and teaching artist based in Magandjin (Brisbane). Jacob holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Dance Performance from the Queensland University of Technology and has built a dynamic career creating, performing, and educating across contemporary dance, children’s theatre, and cross-disciplinary performance. Workshop Itinerary 4pm – 5:30pm – Student Workshop in the QACI Theatre 5:30 – 6:15pm – Dinner (provided by QACI) 6:15 – 6:30pm – Go down to QACI theatre for Step Right Up! 6:30 – 8:00pm – Watch Step Right Up! Dance Showcase Bookings for this workshop close Thursday 6 August, 9am.

Welcome to Step Right Up! – the Queensland Academy Creative Industries Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12 Dance production for 2026, featuring performance and composition from students. Step Right Up! is made up of Year 10 Duet compositions, Year 11 Postmodern Groups and Year 12 Duets, with a special group work performed by Year 12s for their final show. Throughout this term, the students worked with Ms Oliver and Ms Collyer to explore and create movement. They were allocated the theme of a Carnival, began establishing their own working processes and styles within movement. The outcome is dance works of varying intentions, which are student driven, showing creative and critical thinking, problem solving and reflection.

🏫 Queensland Academies Creative Industries (QACI) 👉 Independent selective entry state high school 🎓 IB Diploma Programme 👫 Co-ed Years 10-12 🌏 Brisbane | Meanjin Discover QACI's world-class facilities in our purpose-built seven-storey vertical school located in the heart of Kelvin Grove. Please arrive at least ten minutes prior to the commencement of your tour. The tour will depart from the main foyer on Level 2 at the scheduled booking time. Please enter the building via our main entrance at 61 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove. While parking is not available on site, ample street parking is located in the Kelvin Grove Urban Village precinct. As tour numbers are restricted, we ask that you please cancel your booking if you are unable to attend so that your space/s can be made available to others.