Rise Festival

RISE is Dance North’s annual festival of contemporary dance and performance — celebrating bold ideas, inclusive practice and artists shaping the future of movement.

From Sat 23 May to Sat 6 June 2026, RISE will honour global Indigenous artists whose work connects land, story and movement worldwide.

Guided by cultural respect, environmental consciousness and care, RISE 2026 offers a welcoming gathering of global Indigenous creativity, offering moments to witness, reflect and come together.

Featured artists include Oji-cree artist Lara Kramer (Turtle Island Canada) with Gorgeous Tongue and This is the Place Where We Pray in Findhorn (29–31 May) and Gorgeous Tongue at Tramway (6 June);

Daina Ashbee’s Serpentine in Findhorn (29–31 May) and Tramway (3 June)

Award-winning theatre maker and choregrapher Jacob Boehme (Narungga and Kaurna Nations, South Australia) adapting GUURANDA X in Findhorn (29–31 May)

Larrakia choreographer (Northern Territory Australia) Gary Lang’s The Other Side of Me at Wick High School (23 May) and Eden Court (27 May)

We Are the Land – A’nowarà:ke & AbyaYala perspectives – with Barbara Diabo and Martha Hincapié Charry in Findhorn (Fri 29 May)

RISE will also feature parties, pcinics and family friendly activities. Dance North welcomes local communities, students, families, global majority audiences, and people of all abilities into a festival shaped by place and people.