Utopian Dream is a multicultural dance festival held in Coffs Harbour AUSTRALIA with the best of the best international professional choreographers of Dance including Jazz, Hip Hop, Latin, Contemporary, Ballet, Indigenous, Circus and more. This event is designed to fuse cultures within the Coffs Harbour community, whilst inviting those nationally and internationally to participate in the festival. Utopian Dream is a combination of Showcases, Workshops and seminars of Dance over 5 days and 6 nights. Dancers are invited from all over Australia (and the world) to participate in the festival. The aim of Utopian Dream is to help promote healthy body and minds through dance.
Utopian Dream is influenced by a festival that was run in Bellingen for 10 years called Stamping Ground founded by Mr Peter Stock, One of Travers Mentors, which was a festival that Travers never missed a year of either teaching or as a kid participating. It was a 16day male dance based festival that changed and influenced many men’s careers and lives from dance.
Travers featured in the ABC Australian story based on Stamping Ground in 2002.
Stamping Ground then came to a close, So Travers went forward to bring talent to the Coffs Coast for a small 7 day festival to give something for the youth to do for the school Holidays. The festival then grew to be the Intensive Festival, which then took a jump in popularity and gave Travers more incentive to boost it into an Australia Wide event inviting Dancers and wanna be dancers from all over and over seas to come together to create sweat and be amazed in gorgous sunny Coffs Harbour, Travers Home town, where he has so much support and respect from the locals.
The Utopian Dream took a huge step in 2009 with enquires coming from all over already booking the festival out looking to have 1000 artist, entertainers and dancers attending.
Definitely a rewarding event you owe to yourself no matter what career your in.
