Participants

Opportunities are available for students to participate in Pulse Alive through the following categories:

School groups (no audition required)

• First Nations dance ensemble – nominations now open
• Massed choir – nominations now open
• Massed dance – nominations now open

Individual students (no audition required)

• Individual chorister (massed choir) – nominations now open
• Individual dancer (massed dance) – nominations now open

Individual students (audition/application required)

• Drama ensemble (individual students via application) – nominations now open
• Principal vocalist (individual students via live audition) – nominations now open
• Principal choir (individual students via live audition) – nominations now open
• Pulse Alive Dance Company (principal dancers) – (individual students via live audition) – nominations now open
• Showband (individual students via video audition) – nominations now open
• Student compere (individual students via video audition) – nominations now open
• Student crew (individual students via application) – nominations open early Term 1 2025

Limited exceptions may be made in certain circumstances. For example:

• students participating in massed dance and First Nations dance ensemble with their school groups.

Students participating in more than one category under these circumstances should be aware that they will be required to pay a separate student resource fee for each category they are involved in.

Each year, the Pulse team take the experience of the Pulse Alive event to regional areas via the Pulse Alive tours. Individual students selected as principal vocalists, members of the showband and members of the Pulse Alive Dance Company for Pulse Alive 2025 will be given the opportunity to express their interest in attending one of four tours:

• Pulse Sunraysia 2025 – Sunday 30 March to Friday 4 April 2025
• Pulse Moree 2025 – Sunday 4 to Friday 9 May 2025
• Pulse Broken Hill 2025 – Sunday 18 to Friday 23 May 2025
• Pulse TBC 2025 (location to be announced) – Sunday 27 July to Friday 1 August 2025

The cost per tour for each participating student is $1000. Further specific information around the tours, and the opportunity to express interest in attending, will be provided to students who are successful in their auditions for principal vocalist, showband or Pulse Alive Dance Company for Pulse Alive 2025.

There are also opportunities for staff to express their interest in attending one or more of the tours as a member of the touring team.