Steps & Holes is building a community to help us take One Giant Leap in 2025. Your contribution will support our 2025 program of physically dynamic, intellectually curious, visually arresting theatre and ensure the company’s unique presence in the Australian arts landscape. 

The repertoire of Steps & Holes centres around the unique and powerful vision of director, performer and writer Kate Walder. An award-winning theatre-maker working at the intersection of movement, text, music, puppetry and visual imagery, Kate’s exciting, dynamic work attracts broad audiences of all ages by combining intimacy with a sense of the epic. Steps & Holes explores timeless and universal themes and believes in the ability of art to mend the social fabric of society. 

The company launched in 2021 with our One Small Step campaign, a nod to Kate’s brave astronaut character which she brought back from her training in Paris and to the motifs of the stars, moon and cosmos that always appear in her work. In the first four years, we focussed on creating and presenting new works of theatre, achieving industry recognition and diversifying our funding streams. We have now reached a watershed moment in the life of the company and are ready to take One Giant Leap.

In 2025 we will deliver three projects: A pilgrim in search of a bull named Carlo premiere in Adelaide, Sydney and Edinburgh, a creative development of Noses are Red to secure commissioning partners and the re-development of our large scale multidisciplinary work Forster St for major festival programming. We will also build our pipeline of young artists with our workshop programs in secondary schools and our Emerging Artist Training Initiative in partnership with Legs on the Wall.

There's a hunger in the community for an alternative to traditional offerings—a new artistic home built on innovation, excellence, and a shared philosophical framework. Your contribution to our One Giant Leap is more than just a donation; it’s an opportunity to invest in a courageous artistic force determined to challenge the status quo and inspire audiences with robust ideas, to ignite our imaginative spirit and awaken our humanity.