Get Set dance lab. Alison Plevey and Jamie Winbank in association with QL2 Dance, The QL2 Studios at Gorman House Arts Centre. January 14 to 16. $40 per day or $100 for three days. Email registration with name, age and dance experience/interests by January 9 to amplevey@gmail.com or phone 0400387643.

January can be a quiet time, but Alison Plevey and Jamie Winbank want to change that for young dancers.

In association with QL2 Dance, the two dance artists – both Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts graduates – are running Get Set, a dance lab for experienced young performers.

Plevey says, "We're exploring lots of different techniques and creative processes that will be useful for performing artists who are going off to university."

During the lab, young dancers will be given a short duo piece to choreograph which they will then work on with Plevey and Winbank.

"We'll be making something working together, it's a collaborative process."

Both Plevey and Winbank have been seen on stage in Canberra recently in shows that went beyond just dancing: Plevey in the one-woman performance piece Johnny Castellano Is Mine and Winbank in drag as a member of the Cagettes in the musical La Cage Aux Folles.

Plevey says, "Dance has become so multidisciplinary" – blending floor work, athleticism, theatre and other performance styles and techniques – and this will be taken into account during the sessions.

Winbank says he and Plevey will focus on different areas. She will teach floor work and improvisation and he will take a more structured and disciplined approach to dance techniques, ensuring participants learn as much as possible.

He says, "I was involved in the QL2 Boundless tour earlier this year to Bangkok. London and Glasgow. While I was in Bangkok I ran some workshops with [QL2 director] Ruth Osborne for the local Thai dancers and the QL2 dancers who went."

The January workshops will not be limited to QL members but to any experienced young dancers.

Winbank and Plevey have been working together for three years at QL2 as well as creating independent projects and teaching. This is the first time they have run a workshop together.