Excellence" by the Australian Government and was also supported by the New South Wales Government. It was a registered training organisation (RTO) offering Certificates II, III and IV and a Diploma in Careers in Dance, and was a member of the Australian Roundtable for Arts Training Excellence. Between 2008 and 2010, Walker, in close collaboration with the NAISDA Performing Arts Advisory Committee, developed a new curriculum, which was implemented in 2011. In March 2012 a new building, housing a number of purpose-built studios, was opened. In 2016, founder Carole Johnson, along with three college graduates, undertook a six-week performing tour of the United States. Also in 2016, NSW Arts Minister Leslie Williams announced of new funding for NAISDA. In November–December 2016, the 40th anniversary of NAISDA was celebrated in an exhibition at Carriageworks at Redfern. Naya Wa Yugali ("We Dance" in Darkinyung language) featured oral histories, photographs, film footage and artwork by Tracey Moffatt, Michael Riley, Juno Gemes, Lee Chittick and Elaine Kitchener as well as a specially commissioned work by Vicki Van Hout and Marian Abboud. An auction was held to help raise funds for the planned new international college, Naya Wa Yugali. NAISDA has built close ties with Badu and Saibai Islands in the Torres Strait, Elcho Island and Yirrkala (NT), and Turkey Creek (WA). Description and governance NAISDA is based in Mount Penang Parklands in Kariong on the Central Coast of New South Wales, on Darkinjung land. Graduates have worked in arts management, dance, music, theatre and film, both at the elite and community level. , NAISDA Ltd is a limited company that runs the Dance College, and is governed by a board which includes Wesley Enoch and Elizabeth Butcher and is chaired by Maryah Sonter. The NAISDA Foundation is a separate fund-raising entity, whose patron since its establishment in December 2013 is Dame Marie Bashir . It continues to be funded by the Australian and New South Wales Governments. Its funding as one of the ARTS8 group of eight elite training organisations in the performing arts is through the Office for the Arts. NAISDA achieves a completion rate of around 84 per cent, compared with the national rate for completion of 34 per cent in the VET sector. Future plans Plans are under way for new international art education centre, Naya Wa Yugali (meaning "we dance" in Darkinjung language) to be built adjacent to the current