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Ako Kondo: Australian Ballet’s newest Principal!

At just 24 years of age, Ako Kondo has become the Australian Ballet’s newest Principal Artist. Her promotion was announced on stage...

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10 Reasons We Love Sylvie Guillem

One of the greatest dancers of our time retires this year, but our fascination with her will live on. Here are ten...

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Kate Champion directs NIDA production

With an alumni list including A-listers like Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson and Baz Luhrmann, NIDA is recognised as Australia’s premier finishing school...

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International Ballet Workshops to visit nine cities across Australasia

This Winter, Australian and New Zealand dancers have the opportunity to learn from two of the best. Alexandra Cownie, author of How...

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NZ Dance News – June

Here is the most up-to-date New Zealand dance news! The Street Dance New Zealand National Finals were held in Auckland at the...

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Dance Teacher Resources

Mark Morris Dance Group and Dance for Parkinson’s returns to Sydney with a free class and teacher training workshop

This month the Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Sydney and with them they bring their phenomenal program, Dance for Parkinson’s. Since beginning...

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Head Spins: Sarah-Vyne Vassallo talks Murmuration Dance Theatre

Sarah-Vyne Vassallo says it simply, “There’s not a lot of inclusivity in the dance world because its history is based in a...

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Dancer Health

Should dancers do weight training?

Ballet is a physically demanding art form for both males and females. Just as male dancers require powerful upper body, core, back...

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Australian Dance Reviews

‘Rotunda’ by New Zealand Dance Company

Parramatta Riverside, Sydney. May 16, 2015. The New Zealand Dance Company recently hurtled onto the stage at Parramatta with Rotunda, a work...

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Giveaways

Energetiks Cover Model Search

Would you like to model for Energetiks and be on the cover of Dance Informa’s September edition, plus be the 2016 Victorian Dance...

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Dancer Health

Should dancers avoid the bar?

By Emily C. Harrison MS, RD, LD. Do you like a glass of wine with dinner, or a beer at the bar with...

The St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre performing 'Swan Lake'.

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Regime change. Swan stay the same.

St Petersburg Ballet to visit Perth and Melbourne. Politics and ballet generally don’t live on the same stage; except of course when...

West Australian Ballet - Embraceable You

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Featured

Mr B Goes West – WA Ballet does Balanchine

Giorgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze was born into an artistic family of Georgian Russians in 1904, yet he is best known as the ‘father...

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Dance Teacher Resources

8 Ways to Make Ballet Fun For Boys

We all know the world of ballet needs more men. So how do we, as teachers, keep boys interested in ballet class,...

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All Aboard! Caroline O’Connor talks ‘Anything Goes’

When the SS America first sailed from New York to London in 1934, Caroline O’Connor was not on the passenger list. Indeed,...

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Meet Alana Haines Awards Star Vida Polakov

After winning the coveted Gold medal at the 2014 Genee International Ballet Competition in Belgium, Kiwi dancer Vida Polakov is on a...

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One Year On – with Jay Johns, Finalist SYTYCD 2014

In this entry of “One Year On” I spoke with Jay Johns, Finalist of So You Think You Can Dance Australia 2014....

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New Zealand Dance News – May

Here is the latest in New Zealand Dance News! Java Dance is bringing its new series of dance workshops for children aged 3-5...

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