Dance Informa Magazine
Posts By admin
-
2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsTale as old as time: ‘Beauty and the Beast the Musical’ opening night
Capitol Theatre, Sydney. 22 June 2023. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast the Musical premiere at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre on the evening of Thursday 22nd of...
-
2.3KFeaturedThe challenge of choosing: Todd Patrick talks audition season and the AOC Scholarship Initiative
We all like choice, except sometimes when we are asked to choose. Because some choices can be tough, others easier to avoid....
-
2.3KDance Teacher ResourcesBring Dance Teacher Web Conference and Expo to YOU
This year’s Dance Teacher Web (DTW) Conference and Expo will be held July 27-30, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Can’t make...
-
2.5KInterviewsLi Cunxin to step away from Queensland Ballet after 11 years at the helm
After 11 years at the helm of Queensland Ballet, Artistic Director Li Cunxin AO has announced his decision to retire at the...
-
2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Art Gallery of New South Wales and Shelley Lasica: ‘WHEN I AM NOT THERE’
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.24 May 2023. Last month, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney presented WHEN...
-
2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsStill as dynamic as ever: The Sydney premiere of ‘MAMMA MIA! The Musical’
Sydney Lyric Theatre, Sydney. 27 May 2023. MAMMA MIA! The Musical – what a show! The Sydney premiere on Saturday, 27 May at...
-
3.5KFeaturedIf you can (can): Moulin Rouge auditions in Australia
From the gilded age of the Third French Republic, via two world wars, four years of Nazi conquest, and recent pandemic interruption,...
-
4.3KFeatured‘Beauty and the Beast’ reimagined: In conversation with director and choreographer Matt West
It is with deepest pride, and greatest pleasure that we introduce to you Matt West, director and choreographer of Beauty and the...
-
3.0KFeaturedAllie Graham: Dutiful maiden and fierce warrior in ‘Aida’
Opera Australia is returning to Sydney Opera House with a lavish production of Aida. This production is directed and choreographed by Davide...
-
4.0KFeaturedThe Fonteyn competition medallists: Where are they now?
The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, named after famed ballerina Margot Fonteyn DBE, also the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD)’s longest serving...
-
4.4KDance Teacher ResourcesWhat is contemporary dance? Insight from world-famous choreographers
Dance Informa had the wonderful opportunity to pick the brains of three world-renowned contemporary choreographers. Learn what Hofesh Shechter, Franck Chartier and...
-
2.7KFeaturedNew Zealand Dance News – June/July 2023
Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news! The Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) has anounced the appointment of its new...
-
2.3KFeaturedSimone Mistry-Palmer on ‘The Tina Turner Musical’: Simply the next
Shortly after Dance Informa conducted the interview for this piece, Tina Turner died at her home in Switzerland, aged 83. We send...
-
1.8KFeaturedCarriageworks announces winter dance season with new works
This winter Carriageworks, one of Australia’s most significant contemporary multi-arts organisations, will present a compelling line-up of major new dance works and an...
-
2.2KFeaturedKelly Aykers: Where body and mind take me
The choreography of the prolific Kelly Aykers is about to hit the stage in Midnight, a new musical theatre work loosely inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella. Aykers says, “To be able to...
-
2.0KEvents‘Parrwang Lifts the Sky’: A Dreamtime opera
Parrwang Lifts the Sky, a family friendly opera created by acclaimed Yorta Yorta/Yuin soprano, composer, and artistic director Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, will...
-
1.4KFeatured‘You better shape up’: ‘GREASE’ to return to Australia from January 2024
You better shape up Australia because a brand-new production of the number-one party musical GREASE the Musical is set to debut as Melbourne’s...
-
3.0KFeaturedRed Bull Dance Your Style showcases Australia’s top street performers
Red Bull Dance Your Style returns to Australia in 2023, celebrating and crowning the nation’s best street dance talent through a series of...
-
2.3KFeaturedDavid McAllister’s ‘Ballet Confidential: A personal behind-the-scenes guide’
This August, publisher Thames & Hudson brings us Ballet Confidential, an in-depth exploration of the gritty and glamorous world of professional ballet...
-
2.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘TINA: The Tina Turner Musical’ makes it hard to sit still in your seat
Theatre Royal, Sydney.17 May 2023. Born in Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1939, Anna Mae Bullock grew up through the racial turmoil of the...
-
2.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsBook review: ‘Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance’ by Mark Mann
Book: Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to DanceAuthor: Mark Mann, Rizzoli International Publications, March 2023. Mark Mann’s Movement at the...
-
2.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Australian Ballet sparkled in ‘Jewels’ for the diamond anniversary
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.12 May 2023. The 2023 Season of The Australian Ballet, marks the 60th year – diamond anniversary – of...
