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2.9KFeaturedDirtyFeet’s The Right Foot: Everybody dance now!
For the last seven years, Sydney-based independent company DirtyFeet has been opening up the world of contemporary dance. Since 2012, its (dis)ability...
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2.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Token Armies’: Chunky Move’s genre defying guerilla war dance
Meat Market, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne.16 October 2019. Attending Token Armies is like being invited by a radical friend who is clued-in to...
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3.7KFeatured‘Samsara’: Our journey to the ocean
“In the same space, there are two things working,” says Chinese dance star Hu Shenyuan. We are in a rehearsal break, sitting...
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3.4KFeaturedSydney Dance Company’s ‘ab[intra]’ part of the Paris Opera Gala
The Opening Gala evening of the Paris Opera Ballet season is a special moment in the calendar of the mystical Opéra National de...
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3.3KFeaturedAnne Nguyen’s ‘Kata’ premieres at OzAsia Festival
Kata’s Australian premiere gives Australian audiences a chance to engage with the work of leading French dance creator Anne Nguyen. Nguyen’s background...
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2.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsEastern aesthetics and philosophy in Yang Liping’s ‘Rite of Spring’
State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne.6 October 2019. The Rite of Spring was made famous first by the collaboration between Stravinsky and Diaghilev...
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3.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsCirque du Soleil’s ‘KURIOS’: A return to circus’ more innocent times
As the Cirque du Soleil international juggernaut continues on its merry way, its return to Australian audiences with KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities is a...
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5.6KFeaturedHomegrown dancers medal at 2019 Genée International Ballet Competition
This August saw the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) host the Genée International Ballet Competition in Toronto, Canada, for the first time...
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6.2KGiveawaysAre you Australia’s next dance model? MODEL SEARCH NOW OPEN
The Energetiks and Dance Informa Model Search has become an eagerly anticipated annual event on the Australian dance calendar. Who will win...
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3.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsYang Liping’s epic re-imagining: ‘Rite of Spring’
Arts Centre, Melbourne.3 October 2019. Extraordinary! Spectacular! Lavish, colourful! All the superlatives apply. Yang Liping’s re-imagined Rite Of Spring is an exquisitely detailed,...
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3.4KFeaturedBangarra Dance Theatre: How to make a fire
We are in Melbourne, early spring, and the house is packed once again. 30 Years Of Sixty Five Thousand is finishing its near...
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3.7KDance AdviceCasting director shares secrets on landing the next dance job
Lauren Mass is a casting director based in Melbourne, and works at one of Australia’s premier casting agencies. Her role requires her...
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4.2KFeaturedHofesh Shechter: Dance’s ‘Grand Finale’
The Hofesh Shechter Company’s Grand Finale returns to Melbourne this month after performing in the Adelaide Festival in March earlier this year. There...
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6.9KDancer Health5 stretches to avoid: How you can avoid injuring yourself while stretching
We are all different. Our anatomy, our goals and our dance styles vary. So is there really a golden list of stretches...
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8.9KDance Teacher Resources‘I want to learn tricks’: How and why to teach acro at your studio
Most of us remember when acrobatics started to creep more and more into dance routines. Maybe it was the advent of So You...
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6.5KFeatured‘Billy’ is back, but where are our first Billys now?
There’s a show opening in Sydney this month, which will also be celebrating its Australian 10th Anniversary. There is a lot of...
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4.2KFeaturedAntony Hamilton: On the march with ‘Token Armies’
When Chunky Move, Melbourne’s premiere independent dance company, announced the appointment of Antony Hamilton as artistic director and co-CEO with Kristy Ayre,...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsDirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio: A place for creative exploration
East Sydney Community Centre, Sydney. 27 September 2019. Sydney-based independent dance entity DirtyFeet, presented its much-anticipated annual emerging choreographer program, ‘Out of the...
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4.8KFeaturedKids breaking the rules in ‘School of Rock’
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s irresistible rock musical, School of Rock, is set to rock the Capitol Theatre, Sydney this November. The Age newspaper said...
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4.6KDance AdviceDance at the vanishing pointe: A talk with Sue Healey
For Sue Healey, dance has the dual quality of being one of the most embodied artforms that rests on a visceral and...
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4.6KDance Teacher ResourcesAnnie-B Parson’s ‘Drawing the Surface of Dance: A Biography in Charts’
Artistic Director of Big Dance Theater Annie-B Parson has a new book. Parson creates work that draws on, disrupts and distils classic...
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5.7KFeaturedGet to know the 2019 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award nominees
The Australian Ballet and Telstra have announced that six talented young dancers have been selected as nominees for the prestigious and coveted...
