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5.7KFeaturedMatthew Slattery: The long road from Cooma to Boston Ballet
At the age of 28, Matthew Slattery is about to realise a dream; but it so nearly didn’t happen. Indeed, his journey...
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9.3KDance AdviceTo our non-dancer friends: 10 things to know about us
When it comes to the life of a dancer, there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Whether it’s our...
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7.9KFeaturedJoshua Taylor: The Adelaide boy who made it into one of the greatest musicals of all time
Last year, South Australian performing arts student Joshua Taylor decided to audition for West Side Story, just for the audition experience, and...
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4.9KDance Teacher ResourcesProfessional Arts Learning Series: NSW teachers developing tools and refreshing skills at Ausdance
Ausdance NSW exists to promote opportunities for dance in NSW. The organization runs a suite of programs from supporting professional dancers and...
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4.0KFeaturedScimm Dance Company is creating platforms for young dancers
Melbourne-based independent company Scimm Dance Company has announced auditions for its youth dance company’s 2019 season. Scott Pokorny, co-director of Scimm Dance,...
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3.9KFeaturedKristina Chan’s ‘A Faint Existence’: Making a difference
Kristina Chan has been described as “a beguiling dancer”. When I mention this at the beginning of our interview, she is intrigued...
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2.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsA reimagining of the holiday classic in ‘The Nutcracker and I’
City Recital Hall, Sydney. 19 January 2019. In The Nutcracker and I, part of the Sydney Festival, Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu reimagines Tchaikovsky’s...
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3.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDancenorth takes risks in ‘DUST’
Carriageworks, Sydney. 9 January 2019 From using Fitballs on a Northern Queensland beach (Tectonic), to exploring environmental and political issues through...
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2.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Biladurang’: Joel Bray and 19 others in a motel room
QT Sydney, Sydney. 11 January 2019. One man and a maximum of 19 others in a motel room… Biladurang, as part of...
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2.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsExplosive and exciting: ‘In the Heights’ at Sydney Festival
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 16 January 2019. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, In the Heights, once again takes to the stage in...
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10.5KDance AdviceStarting pointe this year? Here are some essentials
It’s a new school year, with so many new and exciting things to learn! Will you be starting pointe this year? When...
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8.0KDancer HealthNew Year’s movement resolutions
You are probably no stranger to the term “New Year’s resolution”. The most common are to “get healthy” or “lose weight”. I...
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4.5KFeaturedJill Wolins of Star Dance Alliance to teach at VDF
Dancing leads one to travel – certainly across stages, through studios, and across cities and towns. Can it also lead one around...
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5.0KDance Teacher ResourcesKerri Turner’s ‘The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers’
Kerri Turner is a dancer and dance teacher who, through force of circumstance has become an author. Her first book, The Last...
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5.6KFeaturedDancenorth’s ‘Dust’: Between choreography and architecture
Collaboration is a central pillar of our creative process, and Dust is a true testament to inherent power of creating space in which...
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4.0KFeaturedNew Zealand Dance News – January 2019
Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts have been awarded the Sino...
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4.4KDance Advice8 reasons why we love ballet in 2019
It’s a new year, and surely there will be some trends in the dance world – perhaps a new dance show, or...
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3.0KFeaturedIconic dance spaces around the world: Strand Beach
The next instalment of Dance Informa’s series, Iconic Dance Spaces Around the World, looks at The Strand Beach, in Townsville, Far North...
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4.9KFeaturedSharon Eyal’s L-E-V Dance Company: The heart of ambiguity
You can almost hear the cogs whirring in her head. There is a pause. Then: “I think in life, everything is emotional,”...
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3.4KFeatured‘The Nutcracker and I’: A dancer, a piano, several drawings and a newly cracked Nut
Question without notice: how would you stage Nutcracker with just one dancer? Answer: have Clara dance with a cartoon. Since it debuted in...
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4.5KDance Teacher Resources“It’s about the joy of dancing”: Caroline O’Connor talks Silver Swans
As First World populations age and our attention focuses more and more on the issues and implications of aging, it is hardly...
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5.1KFeaturedChoreographer Julio Monge on Australia’s new ‘West Side Story’ in Sydney
Opera Australia has a new version of West Side Story coming to Sydney in March. It will be staged on the open-air...
