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International Ballet Workshops. Photo courtesy of IBW.

New Zealand Dance News – February 2018

Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! OrphEus – a dance opera by Michael Parmenter with The New...

Victorian Dance Festival 2017. Photo by Belinda Strodder.

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Dancer Health

Nutrition for your Dance Festival Weekend

VDF, proudly sponsored by Dance Informa , is fast approaching! I’m sure you’ve picked out your outfits, but have you chosen your...

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Dance Teacher Resources

Misty Lown in Australia to teach at VDF this month

The Energetiks Victorian Dance Festival (VDF) continues to roll out exciting instructor announcements. One of the latest is American entrepreneur Misty Lown, who will be a...

Ethan Louis and Ashley Lean in Victorian State Ballet's 'Le Corsaire'. Photo by VSB.

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Victorian State Ballet to premiere ‘Le Corsaire’

Never before staged by an Australian ballet company, Le Corsaire (“The Pirate’s Story”) will make its full-length Sydney debut by the Victorian...

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Dance Advice

Why am I not as flexible as my friend?

Sometimes you may find yourself wondering why you’re not as flexible as your friends, or why you’re flexible in different ways. Everybody...

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Dance Advice

Making the choice to the ‘pointe’: The right age to go en pointe

Every little ballerina dreams about it, and every adult ballerina remembers it: that first time en pointe. On the less magical side...

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Meet rising star Audrey Freeman

Have you seen young dancer Audrey Freeman? No, but really. Have you seen her?? If not, check her out now. With legs...

New York Dance Project. Photo courtesy of NYDP.

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New York Dance Project bridges the gap between student and professional

There are certainly places to be a student, and there are venues in which to be a professional, but what about that...

Adam Rennie in 'The Rocky Horror Show'. Photo by Rob Maccoll.

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Adam Rennie steps in to ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ and wows the crowd

Suppose it’s a Monday afternoon and you are on a winery tour in Adelaide. You get a phone call. The star of...

Fabian Mack. Photo by Adrian Chong, Excessive Productions.

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Australian dancer Fabian Mack: Dreaming Bigger

From the moment Australian dancer Fabian Mack first realised the movie Moulin Rouge was a world famous production in Paris, she dreamed...

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Omer Backley-Astrachan: In the liminal space between us

Civilisation has bestowed many things on humanity, not the least of which is a way of living and being together that would...

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Federal government cuts financial assistance for diploma level dance students

A week ago, Dance Informa got an email from a distressed parent, after her daughter had to pull out of her WAAPA dance...

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Australian Dance Reviews

At Sydney Festival, ‘Cella’ looks at wonder of the human body

Carriageworks, Sydney. 18 January 2018. Eloquently, elegantly and passionately performed, Cella is haunting, powerful and hypnotic. The work, intricate and fluid, is...

Hip hop crew Superhoodz. Photo courtesy of Superhoodz.

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Hip hop crew Superhoodz is keeping it real

You may know Superhoodz as contestants on Australia’s Got Talent in 2012, when the hip hop dance crew made it to semi-finals,...

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Australian Dance Reviews

Dan Daw Creative Projects’ thought-provoking ‘BEAST’ premieres at Sydney Festival

Carriageworks, Sydney. 17 January 2018. Making its Australian premiere as part of Sydney Festival’s About an Hour series, BEAST by Dan Daw...

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Giveaways

Win tickets to Michael Clark Company performance at Sydney Opera House!

The Sydney Opera House will soon host the Australian premiere of iconoclastic British choreographer Michael Clark’s celebrated production to a simple, rock ‘n’...