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Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

WAAPA dancers rise to the challenge

In Rise, the talented student dancers of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) reach new artistic heights in neo-classical and...

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Dance Advice

Can we work together to maximise the performance of both dancers and athletes?

Improving performance fitness and stamina, preventing injury and decreasing recovery time is something professional athletes and dancers have in common. Co3, a...

KAGE's 'Out of Earshot'. Photo by Jeff Busby.

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KAGE’s ‘Out of Earshot’: Speak without speaking

To dance in silence is one thing, to live in it another. While most of us reflexively recoil at the notion of...

'Beautiful The Carole King Musical', with Chilina Kennedy as Carole King in the Broadway cast. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Cast announced for Australian production of ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’

The full cast has been announced for the Australian production of Broadway hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which opens at a...

Sharon Saunders with her 2016 Ballet Kids class. Photo by Andy Banks Photography.

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Dance Teacher Resources

Sharon Saunders Dancers celebrates 25 years

Sharon Saunders started her school in the small town of Marong, on the edge of Bendigo, after she had her first child....

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Featured

A few minutes with ‘Dance Academy’ star Xenia Goodwin

Xenia Goodwin was just 15 when she won the part of Tara Webster in ABC’s Dance Academy. And now, at 22, she’s...

Serena Graham and Joseph Romancewicz in Graeme Murphy AO's 'Almost'. Photo by Sergey Konstantinov.

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Australian Ballet School heads to Assemblée Internationale 2017

Every four years, Canada’s National Ballet School hosts the Assemblée Internationale (AI), an international dance festival for some of the world’s most...

Kip Gamblin in 'The Bodyguard'. Photo by Peter Brew Bevan.

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Kip Gamblin as ‘The Bodyguard’: Using his dance training on screen and on stage

The Bodyguard is the next big musical to tour Australia, and returning to the stage from some time on screen is trained dancer...

Bianca Bulle. Photo by Kenneth B. Edwards.

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Interviews

Aussie Bianca Bulle: LA Ballet Star

Bianca Bulle is an Aussie born and raised. She trained at the Ransley Ballet and Dance Centre on the Gold Coast before...

Charlie Slater. Photo by Winkipop Media.

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From Alstonville to McDonald College: Charlie Slater

So what do you do if you’re a seven- or eight-year-old boy and both your mum and your sister appear to be...

Anthony Lo Cascio and #Taplife Company. Photo courtesy of Lo Cascio.

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#Taplife: Keeping tap relevant through social media

“Tap dance is still relevant if you use it to discuss relevant things” says Anthony Lo Cascio, former Tap Dog and current...

Dancers participating in a Le Bop class. Photo by Pippa Samaya..

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Deb Cantoni and Ariel Bud’s Le Bop: A space to jive

Like so many social dances, the origins of Le Bop (or Modern Jive) are hard to identify with any precision. Although there...

Thomas Lacey. Photo courtesy of 'Dance Academy'.

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Interviews

Thomas Lacey talks ‘Dance Academy’

Dance Academy has made it from the TV to the big screen, but viewers still can’t get enough of the series’ beloved characters. Here,...

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Giveaways

Want to see Paris Opera Ballet in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’?

Australians are invited to enter William Shakespeare’s poetic world of elves and fairies as envisioned by choreographer George Balanchine with A Midsummer...