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Queensland Ballet’s Laura Hidalgo: Vision for 2020

Queensland Ballet’s 2020 season also happens to be the company’s 60th anniversary. The program is a mixture of much-loved classical works from...

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SDC Pre Professional Year Class Of 2019 prepares to take flight

It’s been a long and exhausting rehearsal for Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s Pre Professional Year (PPY) class of 2019. They have just...

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Will arts survive the reshuffle?

On December 5th, Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister, announced that the Department of Communications and the Arts will be dissolved as part...

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For the love, or money? Can it be both?

It’s almost the end of another year, and dance studio owners just like me are putting their finishing touches on our end-of-year...

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‘Dance Moms’ is coming to Australia

Dance Moms, the American reality television series that follows the early training and careers of young dancers under the “tough love” guidance...

From 'The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance'.

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Out now: ‘The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance’

A new guide to jazz dance for the emerging practitioner came out this November, published by Crowood Press. The Essential Guide to Jazz...

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‘Chicago’ returns to Melbourne this summer

Everyone adores Chicago the musical — its legendary book and choreography by Bob Fosse, its ensemble of outrageous femme fatales, its shoe...

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The journey to ballerina

Two dancers and their mothers share their stories of gaining entry into two of the world’s most prestigious ballet schools. Indiana Scott...

RNZB in 'Hansel and Gretel'. Photo by Stephen A'Court.

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New Zealand Dance News – December 2019

Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! The New Zealand Dance Company and The Conch with Auckland Live...

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Winners of the Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards revealed

Soloist with The Australian Ballet, Jill Ogai, took centre stage last night, when she was announced the 2019 Rising Star winner of...

Chicago The Musical. Photo courtesy Travis Khan (centre)

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Fosse style comes to VDF: Travis Khan and Amy Berrisford of ‘Chicago’ added to lineup

Although it’s still a few months away, excitement is building for Energetiks Victorian Dance Festival (VDF). There have already been a few...

Photo courtesy of Royal Academy of Dance.

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RAD invites professional dancers to become teachers

In response to a growing need for second career prospects for professional dancers, the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) launched a training...

Australian Dance Collective. Photo by Justin Ridler.

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Expressions Dance Company becomes Australian Dance Collective

After 35 years as Expressions Dance Company, the Brisbane-based ensemble will now be known as Australian Dance Collective. With collaboration and artistic excellence...

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‘Gene Kelly: The Legacy’: An American in plain clothes

Patricia Kelly says it plainly, “Most spouses don’t write down most of what their wives or husbands say because it isn’t their...

Capezio partners with the National Theatre Ballet School.

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Capezio announces partnership with National Theatre Ballet School

Founded in 1887 by master craftsman Salvatore Capezio, cobbler to the Metropolitan Opera, Capezio quickly gained a reputation as the finest shoemaker...

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Kenny Wormald and Robin Antin create a space to play: The Playground LA

If you spend any time on YouTube, you will know the iconic red “PLAY” letters of Playground. The studio on Melrose, created...

Dana Gingras' 'Frontera'. Photo by Adrián Morillo.

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Dana Gingras: Dancing at the border wall

Frontiers, borders, limits…freedom. We hear these words thrown around. Weaponised, pathologised, sanctified. Yet, beneath the spectacle of polemic and the dichotomies of...