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6.8KJump Dance Challenge: Competition with a difference
Jump Dance Challenge started four years ago in Melbourne, when Director Cathy Carey identified an opportunity to launch a dance competition with...
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4.2KFrom the rehearsal studio: Sydney Dance Company’s ‘Season One’
Sydney Dance Company (SDC) opens its 50-year anniversary with a Season One triple bill involving current SDC Maestro Rafael Bonachela and exciting...
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3.5KThe Bolshoi Ballet brings two classics to Brisbane
Queensland has the fortune of a visit from one of the most renowned ballet companies in the world this June. Queensland Performing...
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3.0KNew Zealand Dance News – April 2019
Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! Join The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) and experience a week...
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2.6KDance as life: Geoffrey Watson awarded 2019 Tanja Liedtke Fellowship
Tanja Liedtke was to take up the artistic directorship of Sydney Dance Company in 2007, when she was tragically killed in a...
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2.6K‘Banjo’: Which side of paradise?
When a former member of Hi-5 and his dancer wife quit the city for the country, they were not only following the...
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2.8KInside Joey McKneely’s ‘West Side Story’ in Australia
2018 marked a century since the birth of artistic geniuses and collaborators Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, the creators of the iconic...
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2.5KKatrina Lazaroff: A light on The Mill
Dance, like sport, can be a short dated pursuit. Come 30, the injuries are piling up, and younger, prettier, more energetic competitors...
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2.7KAnna Griffiths and ‘Ay Pachanga’: The people’s republic of salsa
Some think it sauce, others know it as dance. Indeed, there remains some contention about where the name and the purpose of...
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2.4KFrom the rehearsal studio: Chunky Move’s ‘Common Ground’
It’s snowing and early morning in Berlin when I contact Anouk van Dijk, while in Sydney it’s evening in the midst of...
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5.3KIntroducing Joel Burke, Model Search Winner
Just before Christmas, 19-year-old Joel Burke of Queensland was named the new Energetiks Cover Model Winner. Joel was one of hundreds of entrants...
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4.5KThe hottest and most anticipated dance events of the year
Just a couple months in, 2019 has already proven to be a busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dance...
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4.0KNew Zealand Dance News – March 2019
Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) has announced its first national tour of...
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2.3KAtlanta Eke’s ‘The Tennis Piece’: In the court of public movement
What if there was a dance work that referenced both politics and sport and featured a 408-member ensemble performing Renaissance dance routines...
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5.1KA day of dance fun for your little one
Victorian Dance Festival (VDF) has been a staple on the Australian dance calendar for seven years, and in 2019, under the helm...
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5.4KBallet Brothers: Bringing male ballet dancers together
It takes enormous physical strength and stamina to be a male ballet dancer, but it also takes incredible mental and emotional strength....
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4.5KSisters star in ‘West Side Story’ on Sydney Harbour
West Side Story, the iconic musical masterpiece, is premiering at the Handa Opera stage on Sydney Harbour this autumn. It’s the first...
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3.9K‘We Move You’: Dance Massive’s sensorial workshops for everyone
Dance Massive 2019 is the third iteration of the biennial contemporary dance festival in Melbourne. It spans many venues, and is anchored...
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4.2KLife after dance: Photographer Jacqueline Clarke Mitchell
To become a dancer, you have to give it everything. So, what happens when you have to give it up, due to...
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2.3KSydney hosts the brand new March Dance festival
March 2019 sees the first of a brand new dance festival in Sydney, March Dance. Created to shine the spotlight on independent...
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3.2KQueensland Ballet presents world premiere of Liam Scarlett’s ‘Dangerous Liaisons’
Queensland Ballet’s first production for 2019 may ruffle a few feathers as the company takes on the scandalous and opulent story of Dangerous...
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2.8KShaun Parker and Company premieres ‘KING’
It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under… At first glance, the connection between the...
