Dance Informa Magazine
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4.3KJill 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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4.8KKerri 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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5.5KDancenorth’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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3.8KNew 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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4.2K8 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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2.8KIconic 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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4.7KSharon 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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3.3K‘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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4.4K“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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4.9KChoreographer 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...
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4.3K‘Un Poyo Rojo’ at Adelaide Festival: Look what’s in the locker
There’s no need to be shy, even though the correct terminology, direct from one of the horses, is cock. A red cock,...
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3.0KThe SDC Pre-Professional Year dancers take a bow
After following Eugenie, Austin and Charlotte across their 2018 Pre-Professional Year (PPY) program, it was with much excitement that I took my...
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3.3KSydney Dance Company’s PPY Part 3: Coming to a close
Walking into the beautiful new Sydney Dance Company (SDC) studios in Ultimo is a shock to the system after our previous three...
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2.9K5 reasons why ‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’ is fresh – and you should see it!
The Nutcracker. It makes most think of snow falling as ballerinas scurry across the stage, Polichinelles running out from under Mother Ginger’s...
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3.9KNGA highlights the significant work of Merce Cunningham
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA)’s American Masters exhibition was shown at the gallery, running 24 August – 11 November 2018. Highlighted...
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4.4KYour Christmas Wish: Win Nutcracker Tree Ornaments from Capezio
It’s the magical season of Sugar Plums and Mistletoe, and Capezio have launched a series of gorgeous Nutcracker inspired Christmas Tree Ornaments...
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4.0KNew Zealand Dance News – December 2018
Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) is thrilled to present Time, a...
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6.4KWin a scholarship to Boys DANCE Summer School
Dance Informa is thrilled to announce the return of the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Australia Scholarship Contest for the Boys DANCE...
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3.9KSydney City Youth Ballet: Paving the way for the next generation
“Ballet is unique: It has no written texts or standardised notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student.”...
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3.0KWXYZ Studios: A new hub for movement, dance and choreography in north Melbourne
On 1 November, Lucy Guerin Inc moved into its new home, WXYZ Studios, in north Melbourne. It’s not just a new home...
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4.1KIt’s not too late to audition for Transit Origins Academy, new high school alternative
Transit Dance has recently held auditions for its new high school alternative for talented dancers, Transit Origins Academy. This program was developed for...
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4.4KHofesh Shechter’s ‘Grand Finale’: This might be the start of something else
“I stole it from the world of classical ballet,” declares Israeli-born, London-based, Tony-nominated choreographer Hofesh Shechter of his widely acclaimed 2017 work, Grand...
