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Australian Performing Arts Grammar School. Photo by George Popov.

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Australian Performing Arts Grammar School: Empowering creativity with a performing arts rich education

Can you imagine what it would be like to go to a school where you get to spend a good chunk of...

Leanne Stojmenov. Photo by Kate Longley.

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Juggling a dance career with children: Leanne Stojmenov, The Australian Ballet

Dance Informa continues its series, Juggling a Dance Career with Children, with Leanne Stojmenov, who shows that it’s possible to dance at an...

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Sydney Dance Company’s PPY Part 2: We have contact and…lift-off

Still beaming and full of enthusiasm, our three Sydney Dance Company (SDC) Pre-Professional Year (PPY) dancers, Austin, Charlotte and Eugenie, are now...

Silhouette Dance and Cheer at Disneyworld Orlando. Photo courtesy of TP World Tours.

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Can you take your students on an overseas dance tour?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the world to train and perform with your dance family? With...

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A vision, a dream and a strong mind to work: Kelly Aykers Full Time Dance

Kelly Aykers has had a long career as a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has danced for multiple mainstage productions with David...

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Can I have a word with you? Neale Whittaker’s first full-length contemporary work

Although it sometimes seems as though we are in an age of hyper-polarised opinion, in which a click speed culture is driving...

Brianna Taylor. Photo by Mark Fitzgerald.

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Aussie tap dancer Brianna Taylor’s international success

Aussie tap dancer on the rise, Brianna Taylor, is living her dream as the first Australian to join Los Angeles-based Rhythmatic Tap...

Stephanie Lake's 'Colossus'. Photo by Pippa Samaya.

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Stephanie Lake’s ‘Colossus’: Stage set for big impact

Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With...

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Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk steps down

After seven years at the helm of Chunky Move, Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk has announced her decision to step down. Chunky...

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Natalie Weir to hand over the reins of Expressions Dance Company

Expressions Dance Company (EDC) Artistic Director Natalie Weir has decided to step down from the role after a successful decade leading the...

SDC PPY 2015 students. Photo by Gez Xavier Mansfield.

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The McDonald College joins with Sydney Dance Company for senior contemporary program

In what must surely be a first in this country, one of the nation’s premier contemporary dance companies has teamed up with...

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Should you do a Dance Teaching and Management course?

So you think you can teach dance? Well, maybe you can; but can you teach it well, and can you make it...

Cast of 'Aspects of Love'. Photo by Chris Parker.

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Cast announced for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Aspects of Love’

After much anticipation, Walk This Way Productions, in association with Hayes Theatre Co, have announced the impressive cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects...

Grace Humphris. Photo by WinkiPoP Media.

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Eight finalists announced for the Sydney Eisteddfod Ballet Scholarship

Eight promising ballet students have been selected to compete in the final round of the Sydney Eisteddfod Ballet Scholarship on Sunday 26...

Juliette Barton in '2 One Another'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Juggling a dance career with children: Juliette Barton, Sydney Dance Company

A professional performing career in dance is relatively short-lived, compared to other jobs, and many dancers want to reach a certain level...

Rhiannon Newton in 'We Make Each Other Up'. Photo by Phebe Schmidt.

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Rhiannon Newton’s plant-based work to premiere at Dancehouse

In the midst of a clickspeed culture, where high paced busyness and visible attainment is the acme of credibility and cool, what...

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So dance doesn’t dance anymore?

There is a blackboard wall in a foyer at a specialist dance venue just north of the river in Melbourne, Australia, where...

Lucy Guerin Inc. in 'Split'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti.

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Catching up with Lucy Guerin on ‘Split’

Lucy Guerin’s work has been described as “poignant” and “provocative”, “contemporary dance that reaches back to the roots of ancient theatre”. Dance Informa...

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Attention dancers: Please do this now!

Dance Informa asked 10 of the world’s most active dance medicine and science experts to name one thing they really, really wish...

New Zealand School of Dance contemporary dance student Chris Clegg. Photo by Stephen A’Court.

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New Zealand Dance News – August 2018

Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! Auckland’s Atamira Dance Company, which creates and presents Maori contemporary dance...

Deborah Cheetham with Matthew Lehmann and Catherine Young in Gary Lang's 'Milnjiya, Milky Way - River of Stars'. Photo by Scott Dennis.

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West Australian Ballet’s new collaboration is so on pointe

“Where I am coming from, we are not really making such a difference between classically trained dancers and contemporary dancers,” declares Aurélien...