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Sydney Dance Company’s PPY: Ode to the philosophy of the tendu

Since 2014, Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s Pre-Professional Year (PPY) continues SDC’s commitment to training young dancers, continuing the strategy that Rafael Bonachela...

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New Zealand Dance News – April 2018

Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) has announced that its Autumn...

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Joffrey Ballet School’s Era Jouravlev awards opportunities for young dancers

Era Jouravlev has dedicated her life to ballet – to preserving the art form and passing it on to the next generation...

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Preparing the next generation: Meet Sydney College of Dance’s Xanthe Geeves and Leslie Abraham

A career as a professional dancer is notoriously fraught. You hear stories of very short careers, often due to burnout, injury or...

'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', original Broadway cast. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ comes Down Under

The colourful new musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will make its way down under, to Sydney’s Capitol Theatre in January 2019....

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Lachlan Monaghan: From The McDonald College to the world stage

As a teenager growing up in the ’80s, I was hugely inspired by the TV version of Fame, a fictional show about...

Naima Amar Lopez in Opera Australia's 'Don Quichotte'. Photo by Prudence Upton.

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Naima Amar Lopez: Spanish steps from the street to the Opera House stage

The list of famous people who started out as street performers includes such luminaries as BB King, Tracy Chapman and Rod Stewart....

Valerie Tereshchenko. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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The Australian Ballet’s Valerie Tereshchenko: Telstra Dancer of the Year

Congratulations to Australian Ballet Senior Artist Valerie Tereshchenko, 2017 Telstra Dancer of the Year. The talented dancer was one of six nominees...

Fiona Hulands instructing students. Photo courtesy of Hulands

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RAD Australia offers Teaching Certificate for Professional Dancers

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Australia is preparing to bring an exciting programme for professional dancers to the Southern Hemisphere for...

BEYOND DANCE. Photo by Jodie Harlow Photography.

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BEYOND DANCE: Creativity for a Cause

Earlier this year, on January 27, dancers descended onto Philip Island to take part in BEYOND DANCE – proudly supporting beyondblue. Different...

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Is ‘exposure’ killing our industry?

It’s all too common these days within the arts industry. There’s no avoiding it, and it doesn’t matter how qualified or experienced...

Kristina Chan's 'A Faint Existence'. Photo by Ashley de Przer.

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Kristina Chan’s ‘A Faint Existence’: Environmental movement

Yes, environment. No, not merely the reductionist narrative or narrow polemic of political theatre but the broader existential relationship we are all...

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Kyle Page of Dancenorth: Winning at Juggling

The winners of the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were announced late February, and Dancenorth has won the Group Award, worth...

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New Zealand Dance News – March 2018

Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! The highly-anticipated production OrphEus – a dance opera by Michael Parmenter with The New...

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Iconic dance spaces around the world: Les Brigittines

The next installment of Dance Informa’s series, Iconic Dance Spaces Around the World, looks at Les Brigittines in Brussels, Belgium. The image of Brussels is...

Rosslyn Wythes Choreographic Lab, dancers left to right Kate MacDonald, Ashlee Barton, Annabel Saies, Emma Harrison, Courtney Scheu and Ivey Wawn. Photo by Pia Moore.

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DirtyFeet celebrates 10 years of impacting dance in Sydney

You would be hard pressed to find an independent contemporary dancer in Sydney who hasn’t had a brush with DirtyFeet. What was...

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Dance Teacher Web LIVE partners with Royal Academy of Dance

Dance Teacher Web LIVE and the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) recently announced an official partnership through which RAD teachers may earn...

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Big Dance 2018: Dance is for everyone; let’s get moving

Big Dance is the largest dance celebration in the world, and it’s hitting Australia on International Dance Day (29 April), when thousands...

Shannon Holtzapffel. Photo courtesy of Holtzapffel.

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Shannon Holtzapffel talks The Greatest Showman

In the feature film The Greatest Showman, Shannon Holtzapffel plays Captain Constentenous, The Tattooed Man. Holtzapffel is a Dutch-born, Australian trained dancer who...