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Transit Dance appoints Jayden Hicks as Associate Director

Transit Dance has announced the appointment of Jayden Hicks as its Associate Director after the company witnessed unprecedented growth with the return...

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Giveaways

Win tickets to the 72nd Australian DanceSport Championship!

The prestigious Australian DanceSport Championship will be held this year from December 8-10, at Hisense Arena, Olympic Boulevard, Melbourne. Entering its 72nd year...

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Featured

Keeping jazz alive with Melbourne Dance Centre and Ignite the Dark

North of the river, between Sydney Road and Lygon Street, there lies a functional looking modern building of minimalist design. Inside, a...

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Giveaways

Win passes to see world-class tappers at Rhythm Warriors Tap Gala

The fifth annual Australian Tap Dance Festival (ATDF) stomps into Melbourne these September school holidays as a cavalcade of world-class dancers arrive...

En Pointe School of Ballet. Photo courtesy of En Pointe School of Ballet.

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Interviews

New half-day vocational ballet course in Melbourne

While there is an ever growing number of full-time dance schools in Australia that focus on jazz, musical theatre or contemporary dance,...

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Features

Vox Pop: Why Do People Dance?

You take class, you practice hard, you learn the choreography, you stretch, you rehearse, you perform, you ice your injuries, put bandages...

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Focus On This: Chunky Move’s ‘Depth of Field’

By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. 2014 Helpmann Award Best Male Dancer James Vu Anh Pham throws off the shackles and dons...

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Melbourne Dance this Winter

By Rain Francis of Dance Informa. Tempting as it may be to hibernate for the next three months, if you did, you’d...

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Features

Melbourne: Dance over Summer

By Rain Francis of Dance Informa. As always, there is plenty to do and see in the arts capital of Australia. Here...

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Features

Fine Lines meets a need for older dance classes

By Kym Woodford of Dance Informa. Some time ago while interviewing Dr. Katrina Rank, Education and Training Manager at Ausdance Victoria, we...

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Australian Dance Reviews

Fractious – Menagerie

Revolt Productions, Kensington, Victoria November 7, 2013 By Rebecca Martin of Dance Informa. Menagerie is a collective of the Victorian College of...

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Australian Dance Reviews

Sun – Hofesh Shechter

Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne October 13, 2013 By Rain Francis. In 2011 Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter brought his hugely popular Political Mother to the...

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Features

Melbourne Dance in the spring

By Rain Francis. Melburnians are eagerly awaiting the arrival of spring. Time to shed one of our many layers and get out...

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Dance News Australia

Melbourne Dance Must-Sees

By Rain Francis. Melbourne’s pretty factor goes up about 200 percent in autumn. The sun is (mostly) shining but it’s not ridiculously...

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Interviews

Following in her mother’s footsteps

Interview with Alexandra Knox and her mother Jennifer Barry Knox. By Jo McDonald. It was 1964 on a Sunday afternoon. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer...

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Australian Dance Reviews

Together as One

Bower Gallery, Ripponlea April 11, 2013 By Rebecca Martin. From Hong Kong via California comes Melbourne’s next choreographer to watch, Jonathon Homsey. ...

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Australian Dance Reviews

Now & Then – Michael Ralph

Gasworks, Melbourne March 23, 2013 By Rain Francis. New Zealand-born choreographer Michael Ralph has been working away tirelessly in the independent dance...