Dance Informa Magazine
All posts tagged "Interviews"
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6.0KFeaturedMia Michaels on her Australian workshops
Renowned choreographer, mentor and master teacher, Mia Michaels, recently made her first trip to Australia in February. Michaels has choreographed for Broadway’s...
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7.2KFeaturedSpotlight on Natalie Weir’s Expressions Dance Company
Expressions Dance Company (EDC) has a busy 2017 season: a new signature work, Behind Closed Doors, choreographed by EDC Artistic Director Natalie Weir,...
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5.0KFeaturedNicola Gunn at Dance Massive: The verbal equivalent of dance
It begins with a man, a woman and a duck. With stones being thrown. “I was just yelling abuse at a complete...
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5.2KFeaturedAmanda Collins: From Australia to AMDA
Dance Informa got the chance to catch up with the lovely, talented Amanda Collins, who, in 2014, bravely made her way from...
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7.1KFeatured‘Dance challenges me’ – Kathryn McCormick returns to VDF
So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) and Step Up Revolution star Kathryn McCormick is returning to Victorian Dance Festival (VDF) this March, sponsored...
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4.5KFeaturedQueensland Ballet’s Alexander Idaszak promoted to demi-soloist
Just before Christmas 2016 and on the final performance of Queensland Ballet’s seasonal run of The Nutcracker, company dancer Alexander Idaszak was...
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5.4KInterviewsLucinda Dunn to teach at 2017 Victorian Dance Festival
Ballet dancers around Victoria are in for a very special treat this March. Australia’s longest-serving ballerina, Lucinda Dunn, will be holding a...
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6.5KFeaturedJason Gilkison: (Not so) Strictly Ballroom
Jason Gilkison thinks of Burn The Floor like this: “It’s like finding a beautiful piece of your grandparent’s jewellery, taking out the...
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4.6KFeaturedThe quiet room: Lilian Steiner’s ‘Noise Quartet Meditation’
There is a space, right in the heart of scrawling chaos, which is quiet and calm. And in the wall of noise,...
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5.7KFeatured‘Champions’: A female football festival frenzy
It was the late Dutch maestro Johan Cruyff who once said that “dancers are the cleverest with their feet [and] next are...
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7.9KInterviewsSteven McRae is announced as 2016 Genée Ambassador
For the first time in 14 years, the Royal Academy of Dance’s Genée International Ballet Competition returns to Australia this week. Ambassador for...
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5.7KFeaturedMatthew Day: Stepping into unsettled space
Every one of us has a way of doing things, a kind of routine for living. This “comfort zone” is where we...
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5.3KFeaturedQueen of the Night: Paulini to play the lead in ‘The Bodyguard’
Paulini Curuenavuli, better known to Australian fans as simply Paulini, has been chosen from an extensive audition process to play the lead...
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4.7KFeaturedShake the disease: Ashley Dyer’s ‘Tremor’
We are used to the idea that a dance work may take years to move from ideation to fruition, but it’s not...
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5.2KInterviewsDancing is for everyone, even ‘Dads’
Is there anything more daggy than dads dancing? It’s a cringe we’ve all seen and felt, maybe even been guilty of, but...
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6.4KInterviewsKevin Jackson: The Australian Ballet’s ‘Nijinsky’
Fifteen years after seeing the premiere of Nijinsky in Hamburg, The Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David McAllister has brought John Neumeier’s epic production...
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7.0KInterviewsCatching up with Disney’s ‘The Next Step’
Any fans of the Disney Channel will be familiar with the hit series, The Next Step. The Canadian teen drama follows a...
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6.1KInterviewsTess de Quincey and Peter Fraser’s ‘MetaData’
Cosmology and mathematics might not seem like the obvious step-off point for a double bill, but for veteran choreographers, inter-disciplinarians and Body...
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60.7KInterviewsChoreographer Sarah Boulter talks ‘Dance Academy’ the movie
It’s not due to be released until 2017, but Dance Academy: The Movie already has us excited. Currently shooting in Sydney before...
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18.1KInterviewsNicholas Afoa: Simba in London’s ‘The Lion King’
Have you ever turned down an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity only to regret it? The Lion King’s Nicholas Afoa knows exactly how you feel....
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21.3KInterviewsBallet dancer Damian Smith returns home to talk life and goals
He’s one of the country’s most accomplished male ballet dancers, although many Australian audience members may have never heard of him. That’s...
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10.4KInterviewsGiles Taylor talks ‘Queen–It’s A Kinda Magic’
You’d be hard pressed to find a person in the world who doesn’t know a Queen song. The band’s frontman, the late...
