Dance Australia

THE Australian Dance Awards took place in Brisbane just as this issue was heading to press. It has been my very great privilege to be a judge on these awards, one of panel of thirteen. Congratulations to this year’s winners and indeed all of those wh

THIS year’s OzAsia Festival includes an exciting line-up of contemporary dance in Adelaide, October 25 to November 11. From Korea comes Eun-Me Ahn’s Dancing Grandmothers, a celebration of the women who founded modern Korea, many of whom are now grand

LIKE many fans of The Australian Ballet (TAB), I imagine, when I think of the ballet Spartacus, I think of the famous 1990 poster image of Steven Heathcote in the title role, all leather straps and outstretched limbs. That production, by László Sereg

CAITLIN and Gabe Comerford are collaborators in every sense. Caitlin is the artistic director of Stompin, the Tasmanian youth dance company based in Launceston. Gabe is presently a dancer with Tasdance, also based in Launceston. Both are founding mem

OF the great historical opera houses of Europe, La Scala is among the greatest. Although ballet is often defined as beginning with Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), in fact it can be argued that Italy is its true birth place. Dance spectacles were bei

HOW important are your bones for dancing? Well, aside from your skeleton holding you together, any dancer who has had problems with their bones will tell you that keeping them healthy is absolutely critical. We are understanding more and more about t

MANY student actors, dancers and musical theatre artists might fantasise about being plucked directly from graduation and cast in a lead role in a major musical, but that dream rarely becomes a reality. Musical theatre graduate Shubshri Kandiah, howe

EAR Parent, If your child is telling you that they’re feeling neglected in class and would like more attention and corrections, then you certainly need to discuss this with the teacher. Ideally, all students are given equal amounts of the teacher’s a

ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE AUGUST A monument to poetry and beauty. GISELLE. Not for nothing is it known in Russia as the “holy ballet”. Audiences and dancers are repeatedly drawn back to its transcendent poeticism, its endless nuances of characterisa

QLD Running twice a year, Expressions Dance Company’s Brisbane Contemporary Dance Intensive (BCDI) is one of the country’s most highly regarded dance training programs. Enter now to win a placement in the popular summer program, weekdays from January

WHILE some ballet schools offer programs designed specifically for boys, not all studios have the resources or numbers to offer specialised boys’ classes. Although attitudes towards boys and ballet have changed markedly in recent years, it is still c

OSHUA Green has had a stellar year. Exactly two weeks prior to the Sydney Eisteddfod Ballet Scholarship Finals he was awarded a Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dance’s Genée International Ballet Competition. Then on Sunday 26 August, the 17 year o

A FABULOUS opportunity is available to young Australian dance students early in 2019. On January 13, Carlos Valcárcel, director of dance at the English National Ballet School (ENBS), will be holding auditions in Brisbane for the ENBS Summer School as

FRESH from starring in The Boy From Oz in Melbourne, international star of the stage and screen Caroline O’Connor has been named as the RAD’s Ambassador for its new Silver Swans program. The Silver Swans program features branded ballet classes create

Where were you born? Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Family? My mother’s grandparents were Syrian refugees who settled in Nova Scotia, Canada. They all loved to sing and dance. My grandmother and all my aunts and uncles were beautiful ballroom dancers. T