After a significant career as a principal dancer with The Australian Ballet and Dutch National Ballet, presenting in other mediums such as sculpture, painting and jewellery, Australian Remi Wörtmeyer has commenced as Artistic Director at BalletMet in Columbus, Ohio. “It’s been a whirlwind, mainly it’s been about meeting the heads of department, and also the arts […]

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Darling Harbour Theatre, ICC, Sydney.29 October 2022. In February, the war in Ukraine broke out, and the instability in the country has meant that much of normal life has been on hold, hopefully temporarily. On the heels of a worldwide pandemic, the live performance arts have already taken a significant blow. In a speech given […]

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Global dance education organisation the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) celebrated 50 years of its annual Awards programme in Adelaide on Sunday 24 July. The event, which sees students from across South Australia compete for a range of prestigious trophies, has been a platform for numerous professional dancers and choreographers over the years.  Bringing together […]

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In 2022, Australia’s oldest professional ballet company, West Australian Ballet, will celebrate its 70th anniversary with an ambitious program featuring a number of ground-breaking new works in a defining year for the Company. The Company’s story began in 1952, as former Ballets Russes dancer Madame Kira Bousloff OAM settled in a town that she compared to […]

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2020 promises to be another busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dancelovers and creatives. In the mix includes the reliable staging of the classics, the international tour of the world famous Paris Opera Ballet, Queensland Ballet’s 60th Anniversary and Graeme Murphy’s return to stage his neoclassical ballet ​The Happy Prince​. Keeping Australian dance […]

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For a young, aspiring ballet dancer, there is nothing quite like the opportunity to work in a professional context, to be part of a full-length ballet, and to perform in the crème de la crème of theatres in your home city. This is an experience that Michael and Emma Riggs from the Australian Classical Youth Ballet […]

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Dance teachers give, give, give. They share their knowledge, passion and joy, which become not only necessary as we grow technically as dancers but also become contagious, as dance becomes such a huge part of our life throughout our training and perhaps into our professional career. And for that, we are forever grateful for those […]

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Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! Royal New Zealand Ballet (RNZB) dancer Madeleine Graham and UK-based New Zealand choreographer Corey Baker will be the first dancer and choreographer in history to travel to Antarctica to create a new work. The project is supported by Antarctica New Zealand, The New Zealand High Commission in London […]

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Just before Christmas 2016 and on the final performance of Queensland Ballet’s seasonal run of The Nutcracker, company dancer Alexander Idaszak was promoted to the rank of demi-soloist. A graduate of the Australian Ballet School, Idaszak joined Queensland Ballet in 2013, spent a year with the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2014 and returned to […]

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The 2016 Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) concluded this past week at the celebrated competition’s finals held in New York City. Young dancers, ages 12-19, and from around the world, gathered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the culminating three-day event, including the YAGP Final Round and the annual “The Stars of Today Meet […]

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