Chunky Move’s award-winning dance work 4/4 will return to Naarm/Melbourne this November, for three highly-anticipated performances presented by University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC) at the Union Theatre. This limited run gives hometown audiences a final chance to experience the enthralling work before Chunky Move premieres 4/4 in the UK and Europe, kicking off the six city tour […]

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Ian McDougall, Chair of leading Australian dance company Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI), has announced that Chloe Munro AO, the former LGI Chair who passed away in June 2021, has made a bequest of two million dollars – the largest ever for Australian contemporary dance – to the company, with specific obligations to its usage. LGI […]

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From 4-10 July, the 2021 Australian Youth Dance Festival (AYDF) will bring together over 130 young dance artists and 40 professional dance artists and educators at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in the heart of Melbourne’s vibrant Arts precinct.  Internationally acclaimed, Australian choreographers Caitlin Comerford and Kyall Shanks will be co-artistic directors for […]

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Transit Dance has recently held auditions for its new high school alternative for talented dancers, Transit Origins Academy. This program was developed for young people wanting intense dance training during their younger years. “We had a lot of 15- to 16-year-olds wanting to do more focused dancing training who were not mentally or emotionally ready,” explains […]

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Yellow Wheel, established in Melbourne, in 2012, is an Australian pre-professional contemporary dance company specialising in working with young people and emerging artists. The company offers a range of programs that connect pre-professional dancers with successful dancers working in the field, provides rigourous contemporary dance training, and presents fresh new works that feature the next […]

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A warm Saturday morning in February. A rehearsal room deep in the catacombs of the Melbourne Arts Centre. A group of boys gather. Nervous, not really talking to one another. A new adventure is slowly taking shape. In less than a month, some of them may find themselves on the State Theatre stage, where their journey […]

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