This month, Queensland Ballet launched The Ballet Boys Project, a series of initiatives designed to explore and address the decline of boys in ballet and dance. Since 2020, Queensland Ballet Academy has seen a 36 percent decline in male enrolments, a downward trend that Christian Tàtchev, Director of Queensland Ballet Academy, observes is evident across the professional […]

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The Royal Ballet School, a world leader in ballet education, has devised the Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme (ATAP) for private and recreational dance training. The programme serves as an alternative to other training models based on learning a syllabus for examination, and it provides young dance students a high quality, student-centred learning experience. “The […]

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The Director of The Australian Ballet School, Lisa Pavane, has announced that she is stepping down after almost a decade in the role. Pavane is the fourth Director of The Australian Ballet School, contributing to the legacy of founding director Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE, Gailene Stock CBE AM and Marilyn Rowe AM OBE. Pavane […]

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The globally renowned Tanya Pearson Academy (TPA) based in Sydney, has recently announced the appointment of Lisa-Maree Cullum as artistic director of the Academy who will be taking the helm in 2024. A former student of TPA herself, Cullum brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise from her professional career with the English National Ballet, […]

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Kathleen Curwen-Walker is passionate about engaging adults in ballet. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Curwen-Walker has developed a distinctive training program for adults returning to ballet or for those new to ballet. “We believe that ballet is for everyone, regardless of age or ability,” she says, “and we are committed to providing a safe, supportive […]

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It is sometimes said that dance, like other artforms, is unforgiving. As a dancer, one is never complete; and for a young hopeful, dance is a notoriously hard task master.  This is where the classic ‘summer intensive’ comes in. Here, in Australia, this usually means a hot week in January, and a sure-fire way to […]

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International Ballet Workshops (IBW) is pleased to be bringing three of Australia’s ballet greats to students across the country this winter. Teaching duo Mary Renouf and Adrian Fryer, who have both danced with The Australian Ballet as well as various companies across Europe, will return to the IBW faculty, delivering workshops to students in Sydney, […]

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