Most Australian dance studios offer at least one, so what is it that makes dance syllabi valuable in the studio landscape and for dancers in training? In April, Vitality Dance Teacher Conference at VDF24 sat down with some of the biggest names in international dance syllabus organisations to find out what they offer, what makes […]

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The Concourse, Chatswood, Sydney.13 August 2023. Sunday, 13th August 2023, was the final show for the tour of Burn the Floor (Walanbaa Yulu-Gi) featuring Mitch Tambo, at Chatswood Concourse Theatre. Showcasing the nation’s best ballroom dancers, the evening was fused with Indigenous Australian dance, music and cultural elements. This combined resulted in the most electric […]

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Red Bull Dance Your Style returns to Australia in 2023, celebrating and crowning the nation’s best street dance talent through a series of crowd-voted, improvised dance battles. Red Bull Dance Your Style is a mixed, all-style one-on-one battle, inviting dancers from different street disciplines to enter. Red Bull Dance Your Style has announced four state qualifying […]

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This October, at Roundhouse, will see the coming together of two popular Sydney events – the Sydney Latin Festival and Salsa Palladium – for the Sydney Salsa and Mambo Convention (SSMC). The weekend event, to be held 15 – 16 October, will include 33 hours of workshops in Salsa, Mambo, Afro-Cuban, Cha Cha, Pachanga, Son, […]

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The challenge of variety is making things fit. How, for instance, can you weave the intimacy and small details of ballroom dancing into a show otherwise packed with acrobatics, aerial spectacle and smoke and mirrors magic? This was the task facing the producers of The Unbelievables, a high impact, family-friendly stage show rolling across three […]

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The prestigious Australian DanceSport Championship will be held this year from December 8-10, at Hisense Arena, Olympic Boulevard, Melbourne. Entering its 72nd year is a milestone achievement for the “Aussies” as the event is affectionately labelled; a new era has begun for an event with an exceptional history that commenced in 1945 at Melbourne Town Hall. […]

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Like so many social dances, the origins of Le Bop (or Modern Jive) are hard to identify with any precision. Although there is consensus around the idea that American soldiers stationed in post-Liberation France popularised a variant of jitterbug and swing-based dances, the style we recognise today also owes its shape to devotees in the […]

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The prestigious Australian DanceSport Championship will be held this year on December 9-11 at Hisense Arena on Olympic Boulevard in Melbourne. Entering its 71st year is a milestone achievement for the “Aussies” as the event is affectionately labelled. A new era has begun for an event with an exceptional history, which commenced in 1945 at […]

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The shifting and symbiotic relationship of tradition and progress in dance vexes many a critic, choreographer and performer, especially where it concerns the more established folk and “national” forms. As exciting and vibrant as it is to dance or spectate, flamenco is no different, continually reinventing new pathways whilst reconnecting with its roots. Thus, when […]

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Fox Theatre, Atlanta March 2011 By Deborah Searle Burn The Floor is a ballroom blitz! The new Broadway production of Burn The Floor, currently touring the States, is adorned with glitz and glamour and gets the audience dancing in their seats. You know you’ve seen an inspiring show when the audience member beside you inquires […]

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