The 2025 Adelaide Festival will be held 28 February – 16 March 2025. The Festival’s opening weekend will include a mass dance celebration choreographed by one of the hottest names in Australian contemporary dance – Stephanie Lake – and any dancers and dance teachers are invited to be a part of it. Dance schools, teachers […]

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Want to create a fun musical theatre or Broadway themed performance? Here are some fun and inspiring concert and recital ideas. The Lion King: African Rhythms Bring the savanna to life with African dance, contemporary and ballet inspired by The Lion King. Animal themed costuming can add to the fun. Hamilton: A revolution Celebrate the […]

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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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Vitality is the state of being strong and active; energy, something dance educators strive to be on a daily basis for the dancers they train. But we need to remember to fill our own cups first so that we can then help to fill others’. That is what VDF’s Vitality Teacher Day is all about […]

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As the school year begins and we focus again on students and learning outcomes, there is another cohort for whom the ‘first day back’ is perhaps even more important. Teachers.  Having been a teacher/trainer myself, I can confirm that fronting a class and dealing with students, parents and the often complex landscape of compliance can be a uniquely […]

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As a studio owner or dance teacher, it’s important to stay abreast of new trends, ideas, concepts and techniques. What are the latest findings in dance physiology and safe dance practice? What new programs, syllabi, products, or services could help you with the running of your studio or the teaching of your students? How are […]

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It’s time to get back into the studio, to greet the smiling faces of our students and to get to work on the curriculum and routines for this year. If you want to start on the right foot, follow this checklist of planning activities that need to be done before you get back into the […]

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A vibrant and exciting NYC experience, two Broadway shows, one of the biggest dance teacher conferences in the world, and a ton of inspiration and learning for dance teachers. The new NYC Dance Teacher Study Tour will offer all of this and more. The event, to be held 22 – 27 July 2022, is created by teachers for teachers and led […]

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Registrations for the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Australia fourth international conference are now open. Following on from the success of Shaping Bodies, Shaping Minds in January 2020, the RAD will now explore Dance and Dance Education in an Age of Interconnectivity in January 2022.  The two-day virtual conference will connect teachers, practitioners, scholars and innovators from the fields of […]

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The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Australia has demonstrated its commitment to supporting the excellent standard of education within its Registered Teaching Membership by launching a brand new Teachers’ Scholarship Fund. The launch of the fund coincides with the start of the 2021/22 Membership year on 1 September 2021. The aim of the fund is […]

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