This year’s Vitality Dance Teacher Conference from Energetiks VDF is really homing in on the important subjects for dance educators and studio owners. We take a dive into their schedule for the event this coming Friday 12 April in Melbourne to find out what’s on offer to educate, illuminate and inspire… How do I make […]

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The 2023 Victorian State Schools Spectacular (VSSS) returns for its annual extravaganza for two shows on Saturday 9 September at 1pm and 6:30pm at John Cain Arena. Tickets to this year’s VSSS are on sale now at www.ticketek.com.au/spectacular. Over 2,000 Victorian students have begun an extraordinary eight-month creative journey, which will culminate in the state’s budding creative talent taking to the stage as […]

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Last month, Can You Dance? (CYD?) announced the UK’s biggest virtual convention, the CYD? Super Convention LIVE. (If you missed it, you can catch up here). Streamed live from London across the 22nd and 23rd of August, the CYD? team has come up with what is set to be the online dance event of the summer. Passholders will […]

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Origins Dance Company by Transit Dance is keeping the artistic spirit alive by embracing the current social distancing restrictions and turning what would have been its live performance season into a virtual theatre experience for all to enjoy.  Choreographers Jayden Hicks, Damian Meredith and Paul Malek will work with a cast of 60 young artists […]

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Every dancer knows that dance friends are some of the best in the world. From shared studio time, long rehearsals, and joys and sorrows onstage and off, dance friends experience it all by your side. But what is it like when your brother or sister is also part of the mix? We were curious to […]

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“A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps … to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it […]

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Two Aussies sit having coffee in the elegant Observation Deck on board the new Norwegian Bliss cruise liner. They’re on its inaugural journey from Miami, and to quote the Titanic movie, you can still smell the fresh paint! Those two Australians are Dance Informa Editor Deborah Searle and theatre sensation Romy Vuksan, star of Norwegian’s […]

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The Irreplaceables – Kendall, Chloe and Kalani, as seen on the hit show Dance Moms – are coming to Oz, and the girls (and their mums) are super excited about it. Running 13 – 17 April, and hitting cities Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Auckland, the 75-minute event will feature a tell-all Q&A, a pop-up […]

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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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State Theatre, Sydney. 8 July 2017. Landing in time for the Sydney school holiday season is Bonnie Lythgoe’s latest pantomime production, The Adventures of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell in Return to PantoLand. Staged in Sydney’s beautiful historic State Theatre, it’s a wonderful opportunity for kids to experience a theatrical live show, especially one where […]

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