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 Australian Ballet and Telstra are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards. Soloist Rina Nemoto took centre stage last night as she was named winner of the Telstra Rising Star Award in recognition of her exceptional talent, outstanding achievements and bright future predicted in the artform. Corps de Ballet Dancer Lilly Maskery took […]

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As a result of COVID-19, Wakakirri 2020, Australia’s largest performing arts festival for schools, was forced to pivot away from its regular live performance experience to an entirely online festival. Despite the challenges that schools faced this year, Wakakirri was thrilled with the response and by the quality of their Story-Dances.  Wakakirri ran two challenges, Story-Dance […]

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The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has collaborated with Emma Watkins, best known as Emma the yellow Wiggle from iconic children’s entertainment group The Wiggles, to produce a short film aimed at young children from pre-school age and above. The film, which features Watkins returning to dance class to see her friends (as well as […]

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International ballet and dancewear brand Capezio has joined The Wiggles in a new national partnership. Ballet, dance and movement are central themes in all Wiggles shows and feature heavily across their vast portfolio of DVDs, video and streaming content. So it made complete sense that their newest partnership should come from that world. For over […]

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The dream of becoming a performer is not uncommon. After all, we live in a celebrity obsessed culture. At some point, almost all of us fantasise about stardom. It is often said, however, that the thing that makes real performers stand out from mere dreamers can be detected at an early age.  Whatever you call […]

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