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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Natalie Weir is perhaps one of Australia’s most lauded choreographers. In demand with companies both domestically and internationally, this Queenslander has created works of great intricacy and complexity that entrance the audience and enrich the artistry of the dancers she works with.   Weir has remained consistent throughout a 30-year career which, unlike other choreographers, did not naturally follow on from a […]

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Be captivated by a trio of extraordinary works hand-picked by Artistic Director Li Cunxin AO for his celebratory season of Li’s Choice.  With works by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Natalie Weir and Greg Horsman, Li’s Choice combines dramatic contemporary, neo-classical and ragtime ballet for an exhilarating triple-bill. Coinciding with Cunxin’s 10-year anniversary with the company, Li’s Choice reflects on his decade […]

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After a decade of directorship with Queensland Ballet (QB), Artistic Director Li Cunxin AO has signed on for another three years, with big dreams to take the Queensland born-and-bred Company to even greater heights. The announcement was made at QB’s 2022 Season Launch, with the company unveiling a year of celebration, change and bold ambition, reflecting the […]

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In 2022, Australia’s oldest professional ballet company, West Australian Ballet, will celebrate its 70th anniversary with an ambitious program featuring a number of ground-breaking new works in a defining year for the Company. The Company’s story began in 1952, as former Ballets Russes dancer Madame Kira Bousloff OAM settled in a town that she compared to […]

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Blessed with a natural open air amphitheatre just 13km from the Perth CBD, West Australian Ballet (WAB) was eager to exit the COVID restrictions and return to its working normal state of dance training, creating, rehearsing and performing in 2021.  Dance Informa​ caught up with Aurélien Scannella, WAB’s artistic director, to discuss the company’s 2021 season […]

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Perth’s own world-class ballet company, West Australian Ballet, returns in 2021 with its highly anticipated summer triple-bill, As One: Ballet at the Quarry, running 5 – 27 February. The currently sold-out season (sold to the State Government’s mandate of 60 percent of venue capacity) has long been a much-loved staple of Perth Festival, and in 2021 […]

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While many arts companies in Australia and around the world are yet to return to the stage, West Australian Ballet will continue to create its own path with beautiful classics, powerful contemporary works and showcasing homegrown talent as hallmarks of the Company’s Season 2021.  In his ninth year at the helm, Artistic Director Aurélien Scannella […]

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After 35 years as Expressions Dance Company, the Brisbane-based ensemble will now be known as Australian Dance Collective.  With collaboration and artistic excellence at its heart, Australian Dance Collective Chair Marian Gibney said the name change was part of the evolution of the company, aligning its history and vision. “The board is incredibly proud of what […]

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Riverside Parramatta, Sydney. 15 June 2019. Greed. Power. Love, loyalty, desire and guilt. Expressions Dance Company (EDC)’s The Dinner Party is a reworked and expanded version of a work by Natalie Weir originally entitled The Host and is set at an elegant dinner party. We meet the six characters and see how the host seeks to manipulate […]

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