Dance News

Grace Dance Company presents Melbourne Fringe Festival’s online event, Sincerely Survivor, exploring what often goes unsaid and unfelt here in Australia this November 2020 over various launch dates local and international. Inspired by submissions to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, we seek to amplify the voices of people who have lived mental health experience; creating art to enable our empathy. 

Producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones today announced the four young boys who will share the role of Theo in the high-flying, death-defying hit Broadway musical PIPPIN which opens at the Sydney Lyric at The Star for an exclusive season from 24 November 2020.

The Royal Academy of Dance hosts its only complete student competition in 2020 in  Western Australia. Young dancers returned to the stage to perform for industry professionals in career  launchpad event. Students flocked to participate in the Festival and win coveted prestigious scholarships and awards. 

It is with the deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of the world- renowned dancer, actor, and advocate for equal opportunities for disabled people in society and the performing arts, David Toole OBE. David passed away at St James University Hospital in Leeds on Friday 16 October. He was 56.

Sydney Dance Company has launched their involvement in the inaugural NSW Festival of Place, a year-long Festival celebrating NSW’s public spaces initiated as a part of the State Government’s COVID Safe Summer program.

Darwin Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of James Gough into the role of Chief Executive Officer. Gough will lead the team in the delivery of the 2021 Darwin Festival and beyond. Darwin Festival will run from 5-22 August 2021.

Hosted by Shane Jacobson, Keeping The Curtain Up is an evening dedicated to musical theatre, taking a look at some of the best moments from musicals produced in Australia in the last decade or so.

A new dance film project ‘Everything Gone’ has premiered online. Everything Gone is a part of ongoing Australian dance series, Deep End, created by award-winning director/composer Emily Dynes & acclaimed choreographer Sian Kelly. It features performers such as Zoee Marsh, Tarik Frimpong, Freya List, Jayden Hicks and Trevor Santos.

WA’s leading producer of musical theatre, Platinum Entertainment, is looking for WA’s leading musical theatre performers to fill Principal roles in their upcoming productions of The Boy From Oz, Hot Shoe Shuffle and Les Miserables.  

English National Ballet is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Emerging Dancer Award is Ivana Bueno. Having performed a pas de deux from Talisman and FULL-OUT a new contemporary piece choreographed by Mthuthuzeli November with her partner William Yamada, Ivana was announced as winner during the worldwide broadcast of the event from the Holloway Production Studio at English National Ballet's headquarters on London City Island. 

ADT, supported through the generosity of the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, is offering a six-week residency as part of the International Centre for Choreography. This is available to choreographers based in Adelaide, South Australia.

For over a decade the Rob Guest Endowment (RGE) has provided vital support and encouragement to young emerging performers, musicians and technicians, awarding over $400,000 in scholarships to assist them in their pursuit of excellence in their chosen discipline within the commercial musical theatre genre.