Australian Dance News

Ann Sherry AO New Circa Chair, Image Credit Circa

Announcing Ann Sherry AO as the new Chair of Circa

Circa is delighted to announce the appointment of Ann Sherry AO as the new Chair commencing in early 2024. Announcing the appointment Circa’s Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz said, “I am thrilled to have Ann Sherry AO join Circa as our new Chair, to succeed Michael Lynch in 2024.  She is a powerhouse leader with vast experience, extensive connections and

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Yellow Wheel Auditions, Image Credit Yellow Wheel

Yellow Wheel 2024 Audition Registrations Open

Yellow Wheel, established in Melbourne in 2012, is an Australian dance company specialising in working with young people and emerging artists. The company offers a range of programs to connect emerging dancers with professional artists, and provides rigorous contemporary dance training and professional development. Yellow Wheel presents fresh, ambitious new

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Tracks Choreolab 101, Image credit Duane Preston

Save the Date for Tracks’ Choreolab 101 Explore

Tracks Dance Company’s Choreolab 101 provides a yearly opportunity for emerging movement artists and makers to explore the mechanics and creative scope of choreography in an artistically rich environment. A collaborative approach is made to the facilitation of the course, this year Choreolab 101 will be facilitated by Spillett and guest facilitators: Kelly

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Amanda Phillips Ausdance SA award

Amanda Phillips honoured with Ausdance SA Award

Ausdance SA is thrilled to announce that Amanda Phillips is the recipient of the 2023 Ausdance SA Association Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Education’. This industry honour was announced recently at the Educator’s SA Awards Ceremony held on World Teachers’ Day. The award recognises Amanda’s crucial contribution to culture and creativity

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AMPA's BUNYMA, Image credit AMPA

AMPA’s end of year show: BUNYMA

Join AMPA for 'BUNYMA’, an exhilarating evening of dance featuring their Bachelor & Associate students! Performances will be on 15 & 16 December at 7:30 pm each evening at NIDA Theatres, Playhouse.  In the first half of the show, AMPA proudly presents the final choreography projects crafted by their talented second-year students: Olivia Urbaniak,

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Quantum Leap Ensemble Auditions, Image credit QL2 Dance

Audition for Quantum Leap Ensemble 2024

QL2 Dance is hosting an open audition for Quantum Leap, a youth dance company made up of dancers aged 14-26. Members of the ensemble will work collaboratively with professional choreographers Alisdair Macindoe, Gabrielle Nankivell and Ruth Osborne to create ‘Subject to Change’, a new, full length contemporary dance work premiering at the Canberra Theatre

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AFL Cape York Aboriginal Cultural Dance, Photo credit Daniel Boud

DanceRites 2023 winners announced

Mui Mui Bumer Gedlam

has claimed the top prize at

DanceRites 2023

– Australia’s only national dance competition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups – following two days of intense competition at the Sydney Opera House 25-26 November. Crowds gathered for DanceRites’ return to the Forecourt, after a four-year

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