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For the first time, The Australia Council for the Arts has announced new scholarships on behalf of Perpetual, established with the philanthropic support of former NSW Premier, the late Sir Robert Askin, and his wife Lady Mollie Askin. While one scholarship focuses on opera, another focuses on ballet. The Australia Council is also delighted to once again deliver the Marten Bequest travelling scholarships, which are the legacy of the late arts philanthropist John Marten.
Australia’s next generation of circus talents will be on show when the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents Please Hold from November 29 to December 9. Please Hold examines the social mediums that bind and isolate – from the invasive qualities of social media, to the rigid expectations of social etiquette.
The 2017 Rob Guest Endowment Finalists were recently announced. Competing against over 250 applicants, six outstanding artists were chosen by an expert panel of judges. These finalists are Stefanie Caccamo, Jayme-Lee Hanekom, Georgina Hopson, Thomas McGuane, Imogen Moore and Morgan Palmer.
Focus Talent Management will soon hold auditions for dancers, actors, singers and triple threats that are 18 years of age or older. Musical theatre performers and commercial dancers are invited to audition on Sunday, November 12 while actors and singers are open to audition on Monday, November 13.
West Australian Ballet has announced its 2018 programming and promises it will be a season of creativity. It will explore the extremes of sweet life and seductive death. In his sixth season, Artistic Director Aurélien Scannella has created a program exemplifying the short distance between pain and pure joy.
One of the most celebrated and respected dance artists today, Akram Khan recently announced that he will perform his last full-length solo work, XENOS, exclusively at Adelaide Festival in 2018. As of right now, he will not be touring to any other Australian venues.
This season Australian dancewear brand Energetiks has shifted gears with the release of its latest collection, Atelier. This contemporary capsule collection seeks to integrate dance and leisurewear with a luxury feel, to create elevated everyday essentials. The collection officially launches today, Monday, October 16.
From Monday—Saturday, October 16—21 in the Geoff Gibbs Theatre at Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley, the talented students of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts’ Classical Vocal program will perform two boisterous operettas for your enjoyment, under the direction of acclaimed Opera Director Thomas de Mallet Burgess.
Russian Ballet International will present a Bolshoi Ballet Academy Australian Summer Intensive at the Bondi Beach Pavillion on January 2-13, 2018. Auditions and Placement Classes are this Saturday, October 14 at the University of New South Wales, Myers Studio, Sydney.
The Australian Institute of Classical Dance (AICD) will soon host the 2017 AICD International Ballet Awards in South Australia. Set to run October 14 and 15, the competition will see elite dancers aged 15-21 from across the country descend on Westminster College.
FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres will present an exciting triple bill of contemporary dance performances by young artists in Common Anomalies from November 2-4. Vastly different in style, the three works will explore each of the performer’s unique personal histories.
Straight off the back of its world premiere at deSingel in Belgium on October 14, Eko Supriyanto's SALT will have its Australian premiere at Dancehouse on November 3 and 4. A pioneering choreographer with a new voice in Indonesian contemporary dance, Eko engages in a web of relations between his Javanese heritage and the rhythm of the underwater world.
The Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world's largest international student dance competition. Every year it awards about $500,000 in scholarships. For the second year, YAGP will return to Australia to host auditions and offer master classes.
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The Australian Ballet recently announced its 2018 program, a celebration of the powerhouse of creativity provided by the choreographers, dancers, musicians and artisans who bring each of the company’s productions to life. The season features nine works created uniquely for The Australian Ballet by resident and guest choreographers from across the company’s 55-year history.
Fremantle Arts Centre in Western Australia will soon present Inventories of Bodies in Movement, an event that brings together dancers from LINK Dance Company, Co3 Youth, Tracksuit and DADAA. This special work will see a total of 70 artists from the local companies collaborate for the first time.
Palace Films is now presenting Stéphanie Di Giusto’s screen biography La Danseuse (“The Dancer”) in cinemas nationwide. French singer/actress Soko and Lily-Rose Depp lead a star-studded cast in the film, which is inspired by the true story of Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan. These two rival pioneers of modern dance and theatrical performance lived in late 19th-century Paris and have become iconic figures in dance history.
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A favourite rock and roll musical will return to Australia in a fresh new production next year - Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. It will re-open the refurbished Festival Theatre at the Adelaide Festival Centre from December 28, 2017, then head to Brisbane and Perth in 2018. Craig McLachlan will again don Frank N. Furter’s legendary fishnet stockings in his Helpmann Award-winning role.
How would you like to win tickets for you and four friends to attend the 2018 Victorian Dance Festival? Now through September 30 dancers can enter to win at 
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) will soon launch its audition tour for students across the country wanting to try out for 2018 intake to its Undergraduate Courses or Postgraduate Courses. Auditions kick off in Adelaide on 25 September and run through November. 
Masters of Choreography is launching the first Masters Dance Expo – Australia this October! Bound for Melbourne, the expo will be a day for every dancer, whether professional, pre-professional or a student dancer purely for the love of dance.
One of Sydney’s favourite cabaret nights, Show Queen, is back starting this Sunday, September 24. Hosted by Trevor Ashley, Show Queen features a handpicked line-up of Australia’s most talented and celebrated musical theatre stars alongside the next generation of performers.
Sydney’s most talented young musicians and dancers embark on a landmark collaboration of classical and contemporary ballet and music this spring. Together Live is a special production being presented by the artists of the Sydney City Youth Ballet (SCYB) and the 60-piece Sydney Youth Orchestra (SYO) Philharmonic on September 22 and 23 at The Concourse Theatre, Chatswood.
A brand new theatrical extravaganza, The Unbelievables, will fill the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall and Arts Centre Melbourne with the world’s greatest circus, magic and acrobatic performers this summer.
The National College of Dance (NCD) in Lambton, NSW invites dancers interested in dancing full-time in 2018 to book their audition now, as auditions are taking place this month. Auditioning dancers will join college students in classical class before completing an individual audition and a meeting with Artistic Director Brett Morgan.
