This festive season, Cirque Stratosphere – a spectacular new circus from the creators of CIRCUS 1903 (2016) and last summer’s smash-hit The Illusionists: Direct from Broadway – will transform the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall into a futuristic space-age utopia for a strictly limited season from 24-29 December 2019.
Perth Festival announces five glorious shows as a taste of the summer cultural feast to come next February under new Festival Artistic Director Iain Grandage. Perth Festival runs from 7 February to 1 March 2020. Look out for more details when the full Festival program is announced on 31 October 2019.
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is partnering with My Room to bring hope, strength and joy to children and their families facing life-threatening cancers. Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will host a My Room Gala Performance raising money for children’s cancer charity My Room on Sunday 27 October at 6pm. The producers of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will donate all proceeds from the sale of the My Room tickets to help achieve a 100% cure rate for all childhood cancers.
Look out Australia – 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL is coming next year. Dolly Parton has announced that the smash-hit West End musical will have its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in April 2020.
The Joffrey Ballet School, direct from New York, is coming to Australia from October 4th. Masterclasses, which will also serve as auditions for the school's renowned summer intensives, will happen in Melbourne, Gold Coast and Sydney, thanks to Joffrey Program Director Matthew Prescott.
Jeanne Pratt AC, founder and chairman of The Production Company announced that after nearly 21 years and 65 musicals, her company will present its final musical in May 2020.
The programme for the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) Australia’s 2020 conference Shaping Bodies, Shaping Minds has been announced! The conference will be held at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS) in Melbourne, Australia from 18-19 January 2020, with an opening night cocktail party held on 17 January at the nearby Malthouse Theatre.
Due to popular demand, the stunning award-winning musical Caroline, Or Change has been extended by an additional week. Featuring a spectacular cast and helmed by a stellar creative team, this Hayes Theatre Co production has captivated audiences and received rave reviews. Directed by four time Helpmann Award winner Mitchell Butel, this uplifting and profound musical by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Violet) will now play at the Hayes until 28 September!
Expressions of interest are being taken between August 29th to September 20th to take part in an accredited dance course developed by TAFE NSW in collaboration with ACFIPS and Ausdance NSW. This funded one day course addresses the skills and knowledge needed to teach students who may have specific needs.
Following their wildly successful collaboration with Evita, My Fair Lady, The King and I, South Pacific and Anything Goes, Opera Australia and John Frost will be presenting two glorious musicals commencing at Sydney Lyric Theatre in August 2020 before a Melbourne run soon after.
Two of Queensland’s foremost arts organisations join forces to present Orpheus and Eurydice, a circus opera infused with desire and longing that melds sublime music and singing with the raw physicality of movement. Opera Queensland has partnered with internationally renowned contemporary circus company Circa to stage Christoph Gluck’s spellbinding opera from 24th October to 9th November 2019 at Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC’s) Playhouse.
Capezio have announced their new studio collection which offers more choice with multiple styles for men, women, boys, girls and toddlers! Studio owners will be delighted by all their styles being available in a choice of 24 colours and in sizes from toddler to 2XL. This means it’s a one stop shop for dancers aged from entry level to advanced dancers and everything is made to order - just for you!
The search is on again for new and exciting talent to join the performers at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka! They are looking for passionate and talented individuals with a vast range of performance skills to fill a variety of extraordinary positions throughout The Park! The Hollywood USA auditions will be held September 15-17th 2019 before heading to Australia to hold auditions in 3 major Aussie cities!
The Australian Ballet and Telstra are delighted to announce that six talented young dancers have been selected as nominees for the prestigious and coveted Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards 2019.
The 2019 Victorian State Schools Spectacular (VSSS) will bring together 3000 young performers from more than 200 government schools across Victoria, for two shows on Saturday 14 September at Melbourne Arena. Students dedicate many hours across many months preparing for the three-hour, live Spectacular. This opportunity of a lifetime gives them the chance to perform to an audience of around 12,000 people at Melbourne Arena and a TV audience later in the year on Network Seven.
After its sold out taster premiere in February, Sydney's renegade dance company Twisted Element will be presenting their most recent, and most boundary pushing work 'RITUAL'. This production will catapult the company into a whole new level of production, making RITUAL the largest scale, and most sophisticated immersive production by the company so far. 'RITUAL' will take place in a newly opened warehouse space by Create Or Die in the heart of Marrickville Sydney this September 2019.
While Perth’s iconic His Majesty’s Theatre is not free of its ghostly rumours, West Australian Ballet will materialise in the 115 year-old Edwardian theatre this September with its haunting tale of heartbreak, Giselle.
Monash University’s new $53 million Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts will play host to two dance works by internationally acclaimed Norwegian dance company, Panta Rei Danseteater, on Friday 6 September as part of MLIVE’s Weightless dance series.
Seven exemplary individuals from Australia’s philanthropic, business and arts sectors were honoured at the 2019 Creative Partnerships Awards in Melbourne. The awards recognise individuals who show leadership in philanthropy and business partnerships with the arts. Those honoured have demonstrated active involvement in developing private giving to the arts, promoting the value of supporting the arts to the broader community and display an ongoing commitment to a strong, sustainable future for Australia’s cultural sector.
Todrick Hall is bringing his amazing US dancers and new feature length show to Australia and New Zealand in March and April 2020! You’ve seen him on YouTube, you may have seen him on RuPaul’s Drag Race, now you can see him live on stage for his Haus Party! Tickets for his Australian and New Zealand tour go on sale on Saturday 17 August at 12 noon.
The Australian Dance Festival (ADF) 2019 full workshop timetable has already been released. The ADF already has such an incredible faculty planned for this September, but they have managed to up the ante from last year and lock in the one and only Michael Dameski!
The Committee for the Rob Guest Endowment, one of Australia’s most exciting scholarship programs providing financial assistance and industry support to the next generation of musical theatre stars, today announced major changes to the Endowment. The winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Award will now be awarded a $50,000 prize along with the coveted RGE Trophy, making the award the largest single Musical Theatre scholarship in Australia. Melbourne’s East End Theatre District Artist Development award will also be increased to a $10,000 cash prize. The competition will now be offered biennially with the next Endowment in 2020 boasting a total prize pool of over $75,000.
For the first time in its 67 year history, West Australian Ballet has created a Children’s Ballet specifically aimed at three to six year olds. Peter and the Wolf will be presented by AWESOME Arts Festival in Perth Cultural Centre 5, 7 – 11 October 2019.
The adult cast has been announced for the 10th Anniversary Australian Tour of Billy Elliot the Musical which opens at Sydney Lyric Theatre in October 2019 followed by seasons in Melbourne at the Regent Theatre from February 2020, Crown Theatre Perth from June 2020, QPAC’s Lyric Theatre in Brisbane from July 2020 and the Festival Theatre at Adelaide Festival Centre from September 2020.
As the last date for submissions to the Creative State 2020+ gets closer, help Aus Dance and Dance House ensure the dance industry has a say in the Victorian Governments next four-year creative industries strategy, covering 2020-2024. They urge their friends to join them in an informal facilitated consultation led by Michelle Silby to explore key discussion themes and share ideas regarding the issues, challenges and opportunities faced by the dance sector on Tuesday, August 27th at Dancehouse Victoria.
The Prix de Lausanne announces the names of the six preselected candidates to participate in the next competition. The dancers have been chosen after the first Summer Intensive organized by the Fondation en faveur de l’Art Chorégraphique and after the 5th Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition. The dancers will take part in the 48th Prix de Lausanne in Montreux from February 2nd to 9th, 2020.
Continuing its commitment to UK touring and presenting world-class ballet to the widest possible audience, Autumn 2019 sees English National Ballet present three acclaimed ballets, Cinderella, Le Corsaire, and Nutcracker, on tour in it’s 70th Anniversary Season. 17 October – 30 November 2019.
Dancebourne Arts will stage a renewed version of their first original progamme Pointe, Line & Surface. The programme will be performed at the Darebin Arts Centre in Preston, Melbourne on Thursday August 29th.
The acclaimed film and now Broadway musical Moulin Rouge is headed to Australian and will begin it’s run at Melbourne's Regent Theatre in 2021 to which marks 20 years after the Baz Luhrmann film.
Legally Blonde, the musical will be in Melbourne November 23 to December 8th 2019 at Chapel Off Chapel produced by James Terry collective.
