Brisbane Festival Feast of Dance
This year has been a big year for Brisbane and will be a landmark year for Brisbane Festival. For three weeks Brisbane will welcome international and national artists to perform across the city and provide a platform for outstanding local talent to share their success. The dance programme is diverse and exciting, including performances by Queensland Ballet, Chunky Move, Leigh Warren & Dancers, Les ballets C de la B, Sydney Dance Company and BeijingDance/LDTX with Brisbane’s Expressions Dance Company.
Principal Artist Lucinda Dunn celebrates an impressive milestone today, notching up 20 consecutive years performing with The Australian Ballet. She now holds the record for the company’s longest serving ballerina, an extraordinary achievement.
Who will represent Australia in the 2011 World Salsa Championships? Find out at the annual Victoria Salsa State Titles this August 26 at Colonial Hotel (Blights Bar). If you are a competitor or just enjoy the spectacle, colour and music of Salsa, then the Victorian and Australian Salsa Classic are the place to be.
The Universal Studios Japan 2011 Audition Tour has begun! They are looking for face characters/actors, singers, dancers, stunt performers and even jet and water skiers! For more details visit our Auditions section. Good luck performers!
Created in 1973, the Prix de Lausanne is an international competition for young dancers aged 15 to 18. One of a kind, its prime objective is to discover, promote, and support talents among the world’s finest young dancers. Next year’s competition will run from January 29 to February 4 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Thirteen-year-old Montana Rubin has emerged as the 2011 winner of the $7,000 Robert & Elizabeth Albert Junior Classical Ballet Scholarship. This event has been a highlight of the McDonald’s Sydney Eisteddfod program since 1994.
The annual Helpmann Awards recognise distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in the many disciplines of Australia's vibrant live performance sectors, including musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre. This year's lucky nominees have been announced...
One of Australia’s most brilliant ballerinas will prepare her pointe shoes for the very last time next month. After an illustrious 15-year career on stage, Principal Artist Kirsty Martin has announced that she will retire at the end of The Merry Widow season in Melbourne. Her last show in the title role will be Monday July 4. Kirsty joined The Australian Ballet in 1995. In 2000, she and fellow dancer and partner Damien Welch headed to Europe to dance with acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater I. They returned to Australia and rejoined the company in 2002. Kirsty was promoted to Principal in 2003.
Don't miss The Australian Dance Awards this weekend! Celebrating Australia's thriving dance industry the Awards ceremony will include performances by Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA), Dancenorth, Expressions Dance Company, Sue Peacock with Stefan Karlsson, Sydney Dance Company and Queensland Ballet. The Awards are held this Sunday July 24, at The Playhouse, QPAC. For tickets visit qpac.com.au.
Raw Dance Full Time Professional Program focuses on developing the necessary skills within all students before they enter the professional dance industry. It also provides an opportunity for those already working in the industry to upgrade their skills and train further to increase their likelihood of employment. The first round of auditions starts Saturday 24 July!
The Arts Centre has scored an exclusive Australian season of contemporary dance featuring the legendary Nederlands Dans Theater I. After a 14 year absence, the doyennes of contemporary dance will showcase their distinctive style at the Arts Centre’s State Theatre with five performances this week from 13 – 17 July.