Six days of masterclasses, coaching and performance culminated in the first World Ballet Crown Grand Final Gala, with $42,500 awarded across three age divisions.

Milla Calyk has received the $1,000 Kathleen Gorham Memorial Award Scholarship for the second consecutive year, with awards presented across five vocational levels.

Tim Omaji will reprise Toulouse-Lautrec, while Ben Hall, Tyler Chapman and Thalia Smith join the new Australian company opening at Sydney Lyric in March 2027.

A decade after its first Australian tour, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda will open in Melbourne in October 2027 before seasons in Sydney and Brisbane.

Young First Nations artists and Black dancers from the UK are meeting in Sydney to exchange cultural knowledge and create new choreography, with a reciprocal London visit planned for 2027.

Six years in the making, Alice Topp’s contemporary Macbeth recasts Shakespeare’s tragedy within modern politics, media influence and boardroom power.

Dance Australia is looking for Australian dancers building careers around the world, from ballet and contemporary companies to commercial dance, musical theatre, cruise ships, cabaret and beyond.

Queensland College of Dance students will perform two works by Joffrey Ballet co-founder Gerald Arpino for the first time in Australia, bringing an important strand of American ballet history into the pre-professional studio.

As part of IMPACT Dance Festival 2026, international artist Tara Jade Samaya returns for the second year with a featured work in the Triple Bill, Dance on Film and leading Dancer Workshops.

Seven dancers, a score built around 7/8 time and a number that has fascinated its choreographer since childhood sit at the centre of Trà Mi Dinh’s ambitious new work.

Dance Australia contributor Leila Lois is turning her archival research into One Body, One Soul, a short dance film inspired by the extraordinary partnership of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.

Burn The Floor: LUMINOUS will take on a special purpose in Sydney this September, with Tristan MacManus and Kym Johnson hosting a charity gala supporting NextSense.

FACEF’s Resonance Grants are expanding into performing arts for the first time, with an international jury and applications opening 17 August for projects connecting Australian and French artists.

The cancellation of Sydney seasons of Waitress and Beetlejuice has reached NSW Parliament, with an Upper House MP calling for government support for the musical theatre industry

Two acclaimed Australian dance artists are heading back to Western Australia to shape Co3’s future, succeeding inaugural Artistic Director Raewyn Hill after 12 years at the helm.

The longtime conductor steps into the role after nearly three decades with the company.