Flexibility is a very important part of a dancer’s tool kit. Yet, with increasingly alarming stretching images and videos available on social media and the internet, loud warning bells are sounding about the risks to the body and the career in trying to copy these moves.

Attention professional dancers and advanced students!

DirtyFeet is calling for expressions of interest for its May Choreographic Lab with choreographer Brianna Kell.

London’s Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance is holding auditions in Australia for its vocational full-time degree program in ballet and contemporary dance.

Dancing ironing boards, books that fly through the air, a quartet of couches with a definite attitude… welcome to Australian Dance Theatre’s new work Habitus.

Sydney Dance Company is co-producing a new work by artistic director Rafael Bonachela with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company in Germany.

Queensland Ballet (QB) has welcomed Cuba’s Victor Estévez to its ranks for the 2016 season.

Shaun Parker & Company is seeking dancers to be part of a new project, TUT.

The finals of the 2016 Prix de Lausanne were held Saturday 6 February.

Congratulations to Elma Kris! She has been nominated in the Dance Australia 2015 Critics Survey in a number of categories for her outstanding performances in Bangarra's 'Sheoak'.

Congratulations to Victoria Chiu (pictured) and Kristina Chan, who have been nominated as Most Outstanding Dancer in 2015 by Dance Australia critic Susan Bendall.

Dancehouse is calling out for EOIs from artists around Australia for Dance Massive 2017. Proposed dates are 14-26 March (TBC).

The 2016 Prix de Lausanne is underway.

In December West Australian Ballet (WAB) announced the news that the company’s chief executive, Steven Roth, will be leaving in February to take up the position of executive director of Scottish National Ballet.

After many years of planning, the Australian Ballet School finally has residence for boarders.

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