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A-Live Entertainment is looking for young male dancers in NSW, ages 14 and up, to feature in its upcoming show, “Machismo Live Dance Show”, choreographed by BJ Rorke and Dayton Tavares.

Australia’s own Raw Dance Company is currently in New York, where its latest show, Untapped, is playing to sold out crowds as well as critical acclaim from the New York Times.

Forklift returns

KAGE’s 2014 work Forklift is making a reappearance this March, at Bleach* Festival on the Gold Coast.

In 2016 Melbourne Ballet Company (MBC) will present a trilogy of mixed bill programs, entitled Intention and Desire.

Pointe shoe prep!

Preparing pointe shoes for performance is an important and highly customised ritual. Nina Levy asks six dancers what they do to their shoes to ensure they are absolutely right for the stage.

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.