Madeleine Eastoe, one of the Australian Ballet’s most loved ballerinas, has announced that she will retire from the stage at the end of the company’s season of Giselle.

The 2015 Victorian Dance Festival will take place 17-19 April. Catering to dance teachers and dance students (and their parents), the festival will be held in Ballarat.

Our columnist Matthew Lawrence shares some tips on how to deal with the ignorant.

The New Zealand School of Dance, one of the southern hemisphere’s leading conservatoires for quality dance training, is looking for an experienced and inspirational contemporary dance tutor.

Emerging dancer Yolande Lowatta (22) has been awarded the Russell Page Fellowship, which will see her join Bangarra Dance Theatre as a trainee dancer.

This April Jason Coleman’s Ministry of Dance will host the Melbourne Latin Festival, a three day celebration of performances, workshops and parties.

I am here in Houston, Texas, to review the premiere of the Houston Ballet's Romeo and Juliet. The choreographer is Australian Stanton Welch, who is now in his 12th year as artistic director of the company.

Strictly Ballroom The Musical will head to Brisbane this September, to play at the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC).

Dance Massive is about to hit Melbourne, with shows at Arts House, Dancehouse and the Malthouse Theatre.

“There's so much talent in Australia. That is so exciting. To retain that talent in Australia, to support dance and the future of ballet in Australia, that is at the core of what I want to do.” So says Lisa Pavane, the new artistic director of the Australian Ballet School.

A few weeks ago we featured Artstart recipient Joshua Pether. This week we feature another young dancer who has received an Artstart grant from Australia Council, Zachary Lopez.

In 2007, on a basketball court on Arnhem Land, dance group Djuki Mala performed a self-devised dance routine to the tune of Zorba the Greek.

West Australian Ballet principal dancer Fiona Evans has announced her retirement from professional dancing.

The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Country Arts SA, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (WA), Ausdance Qld, Frankston Arts Centre (Vic) and BlakDance Australia in partnership with Performing Lines (national) will all be receiving funding

Sweet Charity is opening at Arts Centre Melbourne next week, as part of a tour that has taken in Sydney and Canberra, and will head to Wollongong.

The New South Wales state government has announced a new $30 000 art and technology fellowship to support artists across the state who are working with technology or digital art.