The Australian Ballet has announced its 2015 season today. Launched as “A Year of Beauty”, the program’s highlight is a new production of The Sleeping Beauty, directed by AB artistic director, David McAllister.

Sydney Dance Company will kick off its 2015 season with a rare treat for its audiences – William Forsythe’s 1993 work Quintett.

Applications are now open for Expressions Dance Company’s (EDC) Summer Brisbane Contemporary Dance Intensive (BCDI), to be held 12-16 and 19-23 January 2015.

As part of the Melbourne Festival, Dancehouse is presenting two double bills.

Attention Irish dance fans! Born in the wild and beautiful hills of Connemara in Ireland, in 2002, Celtic Legends features live, traditional Irish dance, music and song, and its touring Australia through October and November 2014.

Sydney-based dance and contemporary choreographic centre Critical Path is hosting a free talk by Force Majeure’s Kate Champion and Australian Dance Theatre’s Garry Stewart this Saturday 6 September, at the Drill Hall, Rushcutters Bay.

Choreographer Aimee Smith and sound designer Ben Taaffe are long-time collaborators. In October the pair will present their first co-directed work, Borderline, at the State Theatre Centre of WA.

October will see Chunky Move’s Complexity of Belonging hit Southbank Theatre. Presented in collaboration with Melbourne Festival, Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company as part of the Melbourne Festival, Complexity of Belonging sees Chunky’s artistic director Anouk van Dijk join forces with Germany’s Falk Richter, director in residence at Schaubuhne Berlin.

Applications are now open for the Lady Mollie Isabelle Askin Ballet Scholarship. Three scholarships are available, each worth $20 000.

Russian dance extravaganza Kostroma is about to begin a national tour of Australia. This high-energy dance production takes audience on a tour of Russian dance forms from the Arctic north to the southern Steppes, from the peaks of Caucasus to the depths of Siberia.

From time to time different training aids and products hit the market designed to give dancers an advantage and improve on what nature provided.

Launceston’s Junction Arts Festival includes a selection of dance works that seek to challenge the traditional notion of dance.

The annual Ballet Teachers’ Workshop scholarship awards were held Sunday 17 August at the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre.

The Australian Ballet has announced the appointment of Steven Heathcote as ballet master and repetiteur.

Australia’s Robert Curran has been appointed artistic director of Louisville Ballet, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Stanton Welch is an Australian success story – a former dancer then resident choreographer with the Australian Ballet, he has now been artistic director of the Houston Ballet in the US for 10 years.