It is three years since we brought you our last Syllabus Guide, and since then there have been some big changes in dance teaching.

Tickets are now on sale for the Australian Dance Awards 2013, which will be hosted by Canberra as part of the Centenary of Canberra.

Attention Michael Jackson fans! Tickets are now on sale for Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, by Cirque du Soleil, which will arrive in Australia in September this year.

With all three of Australia's ballet companies this year performing works with strong character roles for men, both male and female, it seemed an ideal time to look at these roles from the artist's perspective.

Chunky Move Artistic Director, Anouk van Dijk will be holding auditions for Australian male dancers with at least five years experience as a professional contemporary dancer.

The scandal at RG Dance in Sydney, where the owner, Grant Davies, has been accused of sexually molesting his young pupils, is casting a poisonous shadow over the entire dance teaching profession. This ghastly incident raises a number of issues, and mostly not for the first time.

If you're a dance student aged 13-18 and keen on a career as a dancer, Ausdance Victoria has a course for you!

When Bangarra Dance Theatre presents "Blak" at the Sydney Opera House in June, the company will also host a series of events to inspire and engage with Sydney's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Auditions for Centro Roselands Talent Search (NSW) kick off on Thursday 6 June and continue on Thursday 13 June.

STRUT dance, Western Australia's Choreographic Development Centre, has announced the appointment of Paul Selwyn Norton as its director.

The Australian Ballet has announced that leading Australian arts administrator Libby Christie is the company's new executive director.

Careless wording on an ABC news headline linked Sydney Dance Company to RG Dance Studio, the school involved in the child molestation scandal.

Force Majeure invites self-identified people of size (bigger bodied/large/fat) to participate in the audition process for a groundbreaking new dance theatre project exploring what it means to be fat.

Queensland Ballet (QB) has announced that it will be presenting Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s celebrated ballet Romeo and Juliet, in June-July 2014.

It's a hot day in summer and the dance cast of King Kong is assembled in the large Expo Hall in the Melbourne showgrounds.

Perched like a castle way up on a hill at Guandau overlooking the city of Taipei sits Taiwan National University of the Arts (TNUA), where the revered and beloved Professor Xiao Xiong Zhang teaches contemporary dance.