It might seem a little premature to be planning next year's Christmas holiday escape, but given I'm suggesting you go to Broadway, you might just need to start planning now.

Australian dancer Joel Woellner is well on the way to achieving his dream of being a professional dancer. He recently won not just one but two prizes at the prestigious Prix de Lausanne ballet competition in February and has just taken up an apprentice scholarship with Houston Ballet in Texas, US.

In 2011, So You Think You Can Dance choreographer, and independent dance producer Paul Malek commissioned Underground, a quarterly dance festival held at the unique warehouse space at Revolt in Kensington.

The annual WA Royal Academy of Dance Festival will be held Friday 31 May until Monday 3 June at John Curtin College of the Arts.

The Bolshoi Ballet's Le Corsaire, which will be playing at QPAC's Lyric Theatre in June will be filmed live on Tuesday 4 June and streamed directly to eight venues across Queensland.

As Bangarra Dance Theatre prepares for the world premiere of Blak, which opens in Melbourne at the start of May, Dance Australia caught up with two of the company's newest members, Nicola Sabatino and Beau Dean Riley Smith.

It has been a little over a year since Kynan Hughes gave up the bright lights of Sydney and a position as a dancer at Sydney Dance Company (SDC) to return to his home town of Perth.

The mighty Bolshoi is coming to Australia, for a season exclusive to Brisbane, where it is presenting the full-length Le Corsaire and The Bright Stream.

Following a sold out Paris season, the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre returns to Perth in July/August to present their full-length, traditional version of Swan Lake.

The Australian Ballet School (ABS) will be conducting its annual audition tour this June and July.

DV8 Physical Theatre is gearing up for its latest production, which will tour nationally and internationally.

Carriageworks will be presenting the Australian premiere of Birds with Skymirrors by New Zealand contemporary dance company MAU in May. Dance Australia spoke to choreographer Lemi Ponifasio to find out why this contemporary dance work is making waves globally.

There is no doubting that Raewyn Hill, artistic director of Dancenorth, is happy with her life choices.

Ever wondered what it would be like to compete in the big international ballet competitions, like the Prix de Lausanne, the Genee International Ballet Competition or the Youth America Grand Prix?

As the great Diaghilev understood so well, the design elements of a ballet are artistic products in their own right.

While most of us were putting our feet up over the Easter holidays, over 300 ballet students were busily putting their highest skills to the test at the annual Alana Haines Australasian Awards.