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The Bolshoi Ballet has removed a ballet about Nureyev from its repertoire, according to Moscow Associated Press.

Two double bills of First Nations contemporary dance will take place in Melbourne in May that give voice to past and future ancestors.

If you are planning to audition for a full-time dance course, we have the list for you. The Dance Australia Audition Calendar is now available in print (in the July/Aug/Sep issue) and live on our website.

Fayen d’Evie is the recipient of a $40,000 commission for an experienced dance or movement artist who identifies as deaf or disabled to create a brand-new work.

Marrugeku dance company is presenting the premiere of a trilogy of short works which highlights trans-Indigenous and intercultural collaboration in contemporary dance.

". . . we also carry a responsibility to give insight into our experiences, promote understanding, and effect change. But is this enough?" asks Bangarra of its role.

Duet with drones

Is this a first? In the Australasian Dance Collective's forthcoming season, choreographer Amy Hollingsworth has brought together her five human dancers with five drones.

More than 170 students entered this flagship competition, and a further 125 performed in the dance performance groups in the non-competitive section.

The biennial Alana Haines Awards were held at the St James Theatre Wellington over the Easter weekend. An astonishing 400 contestants from Australasia, aged from 11-18 years, attended the event, competing for a total of $50,000 in cash prizes as well as scholarships to elite schools

Voting is now open for the 2023 Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards.

West Australian Ballet welcomes five new Young Artist Scholarship participants.

In less than a month, Sydney Dance Company's regional tour of its program Ascent kicks off.

The Workroom Program is a year-long pilot program for Independent Dance and Physical Theatre Artists.

After ten years serving as Artistic Director of West Australian Ballet (WAB) Aurélien Scannella will leave at the end of the 2023 season.

On Saturday 1st April dance students from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) took a new contemporary dance work to the Shepparton Art Museum Amphitheatre and surrounds.

Over one big weekend (Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th March) 78 young dancers competed in the finals of the Joan & Monica Halliday and Isobel Anderson Awards.