News

Denise Richardson reports from the Queensland Ballet Academy's inaugural Gala.

The Australian Ballet and West Australian Ballet will be celebrating World Ballet Day, Wednesday 23 October.

BICD Prix results

92 young dancers were selected to compete in the 2019 Brisbane International Contemporary Dance (BICD) Prix, which took place in Brisbane, September 29 – October 4.

Robina Beard has published a memoir of her wide and entertaining life.

An appreciation of ballet teacher Joan Halliday, who died in August at the extraordinary age of one hundred.

Amelia's diary #3

Our Emerging Female Classical Choreographer, Amelia Drummond, writes her latest post.

Ashgrove Dance Studio in Brisbane is celebrating an amazing 120 years, writes Michelle Dursun.

The Oct/Nov issue is OUT NOW and packed with interesting and entertaining reading.

Among the highlight's of The Australian Ballet's 2020 season will be a new version of the Tolstoy classic, 'Anna Karenina'.

Irina Kuzminsky, Dance Australia's respected classical ballet critic, is staging her own "one woman dance and poetry fusion show" at the Butterfly Club in Melbourne.

Dancer, sound designer and choreographer Alisdair Macindoe is one of nine gifted Australians to have received a 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. He receives an unrestricted and tax-free grant of $160,000 over a two-year period.

The Royal Academy of Dance recently held its 2019 Victorian Audrey Nicholls Grade Awards at the Australian Ballet studios in Melbourne.

The fifth edition of Grand Audition for professional dancers and graduate students (ages 17-26) will be held 4-5 February at the Teatre-Auditori Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain.

Sydney Eisteddfod’s Dance of Champions saw troupes of dancers aged 4-18 years, from across NSW, perform competing at the UNSW Science Theatre, Sunday 15 September.

Queensland Ballet (QB) will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020 with a season that is equal parts old and new works, honouring the past whilst also looking to the future.

SDC in 2020

SDC has planned a year packed with performances.