A record number of Australians competed in this year’s Youth America Grand Prix. Jane Danielle Venter was inspired by the whole experience.

A dancer has to learn almost everything if they want to get onto the music theatre stage, discovers Michelle Dursun.

Nutritionist Fiona Sutherland rather doubts it.

Two ex-ballerinas have started a dance school aimed entirely at adults, writes Michelle Dursun.

What do professional dancers choose for breakfast? Nutritionist Fiona Sutherland finds out.

Most dancers’s first experience at auditioning is for a full-time dance course. What should you expect? Nina Levy gets the lowdown.

How much can you touch while you teach? Karen van Ulzen investigates.

Many auditions will include an improvisation exercise. Michelle Dursun helps you prepare.

Michelle Dursun spoke with Elise May from Expressions Dance Company about Release Technique and some of the challenges and joys of mastering this style of movement.

We always seem to hear about those dancers who are successful, but how do you cope when you don’t get what you want? It’s called ‘resilience’, explains psychologist Gene Moyle.

This year’s Genee was held for the first time in New Zealand. Karen van Ulzen was there.

Think of yourself as an athlete and think about how athletes manage their food intake, writes Fiona Sutherland.

We live in a world where the line between nature and artifice is constantly blurred. From plastic surgery to photo-shopping, the opportunities to enhance or change one’s appearance seem to be endless.

Everybody wants scintillating insteps. But if you are not born with them, can they be make? asks Nina Levy

In the first part of our series on pas de deux, we discussed some basic preparations. In this issue Michelle Dursun gets down to specifics

Nina Levy has never been a big fan of competitions. She asks two competition junkies what they like about them.