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MEAA’s Dancers Australia has updated the Dance Industry Code of Practice for 2026–27, lifting minimum rates and key entitlements for dancers, teachers and choreographers from 1 July. Read more
Queensland Ballet will premiere a new contemporary ballet set to the music of INXS, with Elegantly Wasted opening at HOTA on the Gold Coast in September.
Nineteen-year-old Kamilaroi performer Aurielle Smith has been accepted into the Alvin Ailey Summer Intensive in New York, becoming the first Aboriginal Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year student to attend the program.
The cancellation of Waitress’s Sydney season adds to mounting concern across Australia’s live performance sector, with artists, crew and venues facing an increasingly fragile touring landscape.
Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes brings The Australian Ballet into a vivid, kaleidoscopic world, where classical precision meets athletic transparency, colour, rhythm and sweeping American sound.
Co3 Contemporary Dance’s Gathering.2 turns the Liberty Theatre into a warehouse party of movement, music and strange fantasy worlds, in an engaging farewell season curated by Raewyn Hill.
Leo Mujić’s Hamlet gives Shakespeare’s tragedy a striking new physical language, with Queensland Ballet delivering a dark, theatrical and emotionally charged interpretation.
West Australian choreographer Scott Elstermann will take part in the prestigious ATLAS program at ImPulsTanz in Vienna, following recent success at home and abroad.
Meet the Australian dancers taking the reins at Crazy Horse Paris.
Anna Pavlova’s 1926 tour was not the beginning of ballet in Australia, but it changed how the country imagined the art form, and who might belong to it, writes Emma Sandall
Athletistry founder Shane Wuerthner on navigating auditions
A practical, clear-eyed guide to building a dance career after full-time training, from redefining success to staying connected, creative and employable.
Recent comments by Timothée Chalamet about opera and ballet sparked debate across the arts. Dance leaders reflect on the endurance, relevance and shared humanity that continue to sustain these artforms.
