Dance Australia

MANY dance companies have responded to the inability to perform in public by joining the digital realm (budget and resources allowing) offering everything from interviews and discussions to full scale performances. One of these was the WA Ballet, whi

A biography of the late, great theatre designer, Kristian Fredrikson, will be released in July. New Zealand-born Fredrikson (1940-2005), was a designer for a small, amateur operetta company in Wellington before heading to Australia to establish a car

THE Sydney Eisteddfod has announced the launch of Stage at Home, a new initiative that invites young performers to share a video of themselves performing on the Sydney Eisteddfod YouTube channel. The idea behind Stage at Home is to give young perform

AFTER extensive deliberation by a panel of judges, Xanthe Geeves has been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Emerging Female Classical Choreographer initiative. The Emerging Female Classical Choreographer initiative was established last year and

AUSTRALIAN dance culture has been dealt a blow with four dance/physical theatre companies losing their four-year funding from the Australia Council (AC) in the latest round announced on April 3. Across the disciplines, 49 organisations lost their A

OVER the past 10 years or so, a regional ballet company in Canada has been conducting its own radical transformation. On the verge of bankruptcy in 2008/9, BalletBC is now a leader in innovative and courageous contemporary ballet. The person responsi

AUDITIONS. They are the “make or break” doorway to the major stages of a dancer’s life: to joining a school, joining a course and to getting a job. So important are they that many schools and entrepreneurial dance organisations include audition techn

Please describe a significant audition where you didn't get the job. The audition was for an apprentice/ young artist position at a company. Three hundred and thirty dancers were all auditioning in one day. It was so busy and the queue for registrati

How many auditions have you done? Since entering into the professional realm, I would have applied for approximately 30 auditions. Of those that were open or invitation only, I would have attended/been invited to around 20-25, 12 of which were succes

Where did you do your dance training? I trained at Joanne Williamson Dance Academy in Sydney from 2007 to 2016 in contemporary, classical ballet, lyrical, jazz and musical theatre. I also trained at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts from 201

I BEGAN my training at the ripe old age of three at the prestigious ED5 International school in Sydney, and continued on there to complete my Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts in 2017. With the finest training in my back pocket, I went out into the

Where did you train? I trained for 13 years with my mother at the Annette Roselli Dance Academy before completing my final two years of training with the Queensland Ballet Academy. Please describe briefly your career to date. Upon completing my trai

HISTORY has shown that times of major upheaval, like the one we’re currently living through, can provide amazing opportunities for personal growth and new creative endeavours. We have to be astute enough to identify what is essential to our progress

AROUND the time this issue of Dance Australia is due out, the Paris Opera Ballet (POB) was to be performing in Australia. This company, the pride of France and the quintessence of classical dance, was to make an exclusive visit to Brisbane as part of

RUDOLF) Nureyev’s got a calcium spur on his right heel that cuts into his flesh regularly enough to make a lesser dancer quit immediately, but Nureyev, who is not Russian but Tartar, makes a joke of it – christening the wound ‘my omelet’; his remedy

INTERVIEWING Lloyd Newson requires a willingness to take a walk on the dark side. Our phone interview covered topics ranging from gang grooming, gang violence, misogyny, rape, homophobia, racism and most of all, male violence. It was all to the purpo

IT is almost impossible to think about dance without conjuring the notion of stretching. Those who are super-flexible or hyper-mobile often love the sensation of a good, long, stretch. Those who struggle with flexibility might either avoid stretching

STEPHEN A’Court is based in Wellington, New Zealand. He photographs dancers on stage and in the photo studio. He is drawn to the beauty and athleticism of the dance world, and he likes the challenge of finding the right moment. “I’m pretty good, now,

YOU really can’t keep a good dance teacher down! As the world has slowly been turning upside down and inside out, Australia’s intrepid and enterprising dance teachers and choreographers have been at the forefront of the on-line revolution that is swe

• Considering taking up dance studies full time? • It’s time to choose! • It’s time to prepare! Our next issue contains our annual list of schools and courses, including teaching faculty, subjects, expected outcomes, and more. Read first hand account

Where were you born? Southport, Queensland. Do you have siblings? This one made me laugh because I have six sisters! What is your first memory of dance? It’s my first competition; I was very young and performed a duo which placed second. I remember

I WAS hoping not to mention the C word in this editorial. By now I’m sure everyone is as heartily sick as I am of constant reference to the Corona Virus and it would have been lovely to make this issue a sanctuary from all the noise. But it’s unavoid