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ARE YOU JUST ANIMATED WALLPAPER?

Dance 18 Apr, 2011

The DANCER enters the audition room and having committed a ridiculous amount of hours each week refining their art form, learns the choreography for the audition and executes it with technical precision, demonstrating exactly what they are capable of. The ACTOR enters a dance auditio… Read Article

HAVE THE FLOODS RAINED ON OUR PARADE?

Latest News 21 Feb, 2011

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have noticed that there has been quite a ridiculous amount of rain and flooding in Queensland this past month. But what affect has this had on the entertainment industry in Queensland? Every production that was running at our main pe… Read Article

THE CREATIVE GENERATION

Latest News 1 Aug, 2010

A large cast these days might be 30 or 40 people in some larger musicals like Hairspray, Fame or even Mary Poppins… Try over 1,200 performers in one cast! It’s called CREATIVE GENERATION – STATE SCHOOLS ONSTAGE. I’ve just finished an epic week of choreography w… Read Article

TIME TO STEP IN TIME! By Callum Mansfield

Dance 6 Jun, 2010

The time has come for me to pack my bags and fly to Melbourne to work as the dance secondment to choreographer Geoffrey Garratt, on Disney’s Australian Tour of Mary Poppins. It was nearly three years ago that I found myself choreographing a production of CATS with Harvest Rain Theat… Read Article

IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S WHO YOU KNOW

Dance 19 Mar, 2010

By Callum Mansfield We’ve all heard the saying before, but is it actually true? YES, because you should never underestimate the impact that networking will have on your career. NO, because you need to have the talent to back you up! So how do you meet the right people and make an impre… Read Article

SUMMER SCHOOL MAYHEM

Dance 4 Feb, 2010

BY: CALLUM MANSFIELD Aren’t holidays meant to be a time of relaxation, partying by the beach and soaking up the sun? Aren’t we meant to be taking time OFF from flogging our bodies with our art? Then why is it only a month into the year and I feel like I have been run over by a truck?!… Read Article