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The Hive | Your Colony Awaits

DanceInterviews 23 May, 2019

Hot Talent Watch | Riley Baldwin’s RB Corp Instruction Premiere Original Work Explores the Power Struggles of Bee Communities Interview and article by HM Clements Riley Baldwin is the founder and artistic director of new contemporary youth dance company RB Corp Instruction ba… Read Article

Peggy van Praagh at East Melbourne studios ion 1962. Photo Courtesy Aust News and Info Bureau by KeithByron

Peggy van Praagh Choreographic Fellowship

Dance 23 May, 2019

$10,000 Scholarship for Mid-Career Choreographers from Ausdance Applications Close May 31st Ausdance National invites eligible choreographers who can demonstrate the value of the fellowship to their own choreographic development, practice or career to submit an expression of i… Read Article

Encore for AFFIX

Dance 16 May, 2019

Indefinite Dance Co presents AFFIX Melbourne Meat Market | June 2 After a successful sold-out debut in March, Victorian-based Indefinite Dance Company is holding an encore performance of their show AFFIX at the Meat Market venue in North Melbourne on Sunday June 2nd. Indefinite Dance… Read Article

Full Circle by Lucky Lartey. Photo Dom O'Donnell

Fujimura & Lartey … WIN!

DanceGiveaways 2 May, 2019

‘Passing It On’ Features Solo Works by Ryuichi Fujimura and Lucky Lartey FORM Dance Projects | June 6 – 8 WIN TIX! We have 2 double passes to giveaway to this double bill on Friday 7th June, 7:45pm playing at Riverside Theatres Parramatta. To enter simply send in your na… Read Article

Obarzanek Announced for INCITE

DanceWorkshops 2 May, 2019

Gideon Obarzanek will Facilitate Force Majeure’s Dance Theatre Intensive in November Applications Close June 10 INCITE Intensive is Force Majeure’s professional dance theatre program for mid-career and established artists and it will continue in November 2019 with… Read Article

YIRRAMBOI First Nations Festival

DancePhysical Theatre 25 Apr, 2019

Quirky, Distinctive Wiradjuri Artists Present Two Very Different Statements through Dance Theatre Vicki van Hout & Joel Bray at Melbourne’s Arts House This May during YIRRAMBOI, Melbourne’s extraordinary First Nations multi-genre arts and cultural festival, A… Read Article

Here After

Dance 25 Apr, 2019

Limitless is Back with Third Season Show May 3 & 4 Limitless Dance Company is back with its third season production – Here After – under the direction of founder and artistic director Mitchell Turnbull. Turnbull describes the message behind his new work as being inspir… Read Article

Tectonic’s Climate Message

DancePhysical TheatreWorkshops 19 Apr, 2019

Dancenorth will Create Magic and Bounce on Burleigh Beach Bleach* Festival | April 17 – 21 After a vibrant world premiere season as part of Strand Ephemera 2017, award-winning Dancenorth Australia will present Tectonic once again on Burleigh Beach, as part of Bleach* Festival 2… Read Article

Dancenorth’s Secondment Week 2019

DanceWorkshops 19 Apr, 2019

Applications Open for Dancenorth’s Secondment Program September 23 – 27 Each year award-winning contemporary dance company Dancenorth invites young dance artists from Australia and New Zealand to participate in a 5-day full-time secondment program. The program i… Read Article

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The Dinner Party Gets Messy

Dance 5 Apr, 2019

Expressions Dance Company to Tour Natalie Weir’s Celebrated Work QLD, NSW, NT | May – June Innovative contemporary dance company Expressions Dance Company (EDC) will open their second show of the season – The Dinner Party – in Brisbane in May before its hea… Read Article