February-March 2019

Dance Australia

Australia's most respected Dance magazine

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Calling Female Classical Choreographers!
IT IS with very great pleasure that we are announcing in this issue our inaugural Emerging Female Classical Choreographer initiative! Dance Australia has partnered with the Sydney Opera House and The Australian Ballet to provide a unique opportunity
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Dance Treats At Adelaide Festival
THE Adelaide Festival’s 2019 program includes some great treats for dance aficionados. At the centre of the dance line-up is the internationally renowned ballerina Natalia Osipova, Russian-born but now a principal with the Royal Ballet in England. Sh
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Healthcare Providers Who Understand Performing Arts
Health for dancers is essential. When faced with illness or injury it is so important for dancers to work with healthcare providers who understand dance. The Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare (ASPAH) (www.aspah.org.au) recognises the
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The Magic Touch
ENTITLED “A Touch of Magic”, Melbourne City Ballet’s (MCB) 2019 season will feature some of the company’s most popular repertoire, two new ballets for the company, an international tour and MCB’s largest national tour to date. The 2019 season will st
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Being The Benjamins
NARELLE and Huey Benjamin are almost childhood sweethearts – they met when Narelle was about 19 and still a dance student and Huey was 22 and a session drummer. They married seven years later. Their first collaboration was on a film, Arachne, which w
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Marlo
Can you remember the first time you saw your mother dance? I can! There were a few time before this, but the most memorable was when I was probably around six and she was rehearsing in the studios with Australian Dance Theatre for the premiere of Bi
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West Australian Ballet
The Artistic Director of West Australian Ballet, Aurélien Scannella, is searching worldwide for an exceptional, passionate and enthusiastic person with exemplary experience in the art-form of ballet, to join the Company in the role of Assistant Balle
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The Legacy Of Jerome Robbins
EST Side Story is a musical that is renowned as much for Jerome Robbins’ dynamic dance numbers as it is for Leonard Bernstein’s wonderful score. Directed and choreographed by Robbins, this retelling of Romeo and Juliet, set amongst the gangs of 1950s
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Critics’ Choice
William Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance as part of the 2018 Melbourne Festival. A witty and intensely beautiful ode to ballet; it’s physical poetry contracts and expands meaning and movement. An unexpected highlight was The Australian Ballet’s Gi
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Immersing Audiences
WHAT makes a great performance space for dance? Once upon a time, I would have answered this question in terms of sight lines, comfortable and appropriately spacious seating, stage size. I still think these things are important, if we’re talking thea
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Wheeler Comes Full Circle
Tell us about you. What is your prior experience? I have described myself as a dancemaker, educator and a producer, which pretty well sums up the last couple of decades since I began dancing in Launceston with Stompin youth dance company. From there
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When The Dietitian Says No
I T’S not uncommon that, at some point during your career, you may choose to, or need to, make modifications to your diet for some reason. A new diagnosis, an injury, unexplained symptoms that are lingering . . . there are many. It’s also typical tha
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Reviews
This program had some lovely moments. THE Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Dance graduation season provides a small window of observation into its three-year degree course. The program usually comprises new works, choreographed on the danc
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Coping with IBS
Q Dear Emma, I’ve been having digestive problems and my doctor thinks it is Irritable Bowel Syndrome. How do you recommend coping with abdominal discomfort while dancing? I’m finding it hard to hold my stomach in and it’s making me lose confidence.
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62 Years Of Love And Passion
HEN a young Shirley Jones-Griffin started her first ballet school in 1960 in a scout hall in Pascoe Vale, Melbourne, no one could have predicted the outstanding contribution she would make to the dance world. What started as a small school of 33 stud
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Move To Standardise Audition Requirements
OVER 20 international ballet companies and a growing number of professional ballet schools have endorsed the recently established guidelines for pre-selection auditions. The Committee to Standardise Audition Procedures (C-SAP) has released the new in
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Johan Inger
What sources have you used in creating your version? My main source was the book from Prosper Merimee, which is told from the point of view of Don Jose awaiting his execution for the killing of, among others, Carmen. Then I also flirted with some [id

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