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Fact or fable? Vaslav Nijinsky is a part of ballet legend, but gossip and myth should not be taken as truth, writes Ariette Taylor.

As you are reading this article, Shaun Parker & Company is on the last leg of an overseas tour. Artistic director Shaun Parker spoke to Luke Forbes just before his departure from Sydney.

With auditions for the Moulin Rouge (the REAL Moulin Rouge, that is!) about to take place in Australia and New Zealand, Leila Lois spoke to the associate artistic director, Janet Pharaoh, about dancer life at the famous venue.

Out of this family of five siblings, four are dance professionals, and mum is a dance teacher! Belle Beasley finds out what life is like at home.

Pioneering choreographer and dancer Shelley Lasica will present a major new work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, bringing together her exceptional understanding of movement, colour, audience and architecture.

Rhys Ryan spoke to the famous New York choreographer on the eve of his Australian premiere. (Portrait photo is by Alberto Oviedo.)

Meet a nominee of this year's Telstra Ballet Dancer Award.

The Adelaide Festival is presenting the 'Messa da Requiem' performed by Ballett Zurich. Lucas Forbes talks to Christian Spuck, choreographer and soon-to-be artistic director of Staatsballett Berlin.

The Adelaide Festival is presenting 'Revisor', by the acclaimed Canadian choreographer, Crystal Pite. She talks to Karen van Ulzen in the lead-up to her visit.

Laura Boynes, an award-winning independent dance artist based in WA, is one of 12 Australian artists commissioned to create original work for this year’s Perth Festival, writes Isabelle Leclezio.

This former dancer, actor and TV personality has a new role as a member of the Victorian Parliament.

This school is in the historic coastal town of Portland, nearly 400km west of Melbourne, closer to the South Australian border than Victoria's capital city, home of commercial fishing, the Alcoa aluminium smelter and, now, wind farms.

Head inland from Gladstone on Queensland’s central coast and drive for an hour-and-a-half along the Dawson Highway and you will reach the town of Biloela in the Shire of Banana.

Ten years after it was set up, this school has clearly become a much loved and essential part of the community.