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Leanne Benjamin, OBE, AM, has been appointed the new Artistic Director of the Queensland Ballet.

MOVES

Senior artists Jill Ogai and Marcus Morelli have been promoted to the rank of principal artist at the Australian Ballet. Send us your move! Email: dance@yaffa.com.au.

NAISDA'S end-of-year performance welcomed the presence of Carole Y Johnson, Artistic Director Emeritis and legendary pioneer of Indigenous dance in Australia.

Yellow Wheel, established in Melbourne in 2012, is an Australian dance company specialising in working with young people and emerging artists.

The Lady Mollie Isabelle Askin Ballet Scholarship, worth $30,000, is now calling for applicants for 2024.

This year marked the 10th anniversary of Sydney Dance Company's annual choreographic program, New Breed. See these photos of the four works.

Expressions of Interest for Chunky Move''s Choreolab 2024 program close on December 10.

Apply for rehearsal space at the Australian Ballet studios: closing date December 11.

Arts educator, choreographer and administrator Amanda Phillips has been honoured with the 2023 Ausdance SA Association Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and Education’.

Melbourne’s Arts House, the mult-arts performance venue based in the old North Melbourne Town Hall, is calling for Expressions of Interest for its CultureLAB and The Warehouse Residency for 2024.

Australian Dance Theatre has just finished its performance program for the year with a celebration of new talent at its home at the Odeon in Norwood in Adelaide.

The West Australian Ballet (WAB) has announced its 2024 season under its interim Artistic Director, David McAllister.

Impulstanz, the Vienna International Dance Festival in Austria, is calling for applications for its 2024 training and education program.

The director of the Australian Ballet School, Lisa Pavane, has announced she will step down from the post in June next year.

Three new Pieces

Three distinct Melbourne (Naarm) solo artists will premiere new works at the atmospheric Substation in Port Melbourne in December.

Qld Ballet's artistic director says the company does not receive its fair share of Federal Government funding, putting it at a huge disadvantage compared with its peers. We print his speech in full here.