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Following its world premiere Perth Festival season in February this year, Co3 Contemporary Dance Australia is delighted to announce the release of Raewyn Hill’s 'Archives of Humanity' for a limited Encore Online Season.

Five Australians and one New Zealander are among the 15 young dancers to have been selected for the finals of the Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition (previously the Genee).

Marrugeku is turning the spotlight on Australia’s approach to locking people up.

With Sydney now in lockdown, the dance sector is once again feeling the brunt, with restrictions closing down schools in the city and limiting the numbers in the regions.

NSW Fair Trading is investigating ticket reseller Viagogo as consumer complaints against the company spike in line with the reintroduction of ticketed events.

Co3, Perth's contemporary dance company, is delighted to have secured significant financial support for its Commission Fund.

For many years, the Tanja Liedtke Foundation has had a creative association with the Hannover Choreographic Competition.

Dance companies from around Australia will come together at Arts Centre Melbourne in September to perform in a unique festival conceived and curated by the Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David Hallberg.

The Royal Academy of Dance presented a hugely successful 2021 Festival of Dance in Perth over the long weekend in June, returning to its full strength this year after a slightly abridged event in 2020.

Internationally renowned UK-based choreographer Marc Brew has teamed up with local company, the Rawcus Ensemble, for a new work to be presented at Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre from 7 – 11 July.

Choreographer Stephanie Lake staged her work 'Colossus' in Paris via Zoom. Watch this video of the extraordinary process here.

Acclaimed choreographer Alice Topp has launched a new dance collective of independent artistic talent, called Project Animo, for retired and independent dancers.

Last week, the recipient of our Emerging Female Classical Choreographer initiative, Xanthe Geeves, after much Covid-19 caused delay, finally was able to undertake the first half of her award – a choreographic development residency at the Sydney Opera House.

With Victoria enduring its fourth lockdown, Victorian dance schools have once again had to bear the persistent burden of Covid-19. But spare a thought for Tim Podesta, whose Projection Dance is situated right on the Victorian and NSW border.

A young dancer from Perth has just made ballet history by becoming the first Australian accepted for the legendary Mariinsky Ballet in Russia.

This year's Queen's Birthday honours included a reasonable percentage of artists, including those in the field of dance.