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The Tait Memorial Trust is offering a rare opportunity to listen to Leanne Benjamin AM OBE and Steven McRae in conversation with conductor Simone Young, to raise money for Australian and New Zealand performing artists living in the United Kingdom.

Emma Sandall's popular Ask Emma column, in which dancers send in their questions for Emma to answer, has gone live, online!

"At the moment we're trying to find an immediate way to employ our artists and pay them to think creatively," says Force Majeure's artistic director.

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The Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) has announced its new Virtual Scholarship Program, and is also offering online classes.

Monday 11 May will see some of Australia’s brightest musical theatre stars come together virtually to present “Lights Up on the Arts [Home Delivery]”.

The Australian Performing Arts Teachers Association (APATA) has announced the winners of its 2020 national awards program.

Australian Dance Theatre has announced a program called ADAPT, which will see the company share some of its most celebrated works online.

Shaun Parker & Company has found various ways to continue working and maintain connections with both its dancers and its audiences during this time of physical distancing.

"Lay-offs, however, are out of the question. . . . I will fight until the end if it gets to that point – it’s something I will never accept,” declares Artistic Director Aurelian Scanella.

The Australia Council has announced it will direct approximately $5M to a Resilience Fund for artists and arts organisations to support their livelihoods, practice and operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I think it’s about time that we had a national magazine. It has been far too long,” said the late, great classical dancer Kelvin Coe, OBE, in the very first issue of 'Dance Australia'. With such encouraging words the magazine came into being back in 1980.

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The Hamburg Ballet in Germany has begun streaming a weekly series of free, high quality recordings of works by John Neumeier, giving Australians a rare opportunity to see ballets never performed in this country.

The list of companies releasing footage of their repertoire just keeps growing, and the latest to release a program of work is The Australian Ballet.

Amy Hollingsworth’s first few months as Artistic Director of the newly branded Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) have been nothing if not challenging.