INDance: High Octane and Wet Hard Long

Ausdance ACT’s 2026 Australian Dance Week brings a packed program of performances, classes and community events, with Floeur Alder returning as a featured artist.

Winners have been announced at the 2026 Claudia Dean Scholarships, with dancers recognised across four age divisions alongside a suite of special awards and international training opportunities.

From Cinderella to two thread, this year’s Performing Arts WA Awards recognised work across mainstage and independent dance, with multiple artists and collaborations acknowledged across performance and choreography categories.

A sweeping score, strong central performances and a stage adaptation that leans into romance over realism shape Anastasia’s Sydney run, writes Heather Campbell.

Collaborations of this nature are essential to the evolution of Australian dance, and that these themes are addressed by our national ballet company—with its bigger budgets, resources, and reach—matters, writes Emma Sandall

With two companies sharing the stage, this program moves from tightly held ensemble work to a finale that opens outward, buoyant, expansive and hard to resist.

Australian and New Zealand dancers reflect on their time at the Prix de Lausanne, in their own words.

RAD’s CEO reflects on her Australasian tour, global strategy, and why excellence and inclusion must go hand in hand.

Alice Topp on Creating Macbeth for the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Recent comments by Timothée Chalamet about opera and ballet sparked debate across the arts. Dance leaders reflect on the endurance, relevance and shared humanity that continue to sustain these artforms.

As Rambert marks its centenary, Maggie Lorraine revisits the company’s 1947–49 tour of Australia and asks whether Marie Rambert’s influence on our national ballet identity has been fully recognised.

Josef Brown on discovering dance through film and television