The winners of this year’s Australian Dance Awards were announced last night (Sunday 24 July) in a ceremony at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. The annual Australian Dance Awards recognise and reward professional Australian dance artists who have made an outstanding contribution to dance in the previous year. Ten Awards were given, as well as the
Trisha Brown’s pioneering dance style is a celebrated cornerstone of modern dance. August 10-14, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival salutes the 40th anniversary of the Trisha Brown Dance Company with a commemorative program of works highlighting Brown’s inventive choreographic range.
The program includes the 1973 work
Acclaimed show by Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers has come to New York City for 10 weeks only. Traces began previews on Friday, July 29 with an official opening of Monday, August 8.
If the world ended tomorrow, what would you leave behind? In Traces, the human body is pushed to its limits as a group of friends leave their mark in a run-down
El Portal Theatre and Artistic Director Dee Caspary present the first annual Nvitational Dance Festival from July 29 through August 14 in Los Angeles.
The Nvitational will be a series of collaborative events featuring dance from America’s best, boldest, edgiest, and fiercest choreographers including the festival’s Artistic Director,
The second annual National Dance Day took place on Saturday July 30. Where did you dance to celebrate National Dance Day? “It’s a wonderful way to stay healthy and have fun whilst doing it,” National Dance Day creator and SYTYCD Executive Producer/Judge Nigel Lythgoe said on the show.
National Dance Day is a grassroots
At the beginning of May, Nederlands Dans Theater contacted dance professionals across the world with the request to sign the petition ‘Keep Nederlands Dans Theater Alive’. With this petition Nederlands Dans Theater stated its opposition to the advice given on April 29th to the State Secretary for Culture, Mr. Halbe Zijlstra, by the Council for
Returning to NYC after its groundbreaking 12-year Broadway run, RENT, set in NYC's East Village, is a modern take on the classic Puccini opera, La Boheme. It tells the unforgettable story of a group of young artists learning to survive, falling in love,
finding their voices and living for today.
The Off-Broadway revival will begin
Wonderful readers,The July Editions are out! US members can enjoy hearing from their season eight So You Think You Can Dance contestants, Broadway's Chet Walker and commercial dance king Tovaris Wilson. Australian members will enjoy news from Ballet Revolucion, Vertical Shadows and Bangarra as well as huge ticket giveaways. There are also advice columns on
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Two World PremieresGet your tickets to the gala performance from renown Turkish dancer/choreographer Korhan Basaran and his company. The movement language of Basaran ranges
from neo-classical to contemporary, and contains an instinctive simplicity and emotional honesty that connects his work to a universal language of movement. The surprising
Manhattan Youth Ballet (MYB) has announced additions to its staff beginning in the fall:
New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Daniel Ulbricht as Artistic Advisor, working in collaboration with the school's Founder and Executive Artistic Director Rose Caiola; Brian Reeder as Choreographer-in-Residence; and Karen Lacy as a member of the
Alonzo King has created a piece entitled
Figures of Thought
for the Ballet Béjart. Ballet Béjart was the creative house of one of the world's most renowned choreographers, Maurice Béjart, who revolutionized dance, bringing to the forefront the psychological meaning hidden behind stories and movement. He was also a
