Dance Australia

Dance Australia is the most respected dance journal in the country. The articles and reviews are written by the cream of Australia’s dance journalists. The beautiful photographs and glossy design make the magazine a work of art in itself –a keepsake for anyone who loves dance.

Teaching in focus

Dance Australia

Li’s Choices for 2022

Stewart goes out with ‘G’

Glorious Gloria

Insurance for leasing?

SDC’s new ‘Years’

Top roles at Lido

Sidney Myer Creative Fellows

MOVES • Catching up on the comings and goings of the dance world.

MEET THE CAST • The performers in the stage musical of Moulin Rouge have been waiting a long time in the wings for the theatres to reopen. Sophia Dickinson meets three who can’t wait to burst onto the stage.

Facts and figures

‘YOU DON’T STOP BEING AN ARTIST.’ • Alice Topp has taken her career – and others’ – into her own hands, writes Susan Bendall.

A BRILLIANT CAREER • Australian dancer Leanne Benjamin has written a thoughtful and illuminating autobiography, writes Karen van Ulzen.

GIVEAWAY

QUARANTINE ROAD • What it took to keep Bangarra on tour during the pandemic.

Stop Press!

COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY • Maintaining a longterm vision isn’t easy at the best of times; during a pandemic, it can feel almost impossible. Alice Aschwanden offers some guidance.

Ballet and the Military • There are many unexpected links between military and ballet training, writes Matthew Lawrence.

TEACHER FOCUS • Welcome to our special feature on teachers and teaching.

TEACHING AND TOUCHING • How do you correct students without laying on your hands? Geraldine Higginson asked for advice.

The Teachers

Social Media in the Studio

Training interrupted • How much do long gaps in training impact on a dancer’s development? Susan Bendall finds out.

What the Australian Ballet School did.

HOW TO TALK ABOUT BODIES • Can you talk about weight to your students? What language can you use to ensure you won’t cause body image issues? Karen van Ulzen finds out.

What language is safe to use?

REGIONAL HEROES • A special feature celebrating country teachers and their pupils.

TEACHING THE FUTURE • Teachers of today are making the dancers of tomorrow. Without the diligence and care of our dedicated teachers, there would be no future for dance. In these pages we celebrate the people who right now are making our future dancers.

GRADUATE STORIES

Queensland Ballet • QLD BALLET: ‘BESPOKE’ It has been two Covid-interrupted years since Queensland Ballet (QB) last staged a season of the always this keenly anticipated choreographic season.

Australasian Dance Collective • The Australasian Dance Collective explores computer-generated random unpredictability in its latest work, writes Denise Richardson.

ADT’S ‘Objekt’ • This work is vintage Garry Stewart: inventive, brutal and unforgiving.

West Australian Ballet • COPPELIA HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE, REVIEWED SEPTEMBER 16

Coming up next issue!

Alexander Rodrigues is the newly appointed Robert and Elizabeth Conducting Fellow.