After premiering in Brisbane to unanimous rave reviews, the smash hit production of Little Shop of Horrors sold out leaving theatre fans desperate for more. Woodward Productions has announced strictly limited seasons in Hobart, Melbourne and Wollongong, with additional cities rumoured for 2027. The production will play Hobart’s Theatre Royal from April 2027, Melbourne’s Athenaeum […]

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Norla Dome, Mission To Seafarers, Melbourne.7 October 2026. Sometimes, it is beautiful to be wrong. Of all artforms, dance invites such divergence, enticing us to guess, to read into movement alternative intentions and meanings, as though it were a body language designed to be misread. Contemporary dance, with its less narrative tendencies, can exacerbate this. […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.2 October 2026. The universality of dance as the music of the moving body makes it an ideal vehicle for synthesis. In Green, In White encapsulates this, literally and figuratively. Although rooted in the age old Chinese white snake fable (with its timeless motifs of love and betrayal), its flowers bloom in many forms. […]

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Chunky Move Studios, Melbourne.3 October 2026. She walks into frame. She looks fragile, disoriented. Around her, a brute, high-walled space. She is soft and small in this cavern of hard surfaces. It seems to diminish her. Is she a patient, a prisoner, a lab rat? Thus begins Immacolata, Caroline Meaden’s Melbourne Fringe solo, a work […]

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La Mama Courthouse, Melbourne.30 September 2026. We all want to be seen, as opposed to being looked at. We would prefer people to see more than our body. Knowing the private depths of our humanity, it can sting to be reduced to mere character. Even if we do perform, we hope for others to see […]

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Book: The Lucky SonAuthor: Li Cunxin, Penguin Random House, October 2026. There is something particularly satisfying about reading The Lucky Son after revisiting Li Cunxin’s Mao’s Last Dancer and, alongside it, reading Mary Li’s Mary’s Last Dance. None of these books was intended to form a trilogy, yet together they create something remarkably close to […]

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For dance studio owners looking for a better way to train and develop their assistant teachers, Dance Training Organisation (DTO) is hosting a free online ASPIRE Open House on Tuesday 27 October, offering the chance to hear how its nationally accredited assistant dance teaching program works inside real Australian studios. Held live on Zoom, the casual information […]

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For Ava-Rose Muscara, her first Victorian Dance Festival (VDF) was always going to be special. Performing in IGNITE with Scimm Platforms Youth Company, taking class with new choreographers and sharing the experience with friends and fellow dancers made for an exciting weekend. But she certainly wasn’t expecting her VDF debut to lead to a Dance […]

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The first principal cast members for Moulin Rouge! The Musical have been announced ahead of the production’s return to Sydney in March 2027. Ben Hall will play The Duke of Monroth, while Tim Omaji will reprise the role of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Tyler Chapman will play Santiago in his professional musical theatre debut, and Thalia […]

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Australian tap is making plenty of noise, with Capezio Australia announcing an exciting new partnership with Tap Mode, the rapidly growing Australian tap syllabus founded by professional tap dancer, choreographer and studio owner Mitchell Hicks, alongside Matthew Jenson. Just three years since its official launch, Tap Mode is already being taught in 60 studios across […]

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