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Dance in Australia

Index Dance in Australia

Traditional Indigenous Australian dance was closely associated with song and was understood and experienced as making present the reality of the Dreamtime. [1]

70 relations: Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre, Adelaide College of the Arts, Adelaide Festival Centre, Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Ballet School, Australian Choreographic Ensemble, Australian College of Physical Education, Australian contemporary dance, Australian Dance Awards, Australian Dance Theatre, Ballet company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Baz Luhrmann, Box Hill Institute, Bush dance, Cèilidh, Chunky Move, Classical ballet, Corroboree, Dancehouse (Melbourne), Dancenorth, Deakin University, Descendance, Dreamtime, Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Excelsia College, Expressions Dance Company, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, Garry Stewart, Gertrud Bodenwieser, Helpmann Academy, Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work, Kage Physical Theatre, Kate Champion, Leigh Warren & Dancers, Les Lanciers, Lucy Guerin, Macquarie University, Melbourne, Mirramu Dance Company, National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association, National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia, New Vogue (dance), Paul Mercurio, Peggy van Praagh, Quadrille, ..., Queensland Ballet, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Restless Dance Theatre, Robert Helpmann, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Shuffle dance, So You Think You Can Dance Australia, Stephen Page, Strictly Ballroom, Sydney Dance Company, Sydney Opera House, TAFE South Australia, The Australian Ballet, Tracks Inc, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, Victoria University, Australia, West Australian Ballet, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Expand index (20 more) »

Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts

The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) is a national Australian institution for the culturally sensitive training of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.

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Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre

Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) was the first theatre used to train Aboriginal and Islander students on their dancing career.

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Adelaide College of the Arts

The Adelaide College of the Arts, (also known as AC Arts), (previously known as Adelaide Centre for the Arts) is a campus of TAFE South Australia that specialises in performing arts education.

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Adelaide Festival Centre

The Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia's first multi-purpose arts centre, was built in 1973 and opened three months before the Sydney Opera House.

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Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre

Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company based in Perth.

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Arts Centre Melbourne

The Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly officially called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central Melbourne suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia.

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Australia Council for the Arts

The Australia Council for the Arts, informally known as the Australia Council, is the official arts council or arts funding body of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Ballet School

The Australian Ballet School was founded in 1964 as the primary training facility for The Australian Ballet by Dame Margaret Scott.

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Australian Choreographic Ensemble

The Australian Choreographic Ensemble (ACE) (1992 - 1998) was an Australian contemporary dance company based in Sydney formed by Paul Mercurio in 1992.

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Australian College of Physical Education

The Australian College of Physical Education (ACPE) is an independent specialist tertiary education institution in Sydney, Australia.

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Australian contemporary dance

Contemporary dance in Australia is diverse with dance companies performing a broad range of what elsewhere may be termed contemporary and modern dance styles.

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Australian Dance Awards

The Australian Dance Awards recognise excellence in dance in Australia.

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Australian Dance Theatre

Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia established in 1965 by Dr.

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Ballet company

A ballet company is a type of dance troupe which performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff.

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Bangarra Dance Theatre

Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Indigenous Australian contemporary dance company.

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Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, 17 September 1962) is an Australian writer, director, and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music, and recording industries.

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Box Hill Institute

Box Hill Institute is a Victorian vocational and higher education provider based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne in Victoria.

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Bush dance

Bush dance is a style of dance from Australia, particularly where the music is provided by a bush band.

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Cèilidh

A cèilidh or céilí is a traditional Scottish or Irish social gathering.

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Chunky Move

Chunky Move is an Australian contemporary dance company from Southbank, Victoria It was founded in 1995 and debuted at the Melbourne International Arts Festival with artistic director Gideon Obarzanek.

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Classical ballet

Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique.

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Corroboree

A corroboree is an event where Australian Aborigines interact with the Dreamtime through dance, music and costume.

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Dancehouse (Melbourne)

Dancehouse is a centre for independent contemporary dance in the Carlton North area of Melbourne, Australia.

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Dancenorth

Dancenorth is a contemporary dance company based in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia.

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Deakin University

Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia.

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Descendance

Descendance (Descendance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dance Theatre), previous known as the Ngaru Dancers, is an Australian Aboriginal dance company formed in 1999.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia

The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture,Paper Set Windows Macintosh edited by David Horton, is an encyclopaedia published by the "Aboriginal Studies Press" at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in 1994 and available in two volumes or on CD-ROM covering all aspects of Indigenous Australians lives and world (such as biography, history, art, language, sport, education, archaeology, literature, land ownership, social organisation, health, music, law, technology, media, economy, politics, food and religion).

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Excelsia College

Excelsia College (formerly Wesley Institute) is a tertiary education provider in Sydney, Australia offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in counselling, performing arts (drama and music), teacher education and business with a view to become Australia's first Protestant Christian University.

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Expressions Dance Company

Expressions Dance Company is an Australian contemporary dance company based in the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, in Fortitude Valley.

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Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (formerly known as the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music) is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.

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Garry Stewart

Garry Stewart (born 1962) has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999, following Meryl Tankard.

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Gertrud Bodenwieser

Gertrud Bodenwieser (3 February 1890 – 10 November 1959), also known as "Gertrude", was a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of expressive dance.

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Helpmann Academy

The Helpmann Academy was formed in 1994 as a partnership of the major tertiary arts training institutions in South Australia.

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Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work

The Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work was a dance award presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards from 2001 to 2016.

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Kage Physical Theatre

Kage Physical Theatre is an Australian physical theatre/contemporary dance company.

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Kate Champion

Kate Champion (born 1961, Sydney, Australia) is a director and choreographer with over thirty years' experience across multiple art forms.

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Leigh Warren & Dancers

Leigh Warren & Dancers is a contemporary dance company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Les Lanciers

Les Lanciers or The Lancers is a square dance, a variant of the Quadrille, a set dance performed by four couples, particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Lucy Guerin

Lucy Guerin (born 1961) is an Australian dancer and choreographer.

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Macquarie University

Macquarie University is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Mirramu Dance Company

Mirramu Dance Company is an Australian contemporary dance company founded in early 2002 by Australian dance pioneer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman (the founder of Australian Dance Theatre) and dancer–choreographer Vivienne Rogis.

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National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association

The National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) Dance College was established in 1975 to train Indigenous Australians in dance.

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of copies of film, television, sound, and radio audiovisual materials and related items.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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New Vogue (dance)

The New Vogue dance style is an Australian form of sequence dancing that originated in the 1930s.

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Paul Mercurio

Paul Joseph Mercurio (born 31 March 1963) is an Australian actor, dancer, and TV presenter.

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Peggy van Praagh

Dame Margaret "Peggy" van Praagh, DBE (1 September 1910 – 15 January 1990) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, repetiteur, producer, advocate and director, who spent much of her later career in Australia.

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Quadrille

The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.

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Queensland Ballet

The Queensland Ballet, founded in 1960 by Charles Lisner OBE, is the premier ballet company of Queensland, Australia and is based in Brisbane.

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Queensland Performing Arts Centre

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (also known as QPAC) is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre and is located on the corner of Melbourne Street and Grey Street in Brisbane's South Bank precinct.

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Queensland University of Technology

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Restless Dance Theatre

Restless Dance Theatre is a dance theatre company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Robert Helpmann

Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (9 April 190928 September 1986) was an Australian dancer, actor, theatre director and choreographer.

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Roslyn Packer Theatre

The Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay is a theatre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Shuffle dance

The shuffle dance, also known as the Melbourne Shuffle, rocking or simply The Shuffle) is a rave and club dance that developed in the early 1990s. This shuffle style became known as the 'Melbourne Shuffle' in 1998. Many of the movements used in shuffling are typical jazz dance steps but with a contemporary twist. The style is also influenced by a Chicago based ghetto house dance called footwork and a style called the crip walk that originates in Compton LA. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Most variants also incorporate arm movements.

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So You Think You Can Dance Australia

So You Think You Can Dance Australia is an Australian version of the American reality dance competition So You Think You Can Dance.

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Stephen Page

Stephen George Page (born 1965) is the Artistic Director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre.

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Strictly Ballroom

Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.

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Sydney Dance Company

Sydney Dance Company is a contemporary dance company in Australia.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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TAFE South Australia

TAFE South Australia (TAFE SA) provides vocational education and training in South Australia.

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The Australian Ballet

The Australian Ballet is the largest classical ballet company in Australia.

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Tracks Inc

Tracks is a dance theatre company based in Darwin, Northern Territory founded in 1994, although its beginnings lie in a community dance program in 1988.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW; branded as UNSW Sydney) is an Australian public research university located in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.

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Victoria University, Australia

Victoria University (VU) is an Australian public university based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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West Australian Ballet

West Australian Ballet or WAB is the State ballet company of Western Australia and is based in Perth at the Western Australian Ballet Centre in Maylands The company was founded in 1952 by Madame Kira Bousloff (formerly of the Ballets Russes) and is one of the oldest ballet companies in Australia.

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Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_Australia

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