Editor’s Overview This month’s issue of dancetrain explores what it truly means to prepare dancers and performers for long term artistic lives, not simply careers built [...]
Articles
Performing Arts Perspectives 2026
The thirtieth anniversary of Performing Arts Perspectives unfolded with a quiet sense of significance, not just as a milestone, but as a living, breathing reflection of what [...]
Audition Tips for Moulin Rouge Paris
For dancers around the world, an audition for Moulin Rouge represents more than just a job opportunity. It is a chance to step into one of the most iconic stages in [...]
Giselle Mammone
At Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, two distinct stages of elite training meet within one dancer’s journey, [...]
Rebecca Bassett-Graham
NZSD Rebecca Bassett-Graham 2025 Photo credit Stephen A’Court Originally from New Zealand, Rebecca Bassett-Graham has built a career defined not by shortcuts, but by [...]
Australian Performing Arts Grammar School
For students who choose Australian Performing Arts Grammar School, the appeal is not simply that it offers more dance, more performance or more time in the studio. It is that [...]
Inside ED5International’s Industry Leading Program
For more than two decades, ED5International’s graduate performances have remained a constant highlight on the performance calendar, a benchmark of excellence that continues [...]
The McDonald College
Photo: Margaret Markham in the centre (1940) In 1926 a young Scottish migrant named Ann McDonald began teaching dance in Sydney. The decision was both practical and quietly [...]
The Adelaide Cecchetti Medal Awards
click here to view images captured on the day The Adelaide stage at St Mary’s College filled with the quiet intensity that only a Cecchetti Medal day can bring, the [...]
Cinta Hamilton
Cinta Hamilton represents a new generation of Australian performers whose technical precision, artistic intelligence and commercial awareness position her as a compelling [...]
Lisa Antoinette Herbert
The journey of a dancer often begins quietly, in a studio, repeating steps, listening carefully to music, absorbing the culture and discipline that sits behind the movement. [...]
Victoria Baldesarra | Inspiring the Next Generation of Dancers
For many young dancers around the world, The Next Step has been more than just a television series. It has been a window into the discipline, passion and teamwork that shape [...]
The Custodians of Dance
Australasian Dance Association Australian Institute of Classical Dance Ballet Conservatoire Cecchetti Ballet Australia COMDANCE The Custodians of Dance By Danielle Brown In [...]
Chloé Zuel
Chloé Zuel is one of Australia’s most compelling musical theatre artists, known for extraordinary vocal power, commanding stage presence and a grounded professionalism [...]