Youth dance
‘Shades of us’—a stunning AYDF finale
It was fantastic to be able to join the Ausdance NSW team, the choreographers and more than 150 young people from all over Australia on the last day of the Australian Youth Dance Festival at NAISDA Dance College in Gosford NSW.
Shades of Us, presented in Mt Penang Gardens on the final evening, was a performance that grew out of an intensive week of creative development with choreographers Sue Healey, Philip Channells, Anton, Kay Armstrong, Matt Cornel, Adelina Larsson, Lee Pemberton, Vicki Van Hout and artistic director Rowan Marchingo.
Australian Youth Dance Festival scholarship winners
Congratulations to the young people chosen for a scholarship to this year's Youth Dance Festival. All winners receive a week of intensive dance tuition at AYDF and a 1yr subscription to Dance Australia.
To win an AYDF scholarship, the dancers uploaded a video of themselves dancing, with a short clip of their teacher/mentor saying why their student should come to AYDF.
Registrations now open for ‘Dance, Young People & Change’
It's time now to register for 'Dance, Young People & Change'. This is an international event where youth dance practitioners and educators can share ideas about the relevance of dance in young people's lives and in communities.
There will be an amazing program of performances, workshops, master classes and panel discussions for people of all ages, hosted by Taipei National University of the Arts from July 14—20 2012.
'Dance, Young People & Change' will be the World Dance Alliance Global Summit, held in partnership with dance and the Child international (daCi).
Youth dance—where does it fit?
In responding to our suggestion of a campaign to support the smaller key dance organisations, Ruth Osborne, artistic director of QL2 Dance, came in to discuss some of the issues youth dance companies are experiencing.