Rhyme And Reason To Dance The Time Away

PRUE Duma's company, Planet Dance, teaches classical, ballet, funky jazz, hip hop and contemporary dance styles.

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1 Red and purple ballet shoes, $165, Sambag, 9387 5536.

Japan Gives Dancers A Royal Welcome

The Australian Ballet's performance of Swan Lake has been greeted by an audience enthusiastic for foreign artists, writes Malcolm Rock from Tokyo.

Notable Melbourne Arts Figures Honoured

TWO notable Melburnians, horn player Barry Tuckwell and ballet institution Dame Margaret Scott, have won this year's J.C. Williamson Award, which was announced ahead of today's list of nominations for the 2007 Helpmann performing arts awards.

New Romantics. By The Australian Ballet

New Romantics. By the Australian Ballet, the Arts Centre. Season ended. 4/5

Principal's Swan Song After 20 Years On His Toes

YESTERDAY was just like any other day for the Australian Ballet's principal artist, Steven Heathcote. Or so he said.