Features

Features

Close encounters

Helping dancers feel safe in sexual or violent scenes is ever more important to ballet companies. Jane Albert explores the crucial role of intimacy coordinators.


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Home and away

Teaching is a portable skill, one that can carry you across the world. Jane Albert meets RAD teachers who have made new lives in completely new countries.


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Interviews

Interviews

Ballet with benefits

Australian teacher Rachel Ward recently won the RAD’s Dance for Wellbeing Award due to her research into dance’s health benefits and her work with Silver Swans. Jane Albert joins her class in Sydney to hear her story.


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Forever Amber

Australia’s star ballerina on coaching for The Fonteyn and passing it forward.


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Reports

Reports

A lifetime’s care

Body and brain will experience different challenges throughout a dancing life. Jane Albert asks experts about the issues that dancers face from childhood to old age.


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Reports

Strike!

Industrial action is rare in the ballet world – but artists from Melbourne to Paris and London are protesting over pay and conditions. Jane Albert reports on what it takes for dancers to strike.


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