A Reserve Double Passes are up for grabs!

NUTCRACKER ON ICE

The international ice dance sensation The Imperial Ice Stars make a triumphant return to Australia this winter with a dazzling new production of The Nutcracker on Ice.

Over the last seven years, The Imperial Ice Stars have performed to more than three million people across five continents, at some of the world’s most prestigious venues.

For their latest production, The Nutcracker on Ice, acclaimed Artistic Director Tony Mercer – the world’s leading creator of contemporary theatre-on-ice – has once again teamed with four-time figure skating World Champion and dual Olympic gold medallist Evgeny Platov, and dual World Champion Maxim Staviski to create choreography that further raises the bar, with ever more breathtaking high-speed leaps and throws, and awe-inspiring acrobatics, coupled with the most graceful and sublime ice dancing.

Sydney: Capitol Theatre – 6-10 June
Canberra: Canberra Theatre Centre – 13-17 June
Brisbane: Lyric Theatre, QPAC – 20-24 June
Adelaide: Adelaide Festival Centre – 18-22 July
Melbourne: The Arts Centre – 25-29 July
Perth: His Majesty’s Theatre – 2-12 August

www.imperialicestars.com

OPERA WARRIORS

Direct from the award-winning creative team behind the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Opera Warriors showcases the best of Chinese modern theatre arts in a show that tells a story of the Peking Opera through martial arts and modern dance. To celebrate the closing of the Year of Chinese Culture in Australia, Opera Warriors will premiere at the Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House with four shows only from 14 to 16 June.

Opera Warriors is choreographed by Mr Xing Shimiao, and scripted by Ms Pik Wah Li (Lilian Lee) – one of Hong Kong’s most popular columnists, whose screenplay Farewell My Concubine won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. Mr Sha Xiaolan, the Lighting Designer of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of Beijing 2008 Olympics, will light the Opera House stage.

Leading Chinese dancer Mr Wang Di, who performed the painting scroll sequence in Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, and Mr Huang Doudou, China’s most famous male dancing artist, who performed Chinese Kung-Fu in the Closing Ceremony of 2004 Greece Olympic Games, will lead the troupe of 60 dancers.

Brought to Sydney by the Shanxi Huajin Dance Art Troupe, Opera Warriors is an exquisite visual feast that combines an elaborate set, beautiful costumes, dynamic lighting and original music with a story that encompasses the dramas of life.

www.operawarriors.com.au

Win a Double Pass to:
Nutcracker On Ice at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre or Opera Warriors at Sydney Opera House!

Just email info@danceinforma.com with subject: “WIN TICKETS” and tell us What show you’d like to win tickets to and why. Dance Informa’s Editors will pick the best responses to win.
* Please include your full name, postal address and date of birth.

Competition open until May 24.

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Win Tickets to Jecko Siompo’s We Came from the East.

In an Australian premiere, Jecko Siompo and Jecko’s Dance present We Came from the East at this year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival. First you hear the noises, a cacophonous array of yelps emerging from the blackness. And then the bodies appear, contorted and animalistic, folded backwards and leaping toward the ceiling with bestial vigour. It’s a long way from breakdancing, yet it seems so familiar.  Could it be true? Could hip-hop really have come from Indonesia? This is the question mischievously posed by Jecko Siompo in We Came from the East. Siompo conjures up a furious display of the apparently indelible links between traditional Papuan dance and contemporary hip-hop.

To Enter
Email Dance Informa at info@danceinforma.com with
Your Name, Date of Birth, Full Address, Phone Number and ‘Why you love Dance Informa’.
Good luck!

We Came from the East
Tue 18 – Sat 22 Oct, 8pm
The CUB Malthouse, Beckett Theatre
Bookings: M-TIX (03) 9685 5111 / malthousetheatre.com.au
Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 / melbournefestival.com.au

NSW Permit Number : LTPM/10/00971CLASS: Type B
Competition opens on Oct 4 2011. Competition closes on October 12 2011. Winners will be selected at random on Oct 12 at 5:00pm EST and notified by email and/or phone. All entrants must provide an email address, a postal address, full name and date of birth. All entrants who are not a subscriber to Dance Informa will be given a free subscription. All subscribers can unsubscribe at any time by visiting danceinforma.com/unsubscribe. Minimum entry age is 13 years of age. Prizes will be drawn in Highbury SA. Winners will be published at www.danceinforma.com after they are announced. If not all prizes are claimed, a Second Chance Draw will be held. This competition is held by Dance Informa Pty Ltd of SA. Phone 1300 783 120.

Top photo:  (c)Riduan

WIN a Double Pass to A Chamber Ballet by Ensemble Liaison with JACK Productions at Melbourne Recital Centre.

Ensemble Liaison and JACK Productions explore the intersection of chamber music and dance, creating a new ‘chamber ballet’ to be premiered on 18 August. With no sets and no crowded stage – just four musicians and four dancers in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, this collaboration is a celebration of cross-art form talent.

To Enter
Email Dance Informa at info@danceinforma.com  with:
Your Name, Date of Birth, Full Address, Phone Number and ‘Why you love Dance Informa’.
Good luck!

A CHAMBER BALLET – Ensemble Liaison with JACK Productions
Date: August 18, 7pm
Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
Book at: www.melbournerecital.com.au or call the Box Office on 03 9699 3333.

NSW Permit Number : LTPM/10/00971CLASS: Type B
Competition opens on Aug 3 2011. Competition closes on August 12 2011. Winners will be selected at random on Aug 12 at 5:00pm EST and notified by email. All entrants must provide an email address, a postal address, full name and date of birth. All entrants who are not a subscriber to Dance Informa will be given a free subscription. All subscribers can unsubscribe at any time by visiting danceinforma.com/unsubscribe. Minimum entry age is 13 years of age. Prizes will be drawn in Highbury SA. Winners will be published at www.danceinforma.com after they are announced. If not all prizes are claimed, a Second Chance Draw will be held. This competition is held by Dance Informa Pty Ltd of SA. Phone 1300 783 120.

Readers, enter today to win tickets to two amazing dance shows, or the prestigious Australian Dance Awards!

Win a DOUBLE PASS to Ballet Revolucion
Melbourne or Brisbane
Click here to hear about Cuba’s Ballet Revolucion and the company’s Australian tour.

Win a DOUBLE PASS to Side To One in Adelaide.
Click here to find out more about this new contemporary dance work presented at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Win a DOUBLE PASS to the 2011 Australian Dance Awards in Brisbane
Click here to find out more about the dance industry’s night of nights!

To Enter
Email Dance Informa at info@danceinforma.com  with:
Your Name, Date of Birth, Full Address, Phone Number and ‘Why you love Dance Informa’.

Good luck!

NSW Permit Number : LTPM/10/00971CLASS: Type B
Competition opens on July 2 2011. Competition closes on July 16. Winners will be selected at random on July 16 at 5:00pm EST and notified by email. All entrants must provide an email address, a postal address, full name and date of birth. All entrants who are not a subscriber to Dance Informa will be given a free subscription. All subscribers can unsubscribe at any time by visiting danceinforma.com/unsubscribe. Minimum entry age is 13 years of age. Prizes will be drawn in Highbury SA. Winners will be published at www.danceinforma.com after they are announced. If not all prizes are claimed, a Second Chance Draw will be held. This competition is held by Dance Informa Pty Ltd of SA. Phone 1300 783 120.

“Manual ticketing is such a time consuming and political process.”

“I used to spent vast amounts of time ticketing that I would rather have spent on performance preparation.”

“Hour after hour was spent selling tickets to parents who had to queue for hours to get good seats.”

Sound familiar? There are many reasons why more than 100 dance studios across Australia use TryBooking to ticket their performances and workshops. Saving time, easing their workload and making parents happy are just three important reasons.

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“Our first event selling tickets through TryBooking was incredible to watch. The 900 seats sold out in 45 minutes!” related Kevin Coyne from Michelle Slater Performing Arts Studio.

“We sold as many tickets in 3 minutes as we used to sell in 5 hours of manual sales! Parents love the convenience and the secure credit card payment option,” concurred Bec Kay from Dance Theatre Network.

TryBooking offers the most affordable, flexible, easy to use online ticketing solution available. Your patrons pay just 30¢ per ticket for the convenience of buying and booking their seats online. You only pay nominal bank transaction fees.  So truly, everyone can afford TryBooking.

“We knew we needed to do ticketing differently, but we had no online experience.” Dancehouse also didn’t want to be committed by contracts, or minimums or to make a large financial outlay on box office software. David Tyndall, Creative Director, Dancehouse explained, “Soon we even created a seating plan so people can view the theatre’s seating online.”

You can create a seating chart for any venue so your patrons can simply click the seat and book their ticket. Whether general admission, reserved seating, performances that run over multiple days/times or even venues – it’s all possible and easy with TryBooking.

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A recommendation from dance company, Strut, brought The Buzz Dance Theatre to TryBooking in 2010. Mary Wolfla, Education Officer at Buzz Dance Theatre extolled, “we switched to TryBooking for ease of use. It is an affordable ticketing solution, with great customer service and excellent options for generating reports. Really, it is an all-in-one service.”

Patrons are thrilled at the ease of being able to visit the dance company’s website and instantly purchase tickets. “We simply embedded TryBooking to our website so now when people are on our site looking at a workshop or performance all they need to do is click a link that says Book Here. Our last performance had a total attendance of 200+ and nearly all the tickets were sold online via TryBooking. This was a huge increase in our online ticket sales.”

Buzz Dance Theatre, like many dance and sporting organisations, also now use TryBooking to accept online registrations for workshops and auditions. You can create registration forms that ask for exactly the information you need to collect. In addition to saving time managing paperwork, there is no data entry or searching for information. Almost 20 online reports provide instant access to all your data. And best of all, the banking is already done for you!

TryBooking has the friendliest customer service team in the industry. If you would like any information please call them today on (03) 9012 3460 and visit www.trybooking.com for  information about getting started.

Win Free Ticketing!

TryBooking will donate back all booking fees for your next performance, workshop or other event you would like to trial with TryBooking’s online ticketing service!*

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Visit these links to see how dance schools and companies are using TryBooking:
Strut Dance – Tongues of Stone 
2011 Australian Dance Festival 
Balmoral Balletto Concert
Dancehouse“Fantastic! I will never go back to doing our own tickets. I am recommending TryBooking to everyone I know.”
Mathis School of Dancing

“After 42 years of managing ticket sales manually, I have finally been rewarded with TryBooking. Parents are happy selecting their own tickets and also have the opportunity to purchase the DVD was a bonus”.
Inara Svalbe O.B.E, Centenary Dance Academy

“My initial concern was it was going to be a hassle to set up, but it was extremely simple and user friendly”.
Murray Holmes, Donna Jeans Danceforce

Even if you’re a first time user, TryBooking is still easy to do. When I needed it, the support was excellent and very responsive.”
Fun4Kids Festival

“I feel like I can just call for help and we weren’t just forgotten or taken for granted once we came on board.”
La Mama Theatre

NSW Permit Number : LTPM/10/00971CLASS: Type B