Stephen Page has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to performing arts and contemporary dance, and for presenting indigenous arts to the world.

This Nutcracker moves fluidly through time, as an elderly Clara remembers her youth as a young ballerina in Russia, the heartbreak of love lost on a battlefield, and her eventual, bewildered arrival in Australia.

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Sound is visualised through the dancers' movements, which range from lingering embraces to tapping and daggy dancing.

Sydney Dance Company continues to amaze with its with its passion and power.

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Sydney Dance Company's double bill features some terrific dancing across both works.

With a little help from Airbnb, Phillip Adams' BalletLab is bucking the trend.

The title of Limitless Dance Company's second season, SE7EN, is a reference to the 'sinful entities inside all of us'.

Cheng Tsung-lung's dancers illustrate the company's skills as athletes.

Now one of Asia's leading choreographers, Cheng Tsung-lung got his start selling shoes on the mean streets of Taipei.

There's plenty of dance on offer both to watch and to try as Australian Dance Week unfolds.

Graeme Murphy's Nutcracker remains one of the few attempts to tell Australian stories in ballet form.

In the Australian Ballet's latest triple bill, Faster, diversity is missing.

''Faster'' is a modern ballet that plays out like an MGM musical with a Hitchcockian soundtrack.

Movement is an ideal way to illustrate the development of these characters, whose moments of introspection are most effectively conveyed.

A ensemble of Australian boys get a taste of dance through a staging of William Golding's dark, raw work.

The incoming Four Winds musical director is making his debut with tango, flamenco and other Latin sounds.

Choreographer Mariaa Randall explores the story of women and leaving a country for new places.

Four skateboarding novices try to absorb all they can about the art of riding the concrete wave in this new Dance Massive performance piece.

One dancer is naked, the other clothed, as unified movements disperse into violent explorations of power.

An ambitious dance work uses symbolic props and smoke to explore the unrelenting inward pull of gravity.

Five dancers in trackie dacks tackle big themes in this Dance Massive show.

The Australian Ballet's modern ballet program, Faster, presents works by three male choreographers. The works are designed to showcase the body in high-speed motion, with a focus on heightened physicality, hyper-extended limbs, and contemporary sound and design.

The Royal Ballet's choreographer Wayne McGregor, and composer Max Richter fuse music, dance and technology to create narrative wonders, as will be seen when two of their collaborations are performed in Australia.

A dance duel turns out to be more contemplative than flamboyant in its theatrical context.