Moira Finucane's complex persona pulls the audience in different directions.

The Winter's Tale is wonderful old-fashioned theatre magic, a truly Shakespearean epic of love and hate, jealousy and purity – all told in the language of dance.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner inspired Quantum Leap's next show.

The traditional Swan Lake is a huge production with dozens of dancers. Arche is the Melbourne Ballet Company's version of the Swan Lake story, danced by nine performers.

Bennelong is an extraordinarily powerful work, a benchmark in Australian dance creativity.

Bangarra's tribute to a warrior and diplomat opens at the Opera House, on land that now bears his name.

The Unsettling turned out to be a non-event, but it gave the audience a look at the new Carriageworks space.

Quick, light movements that energise the traditional sequences are translated into showbiz routines.

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.