Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
Dance advocacy body Ausdance National has announced its closure after an unsuccessful search for alternative funding to compensate for the loss of federal funding in 2016. Ausdance was one of the bodies to lose operational funding when the then Minister for the Arts, Senator Brandis, reduced funding to the Australia
Associate Professor Gene Moyle, Head of the new School of Creative Practice at QUT, has been announced as AusDance’s new National President. With a background in professional dance with the Australian Ballet Dancers Company and Queensland Ballet, Gene brings a research background that combines dance, and sport and exercise psychology
In the spirit of reconciliation, the DDCA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.