Newcastle Dance Awards Australia

We at Entertainmentfirst are proud to bring this Amazing Opportunity to the Newcastle community that you and your children live, play and dance in……… 
Our new dance scholarship program “Newcastle Dance Awards – Australia” is a competition based event to find the best dance students in Newcastle and surrounding areas including; Maitland, Port Stephens, Lake Macquarie, Central Coast and the Hunter Valley, each and every year and award monetary scholarships to help dancers continue their dance studies. 

Over the past 5 decades, Newcastle in Australia has been a town that has produced some of the finest dancers performing around the world. We have seen amazing dancers position themselves into companies both within Australia and abroad. 
Some examples; 
Marisa Burgess – Moulin Rouge – Paris 
Elizabeth Toohey – Australian Ballet Principal 
Damian Smith – San Francisco Ballet Principal (18yrs), Hamburg Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Ballet Du Nord, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Australian Ballet, Guest Artists with New York City Ballet, Dutch National Ballet 
Robert Curran – Australian Ballet Principal 
Nicole Padgett – Vienna State Opera Ballet, Gothenburg Ballet Company (Sweden), 
– Linz Landestheatre Ballet (Austria). 
Geon Vand er Wyst – His credits are Australian Ballet, Russian Ballet and Toronto Ballet (Canada). 
Dein Perry – Award winning choreographer, dancer and actor – 
– Shows include; “Hot Shoe Shuffle”, “Tap Dogs”, “Steele City” & Director of the tap movie; “Bootmen” 
Bronwyn White – Founder of the Hunter Regional Dance Company 
Elise Frawley – Classical Ballet Examiner for the prestigious “Royal Academy of Dance” (R.A.D) 
David Harris – Broadway NYC – “Les Miserables”, “Goodspeed’s production of Anything Goes” 
Jane Finney – Australia Ballet 
just to name a few……………….. 

We at the Newcastle Dance Awards – Australia believe that there are many more great dancers to come. With over 180 dance schools in Newcastle, Maitland, Port Stephens, Lake Macquarie, Central Coast & Hunter Valley areas that train all genres of dance we are creating a community support team for the dance world here in Newcastle and its surrounding areas, it is both important and necessary that we as a community support the youth of today to strive for excellence and know that their hard work and dedication can be rewarded. 
There are 1000’s of families in the Hunter Valley & Central Coast Region that are able to support their children and enable them to be trained by the wonderful dance teaching professionals, so we want to support the studios and their students. Please help us help the children with their passion for dance. 

EVENT SCHEDULE OUTLINE

AGE DIVISIONS
* All dancers compete first in their AGE DIVISIONS- Any Genre of Dance accepted. (3min max)
Dancers who choose to participate in the ‘2nd Chance to Dance’ will dance their 2nd routine at the end of their junior or senior sections (not mandatory – not judged)
 just another chance to get on stage and perform – which is what the dancers love to do!!
Dancers show diversity in routines can also win Most Versatile Awards in their age divisions

SEMI-FINAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Top 2 dancers in each division move to SEMI-FINALS
Top 10 Jr dancers are announced at end of the Junior division.
Top 10 Snr dancers are announced at end of the Senior division.
Semi-finalists will return by 5:30pm in the evening to dance their main routine again for judges @ 6pm
* FINALIST/WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Top Dancer in each age division become an AWARD FINALIST 
10 Scholarship Winners 

These dancers WIN Sponsored Tuition Scholarships and
JR & SNR SCHOLARSHIP Perpetual Trophies are awarded to top 2 dancers of the event.