Thank you to everyone who came to watch Don Quixote on stage at the Araluen Arts Centre on the last week end in March. A lot of challenges but what fun! We were pushed pretty hard to produce such a massive ballet. The traditional four act famous ballets are like pandora's box - it feels like a freight train running with no way of stopping it. The Story needs to be told without words and it does take time to create, each character need to learn the dance steps, movements a

Creating the best possible training and exercise programmes for our dancers and pilates clients is our number one priority and everyone at the Australian Dance Academy and Duprada constantly works towards achieving the best of the best. At Duprada each week we are teaching, encouraging and training dance students who change and grow daily along with a broad range of pilates clients, young dancers, adult pilates for fitness and injury recovery and post surgery sessions for no

We have had such an inspiring start to 2026 with new students, Mahlia Burroughs moving to Alice Springs to complete her Professional Studies, Scarlett Worrall travelling to Darwin to work with the Victorian State Ballet and the 2026 Season Launch. The Season Launch which announced Duprada Dance Company and the Australian Dance Academy's performance programmes for 2026 and was held in the Studios at Diarama Village. We were proud to have on display our 2026 Calendar fea

The best news - Congratulations to Billy and Tiffanie who are very excited to be expecting their first baby in July 2026. Billy and Tiffanie were married on 1st October 2025 and were very keen to start a family. There is a lot of excitement around the studio at the moment, Tiffanie is very well and looks great. She plans to continue working until the end of Term 2, take maternity leave and if all goes well be back in 2027. Billy looks very proud and constantly smiling al

D uprada never disappoints , every year we have the most fabulous feed back from our Jazz Collectives performances. To have all the...

Our studios are bursting with energy as we prepare for 'Open Days' for our Jazz and Tap classes. In a ballet class dancers are learning...

It is fantastic to head into our Winter Break with so many things to do. The town is vibrant an the people in our community shine at...

Thank you to everyone who came to our production of 'Giselle' which was the Ballet Company's first Winter Season of ballet. The dancers...

We have had a vibrant start to our 2025 year, thank you to everyone involved. The energy in the studio has been dynamic even though most...

Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance ...