The Australian Dance Council (Ausdance) is a national dance advocacy organisation for dancers, choreographers, directors and educators. It has offices in the states and territory. Ausdance Australian Dance Week, including the Australian Dance Awards

Australian Dance Awards

The Australian Dance Awards recognise excellence in dance in Australia, they are awarded under the auspice of the Australian Dance Council for performance, choreography, design, dance writing, teaching and related professions....

 occurs in the week of the International Dance Council

International Dance Council

The International Dance Council is an umbrella organization for all forms of dance in the world. It is a non-profit international non-governmental organization founded in 1973 within the UNESCO headquarters. Its headquarters are in Paris...

's International Dance Day

International Dance Day

International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29 through promotion by the International Dance Council , an umbrella organization within UNESCO for all kinds of dance....

It provides a broad range of services and is involved with:

• Australian Dance Week
• the Australian Dance Awards
• choreographic
  Choreography
  Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...
  
   and "Safe Dance" research
• the Australian Youth Dance Festival
• the Australian Dance Collection at the National Library of Australia
• SCOPE-Securing Career Opportunities and Professional Employment - a collaboration between the Australian Sports Commission
  Australian Sports Commission
  The Australian Sports Commission is the governing body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in Australia. It is an agency of the Government of Australia within the portfolio of Health and Ageing...
  
  , The Australia Council for the Arts and Ausdance.
• World Dance Alliance - Asia Pacific chapter

External links

• Australian Dance Council
• Australian Dance Awards
• The Australia Dancing portal, hosted by the National Library of Australia
  National Library of Australia
  The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library of Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the...