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June 25th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
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The Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) is setting up an elite troupe of young dancers it hopes eventually can become full-time professionals with the company.
ADT will hold auditions for teenagers, 14 to 18, next month, and those successful will be trained twice weekly as part of its youth ensemble.
The dance company said it was looking to the future as it approached its 50th anniversary.
ADT associate artistic director Elizabeth Old says up to 15 young dancers would be chosen.
“Obviously Australian Dance Theatre have their own particular set of skills, so they do a lot of aerial work, tumbling, they train in break dance, it’s highly athletic,” she said.
“If you can get dancers when they’re young and advise them and coach them … we’ve got, you know, a young group who are going to come up and who will then work with the company one day.
“It’s really important that we’re giving opportunities to young people to really help kind of people who are very talented about dance and give them as much exposure as we can to our own group of dancers.”
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youth,
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adelaide-5000,
australia
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