This is what research in motion looks like

Behind every leap is a team of researchers working to keep elite dancers performing at their peak. La Trobe University and The Australian Ballet are driving breakthroughs in sports medicine.

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Our partnership unites La Trobe University’s world-class sports and exercise medicine researchers with The Australian Ballet’s internationally respected injury prevention and rehabilitation team to optimise dancer performance and health.

Equity taking centre stage

Learn how our researchers brought Oscar Wilde’s life, times and works off the page and onto the stage with Oscar©.

Optimising dancer performance and health with research

We’re using our research findings to improve ballet training, injury rehabilitation, and wellbeing and development programs.

A joint effort: Understanding what’s good for your joints

Discover developments in research into protecting and treating your joints in a discussion by leading experts from La Trobe University and The Australian Ballet.

Meet our Australian Ballet ambassador

We're pleased to present our ambassador Benedicte Bemet.

La Trobe and The Australian Ballet have informally collaborated on research since 2015 and we officially partnered in 2017. View some of our collaborative research projects, like our Swan Lake Achilles tendon study.

Find out about our Swan Lake research

Excellence in health and sports research

World class sports research

La Trobe's research in human movement and sports science and in physiology is rated 'well above world standard'.

Australian Research Council, 2019, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Outcomes 2018

Top 50 globally

We’re ranked in the world’s top 50 for sport.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), 2025, QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Sports-Related Subjects

Top 200 globally

We’re ranked in the world’s top 200 for medical and health.

Times Higher Education (THE), 2025, World University Rankings 2025 by subject: Medical and Health

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