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JASON Coleman (pictured) is the CEO and artistic director of the Ministry of Dance in Melbourne – a huge enterprise that encompasses full-time senior and junior schools, a talent agency and a production house. Last year he was poised to produce some “massive” off-shore shows in Singapore and Japan when everything was brought to a standstill by the pandemic. “I lost a million dollars in the first eight weeks alone,” he says.

So what was his

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