Dance Informa Magazine
Dance Reviews
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439‘Dear Evan Hansen’: A much-needed narrative
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.24 October 2024. Dear Evan Hansen, directed by Dean Bryant, is a coming-of-age musical about teenager Evan Hansen, who...
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362DirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio 2024: Emerging voices
Neilson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney.20 September 2024. This year celebrates 10 years of DirtyFeet’s proudly Out of the Studio program,...
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417Arabella Frahn-Starkie’s ‘Pictures & Ghosts’: Still things moving
Guild Theatre, Melbourne.9 October 2024. We know that everything is ephemeral, even though we mostly reside in the delusion of permanence. In...
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690‘Molly’ at Melbourne Fringe: We are all actors
Guild Theatre, Melbourne. 2 October 2024. The arcs of narrative and the more figurative trajectories of dance can make for troublesome geometry; not...
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523Chou Kuan Jou’s ‘Tomato’: Turning the lens on us
Dancehouse, Melbourne.3 October 2024. Pomme d’amour. Love apple. Call it what you will, the humble tomato has always been vaguely sexy. Yet,...
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395Sydney Dance Company in double bill ‘Twofold’: The world we live in
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2024. Sydney Dance Company presented its second Sydney season for 2024 at the Roslyn Packer Theatre this...
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652‘Sister Act’: A groovy family friendly show
Capitol Theatre, Sydney.11 September 2024. The most heavenly of musicals Sister Act has hit the Sydney stage this spring. Based on the 1992...
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555Bangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Horizon’: The importance of home
Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne.28 August 2024. There was something in the air on opening night of Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Horizon,...
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505A celebration of life: Fresh Movement Collective’s ‘MĀUI’
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.29 August 2024. New Zealand/Aotearoa’s Fresh Movement Collective (FMC) brought its poignant, poetic and explosive dance theatre...
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483Simonne Smiles’ ‘Gold’: Uniquely Australian
Lennox Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Sydney.15 August 2024. Gold is a new classical ballet work, created by Simonne Smiles, who both produced and...
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797Book review: ‘Ram Gopal’ by Ann R. David
Book: Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian DanceAuthor: Ann R. David, Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2024. Ann R. David’s Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories...
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991Circa’s ‘Duck Pond’: Taking a deep dive into the lake
Sydney Coliseum Theatre, Sydney.4 July 2024. Brisbane based contemporary circus company Circa, brought its production, Duck Pond, to the Sydney Coliseum Theatre...
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1.1KHolroyd Musical and Dramatic Society presents memorable production of ‘Oliver!’
Redgum Function Centre, Sydney.22 July 2024. Holroyd Musical and Dramatic Society (HMDS) has opened its annual run of community theatre for the...
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1.1K‘Chicago’ in Sydney: In the hands of fresh performers
Capital Theatre, Sydney.13 June 2024. Chicago opened to standing ovation in Capitol Theatre Sydney this week. This iconic musical, written by John Kander...
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818Lucy Guerin’s ‘One Single Action’: Activating our own storytelling capacity
Chunky Move Studios, Melbourne. 14 June 2024. It looks like a simple proposition. Two dancers, a plain set and an orb hung like a moon. In a...
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724Miet Warlop’s ‘One Song’: An amped up meditation on the human condition
Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne.13 June 2024. It is a brave person who asks their audience to listen to one song over and...
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658Chunky Move’s ‘You, Beauty’: Dancing with love and cruelty
Immigration Museum, Melbourne.5 June 2024. The thing about beauty is that it can sometimes be a tyrant, much as desire and suffering...
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585L.A. Dance Project’s ‘Romeo and Juliet Suite’: A must-see interpretation of a classic
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.5 June 2024. Choreographer Benjamin Millepied and L.A. Dance Project presented a gripping reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic in...
