Dance Informa Magazine
Dance Reviews
-
487Circa’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...
-
891Holroyd 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...
-
857‘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...
-
566Lucy 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...
-
425Miet 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...
-
423Chunky 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...
-
305L.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...
-
438Sydney Dance Company in ‘Momenta’: Transcending physical limitations
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.28 May 2024. In Momenta, Sydney Dance Company strips back to reveal the physics of human connection through time....
-
444Unwrapped ‘SILENCE’: Karul Projects at Sydney Opera House
Studio Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.8 May 2024. Gold Coast based Karul Projects presented SILENCE, created by Thomas E.S. Kelly (Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri...
-
774‘& JULIET’: The pop culture masterpiece
Sydney Lyric Theatre, Sydney.12 April 2024. & Juliet, created by pop music’s #1 hitmaker Max Martin, Emmy Award-winning writer from Schitt’s Creek...
-
632‘The Rocky Horror Show’: Shiver with antici…pation!
Theatre Royal, Sydney.3 April 2024. In a dazzling spectacle that ignites the stage of the Theatre Royal Sydney, The Rocky Horror Show...
-
678‘Grease The Musical’ at the Capitol Theatre is a nostalgic journey, with a reinvented image!
Capitol Theatre, Sydney.2 April 2024. The Capitol Theatre in Sydney became a portal to the vibrant era of the late 1950s as...
-
471Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s ‘West Side Story’: The classic story in a whole new light
Sydney Harbour, Sydney.22 March 2024. Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour opened its 2024 season of West Side Story with an impressive bang...
-
661Raghav Handa’s ‘The Assembly’: A Mind and heart journey
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.7 March 2024. Raghav Handa is an acclaimed Indian Australian choreographer, whose latest work The Assembly, presented by and...
-
672Book review: ‘Dance Cultures Around the World’
Book: Dance Cultures Around the WorldAuthor: Lynn E. Frederiksen and Shih-Ming Li Chang, Human Kinetics, July 2023. Edited by Lynn E. Frederiksen...
-
670The Australian Ballet transports us in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’
Capitol Theatre, Sydney.20 February 2024. Down the enchanting rabbit hole of creativity, The Australian Ballet’s whimsical production of Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures...
-
560‘GATSBY at The Green Light’: The party where the 1920s meet with the 2020s
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.23 February 2024. Step into the extravagant and exhilarating world of GATSBY at The Green Light where the fictional...
-
678‘Flesh Vessel’: Unleashing our imagination
Dancehouse, Melbourne.23 February 2024. It begins slowly, with dancers’ bodies cloaked, obscured. The score hovers, the white stage bordering on sterile. But...
