Australian Dance Reviews Archives - Page 18 of 34

The Adelaide Festival presents 'Nelken' by Pina Bausch. Photo by Tony Lewis.

Pina Bausch’s ‘Nelken’ premieres in Australia at Adelaide Festival of Arts

10 March 2016. Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide. The late German choreographer Pina Bausch is known for pushing boundaries and creating the unexpected....

Samantha Hines, Michael Ramsay in ADT's 'Habitus'. Photo by Chris Herzfeld Camlight Productions.

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Australian Dance Theatre’s ‘Habitus’

27 February 2016. Adelaide Festival Centre, Space Theatre, Adelaide. Habitus, directed by Garry Stewart and choreographed by Larissa McGowan, with lighting by...

Sydney Dance Company, Lux Tenebris (2). Dancers Nelson Earl, Holly Doyle, Fiona Jopp, David Mack. Photo by Peter Greig

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CounterMove – Cacti and Lux Tenebris: A bold and prickly struggle between light and darkness

29 February 2016. Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, Australia. CounterMove is the latest offering from Sydney Dance Company that pairs two contrasting works: Cacti,...

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Bangarra performs in Western Sydney for first time in six years

Riverside Parramatta, Sydney. Friday, March 4, 2016. First performed in 2012, this presentation of Terrain is a thrilling, visually stunning revival of Frances Rings’...

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‘Boyz’ by Paul Malek

Transit Dance Space, Melbourne. Thursday, January 28, 2016. Prior to Boyz, it had been some time since I’d seen a work by...

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Stephanie Lake’s ‘Double Blind’ at Sydney Festival

Carriageworks, Sydney. Thursday, January 21, 2016. Double Blind opens with a stark, sterile, floodlit stage where two dancers immediately engage in a...

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‘Vortex Temporum’ by Rosas at Carriageworks

Carriageworks, Bay 17. January 16, 2016. Austere, minimalist and quite severe, this production, combining both the marvellous dancers of dance troupe Rosas...

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven perform Fase at 2016 Sydney Festival

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Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s ‘Fase’ at Sydney Festival

Sydney Opera House. January 10, 2016. Fase is considered a seminal work in the history of contemporary dance. First conceived and performed...

Snowflakes dance during English National Ballet's dress rehearsal of 'The Nutcracker' at the Coliseum Theatre, London. Photo by Arnaud Stephenson.

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The English National Ballet dazzles with ‘The Nutcracker’

Coliseum Theatre, London. December 16, 2015. Wayne Eagling’s choreography and version of The Nutcracker has the most striking beauty and excellence throughout....

'The Sound of Music' tour. Photography by James Morgan.

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‘The Sound of Music’: The London Palladium Production opens in Sydney

Capitol Theatre, Sydney. December 2015. It’s been 50 years since The Sound of Music first captivated audiences on the big screen. Known...

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The Australian Ballet School in ‘Summer Season 2015’

The Playhouse, VIC. December 12, 2015. The Australian Ballet School’s end-of-year production was a celebration of the talents of graduating students and...

Sydney Dance Company New Breed, Reign. Choreography by Daniel Riely. Photo by y Peter Greig.

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Sydney Dance Company presents ‘New Breed’ 2015

Carriageworks, Sydney. December 8, 2015. Sydney’s Carriageworks is the ideal performance space for some of Sydney’s new breed of emerging choreographers. In...

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SDC Pre-Professional Year dancers present ‘Revealed’

Carriageworks, Sydney. December 3, 2015. Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year opened its end-of-year show, PPY15 Revealed, at Carriageworks on Thursday, December 3....

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Bangarra Dance Theatre resurrects ‘Ochres’

Carriageworks, Sydney. November 2015. Haunting, mesmerizing and incredibly powerful, Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Ochres sinuously slithers, stamps and jumps across the stage at...

The Australian Ballet in Tim Harbour's 'Filigree and Shadow'. Photo courtesy of The Australian Ballet.

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The Australian Ballet presents ’20:21′

Sydney Opera House. Friday, November 13, 2015. The Australian Ballet’s triple bill 20:21 was a brilliant program that presented the best of two of...

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‘CATS’ opens at Capitol Theatre

Capitol Theatre, Sydney. November 1, 2015. The opening night of CATS in Sydney proved to be quite the occasion. Although it was...

Jean-Luc Tanghe in solid.states. Photo by Arco Renz.

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‘solid.states’ by Arco Renz

Dancehouse, Melbourne November 20-21 All of us, at both a personal and a cultural level, struggle with notions of stability. Indeed, our...

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Expressions Dance Company’s ‘Carmen Sweet’ on tour

Parramatta Riverside, Sydney. November 10, 2015. Natalie Weir’s whirlwind, tempestuous production of Carmen Sweet as performed by Expressions Dance Company will knock...

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Vicki Van Hout presents ‘Les Festivites Lubrifier’

Carriageworks, Sydney. November 6, 2015. Les Festivites Lubrifier was recently a part of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art at Carriageworks. Audience members...

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Flatley’s latest: ‘Lord of the Dance Dangerous Games’

Capitol Theatre, Sydney. October 20, 2015. A celebration of 20 years touring the world to sold-out arenas, Michael Flatley continues to push...

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Sydney Dance Company and ACO present ‘Illuminated’

Arts Centre, Melbourne. October 25, 2015. Infusing the traditional with the contemporary, Sydney Dance Company recently combined forces with the Australian Chamber...