Australian Dance Reviews Archives - Page 6 of 34

Lucy Guerin's 'Flux Job'. Photo by Sarah Walker.

In Lucy Guerin’s ‘Flux Job’, everything is slightly unreal

Arts House, Melbourne.16 March 2022. Simply being there was a thing. As in, live, with unpixellated people. How appropriate it was that...

The 2022 Sydney production of 'North by Northwest'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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‘North by Northwest’: Full of suspense and surprise

The Lyric Theatre, Sydney.16 March 2022. North by Northwest is a delightful stage version of an Alfred Hitchcock classic. The 1959 American spy thriller film...

Blake Erickson and ensemble in 'Girl From The North Country'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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‘Girl From The North Country’: A raw and heartfelt musical of quiet resilience

Theatre Royal, Sydney.4 February 2022. Girl From The North Country opened to a full house at the Sydney’s Theatre Royal after a preliminary...

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Antony Hamilton’s ‘Yung Lung’: Human creativity will shine through

Carriageworks, Sydney.22 January 2022. Antony Hamilton’s work has always contained a curious mix of futuristic post-apocalyptic dread that is leavened with a...

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‘Grey Rhino’: Big societal issues translated into dance

Carriageworks, Sydney.20 January 2022. Sydney Festival 2022 central theme has been “finding your Sydney” and has been an opportunity to showcase and...

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Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s ‘A Chorus Line’ is a delight

Riverside Theatre, Sydney.15 January 2022. It is with much excitement that Darlinghurst Theatre Company (DTC) has chosen to revive A Chorus Line, with...

Martin del Amo's 'Mirage'. Photo by Heidrun Lohr.

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Moving at a pace to allow for breath: Martin del Amo’s ‘Mirage’

Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. 7 January 2022. Mirage premiered at the Campbelltown Arts Centre on 7 January. It was originally intended to run as...

Jasmin Sheppard's 'Given Unto Thee'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed: A powerful eighth year

Carriageworks, Sydney. 4 December 2021. This is the eighth year of New Breed, the inspiration of Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, where four developing choreographers are...

Holly Durant's 'Alter Edith'. Photo by Alexandre Dubois.

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Holly Durant’s ‘Alter Edith’: A familiar innate strangeness

fortyfivedownstairs theatre, Melbourne. 1 December 2021. We enter the space, tentative, like early arrivals at a nightclub. Lights, music, no queue at the...

Sue Healey's 'On View: Panoramic Suite'.

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High-tech combination of dance and film: Sue Healey’s ‘On View: Panoramic Suite’

Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital.24 October 2021. Eight years in the making, Sue Healey’s On View: Panoramic Suite is a high-tech challenging...

Julie-Anne Long in 'Queenie Gives An Address'. Photo by Liz Ham.

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Julie-Anne Long’s ‘Queenie Gives An Address’: Meeting an Invisiblist up close

Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital. 21 October 2021. Julie-Anne Long’s Queenie Gives An Address is a subversive, challenging performance full of social comment....

Jonathan Homsey's 'Star Spangled Banter'. Photo by Shannon May Powell.

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Jonathan Homsey’s ‘Star Spangled Banter’: A delightfully discomforting space

Dancehouse/Melbourne Fringe.14 October 2021. If called upon to boil it down to a single word, it would be…post. Post-dance, post-theatre, post-modern…post pretty...

Danielle and Alexandra's 'Out of the Blue'.

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‘Bauhaus’ and ‘Out of the Blue’ at Sydney Fringe

Sydney Fringe 2021.Presented online. I managed to catch two events as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival which were also part of the...

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Melbourne International Film Festival’s ‘Bodies in Motion’: Dance on film

Streaming on miff.com.au. 15 August 2021. As part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, there was a special screening of short dance films called Bodies...

Mischa Baka's 'you and I are stood'. Photo by Baka.

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Dance (Lens) highlights dance films from Australia and internationally

Dancehouse, Melbourne. August 2021. Dance (Lens) is a most exciting festival of screen dance organised by Dancehouse in Melbourne. Thirty-three short works are...

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Jamestown Collective explores cultures with ‘INFUSION, No Movement’

Sydney Opera House, Sydney.5 June 2021. Jamestown Collective brings to the Sydney Opera House its collaborative work, INFUSION, No Movement, No Sound. Headed...

'The Little Prince'. Photo by Prudence Upton.

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‘The Little Prince’: A timeless, other-worldly journey

Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 27 May 2021. Direct from Paris, The Little Prince has finally made it to Australian Shores after a cancelled 2020 mid-COVID season, and it...

Brianna Kell in 'NARCIFIXION'. Photo by Heidrun Löhr.

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FORM Dance Projects’ ‘NARCIFIXION’: Identity in the digital age

Riverside Theatres, Sydney.13 May 2021. Choreographed and performed by two major Independent dance artists, Anton (Legs On The Wall, Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance...

Angela Goh in 'Sky Blue Mythic'. Photo by Zan Wimberley.

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‘Sky Blue Mythic’: Exploring our dystopian future

Sydney Opera House, Sydney.26 May 2021. Sky Blue Mythic is an exploration into the human future using contemporary dance’s familiar tropes of careful...

Dancenorth's 'RED'. Photo by Amber Haines.

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Dancenorth’s ‘RED’: Art lives in context

Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.26 May 2021. If ever we are tempted to think of art as existing in a pristine space – neatly...

The Australian Ballet's Ako Kondo and Ty King-Wall (right) in George Balanchine's 'The Four Temperaments'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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The Australian Ballet is back with new director and ‘New York Dialects’

Sydney Opera House, Sydney.12 April 2021. The Australian Ballet is back in Sydney, after a long break due to COVID, and the...

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‘Fangirls’: Teenage spirit and the purpose of music

Playhouse Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne.29 April 2021. Following successful seasons in Queensland and Sydney, Yve Blake’s Fangirls arrives in Melbourne. Directed by Paige...