Australian Dance Reviews Archives - Page 8 of 34

Karma Dance's Raina Peterson and Govind Pillai.

Looking into lockdown: Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson in ‘Drishti’

Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.17 November 2020. Firstly, what jumps out is the control both Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson exhibit....

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Jonathan Homsey’s ‘I Am Maggie’: A participatory biography

Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.13 November 2020. There is an unsettling disjuncture at the digital heart of Jonathan Homsey’s I Am Maggie, presented...

Sue Healey's 'Live Action Relay'. Photo by Wendell Teodoro.

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Performance Space Live-on-the-Line: Sue Healey’s ‘Live Action Relay’

23 October 2020. Streamed online for Liveworks 2020. A musician crouched in desert plants and red-tinged dirt, the sounds he creates on various...

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LOcREaDO Dance Company: Finding a moment to ‘Pause’

Parade Playhouse Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2020. PAUSE? This work from LOcREaDO Dance Company is so full of relentless energy you are exhausted...

Catapult Dance. Photo by Ashley de Prazer.

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With room to grow: Catapult Dance

Monkey Baa Theatre, Sydney.8 March 2020. Catapult Dance, Newcastle’s professional dance company, presented its much-anticipated mixed bill at the Monkey Baa Theatre, as...

Prue Lang's 'Project F'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti.

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Prue Lang’s ‘Project F’: Theoretical futures of feminist spirits

The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. 29 February 2020. Project F by Prue Lang is presented in the context of the Keir Choreographic Awards. The Keir’s is in its fourth iteration. The great...

Hu Shenyuan’s ‘Saṃsāra’. Photo by Mark Gambino.

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Hu Shenyuan and Aakash Odedra’s ‘Saṃsāra’: In it, a gem resides

Arts Centre, Melbourne. 5 March 2020. Back in September, when Dance Informa first spoke to Hu Shenyuan about Saṃsāra, he said (of the Sanskrit word) that one possible Mandarin...

Akira Kasai's 'Pollen Revolution'. Photo by Daido Hiroyasu.

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Cross-pollination: Akira Kasai’s ‘Pollen Revolution’

Dancehouse, Melbourne. 20 February 2020. How does the world enter the soul? Can a nation reside in the body of an individual citizen?...

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Lucy Guerin and Robi Rusdiana’s ‘Metal’: Do opposites attract?

Arts Centre, Melbourne. 24 February 2020. It does not take long for the boundaries to be tested. Indeed, at times Metal pushes into terrain that...

River Mardesic and Aaron Smyth in 'Billy Elliot the Musical'. Photo by James D. Morgan.

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Go for the dancing: ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’

Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 22 February 2020. From play, to feature film to stage musical, the story of Billy Elliot has found an audience in different forms...

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Raw presence in Ruri Mito’s ‘Matou’

Dancehouse, Melbourne.14 February 2020. We think of dance as being centred in the body, but what if that body were not human?...

Stephanie Lake's 'Colossus'. Photo by Yaya Stempler.

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‘Colossus’ at Sydney Festival 2020: Stephanie Lake’s big work got bigger and better

Carriageworks, Sydney.16 January 2020. Stephanie Lake’s literally colossal production of Colossus has just hit Sydney Festival with a bang. From its premiere in Melbourne,...

'Bran Nue Dae'. Photo by Prudence Upton.

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‘Bran Nue Dae’ teaches about our past but looks toward the future

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney.17 January 2020. Thirty years after its original stage debut, Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae has hit the Riverside...

Nick Power's 'Two Crews'. Photo by Victor Frankowski.

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Nick Power’s ‘Two Crews’: Bringing back the purity of old school hip hop

Two Crews is a celebration of the intimate roots of hip hop’s global culture. As hip hop spreads its cultural influence, original b-boy...

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‘Frontera’: Intense running against technological borders

Carriageworks, Sydney.7 January 2020. Canadian avant-garde choreographer Dana Gingras and her troupe, Animals of Distinction, premiered their intense socially engaged work Frontera to Australian audiences...

The Wheel of Death in 'Cirque Stratosphere'. Photo by Jordan Munns.

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‘Cirque Stratosphere’: Space age tribute to the end of an era

Sydney Opera House, Sydney.24 December 2019. There has been a lot of hype around The Works Entertainment Group’s latest production, Cirque Stratosphere....

Alinta Chidzey and Company in 'Chicago'. Photo by Jeff Busby.

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‘Chicago’ is fresh even 32 years later

State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne.19 December 2019. Melbourne is hosting the latest iteration of the musical Chicago produced by John Frost...

Leah Marojevic’s 'Homage'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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Sydney Dance Company’s 2019 PPY graduates in ‘PPY Revealed’

Carriageworks, Sydney.11 December 2019. Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s 2019 Pre Professional Year (PPY) graduation season, PPY Revealed, consisted of four works — newly...

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Sydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ shows company in top form

Carriageworks, Sydney.28 November 2019. Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s New Breed showcase of new choreography is always challenging and exciting, giving us much...

NAISDA Dance College's 'Ngoenakap'. Photo by Jamie James.

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NAISDA Dance College’s 2019 season ‘Ngoenakap’

Carriageworks, Sydney.22 November 2019. There was a warm, joyous atmosphere when we entered and a great sense of connection to land and country...

Ako Kondo and Kevin Jackson in 'Sylvia'. Photo by Jeff Busby.

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Houston Ballet and The Australian Ballet’s co-production of ‘Sylvia’

Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 8 November 2019. The production of Sylvia is one work where it really pays to read the synopsis beforehand...

'Genetrix'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti.

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Transcending distance: ‘Swiss Style’ at Dancehouse

Dancehouse, Melbourne.8 November 2019. If Dancehouse’s recent Swiss Style season shows us anything, it’s that art and the impulses that drive it, like...