Dance Informa Magazine
International Dance Reviews
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3.4K‘STOMP’ is back with force
Capitol Theatre, Sydney. 2 August 2018. After a successful season in 2013, STOMP is back in Australia, and is funnier and louder...
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6.2K‘Swan Lake on Ice’ brings the fairy tale to new heights
The beauty of Swan Lake rises to new heights in the Imperial Ice Stars’ production of Swan Lake on Ice. This traditional...
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3.4KFor some light fun, there is ‘Sleeping Beauty: A Knight Avenger’s Tale’
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne. 30 June 2018. Bonnie Lythgoe is a British dancer, producer and director well known for producing and adjudicating the...
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4.4KBangarra Dance Theatre brings Aboriginal history to life in ‘Dark Emu’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 14 June 2018. Bangarra Dance Theatre’s latest work, Dark Emu, is visually stunning and superbly choreographed and danced. More abstract...
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4.4KA journey through the Andalucia region in Spain with Studio Flamenco
Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Adelaide. 15 June 2018. Studio Flamenco’s new work, Recuerdos, aimed to conjure vignettes of Spanish daily life in...
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3.0KFORM Dance Projects presents Liz Lea’s powerful ‘RED’
Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Sydney. 1 June 2018. The latest work, RED, presented by FORM Dance Projects at Riverside Parramatta, as choreographed and...
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5.1KFrance’s Ballet Preljocaj presents its striking ‘Snow White’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 6 June 2018. Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White is not your squeaky clean Disney-fied Snow White but rather a darker, sinister...
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2.9KThe Devdan Show gives audiences an epic tour of Indonesia
Bali Nusa Dua Theatre, Indonesia. 11 May 2018. It’s rare that this writer is lost for words. The biggest part of my...
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2.8KKristina Chan’s ‘A Faint Existence’ is a meditation in motion
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 11 May 2018. Kristina Chan’s A Faint Existence originally premiered in 2016, and is now performed as part...
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3.5KRenae Shadler and Mirjam Sögner’s double bill: Single body, similar spirit
Dancehouse, Melbourne. May 11, 2018. The trouble with double bills is that they can often seem like two parts lumped together in...
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4.8KCLOC Musical Theatre’s ‘Strictly Ballroom the Musical’ brings characters to life
The National Theatre, Melbourne. 11 May 2018. Back in the era of VHS, mixtapes and handheld video cameras, Baz Lurhmann gifted the...
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2.8KBallet Revolucion sweeps through Sydney
State Theatre, Sydney. May 12, 2018. It’s been a long time between drinks for Australian audiences and Cuba’s Ballet Revolucion; it’s been five years since the...
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7.6KThe Australian Ballet’s tribute to an iconic dancemaker: ‘Murphy’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 6 April 2018. An iconic Australian figure for over 50 years, Tasmanian boy Graeme Murphy OA carved out a...
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3.8KEight artists at the Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals
Dancehouse, Melbourne. March 6 and 9, 2018. Although artists often indulge in the fantasy of their own exceptionalism, and others are wont...
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7.7K‘MAMMA MIA! The Musical’: A night of ABBA favourites!
Capitol Theatre, Sydney. 15 February 2018. MAMMA MIA! The Musical has the audience dancing in the aisles to a string of ABBA’s...
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8.7KFORM Dance Projects astounds with Omer Backley-Astrachan’s ‘WILDEBEEST’ and ‘Valley’
Riverside Theatres Parramatta. 16 February 2018. FORM Dance Projects has kicked off its 2018 season with two very striking works featuring sinuous,...
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4.2KMichael Clark Company plays it cool in ‘to a simple, rock ‘n’ roll … song’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 30 January 2018. The amazing dancers of the Michael Clark Company perform expertly and with great precision in...
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7.1KAt Sydney Festival, ‘Cella’ looks at wonder of the human body
Carriageworks, Sydney. 18 January 2018. Eloquently, elegantly and passionately performed, Cella is haunting, powerful and hypnotic. The work, intricate and fluid, is...
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6.9KDan Daw Creative Projects’ thought-provoking ‘BEAST’ premieres at Sydney Festival
Carriageworks, Sydney. 17 January 2018. Making its Australian premiere as part of Sydney Festival’s About an Hour series, BEAST by Dan Daw...
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5.4KGravity and Other Myths in ‘A Simple Space’: Contemporary circus at its best
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. 7 January 2018. Have you experienced the kind of kinaesthetic empathy that makes you gasp when you watch...
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12.5K‘The Wizard of Oz’: A magical new musical
Capitol Theatre, Sydney. 4 January 2018. To adapt a much-loved iconic MGM movie musical from film to stage could be a difficult...
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3.9KForce Majeure presents the dark and mysterious ‘You Animal, You’ at Sydney Festival
Carriageworks, Sydney. 6 January 2018. The latest work from Force Majeure, You Animal, You is a world premiere that is dark, disturbing and,...
