NICA, Prahran, Melbourne. 23 September 2017. The National Institute for Circus Arts (NICA) is Australia’s training ground for contemporary circus arts. It...
Capitol Theatre, Sydney. 27 August 2017. Celebrating its 60th Diamond Jubilee since first opening on Broadway, My Fair Lady received a standing...
Riverside Theaters Parramatta, Sydney. 2 September 2017. This was the one and only Sydney performance of Adelaide-based contemporary dance company Australian Dance Theatre’s...
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 1 September 2017. Strange and unsettling, bleak and raw, Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na hEala is not your standard traditional...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 25 August 2017. Improvisation is a volatile element in the overall chemistry of performance, not simply because it promises a...
Seymour Centre, Sydney. 23 August 2017. Shaun Parker’s Blue Love was at the Seymour Centre for one performance only. Sorry, readers, but I was...
Space Theatre, Adelaide. July 29, 2017. Split Second Heroes is the culmination of over three years of development by Gabrielle Nankivell and her...
Directors: Thierry Demazière and Alban Teurlai. A film – 122 minutes. A day-to-day view of a dance creation amidst institutional change. Relève...
NIDA Playhouse, Sydney. 28 July 2017. Inner Landscape is a collection of three works choreographed by leading industry professionals and performed by...
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney. 27 July 2017. From little things, big things grow. Beginning at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2015 to...
MAP57, St Kilda’s Winter Garden, Melbourne. 22 July 2017. Djuki Mala means “chicken mob”. The Djuki Mala ensemble has refined a startlingly...
State Theatre, Sydney. 8 July 2017. Landing in time for the Sydney school holiday season is Bonnie Lythgoe’s latest pantomime production, The...
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. July 4, 2017. Another visually stunning, sensationally danced work from marvellous Bangarra Dance Theatre, Steven Page’s Bennelong is also...
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane. July 5, 2017. In another stellar International Series, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has delighted audiences with...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. July 5, 2017. Sometimes, even relatively tired ideas can be woken up. We’ve witnessed the whole “artist making work about...
The Concourse, Sydney. 29 June 2017. Earlier this year, also at The Concourse, we saw Melbourne Ballet Company’s Being In Time. The...
Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Sydney. 23 June 2017. Under the umbrella title Frame of Mind, we were treated to revivals of two dazzling,...
Owl and Cat Theatre, Melbourne. 20 June 2017. Referring as it does to specific instances of subjective conscious experience, the philosophical term “qualia”...
NICA National Circus Centre, Melbourne. 24 June 2017. National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) has been training circus artists since 1999. NICA...
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 15 May 2017 This glorious revival of Graeme Murphy’s Nutcracker: The Story of Clara by The Australian Ballet...
Chunky Move, Melbourne. June 1, 2017. It opens quietly. Then, a few seconds later, it moves, using the most basic language of...
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. 26 May 2017. Who doesn’t love the story of Matilda, the smart, bold and “a little bit...