Dance Informa Magazine
International Dance Reviews
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1.2KWhat must be done: Mareike Jung’s ‘When Delicacy Unfolds Strength’
Shot at MONOPOL e.V, Berlin, Germany, July 2021.Streamed online at www.mareikejung.com. In her solo performance, When Delicacy Unfolds Strength, Mareike Jung “explores dynamics...
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1.4K‘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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1.7KAntony 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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1.3K‘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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2.2KDarlinghurst 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...
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1.7KMoving 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...
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2.0KSydney 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...
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2.1KHolly 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...
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2.6KHigh-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...
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1.4KJulie-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....
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1.9KJonathan 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...
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1.4K‘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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1.6KMelbourne 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...
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2.0KDance (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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2.2KJamestown 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...
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2.4K‘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...
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2.2KFORM 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...
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1.5K‘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...
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1.5KDancenorth’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...
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2.5KThe 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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2.4K‘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...
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4.8KSparkles and smiles with the premiere of ’The Wedding Singer’
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. 1 May 2021. For two hours and 20 minutes, you pack up your troubles in your old ‘80s gym bag...
