Dance Informa Magazine
International Dance Reviews
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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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4.9KSparkles 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...
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1.5KIn this unsettling world: Deanne Butterworth’s ‘Slow Calm Drama’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 22 April 2021. These days, it can be difficult not to look at things through the pandemic prism. At first glance,...
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2.0KCirca’s ‘Shaun the Sheep’: Forget the TV, get to the circus
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 14 April 2021. Brisbane’s Circa is back with a show for preschool and primary kids. Director Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa ensemble have crafted a contemporary...
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1.5K‘The Foul of the Air’: Not so easily forgotten
The Landlord, Summer Hill, Sydney. 31 March 2021. The Foul of the Air by The Living Room Theatre and directed by Michelle St Anne, as...
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1.9K‘La Traviata’: Verdi’s opera outdoors on Sydney Harbour
The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. 26 March 2021. It was a week of torrential rain and flooding, but on opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, the clouds cleared to...
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1.6KThe mysterious ‘Sounds Of Digital’ at March Dance
Online, as part of March Dance.17 March 2021. Sounds Of Digital is a striking interactive event, part film, part workshop developed by Adrina...
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2.7KMarch Dance gives it up for hip hop in Happy Hour ‘Street Elite’
13 March 2021. ReadyMade Works, Sydney. The second week of March Dance, Sydney’s festival of independent dance, marked the first time that hip...
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1.6KQuestions of existence: Australian Dance Theatre’s ‘Supernature’
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.12 March 2021. The eery, shadowed stage filled with fog and imposing cocoon like sculptures overhead. We eagerly awaited...
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1.5K‘A Small Spectacle’: A glimpse of an artist coping during COVID lockdown
7 – 9 March 2021. Online, as part of March Dance. A Small Spectacle is a solo show, created and performed by Phaedra Brown...
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1.8KTransported at Adelaide Festival: Sydney Dance Company’s ‘Impermanence’
Festival Theatre, Adelaide.10 March 2021. I’m not sure we all need a reminder of how impermanent our comfortable lives are after the...
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1.6KFear of loneliness and solitude: ‘Oh Boy!’ at March Dance
Dance Cinema online screening.1 March 2021. As part of March Dance, we are privileged to see Oh Boy! by Hadi Moussally. It is...
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1.7KDefying gravity at Adelaide Festival: Gravity & Other Myths’s ‘The Pulse’
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.26 February 2021. In a time of limited crowds and social distancing, The Pulse felt liberated and effervescent. Sixty performers all...
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2.1K‘Drummer Queens’: Hits the right beat
Drummer Queens is an original all-Australian theatrical show created and composed by Joe Accaria. Featuring the talents of eight female performers, Accaria...
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2.8KThe re-opening of Melbourne commercial theatre following lockdowns with ‘Come From Away’
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne.28 January 2021. Come From Away is a musical based on a true story. Amidst the September 11 attacks in 2001,...
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2.3KMarking Bangarra’s 30th anniversary in film: ‘Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra’
February 2021. Bangarra is a Wiradjuri word which means “to make fire”. Firestarter is a stunningly photographed film directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne...
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1.9K‘Spirit’ at Sydney Festival: The Bangarra retrospective 2021
The Headland Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney.22 January 2021. After 10 months in hibernation, Bangarra Dance Theatre has returned to the stage with a...
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1.8KThe triumphant return of Opera Australia’s ‘The Merry Widow’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.9 January 2021. There was a buzz and excitement as well as quite a few bedazzled masks, as audiences...
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2.3K‘Frozen’: The hit Broadway musical is taking Sydney by storm
10 December 2020. Capitol Theatre, Sydney. It was seven years ago when Disney’s animated film Frozen opened in cinemas in the USA, smashing records...
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1.8KThank God for theatre: ‘PIPPIN’ reopens Broadway in Australia
Sydney Lyric at The Star, Sydney.3 December 2020. After what seemed like an eternity, Sydney audiences are once again eagerly sitting in...
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2.9KSydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ 2020: Performing under the new normal
Carriageworks, Sydney.26 November 2020. As large swathes of the globe were undergoing renewed COVID second wave lockdowns, Sydney Dance Company was tentatively...
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2.9KLooking 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....
