Dance Informa Magazine
Dance Reviews
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1.8KA celebration of innocent fun: Circa’s ‘Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus’
Theatre Royal Sydney, Sydney.20 April 2022. Brisbane-based Circa Contemporary Circus brought one of its acclaimed children’s shows to the Theatre Royal Sydney...
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1.4KBonnie Curtis Projects explores experiences of Australian women
Brand X, Darlinghurst.27 March 2022. March Dance has been a wonderful celebration of independent dance, and this year’s curation was no exception. Quite a...
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1.1K‘Radical Transparency’: Staying afloat in dance and movement
Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Sydney.18 March 2022. The Lennox Theatre at Riverside Theatres was packed, with the masked audience taking their seats while...
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1.3KLegs on the Wall brings aerial flair to contemporary symphonic compositions
The Concourse, Sydney. 17 March 2022. The recent trend of combining symphony and chamber orchestras with modern circus/physical theatre seems like a match...
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1.3KIn Lucy Guerin’s ‘Flux Job’, everything is slightly unreal
Arts House, Melbourne.16 March 2022. Simply being there was a thing. As in, live, with unpixellated people. How appropriate it was that...
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1.4K‘North by Northwest’: Full of suspense and surprise
The Lyric Theatre, Sydney.16 March 2022. North by Northwest is a delightful stage version of an Alfred Hitchcock classic. The 1959 American spy thriller film...
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1.3KWhat 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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1.5K‘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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1.4K‘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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1.8KMoving 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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2.1KSydney 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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2.0KJonathan 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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1.5K‘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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1.7KMelbourne 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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2.3KJamestown 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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2.5K‘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...
