Carriageworks, Sydney.26 November 2020. As large swathes of the globe were undergoing renewed COVID second wave lockdowns, Sydney Dance Company was tentatively...
Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.17 November 2020. Firstly, what jumps out is the control both Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson exhibit....
Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.13 November 2020. There is an unsettling disjuncture at the digital heart of Jonathan Homsey’s I Am Maggie, presented...
23 October 2020. Streamed online for Liveworks 2020. A musician crouched in desert plants and red-tinged dirt, the sounds he creates on various...
Parade Playhouse Theatre, Sydney.18 September 2020. PAUSE? This work from LOcREaDO Dance Company is so full of relentless energy you are exhausted...
Monkey Baa Theatre, Sydney.8 March 2020. Catapult Dance, Newcastle’s professional dance company, presented its much-anticipated mixed bill at the Monkey Baa Theatre, as...
The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. 29 February 2020. Project F by Prue Lang is presented in the context of the Keir Choreographic Awards. The Keir’s is in its fourth iteration. The great...
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 5 March 2020. Back in September, when Dance Informa first spoke to Hu Shenyuan about Saṃsāra, he said (of the Sanskrit word) that one possible Mandarin...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 20 February 2020. How does the world enter the soul? Can a nation reside in the body of an individual citizen?...
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 24 February 2020. It does not take long for the boundaries to be tested. Indeed, at times Metal pushes into terrain that...
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 22 February 2020. From play, to feature film to stage musical, the story of Billy Elliot has found an audience in different forms...
Dancehouse, Melbourne.14 February 2020. We think of dance as being centred in the body, but what if that body were not human?...
Carriageworks, Sydney.16 January 2020. Stephanie Lake’s literally colossal production of Colossus has just hit Sydney Festival with a bang. From its premiere in Melbourne,...
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney.17 January 2020. Thirty years after its original stage debut, Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae has hit the Riverside...
Two Crews is a celebration of the intimate roots of hip hop’s global culture. As hip hop spreads its cultural influence, original b-boy...
Carriageworks, Sydney.7 January 2020. Canadian avant-garde choreographer Dana Gingras and her troupe, Animals of Distinction, premiered their intense socially engaged work Frontera to Australian audiences...
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.24 December 2019. There has been a lot of hype around The Works Entertainment Group’s latest production, Cirque Stratosphere....
State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne.19 December 2019. Melbourne is hosting the latest iteration of the musical Chicago produced by John Frost...
Carriageworks, Sydney.11 December 2019. Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s 2019 Pre Professional Year (PPY) graduation season, PPY Revealed, consisted of four works — newly...
Carriageworks, Sydney.28 November 2019. Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s New Breed showcase of new choreography is always challenging and exciting, giving us much...
Carriageworks, Sydney.22 November 2019. There was a warm, joyous atmosphere when we entered and a great sense of connection to land and country...
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 8 November 2019. The production of Sylvia is one work where it really pays to read the synopsis beforehand...