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All posts tagged "Arts Centre Melbourne"
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2.4KFeaturedAustralian Ballet School’s ‘En Pointe’ kicks off ‘Morning Melodies’
Arts Centre Melbourne’s Morning Melodies returns to Hamer Hall to delight audiences with a stellar line-up of music theatre, cabaret, opera, jazz and dance from May...
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1.7KFeaturedYIRRAMBOI Festival celebrates First Nations creatives
Arts Centre Melbourne is excited to be involved with YIRRAMBOI Festival again in 2021, delivering a variety of projects that will engage and inspire from 6...
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2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsJonathan Homsey’s ‘I Am Maggie’: A participatory biography
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...
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2.2KDancer HealthAnnouncing SOUND MIND for Mental Health Month
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the Australian live entertainment industry, leaving thousands of gig-to-gig onstage and offstage professionals with unlimited unemployment....
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1.8KFeatured‘Take Over!’ 2020 artists will push creative boundaries at home
Arts Centre Melbourne, in partnership with Melbourne Fringe, will present the fourth year of Take Over! commission with a brand new approach. The Take Over! program...
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3.1KFeaturedArts Centre Melbourne postpones welcoming back visitors
Arts Centre Melbourne has postponed welcoming visitors back to its venues following the recent changes to public health restrictions in Victoria. The...
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2.5KFeaturedArts Centre Melbourne working to support arts workers during COVID-19 crisis
Workers in the performing arts across the state are experiencing the immediate and devastating impact of event cancellations and venue closures due...
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3.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsHu Shenyuan and Aakash Odedra’s ‘Saṃsāra’: In it, a gem resides
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...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsLucy Guerin and Robi Rusdiana’s ‘Metal’: Do opposites attract?
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...
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3.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Chicago’ is fresh even 32 years later
State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne.19 December 2019. Melbourne is hosting the latest iteration of the musical Chicago produced by John Frost...
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2.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsYang Liping’s epic re-imagining: ‘Rite of Spring’
Arts Centre, Melbourne.3 October 2019. Extraordinary! Spectacular! Lavish, colourful! All the superlatives apply. Yang Liping’s re-imagined Rite Of Spring is an exquisitely detailed,...
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3.4KFeaturedHofesh Shechter: Dance’s ‘Grand Finale’
The Hofesh Shechter Company’s Grand Finale returns to Melbourne this month after performing in the Adelaide Festival in March earlier this year. There...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsSarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen ask ‘What Am I Supposed To Do?’
Arts Centre, Melbourne.20 September 2019. There is something altogether appropriate about ending in front of the television. On the day when Global...
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1.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsAn homage to the ’80s: ‘Tetris’ at Arts Centre Melbourne
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne.25 September 2019. Tetris, by Erik Kaiel, an American choreographer working in Europe, is a contemporary dance work being...
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2.8KFeatured‘What Am I Supposed To Do? (WAISTD)’: I fear motion
What am I supposed to do? It’s a question we all ask. We might be confused, scared or in denial, or perhaps waiting...
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2.3KFeaturedProposing ways of being: Erik Kaiel’s work ‘Tetris’
Tetris is a contemporary dance work being presented at the Arts Centre Melbourne this September. Credited as a work for children, Tetris is...
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2.2KFeaturedKimberly Bartosik’s ‘I hunger for you’: Ecstasy and (Dis)connection
Hunger. It’s something we all know, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. It drives us, sometimes to genius, sometimes to madness. No wonder...
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3.8KFeaturedRomy Vuksan and cast excited for ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’
The Production Company has announced its full cast of the Broadway smash, Thoroughly Modern Millie, which opens in Arts Centre Melbourne’s State Theatre...
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2.8KFeaturedInside Joey McKneely’s ‘West Side Story’ in Australia
2018 marked a century since the birth of artistic geniuses and collaborators Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, the creators of the iconic...
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13.5KFeaturedMaría Pagés brings contemporary flamenco to Australia
It was Nobel Prize winner for Literature José Saramago who said, “Neither the sky nor the earth rest unchanged after María Pagés...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsStephanie Lake’s ‘Colossus’ is grand and beautiful
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. 27 September 2018. Colossus is the realisation of a dream for Stephanie Lake, who has always been fascinated by the...
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4.5KFeaturedStephanie Lake’s ‘Colossus’: Stage set for big impact
Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With...
