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All posts tagged "Choreographer"
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1.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsIn 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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1.7KFeaturedWaiting for Phaedra: Emerging contemporary dancer-choreographer is no longer waiting. She is here.
Twenty-four-year-old Phaedra Brown is a dancer-choreographer. She describes her practice as having a postmodern dance lineage. In an interview about her upcoming...
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1.3KDance ReviewsWhat 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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2.3KFeaturedBringing ‘9 TO 5’ to life: A talk with Lisa Stevens and Emma Hawthorne
The countdown is on to the much anticipated Australian premiere of 9 TO 5 The Musical, Dolly Parton’s smash-hit West End musical, which...
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2.7KFeaturedMind the gaps: Jo Lloyd’s ‘Handsome’
For some, the gaps are a problem. For others, an invitation. In the non-literal realm of dance, the gaps, or what Jo...
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1.9KEvents‘The Goddesses’ will descend on Melbourne
The Chronicles of Olympus and Breeze Entertainment proudly present The Goddesses, a theatrical journey into Greek mythology featuring Australia’s most dynamic dancers, singers...
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1.7KFeaturedCarriageworks announces 2022 program and building refurbishment
Carriageworks has announced its first confirmed projects within a strong 2022 program to be presented across the Redfern-based multi-arts precinct, spanning dance, music,...
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2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsHolly 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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2.1KFeaturedMaking our own work: RAD’s MadeBy
Theatres have been closed, jobs have been lost, and auditions have been hard to come by. In a world where company contracts...
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1.9KInterviewsLucy Hind and ‘Girl From The North Country’: Are the times truly a changin’?
At first, a musical built around Bob Dylan songs sounds like yet another Boomer nostalgia-fest. However, Conor McPherson’s Depression Era drama Girl From...
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2.0KFeaturedThe Australian Ballet and Telstra announce finalists in aspiring choreographers initiative
The Australian Ballet and Telstra are delighted to announce the four artists selected as finalists in Telstra Emerging Chorographer (TEC).A new award...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsHigh-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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1.3KFeaturedSydney Dance Company returns to the stage with New Breed
Sydney Dance Company, in partnership with Carriageworks and New Breed Principal Partner The Balnaves Foundation, is proud to announce a return to...
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1.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘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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2.1KDance AdviceCredit the Creator: An Instagram account for accountability
Do you know who choreographed the handshake in The Parent Trap? No? What about the Jingle Bell Rock dance from Mean Girls? You might...
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2.3KEventsA call for dancers: “Ginkgo Bath” at The Lab
Choreographer Kirsty Duncan announces a call for dancers for an immersive performance season planned for early June 2022, at The Lab, Light...
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1.8KFeaturedWest Australian Ballet’s ‘Coppélia’ opens at His Majesty’s Theatre
As ballet icon George Balanchine said, “Just as Giselle is ballet’s great tragedy, so Coppélia is its great comedy.” The colourful tale of two lovers and an eccentric doctor,...
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2.9KFeaturedRoyal NZ Ballet releases ‘The Firebird’ online
A specially-filmed, multi-camera screening of the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) production of The Firebird by New Zealand choreographer Loughlan Prior – which, until lockdown, was...
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3.3KFeaturedAustralian Dance Theatre appoints Daniel Riley as new artistic director
Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) has announced the appointment of Daniel Riley as its next artistic director, to succeed Garry Stewart, who will leave ADT...
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2.5KFeaturedAmy Campbell re-ignites ‘A Chorus Line’ at Darlinghurst Theatre Company
When A Chorus Line opened on Broadway in 1975, it created a storm, and now it’s to come back to life in the Darlinghurst...
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3.4KFeaturedMeryl Tankard: Restless search for a new dance vocabulary
During the COVID lockdown, the dance world faced the challenge of ensuring its survival in a world of social isolation. Denied its...
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1.5KAustralian Dance Reviews‘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...
