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,...
East Sydney Community Centre, Sydney. 27 September 2019. Sydney-based independent dance entity DirtyFeet, presented its much-anticipated annual emerging choreographer program, ‘Out of the...
What am I supposed to do? It’s a question we all ask. We might be confused, scared or in denial, or perhaps waiting...
In a city that seemingly presents many barriers for emerging independent choreographers, DirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio season continues to be the...
Simonne Smiles, Sydney-based dancer and emerging ballet choreographer, is creating a new Australian-themed ballet, developing it from the ground up. With a unique...
You are at a bus stop. There is a snowstorm. You are waiting. Or perhaps you are an explorer, your companions already...
Hunger. It’s something we all know, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. It drives us, sometimes to genius, sometimes to madness. No wonder...
On the eve of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s Australian premiere of LAC, Dance Informa caught up with the creative brains behind this quirky reworking of...
Last month, we asked, “Is ballet future proof?” This month, we dig deeper, and ponder what comes next for an artform sandwiched...
The Old 505 Theatre, Sydney. 24 May 2019. Old Life/Dead Life is the first full-length work by emerging choreographer Eliza Cooper. After...
It is one of the lovely glories of dance that, with the body as its brush, it can paint the vastness of...
East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, Sydney. 23 March 2019. As part of March Dance, this exciting programme presented four works in...
2018 marked a century since the birth of artistic geniuses and collaborators Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, the creators of the iconic...
Dance Informa had the opportunity to chat with choreographer Stephanie Lake during a break in rehearsals for her latest work, Skeleton Tree....
There is a delightful paradox at play right now: the constancy of change. Indeed, if there is one thing that unifies everything...
It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under… At first glance, the connection between the...
Our reflex, most often, is to understand demolition in terms of damage and destruction. However, contextualised differently, we can regard the act...
Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With...
In this second instalment of our Choreography Advice Series (you can find our first interview with Sydney Dance Company’s Rafael Bonachela here),...
While there’s no shortage of advice out there for young dancers, the same can’t be said for aspiring choreographers. For those whose...
In what amounts to a “mini festival” of two, Arts House in North Melbourne will play host to world premieres from two...
Young dance artists with an interest in choreography are being given the chance to take part in an exciting new competition. Dance...