Dance Informa Magazine
All posts tagged "choreographers"
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2.5KFeaturedChunky Move celebrates 25 years
A quarter of a century after being established, Chunky Move, Australia’s acclaimed contemporary dance company, celebrates its storied history with a new...
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1.9KInterviewsSydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ in the age of COVID
Dance Informa chatted with 2020 New Breed choreographers Jesse Scales, a Sydney Dance Company dancer, and Raghav Handa, an independent Sydney dancer who has...
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1.7KFeaturedAustralian Dance Theatre presents immersive environment for audiences in ‘Of All Things’
Audiences will enter an immersive environment and a performance that has already begun in the latest production from Australian Dance Theatre (ADT). Of...
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2.9KDance AdviceChoreography Days: The virtual residency you didn’t know you needed
Meet Hania (Hanna) Szymczak. From being a Fulbright Fellow in Germany (from 2016-2017) to traveling the world (she’s been to 50 countries!) to...
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2.6KFeaturedRowena and Joel Rasmussen bring us ‘Closing Miss Rosie’s’
Rowena Rasmussen, film director and choreographer, and husband Joel Rasmussen, urban choreographer and emerging cinematographer, have created a short dance film as a...
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2.7KTop StoriesChunky Move announces $80,000 Choreographer In Residence
Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company Chunky Move, in partnership with the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, has opened applications for its new Choreographer In...
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5.3KFeaturedFive new works developed for The Australian Ballet’s ‘Bodytorque.Digital’ program
The Australian Ballet has unveiled the first production in its five-part Bodytorque.Digital series, showcasing new dance works created by developing choreographers and emerging composers. ...
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2.6KFeaturedLucy Guerin: From AO onwards
Sitting in the theatre in late February, watching Lucy Guerin’s Metal, with its metaphors of strength, fluidity and animal imperative, we knew it...
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2.2KFeaturedAs easy as one, two… Australasian Dance Collective’s ‘THREE’
She emerges from the rehearsal studio, where she is working with her company dancers on a re-stage of a short piece she...
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2.6KFeaturedFor Alice Topp, fairy tales do come true
Once upon a time, there was a girl called Alice, and Alice grew up to be a ballerina with The Australian Ballet....
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4.0KAustralian 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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3.4KFeaturedFrom dancer to resident choreographer, Danielle Bilios keeps ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’ at its best
It’s a Thursday afternoon, and resident choreographer Danielle Bilios is at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in rehearsal mode putting the Australian cast of Billy...
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3.0KFeaturedSDC New Breed 2019: Platform of choice for emerging creatives
Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s annual New Breed season continues to provide a platform that supports emerging dance creatives to create develop and...
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2.5KFeaturedIt’s coming: Sydney Festival 2020 program announced
Just a few days ago, Sydney Festival announced its highly anticipated 2020 program, featuring an exciting array of theatre, music, visual art...
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2.8KFeaturedExpressions Dance Company and Beijing Dance/LDTX: Home and away
There are many ways to make work. One is to set up tight deadlines, create challenging parameters and break people out of...
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2.8KFeaturedAnne Nguyen’s ‘Kata’ premieres at OzAsia Festival
Kata’s Australian premiere gives Australian audiences a chance to engage with the work of leading French dance creator Anne Nguyen. Nguyen’s background...
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2.9KAustralian 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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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsDirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio: A place for creative exploration
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...
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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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3.7KFeaturedMeet Out of the Studio choreographers Emma Harrison and Callum Mooney
In a city that seemingly presents many barriers for emerging independent choreographers, DirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio season continues to be the...
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4.4KFeaturedSimonne Smiles on her new ballet, ‘Gold’
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...
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3.4KFeaturedADT’s ‘North/South’: Polar opposites attract
You are at a bus stop. There is a snowstorm. You are waiting. Or perhaps you are an explorer, your companions already...
