Dance Informa Magazine
All posts tagged "choreographers"
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2.6KFeaturedIt’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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2.9KFeaturedExpressions 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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3.0KAustralian 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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2.0KAustralian 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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2.9KFeatured‘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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3.8KFeaturedMeet 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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4.5KFeaturedSimonne 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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3.5KFeaturedADT’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...
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2.3KFeaturedKimberly 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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6.1KFeaturedThe Monaco Maestro Jean-Christophe Maillot in his own words
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...
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3.4KFeaturedTaking the ballet body forward
Last month, we asked, “Is ballet future proof?” This month, we dig deeper, and ponder what comes next for an artform sandwiched...
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2.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsEliza Cooper builds her voice in ‘Old Life/Dead Life’
The Old 505 Theatre, Sydney. 24 May 2019. Old Life/Dead Life is the first full-length work by emerging choreographer Eliza Cooper. After...
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3.3KFeaturedRachel Arianne Ogle: Set in darkness, rise in light
It is one of the lovely glories of dance that, with the body as its brush, it can paint the vastness of...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDirtyFeet alumni present works in development
East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, Sydney. 23 March 2019. As part of March Dance, this exciting programme presented four works in...
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2.9KFeaturedInside 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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2.1KInterviewsFrom the rehearsal studio: A talk with Stephanie Lake on ‘Skeleton Tree’
Dance Informa had the opportunity to chat with choreographer Stephanie Lake during a break in rehearsals for her latest work, Skeleton Tree....
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4.1KNeed to KnowAlison Currie: Before the time is up
There is a delightful paradox at play right now: the constancy of change. Indeed, if there is one thing that unifies everything...
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3.0KFeaturedShaun Parker and Company premieres ‘KING’
It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under… At first glance, the connection between the...
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3.0KFeaturedUpside down under: Bendigo presents ‘Demolish’
Our reflex, most often, is to understand demolition in terms of damage and destruction. However, contextualised differently, we can regard the act...
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4.6KFeaturedStephanie 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...
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5.9KDance AdviceChoreography Advice Series: Melbourne’s Stephanie Lake
In this second instalment of our Choreography Advice Series (you can find our first interview with Sydney Dance Company’s Rafael Bonachela here),...
