All posts tagged "choreographers"

Dancers from around the world: 3 dance journeys

Dancers, no matter where they come from, have many things in common. They’re passionate, hard workers and, however their dance journey has...

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Tim Podesta Creative announces audition for latest work at VDF24

Choreographer Tim Podesta is coming to Energetiks VDF this year to audition for his latest work, appearing in Melbourne this July. Tim...

The Australian Ballet in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. Photo by Kate Longley.

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‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ returns to The Australian Ballet

The Australian Ballet’s must-see production of Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland© returns to take audiences back down the rabbit hole in 2024....

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2024 Auckland Arts Festival celebrates the arts with over 60 events

Auckland’s annual celebration of the arts returns to the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau this summer as Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland...

'Malevo' at Sydney Opera House. Photo by Jordan Munns.

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‘Malevo’: A South American spectacle of rhythm and tradition

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.17 January 2024. The Sydney Opera House Concert Hall witnessed an explosion of raw energy and cultural...

The Australian Ballet's Ako Kondo and Brett Chynoweth in George Balanchine's 'Jewels'. Photo by Rainee Lantry.

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The Australian Ballet presents Balanchine masterpiece ‘Jewels’ in Adelaide

Following a critically acclaimed debut in Melbourne and Sydney, and a sold-out season at the Royal Opera House in London, The Australian...

Alexei Ratmansky with dancer Gudrun Bojesen. Photo by Soren Hartvig Nielsen.

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Book review: ‘The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet’ by Marina Harss

Book: The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet.Author: Marina Harss, Macmillan Publishers, October 2023. Marina Harss’s The Boy from Kyiv:...

Eliza Cooper's 'Revenge Tales and Romance'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed: A treat for the senses

Carriageworks, Sydney.6 December 2023 Sydney Dance Company is celebrating a decade of New Breed this December, an annual season of works by...

Recoil Performance Group's 'Mass-bloom explorations'. Photo by Sõren Meisner.

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‘Mass-bloom explorations’: A possible future without us

Dancehouse, Melbourne.16 November 2023. The notion of a seven-hour durational performance may be anathema to some. Yet, as the writer Ida Marie...

Loughlan Prior in rehearsal with The Australian Ballet School for 'Possum Magic'. Photo courtesy of Prior.

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Interviews

Working with kids and animals: Loughlan Prior on ‘Possum Magic’

“I never thought I would create a ballet with animals in it,” declares Loughlan Prior after another day of rehearsal, “if only...

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The Australian Ballet School Showcase: A celebration of classical and contemporary dance

The Concourse Theatre, Sydney.September 2023. The programme, filmed at The Concourse Chatswood and streamed by the Australian Digital Concert Hall, opened with...

Australasian Dance Collective in Amy Hollingsworth's 'Lucie In the Sky'. Photo by David Kelly.

ADC’s Artistic Director Amy Hollingsworth: Pushing interdisciplinary boundaries with intelligence and empathy

To say 2023 was a successful year for Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) is an understatement. Led by Artistic Director Amy Hollingsworth, the...

Co3's Storm Helmore entering Paradise in 'ARCHITECT OF THE INVISIBLE' (2023) by Raewyn Hill. Photo by Emma Fishwick.

Dancers reflect on 2023 and look ahead to a new year

Another year has (so quickly) passed, and 2024 is right around the corner. It’s a great time to reflect on the past...

Sydney Dance Company in Rafael Bonachela's 'Somos'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Sydney Dance Company in Rafael Bonachela’s intimate ‘Somos’

Neilson Studio, Sydney Dance Company.1 November 2023. Sydney Dance Company debuted Rafael Bonachela’s new work Somos in the Neilson Studio Theatre at...

Ghenoa Gela's 'Gurr Era Op'. Photo by Ashley de Prazer.

Ghenoa Gela at Sydney Festival: What if the village was ours?

How would you feel if your home was being erased? Inundated. For most, this is a rhetorical question; yet, for the people...

Sydney Dance Company New Breed 2023 choreographers. Photo by Pedro Greig.

Interviews

Meet the New Breed 2023 choreographers

Sydney Dance Company’s much anticipated annual season of emerging choreographic talent, New Breed, will hit the Carriageworks space this December. The line-up this year is an...

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Adelaide Festival announces 2024 program

The 39th Adelaide Festival, the first of the next three Festivals curated by Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie CBE and Chief Executive Kath...

Kate Prince's 'Message in a Bottle'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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