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All posts tagged "choreographers"
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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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1.8KFeaturedWaiting 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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1.5KFeaturedAnnouncing eight commissions for the 2022 Keir Choreographic Award
The biennial Keir Choreographic Award (KCA), now in its fifth edition, is a premiere event for the Australian dance scene. It is...
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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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2.8KFeaturedMind 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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2.0KEvents‘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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1.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsMoving at a pace to allow for breath: Martin del Amo’s ‘Mirage’
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. 7 January 2022. Mirage premiered at the Campbelltown Arts Centre on 7 January. It was originally intended to run as...
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1.2KFeatured‘Grey Rhino’: Heeding the danger hidden in plain sight
Grey Rhino is the first full scale co-production of award-winning dancer and choreographer duo Charmene Yap and Cass Mortimer Eipper that will premiere...
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2.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s New Breed: A powerful eighth year
Carriageworks, Sydney. 4 December 2021. This is the eighth year of New Breed, the inspiration of Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, where four developing choreographers are...
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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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2.3KFeaturedDancing through the pandemic: Contemporary dance and the post-COVID stage
2022 hopefully marks the post-COVID world where we learn to live with the virus safely and the disruptions of the pandemic are...
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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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2.1KFeaturedThe 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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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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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsJonathan Homsey’s ‘Star Spangled Banter’: A delightfully discomforting space
Dancehouse/Melbourne Fringe.14 October 2021. If called upon to boil it down to a single word, it would be…post. Post-dance, post-theatre, post-modern…post pretty...
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1.5KAustralian 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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2.4KEventsA 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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1.7KDance AdviceApplications open for Lou Cope’s online course for choreographers and dramaturgs
Lou Cope and CoAD – the Centre of Applied Dramaturgy will be hosting Doing Dramaturgy, a unique online course for choreographers and...
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3.1KFeaturedRoyal 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...
