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All posts tagged "choreography"
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2.2KDance 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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2.5KEventsA 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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1.9KFeaturedWest Australian Ballet’s ‘Coppélia’ opens at His Majesty’s Theatre
As ballet icon George Balanchine said, “Just as Giselle is ballet’s great tragedy, so Coppélia is its great comedy.” The colourful tale of two lovers and an eccentric doctor,...
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1.8KEventsThe New Zealand Dance Company presents ‘Night Light’ this spring
An ancient sequence of nature and the space between fiction and reality are brought to life in Night Light – an evening of...
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1.6KFeaturedSydney Choreographic Centre opens the door to its new home
The Sydney Choreographic Centre (SCC) has opened the doors to its new home. The Centre in Alexandria will boast a series of long and...
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3.2KDance AdviceChoreographic tips and inspiration from the experts
Through 27 July, entries for the choreographic portion of MadeBy, a composition and choreography competition developed by OneMusic Australia and the Royal Academy...
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1.6KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Sky Blue Mythic’: Exploring our dystopian future
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.26 May 2021. Sky Blue Mythic is an exploration into the human future using contemporary dance’s familiar tropes of careful...
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1.9KFeaturedMadeBy: Choreographic competition opens to emerging Australian choreographers
Entries are now open for Stage 2 in a world-first composition and choreography initiative, MadeBy, developed by OneMusic Australia and the Royal Academy...
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2.0KFeaturedSylvie Guillem joins Sydney Choreographic Centre as International Patron
Sylvie Guillem, the most feted female ballet dancer of her generation, has accepted a new role – that of International Patron of...
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2.1KFeaturedNew Zealand School of Dance presents Choreographic Season at BATS
The annual New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) Choreographic Season has been a highly anticipated addition to the capital city’s arts calendar...
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1.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsIn this unsettling world: Deanne Butterworth’s ‘Slow Calm Drama’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 22 April 2021. These days, it can be difficult not to look at things through the pandemic prism. At first glance,...
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1.6KAustralian Dance Reviews‘A Small Spectacle’: A glimpse of an artist coping during COVID lockdown
7 – 9 March 2021. Online, as part of March Dance. A Small Spectacle is a solo show, created and performed by Phaedra Brown...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsTransported at Adelaide Festival: Sydney Dance Company’s ‘Impermanence’
Festival Theatre, Adelaide.10 March 2021. I’m not sure we all need a reminder of how impermanent our comfortable lives are after the...
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2.3KFeaturedVictorian State Ballet is heading to Sydney with ‘Little Mermaid’
Victorian State Ballet is returning to Sydney’s The Concourse in April, to perform its much loved underwater fairytale, Little Mermaid. Little Mermaid is a...
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3.3KFeaturedSydney Choreographic Centre to open in March
Sydney has secured a new unique centre for choreographers, to be titled the Sydney Choreographic Centre, opening in March this year. Co-founded by...
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2.0KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Spirit’ at Sydney Festival: The Bangarra retrospective 2021
The Headland Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney.22 January 2021. After 10 months in hibernation, Bangarra Dance Theatre has returned to the stage with a...
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1.9KFeaturedMedibank and Sydney Dance Company create ‘World’s Fittest Dance’
Medibank has announced the launch of the World’s Fittest Dance as part of its Live Better program, collaborating with Australia’s leading contemporary dance company, Sydney Dance...
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3.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ 2020: Performing under the new normal
Carriageworks, Sydney.26 November 2020. As large swathes of the globe were undergoing renewed COVID second wave lockdowns, Sydney Dance Company was tentatively...
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2.6KFeaturedChunky 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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2.9KDance AdviceAuditions in the time of COVID: ‘PIPPIN’ at Sydney Lyric
Looking at the girls who had been in the callback for PIPPIN, patiently waiting on the outdoor balcony of The Star, they were...
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5.1KFeaturedWin a Show Works Tap Step and be crowned Virtual Tap Off Champion with Luke Alleva
Dance Informa, the Victorian Dance Festival, tap star Luke Alleva and Show Works have teamed up to bring dancers the opportunity to...
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4.1KAustralian 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...
