All posts tagged "choreography"

Moving 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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‘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...

Jasmin Sheppard's 'Given Unto Thee'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

Sydney 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...

Holly Durant's 'Alter Edith'. Photo by Alexandre Dubois.

Holly 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...

Alice Topp (center). Photo by Kate Longley.

Making 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...

'Girl From The North Country' at Noel Coward Theatre.

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Interviews

Lucy 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...

David Hallberg, artistic director of The Australian Ballet, with dancers Callum Linnane and Imogen Chapman. Photo by Nicole Cleary.

The 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...

Sue Healey's 'On View: Panoramic Suite'.

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High-tech combination of dance and film: Sue Healey’s ‘On View: Panoramic Suite’

Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital.24 October 2021. Eight years in the making, Sue Healey’s On View: Panoramic Suite is a high-tech challenging...

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Sydney 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...

Jonathan Homsey's 'Star Spangled Banter'. Photo by Shannon May Powell.

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Jonathan 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...

Danielle and Alexandra's 'Out of the Blue'.

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‘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...

Claire Ross. Photo by Lindsay Rosenberg.

Dance Advice

Credit 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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Events

A 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...

Carina Roberts for 'Coppélia'. Photo by Frances Andrijich and Wunderman Thompson.

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West 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,...

NZDC'S 'Night Light'. Photo by John McDermott.

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Events

The 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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Sydney 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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Dance Advice

Choreographic 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...

Angela Goh in 'Sky Blue Mythic'. Photo by Zan Wimberley.

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‘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...

MadeBy. Photo courtesy of the Royal Academy of Dance.

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