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1.4KTop StoriesChunky Move announces $80,000 Choreographer In Residence
Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company Chunky Move, in partnership with the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, has opened applications for its new Choreographer In...
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526FeaturedDance leaders in a pandemic: Like nobody told us how
What if the virus is a blessing? An invitation? A crack that widens to allow a new way of being and making...
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585FeaturedAngela Goh receives inaugural Beyond The Studio Fellowship
The Beyond The Studio Fellowship (valued at $50,000 including in-kind support) was set up to support a choreographer, dancer, producer, composer or...
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818FeaturedDanceMoore Choreography continues to inspire online throughout COVID-19
The day-to-day throughout COVID-19 can be challenging. Being isolated and thrown many uncertainties about the future — whilst simultaneously having to manage classes online and...
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724Australian Dance Reviews‘Token Armies’: Chunky Move’s genre defying guerilla war dance
Meat Market, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne.16 October 2019. Attending Token Armies is like being invited by a radical friend who is clued-in to...
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1.7KFeaturedAntony Hamilton: On the march with ‘Token Armies’
When Chunky Move, Melbourne’s premiere independent dance company, announced the appointment of Antony Hamilton as artistic director and co-CEO with Kristy Ayre,...
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644Australian Dance Reviews‘RITUAL’: Twisted Element’s varieties of ritualistic experience
Create or Die, Marrickville.20 September 2019. After a sold out taster earlier this year, Sydney-based community arts group Twisted Element premiered its...
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99.3KFeaturedSharing the big umbrella: Jo Lloyd and Stephanie Lake at Melbourne Festival
This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival has already made news. Not only is it Jonathan Holloway’s final year as Artistic Director, but...
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2.6KFeaturedCharmene Yap steps into a new role at SDC
Sydney Dance Company (SDC) stalwart Charmene Yap will be finishing her performing career at the end of SDC’s Season 1 tour of Bonachela/Nankivel/Lane....
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1.7KFeaturedTaking 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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1.6KFeaturedNew Zealand Dance News – June 2019
Find out what’s happening this month in New Zealand dance news! The New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD) audition registrations for full-time training...
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2.0KFeaturedPioneers of Australian contemporary dance: Talking with those carrying on the legacy today
It seems strange to be writing an article about contemporary dancers and choreographers carrying a legacy from the pioneers of the artform...
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1.3KFeaturedNew Zealand Dance News – May 2019
Find out what’s happening in New Zealand dance news this month! The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) performs the second leg of its...
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1.7KFeaturedReflecting on this year’s Dance Massive
Every festival is a mixed bag. Hits, misses, stuff we just forget. Yet for anyone wishing to reduce an event as hectic...
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1.2KFeaturedFrom the rehearsal studio: Chunky Move’s ‘Common Ground’
It’s snowing and early morning in Berlin when I contact Anouk van Dijk, while in Sydney it’s evening in the midst of...
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1.9KFeaturedThe hottest and most anticipated dance events of the year
Just a couple months in, 2019 has already proven to be a busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dance...
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1.4KFeaturedYellow Wheel’s dance offerings for young artists
Yellow Wheel, established in Melbourne, in 2012, is an Australian pre-professional contemporary dance company specialising in working with young people and emerging...
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2.7KFeaturedGideon Obarzanek’s ‘One Infinity’: The mandala of infinite participation
At some point, most of us find ourselves yearning to be part of something bigger. This desire frequently manifests in either the...
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2.7KFeaturedStephanie 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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2.1KFeaturedChunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk steps down
After seven years at the helm of Chunky Move, Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk has announced her decision to step down. Chunky...
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3.4KDance 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),...
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3.6KFeaturedGideon Obarzanek: Like father, (not) like son!
That Gideon Obarzanek is weaved into the very fabric of contemporary dance in this country is pretty well beyond question. Multiple Helpmann...
