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All posts tagged "contemporary dance Australia"
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1.7KFeaturedSydney Dance Company announces innovative 2023 season
Sydney Dance Company has announced its 2023 Annual Program, a year of dance that showcases breathtaking artistry and dynamism. “For Sydney Dance...
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company dazzles in triple bill ‘Resound’
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney.29 October 2022. Sydney Dance Company’s Resound is a challenging, thought-provoking triple bill that showcases the superlative dancing of the Sydney...
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1.5KFeaturedFour independent choreographers kick off inaugural INDance
Over two weeks in August, Sydney Dance Company and City of Sydney will be supporting INDance, an inaugural independent dance program in the...
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1.1KFeatured‘Jagad’ by Monica Lim, Rianto and Melanie Lane: How many universities do we inhabit?
Complex realities merge with inner worlds in the mystical and striking new dance work by Monica Lim, Rianto and Melanie Lane: Jagad. Inspired...
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1.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsStephanie Lake’s bravest ‘Manifesto’
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.10 June 2022. Imagine if the H.M.S. Pinafore had been taken over by cult leaders or extremists, and G&S camp replaced with...
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1.5KFeaturedAustralasian Dance Collective is back on tour
Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) is taking the original iteration of THREE: Lister / Lane / Shechter on the road and down Australia’s East Coast this...
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1.1KInterviewsFelicity Bott’s Great Southern Dance: A new regional company highlighting the landscape of the deep south
Felicity Bott took the challenge of the pandemic’s great interruption to all arts organisations to establish Great Southern Dance, a new independent regional dance...
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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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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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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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1.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Grey Rhino’: Big societal issues translated into dance
Carriageworks, Sydney.20 January 2022. Sydney Festival 2022 central theme has been “finding your Sydney” and has been an opportunity to showcase and...
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1.8KFeaturedThe arc of a dance is long and unbroken: Bangarra’s new dancers
There are dance companies, and then there is Bangarra. Imbued with a purpose that goes beyond performance, the country’s top tier indigenous...
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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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2.4KFeaturedFrances Rings named new artistic director of Bangarra
Bangarra Dance Theatre has announced the appointment of Kokatha woman Frances Rings as the company’s incoming artistic director. Rings will take on...
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2.0KFeaturedA unique performance experience, every single time: Australasian Dance Collective’s ‘Forgery’
The theatre darkens and the lights come up on a performance that is completely unknown – for not just the audience but...
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1.5KFeaturedAustralian Dance Theatre brings together four continents in ‘Convergence’
Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) has pulled off a global coup, bringing together some of the world’s most exciting choreographers for Convergence at The Odeon,...
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6.8KTop Stories2018 Keir Choreographic Award announces 8 selected artists
The Keir Foundation, Carriageworks and Dancehouse have announced the eight artists who have been selected for the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award, Australia’s...
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107.1K11FeaturedIs that Dance? A writer’s response to recent dance trends
Recently, I was invited to see an “unmissable” show. The media release assured me of its astonishing significance, a rare opportunity to...
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16.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Frame of Mind’ by Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Theatre March 9, 2015 By Elizabeth Ashley of Dance Informa. Sydney Dance Company’s latest program, Frame of Mind, offers a myriad of contrasts...
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5.7KTop StoriesFocus On This: Chunky Move’s ‘Depth of Field’
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. 2014 Helpmann Award Best Male Dancer James Vu Anh Pham throws off the shackles and dons...
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7.2KFeaturesVicki Van Hout Down in the Long Grass
By Paul Ransom of Dance Informa. Drawing inspiration from the homeless population of Darwin and the women of Arnhem Land, choreographer Vicki...
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7.1K1Top StoriesVertical Shadows lures star dancers back on stage
By Rebecca Martin of Dance Informa. Vertical Shadows’ world premiere season of The White Prince stars Damien Welch and Marc Cassidy, both...
