All posts tagged "Contemporary dance"

Australasian 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...

Sydney Dance Company's 'ab [intra]'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Sydney Dance Company tours France with ‘ab [intra]’

After almost three years, Sydney Dance Company is returning to the international stage. This past month and April, Rafael Bonachela’s critically acclaimed ab...

Emma Saunders' 'Radical Transparency', presented by FORM Dance Projects and the WE ARE HERE Company.

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‘Radical Transparency’: Staying afloat in dance and movement

Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Sydney.18 March 2022. The Lennox Theatre at Riverside Theatres was packed, with the masked audience taking their seats while...

Great Southern Dance. Photo by Paul Wakelam.

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Felicity 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...

Phaedra Brown and Tamara Bouman in 'Waiting Game'. Photo by Sandra Theresa.

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Waiting 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...

Dance artist Tra Mi Dinh performing 'Holding' at March Dance 2021. Photo by Rolling Media Productions.

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March Dance returns to embrace Sydney’s vibrant dance community

March Dance, supported by the City of Sydney, is back in 2022! The festival will be held from March 1 to 31, and...

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Harrison Elliott and Lilly King join Australasian Dance Collective

2019 Australian Dance Award nominee Harrison Elliott and 2019 Performing Arts Awards winner Lilly King are joining Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) as company...

Jo Lloyd's 'Handsome'. Photo by Peter Rosetzky.

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Mind 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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‘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...

Emmanuel James Brown in 'Jurrungu Ngan-ga' by Marrugeku. Photo by Abby Murray.

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Carriageworks 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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‘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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The 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...

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

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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...

Dancenorth's Marlo Benjamin and Nelson Earl in 'RED'. Photo by Amber Haines.

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Dancing 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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Frances 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...

North West Dance Company full time dance

North West Dance Company: Changing with the entertainment industry

COVID’S impact on the arts and entertainment sector highlights the continual evolution that performers and industry bodies need to undergo. While old...

'The Rite of Spring'. Photo by Florian Heinzenziob.

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The 2022 Adelaide Festival program announced

The 2022 Adelaide Festival program encourages us all to return to live performance with joy and anticipation, and will gather together a community of...

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Campbelltown Arts Centre presents Martin del Amo’s ‘Mirage’ as part of Sydney Festival

Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C) is proud to present Mirage by acclaimed choreographer and dancer Martin del Amo to run 7 – 15 January as...

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Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company reveal world premiere of ‘Wudjang: Not the Past’

In a first-time co-production, two powerhouse arts companies, Bangarra Dance Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company, will join forces to present the world...

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