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All posts tagged "Contemporary dance"
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1.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsQuestions of existence: Australian Dance Theatre’s ‘Supernature’
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.12 March 2021. The eery, shadowed stage filled with fog and imposing cocoon like sculptures overhead. We eagerly awaited...
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1.7KAustralian 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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4.0KFeaturedMarch Dance contemporary dance festival is back
March Dance, the annual month-long contemporary dance festival, is back in 2021, for its third consecutive year. The festival, running 1 – 31...
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2.4KFeaturedAustralian Dance Theatre launches season to farewell Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart, artistic director of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), has announced that he will step down at the end of 2021. Stewart’s...
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2.4KFeaturedOn a dance journey with Juliet Burnett
Dance Informa had the privilege of catching up with the captivating Juliet Burnett, on all things dance in her world. Burnett has...
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1.8KAustralian 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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1.7KFeaturedAustralian Dance Theatre holds Youth Ensemble auditions
Australian Dance Theatre (ADT)’s Youth Ensemble is a fantastic opportunity for the next generation of contemporary dancers to be a part of...
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1.7KFeaturedJacob Boehme is inaugural First Nations Resident at Lucy Guerin Inc
A new residency program for Senior First Nations dance artists has been announced by Lucy Guerin Inc and BlakDance, with Narangga and...
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2.4KFeaturedShining the spotlight on Scimm Dance Company
Founded in 2013, Melbourne-based Scimm Dance Company has gone from strength to strength in recent years. With the aim of producing thought-provoking and...
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2.4KFeaturedLucy Guerin: From AO onwards
Sitting in the theatre in late February, watching Lucy Guerin’s Metal, with its metaphors of strength, fluidity and animal imperative, we knew it...
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8.8KDance AdviceNew release: ‘The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques’
There is much to enjoy in The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques for professionals and hobbyists alike. The guide, published by Crowood Press, focusses on...
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2.8KFeaturedAustralian Dance Theatre’s double announcement: 2020 program and new executive director
Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) will be celebrating its 55th year in 2020, and that’s not the company’s only news. With an ambitiously...
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2.9KFeaturedExpressions Dance Company becomes Australian Dance Collective
After 35 years as Expressions Dance Company, the Brisbane-based ensemble will now be known as Australian Dance Collective. With collaboration and artistic excellence...
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2.7KFeaturedExpressions Dance Company and Beijing Dance/LDTX: Home and away
There are many ways to make work. One is to set up tight deadlines, create challenging parameters and break people out of...
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2.4KFeaturedDirtyFeet’s The Right Foot: Everybody dance now!
For the last seven years, Sydney-based independent company DirtyFeet has been opening up the world of contemporary dance. Since 2012, its (dis)ability...
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1.8KAustralian 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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3.0KFeatured‘Samsara’: Our journey to the ocean
“In the same space, there are two things working,” says Chinese dance star Hu Shenyuan. We are in a rehearsal break, sitting...
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2.7KFeaturedBangarra Dance Theatre: How to make a fire
We are in Melbourne, early spring, and the house is packed once again. 30 Years Of Sixty Five Thousand is finishing its near...
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1.7KFeaturedBranch Nebula’s ‘High Performance Packing Tape’: Everyday risks
Branch Nebula is a Sydney-based performance company that curates works combining a street aesthetic with engaged contemporary performances – Food Fight, Snake Sessions...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsHeavy breathing and squeaking of the ‘High Performance Packing Tape’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.18 September 2019. Branch Nebula’s High Performance Packing Tape was billed as an Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) Officer’s worst nightmare...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsRosalind Crisp’s ‘DIRtywork’: Stories of environmental destruction
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.15 September 2019. DIRtywork is a most strong and striking environmental dance/lecture by Australian dance luminary Rosalind Crisp, presented as...
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3.0KFeaturedThe McDonald College introduces Senior Contemporary Dance Program
Imagine the opportunity to immerse yourself in dance with the guidance of one of Australia’s most loved contemporary companies, while finishing your...
