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Marty Alix, Jason Arrow, Victory Ndukwe and Shaka Cook in 'Hamilton'. Photo by Daniel Boud.

2021 Sydney Theatre Award winners announced

The winners of the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced recently at a star-studded ceremony, with 29 awards presented, shared between 18...

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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.

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Australian Dance Reviews

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...

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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Dance Advice

Start the new year with some summer superfoods

The summer holidays are about to start, and the weather is heating up. It’s always important to soak in the slower summer...

Alice Topp (center). Photo by Kate Longley.

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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...

West End cast of '9 TO 5'. Photo by Pamela Raith Photography.

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Events

‘9 TO 5’ is back in business in Sydney

9 TO 5, Dolly Parton’s West End smash-hit musical, is back in business in 2022. The Australian premiere will open in February...

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Dean Walsh’s ‘Infinite Item’ in Sydney Fringe digital season

Dean Walsh’s contemporary performance work, Infinite Item, had a final stage development and broadcast sharing of it in the middle of COVID last year...

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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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Circa becomes first major arts company to tour again internationally

The world-acclaimed contemporary circus arts company Circa has premiered the sixth of the 10 new works created during COVID, with a production of Astor...

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SA Dance Festival is back this August

The events of 2020 cancelled the famed SA Dance Festival, but we are excited to announce that SADF is back in 2021,...

Lucy Guerin's 'Pendulum'. Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti.

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Going above and beyond: RISING Festival

“I feel that people are more open to those experiences now, considering the pretty epic world events of late,” she says. “They...

PSA performing at Ignite by VDF. Photo by Belinda Strodder.

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Todd Patrick: Opening doors at Patrick School of the Arts

Patrick School of the Arts (PSA), a renowned industry performing arts school based in Melbourne, offers a mix of part-time and full-time...

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2021 Australian Youth Dance Festival: To reboot youth dance culture

From 4-10 July, the 2021 Australian Youth Dance Festival (AYDF) will bring together over 130 young dance artists and 40 professional dance...

Victorian State Ballet. Photo by Sasha Kane.

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Viral viability: Is theatre sustainable at 75% capacity?

Walk into Theatreworks in St Kilda, and you can see what COVID has done. The foyer has been turned into a café,...

Sydney Eisteddfod Ballet Scholarship Finalists 2019.

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Sydney Eisteddfod: Out of the living room, into the spotlight

Long before shiny floor TV, there was the Sydney Eisteddfod. Indeed, the first known Eisteddfod event is thought to have occurred in...

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Australian Dance Reviews

‘A Small Spectacle’: A glimpse of an artist coping during COVID lockdown

7 – 9 March 2021. Online, as part of March Dance. A Small Spectacle is a solo show, created and performed by Phaedra Brown...

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Interviews

From history to here: Elandrah Eramiha in ‘Hamilton’

There are many remarkable things about Hamilton. Hailed as a form-changer in musical theatre, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip hop-driven, historical drama has won Tony,...