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All posts tagged "Dance Massive"
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5Australian Dance Reviews‘Moving Portraits’: The choreography of dance on film
Dancehouse, Melbourne.27 November 2024. Early in 2015, I was lucky enough to see the first iteration of Sue Healey’s On View during...
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2.5KFeaturedNick Power: When two tribes (start to dance)
From its beginnings amongst the urban poor in New York (sometime between the late ‘60s and mid ‘70s), hip hop has gone...
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3.5KFeaturedReflecting 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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3.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsStephanie Lake’s ‘Skeleton Tree’: Meditations on death and loss
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. 16 March 2019. Sunday morning, skeleton tree Oh, nothing is for free In the window, a candle Well, maybe...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsA cast of 400 tennis balls and more: Atlanta Eke’s ‘The Tennis Piece’
Collingwood Town Hall, Melbourne. 19 March 2019. As much as a tennis match is a contest, it is also a collusion, a...
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2.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsAlison Currie’s ‘Concrete Impermanence’ is a slow burn
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 17 March 2019. Sometimes, despite our impatience for spectacle and gratification, we are made to wait. Such is the case...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe architecture of Lucy Guerin’s ‘Make Your Own World’
Arts House, Melbourne. 12 March 2019. Dance Massive 2019’s first night saw the gallery near capacity as one of Australia’s favourite contemporary...
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2.4KFeaturedFrom 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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4.6KFeaturedThe 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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2.3KFeaturedAtlanta Eke’s ‘The Tennis Piece’: In the court of public movement
What if there was a dance work that referenced both politics and sport and featured a 408-member ensemble performing Renaissance dance routines...
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2.0KInterviewsFrom the rehearsal studio: A talk with Stephanie Lake on ‘Skeleton Tree’
Dance Informa had the opportunity to chat with choreographer Stephanie Lake during a break in rehearsals for her latest work, Skeleton Tree....
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3.9KDance Advice‘We Move You’: Dance Massive’s sensorial workshops for everyone
Dance Massive 2019 is the third iteration of the biennial contemporary dance festival in Melbourne. It spans many venues, and is anchored...
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4.0KNeed to KnowAlison Currie: Before the time is up
There is a delightful paradox at play right now: the constancy of change. Indeed, if there is one thing that unifies everything...
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3.4KFeaturedKristina Chan’s ‘A Faint Existence’: Making a difference
Kristina Chan has been described as “a beguiling dancer”. When I mention this at the beginning of our interview, she is intrigued...
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3.2KFeaturedSydney Dance Company’s PPY Part 3: Coming to a close
Walking into the beautiful new Sydney Dance Company (SDC) studios in Ultimo is a shock to the system after our previous three...
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2.8KFeaturedYellow 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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4.9KInterviewsLilian Steiner on living a life full of dance
Dance Informa had the opportunity to chat with freelance dancer/choreographer Lilian Steiner, fresh off the back of the Sydney leg of the...
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4.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsLucy Guerin Inc mesmerises Sydney with ‘SPLIT’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 8 August 2018. The audience are seated in the ‘Studio’ at the Sydney Opera House, where graduated seating...
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4.4KFeaturedSame but different: Anouk van Dijk’s ‘Depth of Field’ in Aarhus, Denmark
The location or space always partners a performance work. Whether it be a proscenium arch stage, a studio, a black box or...
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4.7KFeaturedADT relocates to Odeon Theatre: The dawn of a more vibrant dance community in South Australia?
After 15 years at the Wonderland Ballroom in Hawthorn, 12km south of the Adelaide CBD, Australia’s oldest contemporary dance company will be...
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4.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsNicola Gunn’s ‘Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster’ at Dance Massive
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. 16 March 2017. Is there anything more narcissistic than an artist? How about an artist/philosopher? A really smart, self-aware,...
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4.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsFinding peace in Lilian Steiner’s ‘Noise Quartet Meditation’ at Dance Massive
Dancehouse, Melbourne. March 19, 2017. Whenever we conceive of order, we are, by extension, also conceiving of chaos. Likewise with classic dualities...
