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981Australian Dance ReviewsMeryl Tankard’s ‘Kairos’: A long-awaited collaboration
Sydney Festival, Carriageworks.19 January 2023. Meryl Tankard AO’s long-awaited collaboration with composer Elena Kats-Chernin AO and visual artist Régis Lansac OAM has finally graced the stage for...
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1.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsAaron Orzech and Collaborators’ ‘NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER’
Arts House, North Melbourne.10 November 2022. Sometimes, concept is king, and what we are watching is an idea playing out. Such is...
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1.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsSara Black’s ‘Double Beat’: The pulse of life
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney. 5 May 2022. Double Beat is presented by FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres as part of Dance Bites 2022....
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1.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Australian Ballet announces new era with epic masterwork ‘Kunstkamer’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.29 April 2022. In staging Kunstkamer, The Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David Hallberg has made a bold statement regarding the artistic...
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1.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsAntony Hamilton’s ‘Yung Lung’: Human creativity will shine through
Carriageworks, Sydney.22 January 2022. Antony Hamilton’s work has always contained a curious mix of futuristic post-apocalyptic dread that is leavened with a...
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1.1KAustralian 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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1.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsMoving at a pace to allow for breath: Martin del Amo’s ‘Mirage’
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney. 7 January 2022. Mirage premiered at the Campbelltown Arts Centre on 7 January. It was originally intended to run as...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsHolly 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...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsHigh-tech combination of dance and film: Sue Healey’s ‘On View: Panoramic Suite’
Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital.24 October 2021. Eight years in the making, Sue Healey’s On View: Panoramic Suite is a high-tech challenging...
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1.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsJulie-Anne Long’s ‘Queenie Gives An Address’: Meeting an Invisiblist up close
Streaming online as part of Liveworks Digital. 21 October 2021. Julie-Anne Long’s Queenie Gives An Address is a subversive, challenging performance full of social comment....
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1.2KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Bauhaus’ and ‘Out of the Blue’ at Sydney Fringe
Sydney Fringe 2021.Presented online. I managed to catch two events as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival which were also part of the...
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2.2KAustralian Dance Reviews‘The Little Prince’: A timeless, other-worldly journey
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 27 May 2021. Direct from Paris, The Little Prince has finally made it to Australian Shores after a cancelled 2020 mid-COVID season, and it...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsFORM Dance Projects’ ‘NARCIFIXION’: Identity in the digital age
Riverside Theatres, Sydney.13 May 2021. Choreographed and performed by two major Independent dance artists, Anton (Legs On The Wall, Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance...
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1.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Sky Blue Mythic’: Exploring our dystopian future
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.26 May 2021. Sky Blue Mythic is an exploration into the human future using contemporary dance’s familiar tropes of careful...
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1.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsDancenorth’s ‘RED’: Art lives in context
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.26 May 2021. If ever we are tempted to think of art as existing in a pristine space – neatly...
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1.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Australian Ballet is back with new director and ‘New York Dialects’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.12 April 2021. The Australian Ballet is back in Sydney, after a long break due to COVID, and the...
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2.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Fangirls’: Teenage spirit and the purpose of music
Playhouse Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre Melbourne.29 April 2021. Following successful seasons in Queensland and Sydney, Yve Blake’s Fangirls arrives in Melbourne. Directed by Paige...
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4.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsSparkles and smiles with the premiere of ’The Wedding Singer’
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. 1 May 2021. For two hours and 20 minutes, you pack up your troubles in your old ‘80s gym bag...
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1.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsIn this unsettling world: Deanne Butterworth’s ‘Slow Calm Drama’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 22 April 2021. These days, it can be difficult not to look at things through the pandemic prism. At first glance,...
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1.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsCirca’s ‘Shaun the Sheep’: Forget the TV, get to the circus
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 14 April 2021. Brisbane’s Circa is back with a show for preschool and primary kids. Director Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa ensemble have crafted a contemporary...
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1.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘The Foul of the Air’: Not so easily forgotten
The Landlord, Summer Hill, Sydney. 31 March 2021. The Foul of the Air by The Living Room Theatre and directed by Michelle St Anne, as...
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1.6KAustralian Dance Reviews‘La Traviata’: Verdi’s opera outdoors on Sydney Harbour
The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. 26 March 2021. It was a week of torrential rain and flooding, but on opening night of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, the clouds cleared to...
