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Fear of loneliness and solitude: ‘Oh Boy!’ at March Dance

Dance Cinema online screening.1 March 2021. As part of March Dance, we are privileged to see Oh Boy! by Hadi Moussally. It is...

Jemma Rix, Matt Lee and Courtney Monsma in 'Frozen'. Photo by Lisa Tomasetti.

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‘Frozen’: The hit Broadway musical is taking Sydney by storm

10 December 2020. Capitol Theatre, Sydney. It was seven years ago when Disney’s animated film Frozen opened in cinemas in the USA, smashing records...

The case of 'PIPPIN'. Photo by Brian Geach.

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Thank God for theatre: ‘PIPPIN’ reopens Broadway in Australia

Sydney Lyric at The Star, Sydney.3 December 2020. After what seemed like an eternity, Sydney audiences are once again eagerly sitting in...

Jesse Scales's 'Inertia'. Photo by Pedro Greig.

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Sydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ 2020: Performing under the new normal

Carriageworks, Sydney.26 November 2020. As large swathes of the globe were undergoing renewed COVID second wave lockdowns, Sydney Dance Company was tentatively...

Karma Dance's Raina Peterson and Govind Pillai.

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Looking into lockdown: Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson in ‘Drishti’

Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.17 November 2020. Firstly, what jumps out is the control both Govind Pillai and Raina Peterson exhibit....

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Jonathan Homsey’s ‘I Am Maggie’: A participatory biography

Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Take Over! 2020.13 November 2020. There is an unsettling disjuncture at the digital heart of Jonathan Homsey’s I Am Maggie, presented...

Sue Healey's 'Live Action Relay'. Photo by Wendell Teodoro.

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Performance Space Live-on-the-Line: Sue Healey’s ‘Live Action Relay’

23 October 2020. Streamed online for Liveworks 2020. A musician crouched in desert plants and red-tinged dirt, the sounds he creates on various...

Aaron Smyth and Wade Neilsen in 'Billy Elliot the Musical'. Photo by James D. Morgan.

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‘Billy Elliot the Musical’: 10 years on and still strong

Sydney Lyric Theatre, Sydney.18 October 2019. From boxer to ballet dancer, a young Billy Elliot with grit, discipline and passion beats the...

Chunky Move's 'Token Armies'. Photo by Zan Wimberley.

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‘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...