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6.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsAndrew Morrish in ‘Oh Well’ last world tour
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 25 August 2017. Improvisation is a volatile element in the overall chemistry of performance, not simply because it promises a...
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9.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsShaun Parker’s ‘Blue Love’: A relationship brought to life
Seymour Centre, Sydney. 23 August 2017. Shaun Parker’s Blue Love was at the Seymour Centre for one performance only. Sorry, readers, but I was...
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3.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance as story: Gabrielle Nankivell’s ‘Split Second Heroes’
Space Theatre, Adelaide. July 29, 2017. Split Second Heroes is the culmination of over three years of development by Gabrielle Nankivell and her...
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5.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsEv & Bow Full Time students showcased in ‘Inner Landscape’
NIDA Playhouse, Sydney. 28 July 2017. Inner Landscape is a collection of three works choreographed by leading industry professionals and performed by...
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4.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Velvet’: Where skill explodes out of every single sequin
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney. 27 July 2017. From little things, big things grow. Beginning at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2015 to...
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6.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDjuki Mala: Going beyond indigenous dance
MAP57, St Kilda’s Winter Garden, Melbourne. 22 July 2017. Djuki Mala means “chicken mob”. The Djuki Mala ensemble has refined a startlingly...
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8.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsBangarra Dance Theatre’s ‘Bennelong’: Of loss and longing
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. July 4, 2017. Another visually stunning, sensationally danced work from marvellous Bangarra Dance Theatre, Steven Page’s Bennelong is also...
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5.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Royal Ballet in Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’
Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane. July 5, 2017. In another stellar International Series, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has delighted audiences with...
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5.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsNatalie Abbott’s ‘(re)PURPOSE: the MVMNT’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. July 5, 2017. Sometimes, even relatively tired ideas can be woken up. We’ve witnessed the whole “artist making work about...
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8.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsMelbourne Ballet Company’s ‘Archè’: A striking and unusual ‘Swan Lake’
The Concourse, Sydney. 29 June 2017. Earlier this year, also at The Concourse, we saw Melbourne Ballet Company’s Being In Time. The...
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5.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company presents double bill ‘Frame of Mind’
Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Sydney. 23 June 2017. Under the umbrella title Frame of Mind, we were treated to revivals of two dazzling,...
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5.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsCaitlin Dear stimulates the senses in ‘Qualia’
Owl and Cat Theatre, Melbourne. 20 June 2017. Referring as it does to specific instances of subjective conscious experience, the philosophical term “qualia”...
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5.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsNICA’s ‘Circosis: Left Brain, Right Brain’
NICA National Circus Centre, Melbourne. 24 June 2017. National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) has been training circus artists since 1999. NICA...
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6.8KAustralian Dance ReviewsThe Australian Ballet in Graeme Murphy’s magical ‘Nutcracker: The Story of Clara’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 15 May 2017 This glorious revival of Graeme Murphy’s Nutcracker: The Story of Clara by The Australian Ballet...
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5.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsKAGE’s ‘Out of Earshot’: Language at its core
Chunky Move, Melbourne. June 1, 2017. It opens quietly. Then, a few seconds later, it moves, using the most basic language of...
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8.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Matilda’ is magic
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. 26 May 2017. Who doesn’t love the story of Matilda, the smart, bold and “a little bit...
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4.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsLimitless Dance Company returns with ‘SE7EN’
NIDA’s Playhouse Theatre, Sydney. 13 May 2017. “Everyone tries their best to be a good person — but sometimes, we let the...
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6.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s ‘Orb’: Eastern mysticism meets urban mythology
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney. 29 April 2017. Sydney Dance Company’s latest work, Orb, was met with great anticipation and proved to be a...
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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...
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6.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsLucy Guerin Inc and Arts House presents ‘Split’ at Dance Massive
Arts House, Melbourne. 17 March 2017. Lucy Guerin loves to deconstruct cultural phenomena in her work. In Spilt, presented as part of...
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5.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Attractor’ at XO State: A collaboration between Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. February 26, 2017. The tagline proclaims: “ecstatic music/dance ritual for non-believers”. For once, the marketing mavens may have...
