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4.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsHu Shenyuan and Aakash Odedra’s ‘Saṃsāra’: In it, a gem resides
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 5 March 2020. Back in September, when Dance Informa first spoke to Hu Shenyuan about Saṃsāra, he said (of the Sanskrit word) that one possible Mandarin...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsCross-pollination: Akira Kasai’s ‘Pollen Revolution’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 20 February 2020. How does the world enter the soul? Can a nation reside in the body of an individual citizen?...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsLucy Guerin and Robi Rusdiana’s ‘Metal’: Do opposites attract?
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 24 February 2020. It does not take long for the boundaries to be tested. Indeed, at times Metal pushes into terrain that...
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2.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsGo for the dancing: ‘Billy Elliot the Musical’
Regent Theatre, Melbourne. 22 February 2020. From play, to feature film to stage musical, the story of Billy Elliot has found an audience in different forms...
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2.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsRaw presence in Ruri Mito’s ‘Matou’
Dancehouse, Melbourne.14 February 2020. We think of dance as being centred in the body, but what if that body were not human?...
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2.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Colossus’ at Sydney Festival 2020: Stephanie Lake’s big work got bigger and better
Carriageworks, Sydney.16 January 2020. Stephanie Lake’s literally colossal production of Colossus has just hit Sydney Festival with a bang. From its premiere in Melbourne,...
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3.3KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Bran Nue Dae’ teaches about our past but looks toward the future
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, Sydney.17 January 2020. Thirty years after its original stage debut, Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae has hit the Riverside...
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3.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsNick Power’s ‘Two Crews’: Bringing back the purity of old school hip hop
Two Crews is a celebration of the intimate roots of hip hop’s global culture. As hip hop spreads its cultural influence, original b-boy...
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2.1KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Frontera’: Intense running against technological borders
Carriageworks, Sydney.7 January 2020. Canadian avant-garde choreographer Dana Gingras and her troupe, Animals of Distinction, premiered their intense socially engaged work Frontera to Australian audiences...
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1.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Cirque Stratosphere’: Space age tribute to the end of an era
Sydney Opera House, Sydney.24 December 2019. There has been a lot of hype around The Works Entertainment Group’s latest production, Cirque Stratosphere....
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3.2KAustralian Dance Reviews‘Chicago’ is fresh even 32 years later
State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne.19 December 2019. Melbourne is hosting the latest iteration of the musical Chicago produced by John Frost...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s 2019 PPY graduates in ‘PPY Revealed’
Carriageworks, Sydney.11 December 2019. Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s 2019 Pre Professional Year (PPY) graduation season, PPY Revealed, consisted of four works — newly...
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4.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsSydney Dance Company’s ‘New Breed’ shows company in top form
Carriageworks, Sydney.28 November 2019. Sydney Dance Company (SDC)’s New Breed showcase of new choreography is always challenging and exciting, giving us much...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsNAISDA Dance College’s 2019 season ‘Ngoenakap’
Carriageworks, Sydney.22 November 2019. There was a warm, joyous atmosphere when we entered and a great sense of connection to land and country...
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3.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsHouston Ballet and The Australian Ballet’s co-production of ‘Sylvia’
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 8 November 2019. The production of Sylvia is one work where it really pays to read the synopsis beforehand...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsTranscending distance: ‘Swiss Style’ at Dancehouse
Dancehouse, Melbourne.8 November 2019. If Dancehouse’s recent Swiss Style season shows us anything, it’s that art and the impulses that drive it, like...
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4.4KAustralian Dance Reviews‘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...
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1.9KAustralian Dance Reviews‘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...
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2.2KAustralian Dance ReviewsEastern aesthetics and philosophy in Yang Liping’s ‘Rite of Spring’
State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne.6 October 2019. The Rite of Spring was made famous first by the collaboration between Stravinsky and Diaghilev...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsCirque du Soleil’s ‘KURIOS’: A return to circus’ more innocent times
As the Cirque du Soleil international juggernaut continues on its merry way, its return to Australian audiences with KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities is a...
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2.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsYang Liping’s epic re-imagining: ‘Rite of Spring’
Arts Centre, Melbourne.3 October 2019. Extraordinary! Spectacular! Lavish, colourful! All the superlatives apply. Yang Liping’s re-imagined Rite Of Spring is an exquisitely detailed,...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsDirtyFeet’s Out of the Studio: A place for creative exploration
East Sydney Community Centre, Sydney. 27 September 2019. Sydney-based independent dance entity DirtyFeet, presented its much-anticipated annual emerging choreographer program, ‘Out of the...
