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179Australian 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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111FeaturedAsia TOPA returns after five-year hiatus
The full performance program for Asia TOPA (Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts) has been unveiled. Returning after a five-year hiatus and taking place from 20...
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506Australian Dance ReviewsChou Kuan Jou’s ‘Tomato’: Turning the lens on us
Dancehouse, Melbourne.3 October 2024. Pomme d’amour. Love apple. Call it what you will, the humble tomato has always been vaguely sexy. Yet,...
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813Australian Dance Reviews‘Flesh Vessel’: Unleashing our imagination
Dancehouse, Melbourne.23 February 2024. It begins slowly, with dancers’ bodies cloaked, obscured. The score hovers, the white stage bordering on sterile. But...
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886Australian Dance Reviews‘Mass-bloom explorations’: A possible future without us
Dancehouse, Melbourne.16 November 2023. The notion of a seven-hour durational performance may be anathema to some. Yet, as the writer Ida Marie...
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908Australian Dance ReviewsWhat is fair? Deepa Mani and Sheena Chundee’s ‘TOUCH’
Dancehouse, Melbourne.5 October 2023. “Why can’t the art speak for itself?” she asks, in a tone more accusative than enquiring. The short...
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1.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsNo limits in Tra Mi Dinh’s ‘(Up) Holding’
Brand X, Sydney. 27 January 2023. Tra Mi Dinh brought her newest work, (Up) Holding, to the Brand X stage, and this latest instalment in her body...
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1.6KFeaturedFRAME: A major new biennial of dance
FRAME: A biennial of dance, is a new festival from the dance communities in Melbourne and Victoria including arts organisations, companies and...
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1.4KFeaturedAustralian Ballet and Telstra announce Erin O’Rourke as winner of 2022 Choreographer Award
Dancer and choreographer Erin O’Rourke from Melbourne has been named as the winner of the 2022 Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) award. Aged 23...
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1.3KAustralian Dance ReviewsPeering into the heart of the work: Amelia Jean O’Leary’s ‘Yinarr’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 31 August 2022. There are nights when you think, I’ve seen all this before. This type of body, moving in this fashion, to this kind of soundscape. But you wait…and sure...
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2.1KFeaturedTra Mi Dinh wins $50,000 Keir Choreographic Award 2022
The Keir Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts and Dancehouse, together with presenting partner Carriageworks, have announced Tra Mi Dinh as the recipient of the $50,000...
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1.8KFeatured‘Let’s DANCE’: A double bill for Chris Chua and Ryuichi Fujimura
FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres present Let’s DANCE, from 11 – 13 August, a double-bill by Chris Chua (BeatStorm) and Ryuichi Fujimura (Fall! Falter!! Dance!!!), FORM’s...
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1.2KFeaturedKeir Choreographic Award 2022 program and jury announced
The Keir Foundation, Dancehouse and Australia Council for the Arts, with presenting partner Carriageworks, have announced the program and jury for the fifth edition...
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1.5KFeaturedAnnouncing eight commissions for the 2022 Keir Choreographic Award
The biennial Keir Choreographic Award (KCA), now in its fifth edition, is a premiere event for the Australian dance scene. It is...
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1.7KFeaturedCarriageworks announces 2022 program and building refurbishment
Carriageworks has announced its first confirmed projects within a strong 2022 program to be presented across the Redfern-based multi-arts precinct, spanning dance, music,...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsJonathan Homsey’s ‘Star Spangled Banter’: A delightfully discomforting space
Dancehouse/Melbourne Fringe.14 October 2021. If called upon to boil it down to a single word, it would be…post. Post-dance, post-theatre, post-modern…post pretty...
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2.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance (Lens) highlights dance films from Australia and internationally
Dancehouse, Melbourne. August 2021. Dance (Lens) is a most exciting festival of screen dance organised by Dancehouse in Melbourne. Thirty-three short works are...
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1.6KAustralian 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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2.0KFeaturedViral viability: Is theatre sustainable at 75% capacity?
Walk into Theatreworks in St Kilda, and you can see what COVID has done. The foyer has been turned into a café,...
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1.5KFeaturedSangam 2021 to present an eclectic range of performing arts from South Asia and Diaspora
Featuring over 100-plus artists across four venues over four weekends, Sangam 2021 Performing Arts Festival of South Asia and Diaspora will present...
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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 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?...
