Dancehouse, Melbourne.23 February 2024. It begins slowly, with dancers’ bodies cloaked, obscured. The score hovers, the white stage bordering on sterile. But...
Dancehouse, Melbourne.16 November 2023. The notion of a seven-hour durational performance may be anathema to some. Yet, as the writer Ida Marie...
Dancehouse, Melbourne.5 October 2023. “Why can’t the art speak for itself?” she asks, in a tone more accusative than enquiring. The short...
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...
FRAME: A biennial of dance, is a new festival from the dance communities in Melbourne and Victoria including arts organisations, companies and...
Dancer and choreographer Erin O’Rourke from Melbourne has been named as the winner of the 2022 Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) award. Aged 23...
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...
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...
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...
The Keir Foundation, Dancehouse and Australia Council for the Arts, with presenting partner Carriageworks, have announced the program and jury for the fifth edition...
The biennial Keir Choreographic Award (KCA), now in its fifth edition, is a premiere event for the Australian dance scene. It is...
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,...
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...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. August 2021. Dance (Lens) is a most exciting festival of screen dance organised by Dancehouse in Melbourne. Thirty-three short works are...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 22 April 2021. These days, it can be difficult not to look at things through the pandemic prism. At first glance,...
Walk into Theatreworks in St Kilda, and you can see what COVID has done. The foyer has been turned into a café,...
Featuring over 100-plus artists across four venues over four weekends, Sangam 2021 Performing Arts Festival of South Asia and Diaspora will present...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 20 February 2020. How does the world enter the soul? Can a nation reside in the body of an individual citizen?...
Dancehouse, Melbourne.14 February 2020. We think of dance as being centred in the body, but what if that body were not human?...
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...
The Keir Foundation, Carriageworks, Dancehouse and the Australia Council for the Arts have announced the eight artists and collectives who have been commissioned to make...
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 19 September 2019. Austinmer Dance Theatre is very much a bridge. The company’s focus on young (17-25yo) dancers and their desire...