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All posts tagged "Dancehouse"
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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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2.3KFeaturedEight new commissions for the Keir Choreographic Award
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...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsPassion and ambition in Austinmer Dance Theatre’s ‘But Why’
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...
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2.7KAustralian Dance ReviewsAlison Currie’s ‘Concrete Impermanence’ is a slow burn
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 17 March 2019. Sometimes, despite our impatience for spectacle and gratification, we are made to wait. Such is the case...
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3.9KDance Advice‘We Move You’: Dance Massive’s sensorial workshops for everyone
Dance Massive 2019 is the third iteration of the biennial contemporary dance festival in Melbourne. It spans many venues, and is anchored...
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4.0KNeed to KnowAlison Currie: Before the time is up
There is a delightful paradox at play right now: the constancy of change. Indeed, if there is one thing that unifies everything...
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2.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsAustinmer Dance Theatre sets fire with ‘Connect’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 27 September 2018. The thing I most look for in an artist, especially in live performance, is vulnerability. For a...
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4.1KAustralian Dance ReviewsBecoming entangled in Rhiannon Newton’s ‘We Make Each Other Up’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. 29 August 2018. Usually, if there’s a fern on stage, it’s either a prop or a decorative object. Yet, in...
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3.9KFeaturedRhiannon Newton’s plant-based work to premiere at Dancehouse
In the midst of a clickspeed culture, where high paced busyness and visible attainment is the acme of credibility and cool, what...
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4.7KDance AdviceSo dance doesn’t dance anymore?
There is a blackboard wall in a foyer at a specialist dance venue just north of the river in Melbourne, Australia, where...
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3.6KAustralian Dance ReviewsRenae Shadler and Mirjam Sögner’s double bill: Single body, similar spirit
Dancehouse, Melbourne. May 11, 2018. The trouble with double bills is that they can often seem like two parts lumped together in...
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3.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsEight artists at the Keir Choreographic Award Semi-Finals
Dancehouse, Melbourne. March 6 and 9, 2018. Although artists often indulge in the fantasy of their own exceptionalism, and others are wont...
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6.8KTop Stories2018 Keir Choreographic Award announces 8 selected artists
The Keir Foundation, Carriageworks and Dancehouse have announced the eight artists who have been selected for the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award, Australia’s...
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4.3KFeaturedHelen Herbertson: The rewards of a lifetime
Much of Helen Herbertson’s story will sound familiar to many in the dance community: a girl in dance classes dreaming big dreams...
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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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6.6KFeaturedNatalie Abbott: Purpose is a latecomer
“In a way, making shows and art for me are a way to understand things that I’m questioning in life, and to...
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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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5.1KFeaturedMelbourne’s first Asia TOPA: The door is ajar
“Dance is a beautiful thing to program because it’s not language-based,” declares Stephen Armstrong, creative director of Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts...
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3.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsMatthew Day’s ‘Assemblage #1’: A private ritual
Dancehouse, Melbourne. November 27, 2016. The notion of durational performance is one packed with ironies. Indeed, we could very well argue that...
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5.8KFeatured2017 Dance Massive program announced
Dance Massive, a contemporary dance program in Melbourne that showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming choreographers, has just announced its...
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5.7KFeaturedMatthew Day: Stepping into unsettled space
Every one of us has a way of doing things, a kind of routine for living. This “comfort zone” is where we...
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3.0KAustralian Dance ReviewsDance Territories double bill: ‘Border Lines’
Dancehouse, Melbourne. October 14, 2016. The thing that unifies this sometimes provocative evening of dance and installation is the notion of “overlooking”,...
