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All posts tagged "Dancenorth"
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335FeaturedDancenorth announces new major work to premiere at North Australian Festival of Arts
After capitvating Adelaide audiences with its critically acclaimed run of NOISE at WOMADelaide 2022, internationally acclaimed Townsville-based dance company Dancenorth will wow local audiences when...
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1.1KFeaturedDancing through the pandemic: Contemporary dance and the post-COVID stage
2022 hopefully marks the post-COVID world where we learn to live with the virus safely and the disruptions of the pandemic are...
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655Australian Dance ReviewsDancenorth’s ‘RED’: Art lives in context
Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.26 May 2021. If ever we are tempted to think of art as existing in a pristine space – neatly...
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649FeaturedGoing above and beyond: RISING Festival
“I feel that people are more open to those experiences now, considering the pretty epic world events of late,” she says. “They...
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1.2KDance AdviceEv & Bow: Innovation, passion and outstanding results
Audition season is upon us, and the next generation of students are beginning to consider their future training options. After a challenging...
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1.1KFeaturedDance leaders in a pandemic: Like nobody told us how
What if the virus is a blessing? An invitation? A crack that widens to allow a new way of being and making...
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3.7KFeaturedLocked up with the leadership group
Autumn 2020 in Australia has indeed been a season of shedding, as a tiny RNA virus arrived to upend the status quo....
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2.3KFeaturedDancenorth brings the Noise to North Australian Festival
Dancenorth, Townsville’s award-winning contemporary dance company continues to keep contemporary dance in the forefront of the region’s cultural imagination. Demonstrating that the...
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2.5KFeaturedDancenorth’s ‘Common Colours’ is named finalist in short film awards
Dancenorth’s Disability Ambassador, Chris Dyke, recently collaborated with Artistic Director Kyle Page and videographer Robert Crispe to creat Common Colours, a short...
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1.5KFeaturedDancenorth announces 2019 A.R.T. residency program
Throughout 2019, Dancenorth will continue its commitment to increase support within the sector, through the Artist Residency in the Tropics (A.R.T.) program....
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3.0KInterviewsCharmene Yap’s blueprint for dancing longevity
Dancers can become memorable through a number of ways: Sometimes they are lionised for their youthful athleticism, sometimes for their technical virtuosity,...
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1.9KAustralian Dance ReviewsDancenorth takes risks in ‘DUST’
Carriageworks, Sydney. 9 January 2019 From using Fitballs on a Northern Queensland beach (Tectonic), to exploring environmental and political issues through...
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4.1KFeaturedDancenorth’s ‘Dust’: Between choreography and architecture
Collaboration is a central pillar of our creative process, and Dust is a true testament to inherent power of creating space in which...
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Iconic dance spaces around the world: Strand Beach
The next instalment of Dance Informa’s series, Iconic Dance Spaces Around the World, looks at The Strand Beach, in Townsville, Far North...
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2.4KAustralian Dance ReviewsGideon Obarzanek’s ‘One Infinity’: Askew symmetry
Malthouse, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne. 18 October 2018. Perhaps without consciously intending to do so, the east/west creative team behind One...
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3.2KFeaturedGideon Obarzanek’s ‘One Infinity’: The mandala of infinite participation
At some point, most of us find ourselves yearning to be part of something bigger. This desire frequently manifests in either the...
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3.3KFeaturedKyle Page of Dancenorth: Winning at Juggling
The winners of the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were announced late February, and Dancenorth has won the Group Award, worth...
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3.4KFeaturedThe law of attraction: Kyle Page and Dancenorth’s ‘Attractor’
It’s not often that we get to legitimately quote ourselves in the articles we pen, but this is one such instance because,...
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4.0KAustralian 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...
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4.5KFeaturedTo Noir Knows Where: Richard Cilli in Lucy Guerin’s ‘Motion Picture’
It is 1950. A man turns up to report a murder. His own. By slow poison. From the classic American film noir...
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4.5KAustralian Dance ReviewsDancenorth’s ‘Spectra’ brings contemporary and butoh to Sydney Festival
Seymour Centre, Sydney Festival, Sydney. January 11, 2017. Spectra is the inaugural work for North Queensland company Dancenorth’s newest artistic director, Kyle...
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5.1KFeaturesDancenorth celebrates a phenomenal year
Dancenorth has experienced phenomenal success in 2016, and the company is not slowing down, with a focus on festivals and touring taking...
